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John David Anglin 9b2f4e7385 parisc: Update comments in make_insert_tlb 
commit cb22f247f3 upstream.

The following testcase exposed a problem with our read access checks
in get_user() and raw_copy_from_user():

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  unsigned long page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
  char *p = malloc(3 * page_size);
  char *p_aligned;

  /* initialize memory region. If not initialized, write syscall below will correctly return EFAULT. */
  if (1)
	memset(p, 'X', 3 * page_size);

  p_aligned = (char *) ((((uintptr_t) p) + (2*page_size - 1)) & ~(page_size - 1));
  /* Drop PROT_READ protection. Kernel and userspace should fault when accessing that memory region */
  mprotect(p_aligned, page_size, PROT_NONE);

  /* the following write() should return EFAULT, since PROT_READ was dropped by previous mprotect() */
  int ret = write(2, p_aligned, 1);
  if (!ret || errno != EFAULT)
	printf("\n FAILURE: write() did not returned expected EFAULT value\n");

  return 0;
}

Because of the way _PAGE_READ is handled, kernel code never generates
a read access fault when it access a page as the kernel privilege level
is always less than PL1 in the PTE.

This patch reworks the comments in the make_insert_tlb macro to try
to make this clearer.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-08-28 16:26:08 +02:00
arch parisc: Update comments in make_insert_tlb 2025-08-28 16:26:08 +02:00
block block: avoid possible overflow for chunk_sectors check in blk_stack_limits() 2025-08-28 16:26:02 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2025-04-25 10:44:04 +02:00
crypto crypto: xts - Only add ecb if it is not already there 2025-06-27 11:07:06 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display: sprd,sharkl3-dsi-host: Fix missing clocks constraints 2025-08-28 16:26:06 +02:00
drivers soc/tegra: pmc: Ensure power-domains are in a known state 2025-08-28 16:26:08 +02:00
fs jbd2: prevent softlockup in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() 2025-08-28 16:26:07 +02:00
include ASoC: soc-dai.h: merge DAI call back functions into ops 2025-08-28 16:26:03 +02:00
init sched/isolation: Make CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION depend on CONFIG_SMP 2025-05-02 07:47:04 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: fix POLLERR handling 2025-07-24 08:51:48 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:07:30 +01:00
kernel module: Prevent silent truncation of module name in delete_module(2) 2025-08-28 16:26:01 +02:00
lib maple_tree: fix mt_destroy_walk() on root leaf node 2025-07-17 18:32:09 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock 2025-08-28 16:26:04 +02:00
net vsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put() 2025-08-28 16:26:07 +02:00
rust rust: module: place cleanup_module() in .exit.text section 2025-07-06 10:57:54 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-15 12:04:55 +02:00
scripts kconfig: lxdialog: fix 'space' to (de)select options 2025-08-28 16:26:02 +02:00
security apparmor: use the condition in AA_BUG_FMT even with debug disabled 2025-08-28 16:26:01 +02:00
sound ASoC: fsl_sai: replace regmap_write with regmap_update_bits 2025-08-28 16:26:03 +02:00
tools tools/nolibc: fix spelling of FD_SETBITMASK in FD_* macros 2025-08-28 16:26:04 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:07:25 +01:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:46:21 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:21:15 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sign-file,extract-cert: move common SSL helper functions to a header 2025-04-25 10:44:04 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.148 2025-08-15 12:05:13 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.