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Linus Torvalds 2d6bb6adb7 New gcc plugin: stackleak
- Introduces the stackleak gcc plugin ported from grsecurity by Alexander
   Popov, with x86 and arm64 support.
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Merge tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook:
 "Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin
  was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient
  stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense
  against at least two classes of flaws:

   - Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the
     compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was
     proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too).

   - Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid
     stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown
     cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This
     complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but
     provides the coverage for stacks.

  The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by
  Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already
  been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and
  reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon).

  With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for
  alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin"

* tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca()
  stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
  doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature
  fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system
  lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK
  gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack
  x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls
2018-11-01 11:46:27 -07:00
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ABI platform-drivers-x86 for v4.20-1 2018-11-01 08:42:21 -07:00
accelerators
accounting psi: cgroup support 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
acpi
admin-guide memory-hotplug.rst: add some details about locking internals 2018-10-31 08:54:17 -07:00
aoe
arm ARM: SoC device tree updates for 4.20 2018-10-29 15:05:20 -07:00
arm64 Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation 2018-10-10 18:08:36 +01:00
auxdisplay
backlight
block
blockdev This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
bpf
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1 Merge branch 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-10-25 17:15:46 -07:00
cma
connector
console
core-api docs/boot-time-mm: remove bootmem documentation 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
cpu-freq
cpuidle
crypto
dev-tools
device-mapper This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
devicetree dt-bindings: i2c: i2c-imx-lpi2c: add imx8qxp compatible string 2018-10-31 23:36:43 +00:00
doc-guide
driver-api Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
driver-model
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection
fb This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
features
filesystems The highlights are: 2018-10-31 14:42:31 -07:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga
gpio
gpu Merge branch 'drm-next-4.20' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2018-09-21 09:52:53 +10:00
hid
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i2c
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband
input
ioctl drm pull for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-28 17:49:53 -07:00
isdn
kbuild
kdump
kernel-hacking
laptops platform-drivers-x86 for v4.20-1 2018-11-01 08:42:21 -07:00
leds
lightnvm
livepatch
locking This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
m68k
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md
media media updates for v4.20-rc1 2018-10-31 10:53:29 -07:00
memory-devices
mic
mips
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mmc
mtd
namespaces
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networking Documentation: ip-sysctl.txt: Document tcp_fwmark_accept 2018-10-29 20:41:52 -07:00
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nvdimm
nvmem Documentation: nvmem: document cell tables and lookup entries 2018-09-28 15:14:54 +02:00
openrisc
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PCI pci-v4.20-changes 2018-10-25 06:50:48 -07:00
pcmcia
perf
phy
platform
power This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
powerpc
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pti
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rapidio
RCU This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
riscv
s390 KVM updates for v4.20 2018-10-25 17:57:35 -07:00
scheduler This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20181024 2018-10-25 07:40:30 -07:00
security New gcc plugin: stackleak 2018-11-01 11:46:27 -07:00
serial TTY/Serial patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-29 10:42:20 -07:00
sh
sound ALSA: doc: Brush up the old writing-an-alsa-driver 2018-10-18 10:30:01 +02:00
sparc
sphinx
sphinx-static docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight 2018-10-07 09:16:50 -06:00
spi
sysctl New gcc plugin: stackleak 2018-11-01 11:46:27 -07:00
target
thermal
timers
trace The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes 2018-10-30 09:49:56 -07:00
translations
usb
userspace-api
virtual KVM updates for v4.20 2018-10-25 17:57:35 -07:00
vm slub: extend slub debug to handle multiple slabs 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
w1
watchdog documentation: watchdog: add documentation for armada-37xx-wdt 2018-10-13 15:19:40 +02:00
wimax
x86 New gcc plugin: stackleak 2018-11-01 11:46:27 -07:00
xilinx Documentation: xilinx: Add documentation for eemi APIs 2018-10-09 13:26:05 +02:00
xtensa
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cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst
Intel-IOMMU.txt
intel_txt.txt
io-mapping.txt
io_ordering.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt
IRQ.txt
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isa.txt
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kobject.txt
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unaligned-memory-access.txt
vfio-mediated-device.txt
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video-output.txt
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