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Revision tags: v6.17-rc2
# 8d2b0853 11-Aug-2025 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Updating drm-misc-fixes to the state of v6.17-rc1. Begins a new release
cycle.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


Revision tags: v6.17-rc1
# bc46b7cb 30-Jul-2025 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 's390-6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

- Standardize on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by GCC and

Merge tag 's390-6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

- Standardize on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by GCC and
Clang compilers and replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in both
uapi and non-uapi headers

- Explicitly include <linux/export.h> in architecture and driver files
which contain an EXPORT_SYMBOL() and remove the include from the
files which do not contain the EXPORT_SYMBOL()

- Use the full title of "z/Architecture Principles of Operation" manual
and the name of a section where facility bits are listed

- Use -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS for files in arch/s390/boot to avoid
unnecessary slowing down of the build and confusing external kABI
tools that process symtypes data

- Print additional unrecoverable machine check information to make the
root cause analysis easier

- Move cmpxchg_user_key() handling to uaccess library code, since the
generated code is large anyway and there is no benefit if it is
inlined

- Fix a problem when cmpxchg_user_key() is executing a code with a
non-default key: if a system is IPL-ed with "LOAD NORMAL", and the
previous system used storage keys where the fetch-protection bit was
set for some pages, and the cmpxchg_user_key() is located within such
page, a protection exception happens

- Either the external call or emergency signal order is used to send an
IPI to a remote CPU. Use the external order only, since it is at
least as good and sometimes even better, than the emergency signal

- In case of an early crash the early program check handler prints more
or less random value of the last breaking event address, since it is
not initialized properly. Copy the last breaking event address from
the lowcore to pt_regs to address this

- During STP synchronization check udelay() can not be used, since the
first CPU modifies tod_clock_base and get_tod_clock_monotonic() might
return a non-monotonic time. Instead, busy-loop on other CPUs, while
the the first CPU actually handles the synchronization operation

- When debugging the early kernel boot using QEMU with the -S flag and
GDB attached, skip the decompressor and start directly in kernel

- Rename PAI Crypto event 4210 according to z16 and z17 "z/Architecture
Principles of Operation" manual

- Remove the in-kernel time steering support in favour of the new s390
PTP driver, which allows the kernel clock steered more precisely

- Remove a possible false-positive warning in pte_free_defer(), which
could be triggered in a valid case KVM guest process is initializing

* tag 's390-6.17-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (29 commits)
s390/mm: Remove possible false-positive warning in pte_free_defer()
s390/stp: Default to enabled
s390/stp: Remove leap second support
s390/time: Remove in-kernel time steering
s390/sclp: Use monotonic clock in sclp_sync_wait()
s390/smp: Use monotonic clock in smp_emergency_stop()
s390/time: Use monotonic clock in get_cycles()
s390/pai_crypto: Rename PAI Crypto event 4210
scripts/gdb/symbols: make lx-symbols skip the s390 decompressor
s390/boot: Introduce jump_to_kernel() function
s390/stp: Remove udelay from stp_sync_clock()
s390/early: Copy last breaking event address to pt_regs
s390/smp: Remove conditional emergency signal order code usage
s390/uaccess: Merge cmpxchg_user_key() inline assemblies
s390/uaccess: Prevent kprobes on cmpxchg_user_key() functions
s390/uaccess: Initialize code pages executed with non-default access key
s390/skey: Provide infrastructure for executing with non-default access key
s390/uaccess: Make cmpxchg_user_key() library code
s390/page: Add memory clobber to page_set_storage_key()
s390/page: Cleanup page_set_storage_key() inline assemblies
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Revision tags: v6.16, v6.16-rc7, v6.16-rc6, v6.16-rc5, v6.16-rc4
# a3d0b7a1 29-Jun-2025 Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>

Merge branch 'uaccess-key' into features

Heiko Carstens says:

===================
A rather large series which is supposed to fix the crash below[1], which was
seen when running the memop kernel kvm

Merge branch 'uaccess-key' into features

Heiko Carstens says:

===================
A rather large series which is supposed to fix the crash below[1], which was
seen when running the memop kernel kvm selftest.

Problem is that cmpxchg_user_key() is executing code with a non-default
key. If a system is IPL'ed with "LOAD NORMAL", and in addition the previous
system used storage keys where the fetch-protection bit is set for some pages,
and the cmpxchg_user_key() is located within such page a protection exception
will happen when executing such code.

Idea of this series is to register all code locations running with a
non-default key at compile time. All functions, which run with a non-default
key, then must explicitly call an init function which initializes the storage
key of all pages containing such code locations with default key, which
prevents such protection exceptions.

Furthermore all functions containing code which may be executed with a
non-default access key must be marked with __kprobes to prevent out-of-line
execution of any instruction of such functions, which would result in the same
problem.

By default the kernel will not issue any storage key changing instructions
like before, which will preserve the keyless-subset mode optimizations in
hosts.

Other possible implementations which I discarded:

- Moving the code to an own section. This would require an s390 specific
change to modpost.c, which complains about section mismatches (EX_TABLE
entries in non-default text section). No other architecture has something
similar, so let's keep this architecture specific hack local.

- Just apply the default storage key to the whole kprobes text
section. However this would add special s390 semantics to the kprobes text
section, which no other architecture has. History has shown that such hacks
fire back sooner or later.

Furthermore, and to keep this whole stuff quite simple, this only works for
code locations in core kernel code, not within modules. After this series
there is no module code left with such code, and as of now I don't see any new
kernel code which runs with a non-default access key.

Note: the original crash can be reproduced by replacing

page_set_storage_key(real, PAGE_DEFAULT_KEY, 1);

with

page_set_storage_key(real, 8, 1);

in arch/s390/kernel/skey.c:__skey_regions_initialize()

And then run tools/testing/selftests/kvm/s390/memop from the kernel selftests.

[1]:

Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
Failing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 000000000000080b
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:0000000002528007 R3:00000001ffffc007 S:00000001ffffb801 P:000000000000013d
Oops: 0004 ilc:1 [#1]SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 791 Comm: memop Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-00006-g3b568201d0a6-dirty #11 NONE
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (z/VM 7.4.0)
Krnl PSW : 0794f00180000000 000003ffe0f4d91e (__cmpxchg_user_key1+0xbe/0x190)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:9 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:3 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 070003ffdfbf6af0 0000000000070000 0000000095b5a300 0000000000000000
00000000f1000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000090 0000000000000000
0000000000000040 0000000000000018 000003ff9b23d000 0000037fe0ef7bd8
000003ffdfbf7500 00000000962e4000 0000037f00ffffff 0000037fe0ef7aa0
Krnl Code: 000003ffe0f4d912: ad03f0a0 stosm 160(%r15),3
000003ffe0f4d916: a7780000 lhi %r7,0
#000003ffe0f4d91a: b20a6000 spka 0(%r6)
>000003ffe0f4d91e: b2790100 sacf 256
000003ffe0f4d922: a56f0080 llill %r6,128
000003ffe0f4d926: 5810a000 l %r1,0(%r10)
000003ffe0f4d92a: 141e nr %r1,%r14
000003ffe0f4d92c: c0e7ffffffff xilf %r14,4294967295
Call Trace:
[<000003ffe0f4d91e>] __cmpxchg_user_key1+0xbe/0x190
[<000003ffe0189c6e>] cmpxchg_guest_abs_with_key+0x2fe/0x370
[<000003ffe016d28e>] kvm_s390_vm_mem_op_cmpxchg+0x17e/0x350
[<000003ffe0173284>] kvm_arch_vm_ioctl+0x354/0x6f0
[<000003ffe015fedc>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x2cc/0x6e0
[<000003ffe05348ae>] vfs_ioctl+0x2e/0x70
[<000003ffe0535e70>] __s390x_sys_ioctl+0xe0/0x100
[<000003ffe0f40f06>] __do_syscall+0x136/0x340
[<000003ffe0f4cb2e>] system_call+0x6e/0x90
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
[<000003ffe0f4d896>] __cmpxchg_user_key1+0x36/0x190
===================

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>

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Revision tags: v6.16-rc3
# ee417a84 16-Jun-2025 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

s390/skey: Provide infrastructure for executing with non-default access key

The current assumption is that kernel code is always executed with access
key zero, which means that storage key protectio

s390/skey: Provide infrastructure for executing with non-default access key

The current assumption is that kernel code is always executed with access
key zero, which means that storage key protection does not apply.

However this assumption is not correct: cmpxchg_user_key() may be executed
with a non-zero key; if then the storage key of the page which belongs to
the cmpxchg_user_key() code contains a key with fetch-protection enabled
the result is a protection exception.

For several performance optimizations storage keys are not initialized on
system boot. To keep these optimizations add infrastructure which allows to
define code ranges within functions which are executed with a non-default
key. When such code is executed such functions must explicitly call
skey_regions_initialize().

This will initialize all storage keys belonging to such code ranges in a
way that no protection exceptions happen when the code is executed with a
non-default access key.

Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>

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