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sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written assembly. l.lwz r29,0(r4) l.lwz r27,0(r5) l.sw 0(r4),r27 l.sw 0(r5),r29 The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory accesses also have no exception table entries. A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall reads from and writes to it directly. This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code execution in kernel context. Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user addresses return -EFAULT. [shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style] Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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+=====================================
+ drm/vc4 Broadcom VC4 Graphics Driver
+=====================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_drv.c
+ :doc: Broadcom VC4 Graphics Driver
+
+Display Hardware Handling
+=========================
+
+This section covers everything related to the display hardware including
+the mode setting infrastructure, plane, sprite and cursor handling and
+display, output probing and related topics.
+
+Pixel Valve (DRM CRTC)
+----------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_crtc.c
+ :doc: VC4 CRTC module
+
+HVS
+---
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hvs.c
+ :doc: VC4 HVS module.
+
+HVS planes
+----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_plane.c
+ :doc: VC4 plane module
+
+HDMI encoder
+------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c
+ :doc: VC4 Falcon HDMI module
+
+DSI encoder
+-----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dsi.c
+ :doc: VC4 DSI0/DSI1 module
+
+DPI encoder
+-----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_dpi.c
+ :doc: VC4 DPI module
+
+VEC (Composite TV out) encoder
+------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_vec.c
+ :doc: VC4 SDTV module
+
+KUnit Tests
+===========
+
+The VC4 Driver uses KUnit to perform driver-specific unit and
+integration tests.
+
+These tests are using a mock driver and can be ran using the
+command below, on either arm or arm64 architectures,
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run \
+ --kunitconfig=drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/tests/.kunitconfig \
+ --cross_compile aarch64-linux-gnu- --arch arm64
+
+Parts of the driver that are currently covered by tests are:
+ * The HVS to PixelValve dynamic FIFO assignment, for the BCM2835-7
+ and BCM2711.
+
+Memory Management and 3D Command Submission
+===========================================
+
+This section covers the GEM implementation in the vc4 driver.
+
+GPU buffer object (BO) management
+---------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_bo.c
+ :doc: VC4 GEM BO management support
+
+V3D binner command list (BCL) validation
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate.c
+ :doc: Command list validator for VC4.
+
+V3D render command list (RCL) generation
+----------------------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_render_cl.c
+ :doc: Render command list generation
+
+Shader validator for VC4
+---------------------------
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_validate_shaders.c
+ :doc: Shader validator for VC4.
+
+V3D Interrupts
+--------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_irq.c
+ :doc: Interrupt management for the V3D engine