Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] x86: stop exporting msr-index.h to userland

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:08:34PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 13/01/2017 à 16:43, David Howells a écrit :
> >> -header-y += msr-index.h
> > 
> > I see it on my desktop as /usr/include/asm/msr-index.h and it's been there 
> > at
> > least four years - and as such it's part of the UAPI.  I don't think you can
> > remove it unless you can guarantee there are no userspace users.
> I keep it in the v2 of the series, but the maintainer, Borislav Petkov, asks 
> me
> to un-export it.
> 
> I will follow the maintainer decision.

I'm not the maintainer. I simply think that exporting that file was
wrong because it if we change something in it, we will break userspace.
And that should not happen - if userspace needs MSRs, it should do its
own defines.

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Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] arm: put types.h in uapi

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:01:01PM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Please, do not remove the email subject when you reply. I restore it to
> ease the thread follow-up.

I mentioned it to David, and he says it's because the long list of
recipients is breaking his mailer.  I've already posed the question
about whether that's exploitable!

> Le 13/01/2017 à 16:36, David Howells a écrit :
> > Nicolas Dichtel  wrote:
> > 
> >> This header file is exported, thus move it to uapi.
> > 
> > Exported how?
> 
> It is listed in include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm, which is included by
> arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.

We really should not be installing non-uapi header files to userland
under _any_ circumstance - this to me sounds like a bug in kbuild.

The assumption is that headers outside of uapi directories are not
part of the user visible API, and so can be freely modified - which
in the presence of this bug is untrue.

However, as it's happening, and this header has been there since 2013
(commit 09096f6a0ee2 - "ARM: 7822/1: add workaround for ambiguous C99
stdint.h types") it's now well and truely part of the user API whether
we intended it to be or not, so your patch looks to me like the correct
thing to do.

I think it needs further evaluation to make sure kbuild isn't going to
do something else silly, like subsitute include/asm-generic/types.h for
the now missing arch/arm/include/asm/types.h

I wonder how many more headers are unintentionally exported.

... what a mess. :(

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Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] x86: stop exporting msr-index.h to userland

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Le 13/01/2017 à 16:43, David Howells a écrit :
>> -header-y += msr-index.h
> 
> I see it on my desktop as /usr/include/asm/msr-index.h and it's been there at
> least four years - and as such it's part of the UAPI.  I don't think you can
> remove it unless you can guarantee there are no userspace users.
I keep it in the v2 of the series, but the maintainer, Borislav Petkov, asks me
to un-export it.

I will follow the maintainer decision.


Regards,
Nicolas

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Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] arm: put types.h in uapi

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Please, do not remove the email subject when you reply. I restore it to ease the
thread follow-up.

Le 13/01/2017 à 16:36, David Howells a écrit :
> Nicolas Dichtel  wrote:
> 
>> This header file is exported, thus move it to uapi.
> 
> Exported how?
It is listed in include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm, which is included by
arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild.

You can also have a look at patch #5 to see why it was exported even if it was
not in an uapi directory.

Regards,
Nicolas

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Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] nios2: put setup.h in uapi

[Tobias Klauser]

On 2017-01-13 at 11:46:41 +0100, Nicolas Dichtel  
wrote:
> This header file is exported, but from a userland pov, it's just a wrapper
> to asm-generic/setup.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 

Reviewed-by: Tobias Klauser 

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[PATCH v3 2/8] h8300: put bitsperlong.h in uapi

[Nicolas Dichtel]

This header file is exported, thus move it to uapi.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
---
 arch/h8300/include/asm/bitsperlong.h  | 14 --
 arch/h8300/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h | 14 ++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 arch/h8300/include/asm/bitsperlong.h
 create mode 100644 arch/h8300/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h

diff --git a/arch/h8300/include/asm/bitsperlong.h 
b/arch/h8300/include/asm/bitsperlong.h
deleted file mode 100644
index e140e46729ac..
--- a/arch/h8300/include/asm/bitsperlong.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef __ASM_H8300_BITS_PER_LONG
-#define __ASM_H8300_BITS_PER_LONG
-
-#include 
-
-#if !defined(__ASSEMBLY__)
-/* h8300-unknown-linux required long */
-#define __kernel_size_t __kernel_size_t
-typedef unsigned long  __kernel_size_t;
-typedef long   __kernel_ssize_t;
-typedef long   __kernel_ptrdiff_t;
-#endif
-
-#endif /* __ASM_H8300_BITS_PER_LONG */
diff --git a/arch/h8300/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h 
b/arch/h8300/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
new file mode 100644
index ..e56cf72369b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/h8300/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_H8300_BITS_PER_LONG
+#define _UAPI_ASM_H8300_BITS_PER_LONG
+
+#include 
+
+#if !defined(__ASSEMBLY__)
+/* h8300-unknown-linux required long */
+#define __kernel_size_t __kernel_size_t
+typedef unsigned long  __kernel_size_t;
+typedef long   __kernel_ssize_t;
+typedef long   __kernel_ptrdiff_t;
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _UAPI_ASM_H8300_BITS_PER_LONG */
-- 
2.8.1


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[PATCH v3 6/8] Makefile.headersinst: remove destination-y option

[Nicolas Dichtel]

This option was added in commit c7bb349e7c25 ("kbuild: introduce destination-y
for exported headers") but never used in-tree.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
---
 Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 23 ---
 scripts/Makefile.headersinst   |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt 
b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 9b9c4797fc55..37b525d329ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -46,9 +46,8 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
=== 7 Kbuild syntax for exported headers
--- 7.1 header-y
--- 7.2 genhdr-y
-   --- 7.3 destination-y
-   --- 7.4 generic-y
-   --- 7.5 generated-y
+   --- 7.3 generic-y
+   --- 7.4 generated-y
 
=== 8 Kbuild Variables
=== 9 Makefile language
@@ -1295,21 +1294,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
#include/linux/Kbuild
genhdr-y += version.h
 
-   --- 7.3 destination-y
-
-   When an architecture has a set of exported headers that needs to be
-   exported to a different directory destination-y is used.
-   destination-y specifies the destination directory for all exported
-   headers in the file where it is present.
-
-   Example:
-   #arch/xtensa/platforms/s6105/include/platform/Kbuild
-   destination-y := include/linux
-
-   In the example above all exported headers in the Kbuild file
-   will be located in the directory "include/linux" when exported.
-
-   --- 7.4 generic-y
+   --- 7.3 generic-y
 
If an architecture uses a verbatim copy of a header from
include/asm-generic then this is listed in the file
@@ -1336,7 +1321,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
Example: termios.h
#include 
 
-   --- 7.5 generated-y
+   --- 7.4 generated-y
 
If an architecture generates other header files alongside generic-y
wrappers, and not included in genhdr-y, then generated-y specifies
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
index 3e20d03432d2..876b42cfede4 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.headersinst
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ kbuild-file := $(srctree)/$(obj)/Kbuild
 include $(kbuild-file)
 
 # called may set destination dir (when installing to asm/)
-_dst := $(if $(destination-y),$(destination-y),$(if $(dst),$(dst),$(obj)))
+_dst := $(if $(dst),$(dst),$(obj))
 
 old-kbuild-file := $(srctree)/$(subst uapi/,,$(obj))/Kbuild
 ifneq ($(wildcard $(old-kbuild-file)),)
-- 
2.8.1


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[PATCH v3 0/8] uapi: export all headers under uapi directories

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Here is the v3 of this series. The first 5 patches are just cleanup: some
exported headers were still under a non-uapi directory or (x86 case) were
wrongly exported.
The patch 6 was spotted by code review: there is no in-tree user of this
functionality.
Patches 7 and 8 remove the need to list explicitly headers. Now all files
under an uapi directory are exported.

This series has been tested with a 'make headers_install' on x86 and a
'make headers_install_all'. I've checked the result of both commands.

This patch is built against linus tree. If I must rebase it against the kbuild
tree, just tell me ;-)

v2 -> v3:
 - patch #1: remove arch/arm/include/asm/types.h
 - patch #2: remove arch/h8300/include/asm/bitsperlong.h
 - patch #3: remove arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/setup.h
 - patch #4: don't export msr-index.h
 - patch #5: fix a typo: s/unput-files3-name/input-files3-name
 - patch #6: no change
 - patch #7: fix include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm by introducing mandatory-y
 - add patch #8

v1 -> v2:
 - add patch #1 to #6
 - patch #7: remove use of header-y

Comments are welcomed,
Nicolas

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[PATCH v3 4/8] x86: stop exporting msr-index.h to userland

[Nicolas Dichtel]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
---
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
index 3dec769cadf7..1c532b3f18ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ header-y += ldt.h
 header-y += mce.h
 header-y += mman.h
 header-y += msgbuf.h
-header-y += msr-index.h
 header-y += msr.h
 header-y += mtrr.h
 header-y += param.h
-- 
2.8.1


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