linux/tools
Matthew Wilcox 66ee620f06 idr: Permit any valid kernel pointer to be stored
An upcoming change to the encoding of internal entries will set the bottom
two bits to 0b10.  Unfortunately, m68k only aligns some data structures
to 2 bytes, so the IDR will interpret them as internal entries and things
will go badly wrong.

Change the radix tree so that it stops either when the node indicates
that it's the bottom of the tree (shift == 0) or when the entry is not an
internal entry.  This means we cannot insert an arbitrary kernel pointer
as a multiorder entry, but the IDR does not permit multiorder entries.

Annoyingly, this means the IDR can no longer take advantage of the radix
tree's ability to store a single entry at offset 0 without allocating
memory.  A pointer which is 2-byte aligned cannot be stored directly in
the root as it would be indistinguishable from a node, so we must allocate
a node in order to store a 2-byte pointer at index 0.  The idr_replace()
function does not take a GFP flags argument, so cannot allocate memory.
If a user inserts a 4-byte aligned pointer at index 0 and then replaces
it with a 2-byte aligned pointer, we must be able to store it.

Arbitrary pointer values are still not permitted; pointers of the
form 2 + (i * 4) for values of i between 0 and 1023 are reserved for
the implementation.  These are not valid kernel pointers as they would
point into the zero page.

This change does cause a runtime memory consumption regression for
the IDA.  I will recover that later.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
2018-09-29 22:47:48 -04:00
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accounting
arch tools headers uapi: Update tools's copies of kvm headers 2018-09-11 13:09:26 -03:00
bpf tools/bpf: bpftool, add xskmap in map types 2018-09-02 22:30:39 +02:00
build Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio
hv Tools: hv: Fix a bug in the key delete code 2018-09-12 09:31:00 +02:00
iio iio: Add modifier for DUV light 2018-07-23 19:18:10 +01:00
include tools: bpf: fix license for a compat header file 2018-09-19 23:49:58 +02:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: re-animate display of dead guests 2018-08-30 17:15:12 +02:00
laptop
leds
lib tools lib bpf: Provide wrapper for strerror_r to build in !_GNU_SOURCE systems 2018-09-18 10:16:18 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7 2018-07-17 09:30:36 +02:00
nfsd
objtool Kbuild updates for v4.19 2018-08-15 12:09:03 -07:00
pci tools: PCI: Add MSI-X support 2018-07-19 11:47:13 +01:00
pcmcia
perf perf Documentation: Fix out-of-tree asciidoctor man page generation 2018-09-18 10:17:16 -03:00
power treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
scripts
spi
testing idr: Permit any valid kernel pointer to be stored 2018-09-29 22:47:48 -04:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb tools: usb: ffs-test: Fix build on big endian systems 2018-07-17 10:12:51 +03:00
virtio tools/virtio: add kmalloc_array stub 2018-07-27 16:54:40 +03:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "defined but not used" warning 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
wmi
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