linux-stable.git/Documentation, branch v4.1.45

sysctl: enable strict writes

2017-07-31T17:37:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 ]

SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for
strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of
2014.  Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset
writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2].  As such, it
appears safe to flip this to the strict state now.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200"
[2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

2017-06-28T22:57:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb ]

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: Helge Deller  # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

arm64: documentation: document tagged pointer stack constraints

2017-05-28T10:36:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit f0e421b1bf7af97f026e1bb8bfe4c5a7a8c08f42 ]

Some kernel features don't currently work if a task puts a non-zero
address tag in its stack pointer, frame pointer, or frame record entries
(FP, LR).

For example, with a tagged stack pointer, the kernel can't deliver
signals to the process, and the task is killed instead. As another
example, with a tagged frame pointer or frame records, perf fails to
generate call graphs or resolve symbols.

For now, just document these limitations, instead of finding and fixing
everything that doesn't work, as it's not known if anyone needs to use
tags in these places anyway.

In addition, as requested by Dave Martin, generalize the limitations
into a general kernel address tag policy, and refactor
tagged-pointers.txt to include it.

Fixes: d50240a5f6ce ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0")
Cc:  # 3.12.x-
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading

2017-05-17T19:06:59+00:00

[ Upstream commit 47512cfd0d7a8bd6ab71d01cd89fca19eb2093eb ]

The goldfish platform code registers the platform device unconditionally
which causes havoc in several ways if the goldfish_pdev_bus driver is
enabled:

 - Access to the hardcoded physical memory region, which is either not
   available or contains stuff which is completely unrelated.

 - Prevents that the interrupt of the serial port can be requested

 - In case of a spurious interrupt it goes into a infinite loop in the
   interrupt handler of the pdev_bus driver (which needs to be fixed
   seperately).

Add a 'goldfish' command line option to make the registration opt-in when
the platform is compiled in.

I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has seven
SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them figured
out that this is broken. Impressive fail!

Fixes: ddd70cf93d78 ("goldfish: platform device for x86")
Reported-by: Gabriel C 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Save/restore XER in checkpointed register state

2017-01-13T01:56:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0d808df06a44200f52262b6eb72bcb6042f5a7c5 ]

When switching from/to a guest that has a transaction in progress,
we need to save/restore the checkpointed register state.  Although
XER is part of the CPU state that gets checkpointed, the code that
does this saving and restoring doesn't save/restore XER.

This fixes it by saving and restoring the XER.  To allow userspace
to read/write the checkpointed XER value, we also add a new ONE_REG
specifier.

The visible effect of this bug is that the guest may see its XER
value being corrupted when it uses transactions.

Fixes: e4e38121507a ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add transactional memory support")
Fixes: 0a8eccefcb34 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add missing code for transaction reclaim on guest exit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts

2016-12-23T13:56:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit d29216842a85c7970c536108e093963f02714498 ]

CAI Qian  pointed out that the semantics
of shared subtrees make it possible to create an exponentially
increasing number of mounts in a mount namespace.

    mkdir /tmp/1 /tmp/2
    mount --make-rshared /
    for i in $(seq 1 20) ; do mount --bind /tmp/1 /tmp/2 ; done

Will create create 2^20 or 1048576 mounts, which is a practical problem
as some people have managed to hit this by accident.

As such CVE-2016-6213 was assigned.

Ian Kent  described the situation for autofs users
as follows:

> The number of mounts for direct mount maps is usually not very large because of
> the way they are implemented, large direct mount maps can have performance
> problems. There can be anywhere from a few (likely case a few hundred) to less
> than 10000, plus mounts that have been triggered and not yet expired.
>
> Indirect mounts have one autofs mount at the root plus the number of mounts that
> have been triggered and not yet expired.
>
> The number of autofs indirect map entries can range from a few to the common
> case of several thousand and in rare cases up to between 30000 and 50000. I've
> not heard of people with maps larger than 50000 entries.
>
> The larger the number of map entries the greater the possibility for a large
> number of active mounts so it's not hard to expect cases of a 1000 or somewhat
> more active mounts.

So I am setting the default number of mounts allowed per mount
namespace at 100,000.  This is more than enough for any use case I
know of, but small enough to quickly stop an exponential increase
in mounts.  Which should be perfect to catch misconfigurations and
malfunctioning programs.

For anyone who needs a higher limit this can be changed by writing
to the new /proc/sys/fs/mount-max sysctl.

Tested-by: CAI Qian 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 

Conflicts:
	fs/namespace.c
	kernel/sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode

2016-12-23T13:56:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 31051c85b5e2aaaf6315f74c72a732673632a905 ]

inode_change_ok() will be resposible for clearing capabilities and IMA
extended attributes and as such will need dentry. Give it as an argument
to inode_change_ok() instead of an inode. Also rename inode_change_ok()
to setattr_prepare() to better relect that it does also some
modifications in addition to checks.

References: CVE-2015-1350
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bus: arm-ccn: Provide required event arguments

2016-12-22T03:45:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8f06c51fac1ca4104b8b64872f310e28186aea42 ]

Since 688d4dfcdd624192cbf03c08402e444d1d11f294 "perf tools: Support
parsing parameterized events" the perf userspace tools understands
"argument=?" syntax in the events file, making sure that required
arguments are provided by the user and not defaulting to 0, causing
confusion.

This patch adds the required arguments lists for CCN events.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options

2016-10-30T18:15:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 548acf19234dbda5a52d5a8e7e205af46e9da840 ]

Huge amounts of help from  Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.

Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:

  ' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
    in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '

The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.

We start out with three handlers:

 1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
 2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
 3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

iio: proximity: as3935: correct IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW output

2016-08-20T03:08:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5138806f16c74c7cb8ac3e408a859c79eb7c9567 ]

IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW was returning processed data which was incorrect.
This also adds the IIO_CHAN_INFO_SCALE value to convert to a processed value.

Signed-off-by: Matt Ranostay 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin