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Arnd Bergmann b1ddd406cd xen: remove pre-xen3 fallback handlers
The legacy hypercall handlers were originally added with
a comment explaining that "copying the argument structures in
HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op() and HYPERVISOR_physdev_op() into the local
variable is sufficiently safe" and only made sure to not write
past the end of the argument structure, the checks in linux/string.h
disagree with that, when link-time optimizations are used:

In function 'memcpy',
    inlined from 'pirq_query_unmask' at drivers/xen/fallback.c:53:2,
    inlined from '__startup_pirq' at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:529:2,
    inlined from 'restore_pirqs' at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:1439:3,
    inlined from 'xen_irq_resume' at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:1581:2:
include/linux/string.h:350:3: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter
   __read_overflow2();
   ^

Further research turned out that only Xen 3.0.2 or earlier required the
fallback at all, while all versions in use today don't need it.
As far as I can tell, it is not even possible to run a mainline kernel
on those old Xen releases, at the time when they were in use, only
a patched kernel was supported anyway.

Fixes: cf47a83fb0 ("xen/hypercall: fix hypercall fallback code for very old hypervisors")
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2019-03-05 12:07:32 +01:00
arch xen: remove pre-xen3 fallback handlers 2019-03-05 12:07:32 +01:00
block for-linus-20190215 2019-02-15 09:12:28 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto crypto: sm3 - fix undefined shift by >= width of value 2019-01-10 21:37:32 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-15 08:00:11 -08:00
drivers xen: remove pre-xen3 fallback handlers 2019-03-05 12:07:32 +01:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs Two small fixes, one for crashes using nfs/krb5 with older enctypes, one 2019-02-16 17:38:01 -08:00
include x86/xen: dont add memory above max allowed allocation 2019-02-18 06:52:51 +01:00
init Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init" 2019-02-12 16:33:18 -08:00
ipc
kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-02-17 08:38:13 -08:00
lib Compiler Attributes: Clean the new GCC 9 -Wmissing-attributes warnings 2019-02-16 10:28:05 -08:00
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mm x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter 2019-02-18 06:50:34 +01:00
net Two small fixes, one for crashes using nfs/krb5 with older enctypes, one 2019-02-16 17:38:01 -08:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-01-30 15:24:45 +01:00
scripts Bug fixes for gcc-plugins 2019-01-21 13:07:03 +13:00
security apparmor: Fix aa_label_build() error handling for failed merges 2019-02-01 08:01:39 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0-rc7 2019-02-12 10:18:08 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-15 08:00:11 -08:00
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virt KVM/ARM fixes for 5.0: 2019-02-13 19:39:24 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
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CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 5.0-rc7 2019-02-12 10:18:08 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc7 2019-02-17 18:46:40 -08:00
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.