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  • Martyn Welch Martyn Welch martyn
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  1. Dec 22, 2020
  3. Dec 15, 2020
    • Vlastimil Babka's avatar
      mm, page_alloc: do not rely on the order of page_poison and init_on_alloc/free parameters · 04013513
      Vlastimil Babka authored 
      Patch series "cleanup page poisoning", v3.

I have identified a number of issues and opportunities for cleanup with
CONFIG_PAGE_POISON and friends:

 - interaction with init_on_alloc and init_on_free parameters depends on
   the order of parameters (Patch 1)

 - the boot time enabling uses static key, but inefficienty (Patch 2)

 - sanity checking is incompatible with hibernation (Patch 3)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY can be removed now that we have
   init_on_free (Patch 4)

 - CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO can be most likely removed now that we
   have init_on_free (Patch 5)

This patch (of 5):

Enabling page_poison=1 together with init_on_alloc=1 or init_on_free=1
produces a warning in dmesg that page_poison takes precedence.  However,
as these warnings are printed in early_param handlers for
init_on_alloc/free, they are not printed if page_poison is enabled later
on the command line (handlers are called in the order of their
parameters), or when init_on_alloc/free is always enabled by the
respective config option - before the page_poison early param handler is
called, it is not considered to be enabled.  This is inconsistent.

We can remove the dependency on order by making the init_on_* parameters
only set a boolean variable, and postponing the evaluation after all early
params have been processed.  Introduce a new
init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() function for that, and move the related
debug_pagealloc processing there as well.

As a result init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() knows always accurately if
init_on_* and/or page_poison options were enabled.  Thus we can also
optimize want_init_on_alloc() and want_init_on_free().  We don't need to
check page_poisoning_enabled() there, we can instead not enable the
init_on_* static keys at all, if page poisoning is enabled.  This results
in a simpler and more effective code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-2-vbabka@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      04013513
    • Lin Feng's avatar
      init/main: fix broken buffer_init when DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT set · ba8f3587
      Lin Feng authored 
      In the booting phase if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set,
we have following callchain:

start_kernel
...
  mm_init
    mem_init
     memblock_free_all
       reset_all_zones_managed_pages
       free_low_memory_core_early
...
  buffer_init
    nr_free_buffer_pages
      zone->managed_pages
...
  rest_init
    kernel_init
      kernel_init_freeable
        page_alloc_init_late
          kthread_run(deferred_init_memmap, NODE_DATA(nid), "pgdatinit%d", nid);
          wait_for_completion(&pgdat_init_all_done_comp);
          ...
          files_maxfiles_init

It's clear that buffer_init depends on zone->managed_pages, but it's reset
in reset_all_zones_managed_pages after that pages are readded into
zone->managed_pages, but when buffer_init runs this process is half done
and most of them will finally be added till deferred_init_memmap done.  In
large memory couting of nr_free_buffer_pages drifts too much, also
drifting from kernels to kernels on same hardware.

Fix is simple, it delays buffer_init run till deferred_init_memmap all
done.

But as corrected by this patch, max_buffer_heads becomes very large, the
value is roughly as many as 4 times of totalram_pages, formula:
max_buffer_heads = nrpages * (10%) * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct
buffer_head));

Say in a 64GB memory box we have 16777216 pages, then max_buffer_heads
turns out to be roughly 67,108,864.  In common cases, should a buffer_head
be mapped to one page/block(4KB)?  So max_buffer_heads never exceeds
totalram_pages.  IMO it's likely to make buffer_heads_over_limit bool
value alwasy false, then make codes 'if (buffer_heads_over_limit)' test in
vmscan unnecessary.

So this patch will change the original behavior related to
buffer_heads_over_limit in vmscan since we used a half done value of
zone->managed_pages before, or should we use a smaller factor(<10%) in
previous formula.

akpm: I think this is OK - the max_buffer_heads code is only needed on
highmem machines, to prevent ZONE_NORMAL from being consumed by large
amounts of buffer_heads attached to highmem pagecache.  This problem will
not occur on 64-bit machines, so this feature's non-functionality on such
machines is a feature, not a bug.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201123110500.103523-1-linf@wangsu.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLin Feng <linf@wangsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ba8f3587
    • Zhenhua Huang's avatar
      mm: fix page_owner initializing issue for arm32 · 7fb7ab6d
      Zhenhua Huang authored 
      Page owner of pages used by page owner itself used is missing on arm32
targets.  The reason is dummy_handle and failure_handle is not initialized
correctly.  Buddy allocator is used to initialize these two handles.
However, buddy allocator is not ready when page owner calls it.  This
change fixed that by initializing page owner after buddy initialization.

The working flow before and after this change are:
original logic:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).
 3. initialize buddy.

after this change:
 1. allocated memory for page_ext(using memblock).
 2. initialize buddy.
 3. invoke the init callback of page_ext_ops like page_owner(using buddy
    allocator).

with the change, failure/dummy_handle can get its correct value and page
owner output for example has the one for page owner itself:

  Page allocated via order 2, mask 0x6202c0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN), pid 1006, ts 67278156558 ns
  PFN 543776 type Unmovable Block 531 type Unmovable Flags 0x0()
    init_page_owner+0x28/0x2f8
    invoke_init_callbacks_flatmem+0x24/0x34
    start_kernel+0x33c/0x5d8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1603104925-5888-1-git-send-email-zhenhuah@codeaurora.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarZhenhua Huang <zhenhuah@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7fb7ab6d
  5. Dec 11, 2020
  7. Dec 10, 2020
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore · f7cfd871
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      Recently syzbot reported[0] that there is a deadlock amongst the users
of exec_update_mutex.  The problematic lock ordering found by lockdep
was:

   perf_event_open  (exec_update_mutex -> ovl_i_mutex)
   chown            (ovl_i_mutex       -> sb_writes)
   sendfile         (sb_writes         -> p->lock)
     by reading from a proc file and writing to overlayfs
   proc_pid_syscall (p->lock           -> exec_update_mutex)

While looking at possible solutions it occured to me that all of the
users and possible users involved only wanted to state of the given
process to remain the same.  They are all readers.  The only writer is
exec.

There is no reason for readers to block on each other.  So fix
this deadlock by transforming exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
named exec_update_lock that only exec takes for writing.

Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Fixes: eea96732 ("exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex")
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000063640c05ade8e3de@google.com


Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+db9cdf3dd1f64252c6ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ft4mbqen.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      f7cfd871
  9. Dec 01, 2020
  11. Nov 20, 2020
  13. Nov 13, 2020
  15. Nov 03, 2020
  17. Oct 09, 2020
  19. Oct 01, 2020
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      io_uring: don't rely on weak ->files references · 0f212204
      Jens Axboe authored 
      
Grab actual references to the files_struct. To avoid circular references
issues due to this, we add a per-task note that keeps track of what
io_uring contexts a task has used. When the tasks execs or exits its
assigned files, we cancel requests based on this tracking.

With that, we can grab proper references to the files table, and no
longer need to rely on stashing away ring_fd and ring_file to check
if the ring_fd may have been closed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+
Reviewed-by: default avatarPavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      0f212204
  21. Sep 24, 2020
  23. Sep 19, 2020
  25. Sep 18, 2020
  27. Sep 08, 2020
  29. Sep 04, 2020
  31. Sep 01, 2020
  33. Aug 28, 2020
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      bpf: Introduce sleepable BPF programs · 1e6c62a8
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      
Introduce sleepable BPF programs that can request such property for themselves
via BPF_F_SLEEPABLE flag at program load time. In such case they will be able
to use helpers like bpf_copy_from_user() that might sleep. At present only
fentry/fexit/fmod_ret and lsm programs can request to be sleepable and only
when they are attached to kernel functions that are known to allow sleeping.

The non-sleepable programs are relying on implicit rcu_read_lock() and
migrate_disable() to protect life time of programs, maps that they use and
per-cpu kernel structures used to pass info between bpf programs and the
kernel. The sleepable programs cannot be enclosed into rcu_read_lock().
migrate_disable() maps to preempt_disable() in non-RT kernels, so the progs
should not be enclosed in migrate_disable() as well. Therefore
rcu_read_lock_trace is used to protect the life time of sleepable progs.

There are many networking and tracing program types. In many cases the
'struct bpf_prog *' pointer itself is rcu protected within some other kernel
data structure and the kernel code is using rcu_dereference() to load that
program pointer and call BPF_PROG_RUN() on it. All these cases are not touched.
Instead sleepable bpf programs are allowed with bpf trampoline only. The
program pointers are hard-coded into generated assembly of bpf trampoline and
synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() is used to protect the life time of the program.
The same trampoline can hold both sleepable and non-sleepable progs.

When rcu_read_lock_trace is held it means that some sleepable bpf program is
running from bpf trampoline. Those programs can use bpf arrays and preallocated
hash/lru maps. These map types are waiting on programs to complete via
synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace();

Updates to trampoline now has to do synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() and
synchronize_rcu_tasks() to wait for sleepable progs to finish and for
trampoline assembly to finish.

This is the first step of introducing sleepable progs. Eventually dynamically
allocated hash maps can be allowed and networking program types can become
sleepable too.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200827220114.69225-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
      1e6c62a8
  35. Aug 20, 2020
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      bpf: Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs. · d71fa5c9
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      
Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs with
BPF iterators.

$ mount bpffs /my/bpffs/ -t bpf
$ ls -la /my/bpffs/
total 4
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root    0 Jul  2 00:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jul  2 00:09 ..
-rw-------  1 root root    0 Jul  2 00:27 maps.debug
-rw-------  1 root root    0 Jul  2 00:27 progs.debug

The user mode driver will load BPF Type Formats, create BPF maps, populate BPF
maps, load two BPF programs, attach them to BPF iterators, and finally send two
bpf_link IDs back to the kernel.
The kernel will pin two bpf_links into newly mounted bpffs instance under
names "progs.debug" and "maps.debug". These two files become human readable.

$ cat /my/bpffs/progs.debug
  id name            attached
  11 dump_bpf_map    bpf_iter_bpf_map
  12 dump_bpf_prog   bpf_iter_bpf_prog
  27 test_pkt_access
  32 test_main       test_pkt_access test_pkt_access
  33 test_subprog1   test_pkt_access_subprog1 test_pkt_access
  34 test_subprog2   test_pkt_access_subprog2 test_pkt_access
  35 test_subprog3   test_pkt_access_subprog3 test_pkt_access
  36 new_get_skb_len get_skb_len test_pkt_access
  37 new_get_skb_ifindex get_skb_ifindex test_pkt_access
  38 new_get_constant get_constant test_pkt_access

The BPF program dump_bpf_prog() in iterators.bpf.c is printing this data about
all BPF programs currently loaded in the system. This information is unstable
and will change from kernel to kernel as ".debug" suffix conveys.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819042759.51280-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
      d71fa5c9
  37. Aug 19, 2020
    • Kirill Tkhai's avatar
      uts: Use generic ns_common::count · 9a56493f
      Kirill Tkhai authored 
      
Switch over uts namespaces to use the newly introduced common lifetime
counter.

Currently every namespace type has its own lifetime counter which is stored
in the specific namespace struct. The lifetime counters are used
identically for all namespaces types. Namespaces may of course have
additional unrelated counters and these are not altered.

This introduces a common lifetime counter into struct ns_common. The
ns_common struct encompasses information that all namespaces share. That
should include the lifetime counter since its common for all of them.

It also allows us to unify the type of the counters across all namespaces.
Most of them use refcount_t but one uses atomic_t and at least one uses
kref. Especially the last one doesn't make much sense since it's just a
wrapper around refcount_t since 2016 and actually complicates cleanup
operations by having to use container_of() to cast the correct namespace
struct out of struct ns_common.

Having the lifetime counter for the namespaces in one place reduces
maintenance cost. Not just because after switching all namespaces over we
will have removed more code than we added but also because the logic is
more easily understandable and we indicate to the user that the basic
lifetime requirements for all namespaces are currently identical.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644978167.604812.1773586504374412107.stgit@localhost.localdomain


Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
      Unverified
      9a56493f
  39. Aug 07, 2020
  41. Aug 05, 2020
  43. Aug 04, 2020
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      bootconfig: Fix to find the initargs correctly · 477d0847
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      Since the parse_args() stops parsing at '--', bootconfig_params()
will never get the '--' as param and initargs_found never be true.
In the result, if we pass some init arguments via the bootconfig,
those are always appended to the kernel command line with '--'
even if the kernel command line already has '--'.

To fix this correctly, check the return value of parse_args()
and set initargs_found true if the return value is not an error
but a valid address.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159650953285.270383.14822353843556363851.stgit@devnote2



Fixes: f61872bb ("bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Suggested-by: default avatarArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      477d0847
    • Stafford Horne's avatar
      init: Align init_task to avoid conflict with MUTEX_FLAGS · d0b7213f
      Stafford Horne authored 
      
When booting on 32-bit machines (seen on OpenRISC) I saw this warning
with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES turned on.

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:1242 __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
    DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(__owner_task(owner) != current)
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.8.0-rc1-simple-smp-00005-g2864e2171db4-dirty #179
    Call trace:
    [<(ptrval)>] dump_stack+0x34/0x48
    [<(ptrval)>] __warn+0x104/0x158
    [<(ptrval)>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
    [<(ptrval)>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x7c/0x94
    [<(ptrval)>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x328/0x3ec
    [<(ptrval)>] mutex_unlock+0x18/0x28
    [<(ptrval)>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked.part.0+0x29c/0x2f4
    [<(ptrval)>] ? page_alloc_cpu_dead+0x0/0x30
    [<(ptrval)>] ? start_kernel+0x0/0x684
    [<(ptrval)>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x4c/0x5c
    [<(ptrval)>] page_alloc_init+0x34/0x68
    [<(ptrval)>] ? start_kernel+0x1a0/0x684
    [<(ptrval)>] ? early_init_dt_scan_nodes+0x60/0x70
    irq event stamp: 0

I traced this to kernel/locking/mutex.c storing 3 bits of MUTEX_FLAGS in
the task_struct pointer (mutex.owner).  There is a comment saying that
task_structs are always aligned to L1_CACHE_BYTES.  This is not true for
the init_task.

On 64-bit machines this is not a problem because symbol addresses are
naturally aligned to 64-bits providing 3 bits for MUTEX_FLAGS.  Howerver,
for 32-bit machines the symbol address only has 2 bits available.

Fix this by setting init_task alignment to at least L1_CACHE_BYTES.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      d0b7213f
  45. Jul 31, 2020