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Linus Torvalds d31e86ef63 arm64: access_ok() optimization
The TBI setup on arm64 is very strange: HW is set up to always do TBI,
but the kernel enforcement for system calls is purely a software
contract, and user space is supposed to mask off the top bits before the
system call.

Except all the actual brk/mmap/etc() system calls then mask it in kernel
space anyway, and accept any TBI address.

This basically unifies things and makes access_ok() also ignore it.

This is an ABI change, but the current situation is very odd, and this
change avoids the current mess and makes the kernel more permissive, and
as such is unlikely to break anything.

The way forward - for some possible future situation when people want to
use more bits - is probably to introduce a new "I actually want the full
64-bit address space" prctl.  But we should make sure that the software
and hardware rules actually match at that point.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-19 12:33:38 -07:00
arch arm64: access_ok() optimization 2024-06-19 12:33:38 -07:00
block block: unmap and free user mapped integrity via submitter 2024-06-12 11:00:50 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation USB / Thunderbolt fixes for 6.10-rc4 2024-06-16 11:20:26 -07:00
drivers Passing through the i2c-host fixes from Andi 2024-06-16 11:37:38 -07:00
fs Char/Misc driver fixes for 6.10-rc4 2024-06-16 10:29:37 -07:00
include USB / Thunderbolt fixes for 6.10-rc4 2024-06-16 11:20:26 -07:00
init Driver core changes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-22 12:13:40 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: fix cancellation overwriting req->flags 2024-06-13 19:25:28 -06:00
ipc Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. 2024-05-19 14:02:03 -07:00
kernel tick/nohz_full: Don't abuse smp_call_function_single() in tick_setup_device() 2024-06-10 20:18:13 +02:00
lib Including fixes from BPF and big collection of fixes for WiFi core 2024-06-06 09:55:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm memblock: fix validation of NUMA coverage 2024-06-13 10:09:29 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-06-13 11:11:53 -07:00
rust LoongArch changes for v6.10 2024-05-22 09:43:07 -07:00
samples tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-22 20:14:47 -04:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.10 (second) 2024-06-08 10:12:33 -07:00
security tomoyo: update project links 2024-06-03 22:43:11 +09:00
sound ALSA: seq: ump: Fix swapped song position pointer data 2024-05-31 09:51:44 +02:00
tools Including fixes from bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-06-13 11:11:53 -07:00
usr kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
virt The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, 2024-05-19 09:21:03 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap Including fixes from bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-06-13 11:11:53 -07:00
.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: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
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 drm fixes for 6.10-rc4 2024-06-14 18:57:28 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.10-rc4 2024-06-16 13:40:16 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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 reStructuredText 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.