The Itanium architecture is obsolete, and an informal survey [0] reveals
that any residual use of Itanium hardware in production is mostly HP-UX
or OpenVMS based. The use of Linux on Itanium appears to be limited to
enthusiasts that occasionally boot a fresh Linux kernel to see whether
things are still working as intended, and perhaps to churn out some
distro packages that are rarely used in practice.
None of the original companies behind Itanium still produce or support
any hardware or software for the architecture, and it is listed as
'Orphaned' in the MAINTAINERS file, as apparently, none of the engineers
that contributed on behalf of those companies (nor anyone else, for that
matter) have been willing to support or maintain the architecture
upstream or even be responsible for applying the odd fix. The Intel
firmware team removed all IA-64 support from the Tianocore/EDK2
reference implementation of EFI in 2018. (Itanium is the original
architecture for which EFI was developed, and the way Linux supports it
deviates significantly from other architectures.) Some distros, such as
Debian and Gentoo, still maintain [unofficial] ia64 ports, but many have
dropped support years ago.
While the argument is being made [1] that there is a 'for the common
good' angle to being able to build and run existing projects such as the
Grid Community Toolkit [2] on Itanium for interoperability testing, the
fact remains that none of those projects are known to be deployed on
Linux/ia64, and very few people actually have access to such a system in
the first place. Even if there were ways imaginable in which Linux/ia64
could be put to good use today, what matters is whether anyone is
actually doing that, and this does not appear to be the case.
There are no emulators widely available, and so boot testing Itanium is
generally infeasible for ordinary contributors. GCC still supports IA-64
but its compile farm [3] no longer has any IA-64 machines. GLIBC would
like to get rid of IA-64 [4] too because it would permit some overdue
code cleanups. In summary, the benefits to the ecosystem of having IA-64
be part of it are mostly theoretical, whereas the maintenance overhead
of keeping it supported is real.
So let's rip off the band aid, and remove the IA-64 arch code entirely.
This follows the timeline proposed by the Debian/ia64 maintainer [5],
which removes support in a controlled manner, leaving IA-64 in a known
good state in the most recent LTS release. Other projects will follow
once the kernel support is removed.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMj1kXFCMh_578jniKpUtx_j8ByHnt=s7S+yQ+vGbKt9ud7+kQ@mail.gmail.com/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0075883c-7c51-00f5-2c2d-5119c1820410@web.de/
[2] https://gridcf.org/gct-docs/latest/index.html
[3] https://cfarm.tetaneutral.net/machines/list/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87bkiilpc4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff58a3e76e5102c94bb5946d99187b358def688a.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de/
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
MicroLZMA is a yet another header format variant where the first
byte of a raw LZMA stream (without the end of stream marker) has
been replaced with a bitwise-negation of the lc/lp/pb properties
byte. MicroLZMA was created to be used in EROFS but can be used
by other things too where wasting minimal amount of space for
headers is important.
This is implemented using most of the LZMA2 code as is so the
amount of new code is small. The API has a few extra features
compared to the XZ decoder. On the other hand, the API lacks
XZ_BUF_ERROR support which is important to take into account
when using this API.
MicroLZMA doesn't support BCJ filters. In theory they could be
added later as there are many unused/reserved values for the
first byte of the compressed stream but in practice it is
somewhat unlikely to happen due to a few implementation reasons.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010213145.17462-5-xiang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
It's a more logical place even if the resetting needs to be done
only once per LZMA2 stream (if lzma_reset() called in the middle
of an LZMA2 stream, .len will already be 0).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010213145.17462-4-xiang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
This might matter, for example, if the underlying type of enum xz_check
was a signed char. In such a case the validation wouldn't have caught an
unsupported header. I don't know if this problem can occur in the kernel
on any arch but it's still good to fix it because some people might copy
the XZ code to their own projects from Linux instead of the upstream
XZ Embedded repository.
This change may increase the code size by a few bytes. An alternative
would have been to use an unsigned int instead of enum xz_check but
using an enumeration looks cleaner.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010213145.17462-3-xiang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
With valid files, the safety margin described in lib/decompress_unxz.c
ensures that these buffers cannot overlap. But if the uncompressed size
of the input is larger than the caller thought, which is possible when
the input file is invalid/corrupt, the buffers can overlap. Obviously
the result will then be garbage (and usually the decoder will return
an error too) but no other harm will happen when such an over-run occurs.
This change only affects uncompressed LZMA2 chunks and so this
should have no effect on performance.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211010213145.17462-2-xiang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
This reverts commit 6a9dc5fd61 ("lib: Revert use of fallthrough
pseudo-keyword in lib/")
Now that we can build arch/powerpc/boot/ free of -Wimplicit-fallthrough,
re-enable these fixes for lib/.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/236
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
The following build error for powerpc64 was reported by Nathan Chancellor:
"$ scripts/config --file arch/powerpc/configs/powernv_defconfig -e KERNEL_XZ
$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux- distclean powernv_defconfig zImage
...
In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c:234,
from arch/powerpc/boot/decompress.c:38:
arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c: In function 'dec_main':
arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/xz/xz_dec_stream.c:586:4: error: 'fallthrough' undeclared (first use in this function)
586 | fallthrough;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
This will end up affecting distribution configurations such as Debian
and OpenSUSE according to my testing. I am not sure what the solution
is, the PowerPC wrapper does not set -D__KERNEL__ so I am not sure
that compiler_attributes.h can be safely included."
In order to avoid these sort of problems, it seems that the best
solution is to use /* fall through */ comments instead of the
fallthrough pseudo-keyword macro in lib/, for now.
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Fixes: df561f6688 ("treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> [crc64.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200726112154.16510-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are several files that I was unable to find a proper place
for them, and 3 ones that are still in plain old text format.
Let's place those stuff behind the carpet, as we'd like to keep the
root directory clean.
We can later discuss and move those into better places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/11bd0d75e65a874f7c276a0aeab0fe13f3376f5f.1592203650.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
s->dict.allocated was initialized to 0 but never set after a successful
allocation, thus the code always thought that the dictionary buffer has
to be reallocated.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191104185107.3b6330df@tukaani.org
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Reported-by: Yu Sun <yusun2@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com>
Cc: "Yixia Si (yisi)" <yisi@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This fixes a regression introduced by faa16bc404 ("lib: Use
existing define with polynomial").
The cleanup added a dependency on include/linux, which broke the PowerPC
boot wrapper/decompresser when KERNEL_XZ is enabled:
BOOTCC arch/powerpc/boot/decompress.o
In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/decompress_unxz.c:233,
from arch/powerpc/boot/decompress.c:42:
arch/powerpc/boot/../../../lib/xz/xz_crc32.c:18:10: fatal error:
linux/crc32poly.h: No such file or directory
#include <linux/crc32poly.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The powerpc decompresser is a hairy corner of the kernel. Even while building
a 64-bit kernel it needs to build a 32-bit binary and therefore avoid including
files from include/linux.
This allows users of the xz library to avoid including headers from
'include/linux/' while still achieving the cleanup of the magic number.
Fixes: faa16bc404 ("lib: Use existing define with polynomial")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Do not define again the polynomial but use header with existing define.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
It's good style. I was also told that GCC 7 is more strict and might
give a warning when such comments are missing.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Suggested-by: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This restores the old behavior that existed before 2013-02-22, when
changes were made by 64dbfb444c ("decompressors: drop dependency on
CONFIG_EXPERT") and 5dc49c75a2 ("decompressors: make the default
XZ_DEC_* config match the selected architecture").
Disabling the filters only makes sense on embedded systems.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 5dc49c75a2 ("decompressors: make the default XZ_DEC_* config
match the selected architecture") added
default y if POWERPC
to lib/xz/Kconfig. But there is no Kconfig symbol POWERPC. The most
general Kconfig symbol for the powerpc architecture is PPC. So let's
use that.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change the defautl XZ_DEC_* config symbol to match the configured
architecture. It is perfectly legitimate to support multiple XZ BCJ
filters for different architectures (e.g.: to mount foreign squashfs/xz
compressed filesystems), it is however more natural not to select them all
by default, but only the one matching the configured architecture.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the XZ_DEC_* depedencey on CONFIG_EXPERT as recommended by Lasse
Colin.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Group all architecture-specific BCJ filter configuration symbols under an
if XZ_BCJ / endif statement.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
xz_dec_run() could incorrectly return XZ_BUF_ERROR if all of the
following was true:
- The caller knows how many bytes of output to expect and only provides
that much output space.
- When the last output bytes are decoded, the caller-provided input
buffer ends right before the LZMA2 end of payload marker. So LZMA2
won't provide more output anymore, but it won't know it yet and thus
won't return XZ_STREAM_END yet.
- A BCJ filter is in use and it hasn't left any unfiltered bytes in the
temp buffer. This can happen with any BCJ filter, but in practice
it's more likely with filters other than the x86 BCJ.
This fixes <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735408> where
Squashfs thinks that a valid file system is corrupt.
This also fixes a similar bug in single-call mode where the uncompressed
size of a block using BCJ + LZMA2 was 0 bytes and caller provided no
output space. Many empty .xz files don't contain any blocks and thus
don't trigger this bug.
This also tweaks a closely related detail: xz_dec_bcj_run() could call
xz_dec_lzma2_run() to decode into temp buffer when it was known to be
useless. This was harmless although it wasted a minuscule number of CPU
cycles.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
<linux/kernel.h> is needed for min_t. The old version
happened to work on x86 because <asm/unaligned.h>
indirectly includes <linux/kernel.h>, but it didn't
work on ARM.
<linux/kernel.h> includes <asm/byteorder.h> so it's
not necessary to include it explicitly anymore.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The old code considered valid empty LZMA2 streams to be corrupt.
Note that a typical empty .xz file has no LZMA2 data at all,
and thus most .xz files having no uncompressed data are handled
correctly even without this fix.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In userspace, the .lzma format has become mostly a legacy file format that
got superseded by the .xz format. Similarly, LZMA Utils was superseded by
XZ Utils.
These patches add support for XZ decompression into the kernel. Most of
the code is as is from XZ Embedded <http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html>.
It was written for the Linux kernel but is usable in other projects too.
Advantages of XZ over the current LZMA code in the kernel:
- Nice API that can be used by other kernel modules; it's
not limited to kernel, initramfs, and initrd decompression.
- Integrity check support (CRC32)
- BCJ filters improve compression of executable code on
certain architectures. These together with LZMA2 can
produce a few percent smaller kernel or Squashfs images
than plain LZMA without making the decompression slower.
This patch: Add the main decompression code (xz_dec), testing module
(xz_dec_test), wrapper script (xz_wrap.sh) for the xz command line tool,
and documentation. The xz_dec module is enough to have a usable XZ
decompressor e.g. for Squashfs.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ard Biesheuvel