linux-stable.git/arch/xtensa, branch v5.13.2

sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled

2021-07-14T15:06:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit f1a0a376ca0c4ef1fc3d24e3e502acbb5b795674 ]

As pointed out by commit

  de9b8f5dcbd9 ("sched: Fix crash trying to dequeue/enqueue the idle thread")

init_idle() can and will be invoked more than once on the same idle
task. At boot time, it is invoked for the boot CPU thread by
sched_init(). Then smp_init() creates the threads for all the secondary
CPUs and invokes init_idle() on them.

As the hotplug machinery brings the secondaries to life, it will issue
calls to idle_thread_get(), which itself invokes init_idle() yet again.
In this case it's invoked twice more per secondary: at _cpu_up(), and at
bringup_cpu().

Given smp_init() already initializes the idle tasks for all *possible*
CPUs, no further initialization should be required. Now, removing
init_idle() from idle_thread_get() exposes some interesting expectations
with regards to the idle task's preempt_count: the secondary startup always
issues a preempt_disable(), requiring some reset of the preempt count to 0
between hot-unplug and hotplug, which is currently served by
idle_thread_get() -> idle_init().

Given the idle task is supposed to have preemption disabled once and never
see it re-enabled, it seems that what we actually want is to initialize its
preempt_count to PREEMPT_DISABLED and leave it there. Do that, and remove
init_idle() from idle_thread_get().

Secondary startups were patched via coccinelle:

  @begone@
  @@

  -preempt_disable();
  ...
  cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512094636.2958515-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

quota: Disable quotactl_path syscall

2021-05-17T12:39:56+00:00

In commit fa8b90070a80 ("quota: wire up quotactl_path") we have wired up
new quotactl_path syscall. However some people in LWN discussion have
objected that the path based syscall is missing dirfd and flags argument
which is mostly standard for contemporary path based syscalls. Indeed
they have a point and after a discussion with Christian Brauner and
Sascha Hauer I've decided to disable the syscall for now and update its
API. Since there is no userspace currently using that syscall and it
hasn't been released in any major release, we should be fine.

CC: Christian Brauner 
CC: Sascha Hauer 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210512153621.n5u43jsytbik4yze@wittgenstein
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2021-05-08T17:00:11+00:00

Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Convert sh and sparc to use generic shell scripts to generate the
   syscall headers

 - refactor .gitignore files

 - Update kernel/config_data.gz only when the content of the .config
   is really changed, which avoids the unneeded re-link of vmlinux

 - move "remove stale files" workarounds to scripts/remove-stale-files

 - suppress unused-but-set-variable warnings by default for Clang
   as well

 - fix locale setting LANG=C to LC_ALL=C

 - improve 'make distclean'

 - always keep intermediate objects from scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

 - move IF_ENABLED out of  to make it self-contained

 - misc cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
  linux/kconfig.h: replace IF_ENABLED() with PTR_IF() in 
  kbuild: Don't remove link-vmlinux temporary files on exit/signal
  kbuild: remove the unneeded comments for external module builds
  kbuild: make distclean remove tag files in sub-directories
  kbuild: make distclean work against $(objtree) instead of $(srctree)
  kbuild: refactor modname-multi by using suffix-search
  kbuild: refactor fdtoverlay rule
  kbuild: parameterize the .o part of suffix-search
  arch: use cross_compiling to check whether it is a cross build or not
  kbuild: remove ARCH=sh64 support from top Makefile
  .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash
  kbuild: replace LANG=C with LC_ALL=C
  Makefile: Move -Wno-unused-but-set-variable out of GCC only block
  kbuild: add a script to remove stale generated files
  kbuild: update config_data.gz only when the content of .config is changed
  .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin
  .gitignore: move tags and TAGS close to other tag files
  kernel/.gitgnore: remove stale timeconst.h and hz.bc
  usr/include: refactor .gitignore
  genksyms: fix stale comment
  ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-05-07T07:34:51+00:00

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.

  90 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub),
  alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat,
  checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov,
  panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc,
  drivers/char, and spelling"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (90 commits)
  mm: fix typos in comments
  mm: fix typos in comments
  treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft
  ipc/sem.c: spelling fix
  fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values
  kernel/sys.c: fix typo
  kernel/up.c: fix typo
  kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos
  kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes
  include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes
  mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -> "desired"
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw"
  scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow"
  arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers
  mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()
  mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr()
  drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
  mm: fix some typos and code style problems
  ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes
  ...

drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".

Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.

Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like

a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
  -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.

b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
  -> mem_pfn_is_ram()

Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.

Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.

CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?).  All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.

1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
   basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
   /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
   RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
   serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
   to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"

2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
   kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
   deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
   pages, though)

3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
   better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
   yourself into the foot.

4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
   to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
   /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
   kernels can be used.

5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.

Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Alexandre Belloni 
Cc: Andrew Lunn 
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Brian Cain 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Corentin Labbe 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Greentime Hu 
Cc: Gregory Clement 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: huang ying 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: James Troup 
Cc: Jiaxun Yang 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Kairui Song 
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski 
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto 
Cc: Liviu Dudau 
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi 
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Max Filippov 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Niklas Schnelle 
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko 
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" 
Cc: Pierre Morel 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Rob Herring 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth 
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stafford Horne 
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Sudeep Holla 
Cc: Theodore Dubois 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Viresh Kumar 
Cc: William Cohen 
Cc: Xiaoming Ni 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch: use cross_compiling to check whether it is a cross build or not

2021-05-05T16:49:13+00:00

'cross_compiling' is defined by the top Makefile and available for
arch Makefiles to check whether it is a cross build or not. A good
thing is the variable name 'cross_compiling' is self-documenting.

This is a simple replacement for m68k, mips, sh, for which $(ARCH)
and $(SRCARCH) always match.

No functional change is intended for xtensa, either.

This is rather a fix for parisc because arch/parisc/Makefile defines
UTS_MATCHINE depending on CONFIG_64BIT, therefore cc-cross-prefix
is not working in Kconfig time.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Helge Deller   # parisc
Acked-by: Max Filippov  # xtensa

Merge tag 'landlock_v34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2021-05-02T01:50:44+00:00

Pull Landlock LSM from James Morris:
 "Add Landlock, a new LSM from Mickaël Salaün.

  Briefly, Landlock provides for unprivileged application sandboxing.

  From Mickaël's cover letter:
    "The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g.
     global filesystem access) for a set of processes. Because Landlock
     is a stackable LSM [1], it makes possible to create safe security
     sandboxes as new security layers in addition to the existing
     system-wide access-controls. This kind of sandbox is expected to
     help mitigate the security impact of bugs or unexpected/malicious
     behaviors in user-space applications. Landlock empowers any
     process, including unprivileged ones, to securely restrict
     themselves.

     Landlock is inspired by seccomp-bpf but instead of filtering
     syscalls and their raw arguments, a Landlock rule can restrict the
     use of kernel objects like file hierarchies, according to the
     kernel semantic. Landlock also takes inspiration from other OS
     sandbox mechanisms: XNU Sandbox, FreeBSD Capsicum or OpenBSD
     Pledge/Unveil.

     In this current form, Landlock misses some access-control features.
     This enables to minimize this patch series and ease review. This
     series still addresses multiple use cases, especially with the
     combined use of seccomp-bpf: applications with built-in sandboxing,
     init systems, security sandbox tools and security-oriented APIs [2]"

  The cover letter and v34 posting is here:

      https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20210422154123.13086-1-mic@digikod.net/

  See also:

      https://landlock.io/

  This code has had extensive design discussion and review over several
  years"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/50db058a-7dde-441b-a7f9-f6837fe8b69f@schaufler-ca.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f646e1c7-33cf-333f-070c-0a40ad0468cd@digikod.net/ [2]

* tag 'landlock_v34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  landlock: Enable user space to infer supported features
  landlock: Add user and kernel documentation
  samples/landlock: Add a sandbox manager example
  selftests/landlock: Add user space tests
  landlock: Add syscall implementations
  arch: Wire up Landlock syscalls
  fs,security: Add sb_delete hook
  landlock: Support filesystem access-control
  LSM: Infrastructure management of the superblock
  landlock: Add ptrace restrictions
  landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials
  landlock: Add ruleset and domain management
  landlock: Add object management

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-04-30T21:38:01+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc subsystems and some of MM.

  175 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: ia64, kbuild, scripts, sh,
  ocfs2, kfifo, vfs, kernel/watchdog, and mm (slab-generic, slub,
  kmemleak, debug, pagecache, msync, gup, memremap, memcg, pagemap,
  mremap, dma, sparsemem, vmalloc, documentation, kasan, initialization,
  pagealloc, and memory-failure)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (175 commits)
  mm/memory-failure: unnecessary amount of unmapping
  mm/mmzone.h: fix existing kernel-doc comments and link them to core-api
  mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for debug_pagealloc=1
  net: page_pool: use alloc_pages_bulk in refill code path
  net: page_pool: refactor dma_map into own function page_pool_dma_map
  SUNRPC: refresh rq_pages using a bulk page allocator
  SUNRPC: set rq_page_end differently
  mm/page_alloc: inline __rmqueue_pcplist
  mm/page_alloc: optimize code layout for __alloc_pages_bulk
  mm/page_alloc: add an array-based interface to the bulk page allocator
  mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator
  mm/page_alloc: rename alloced to allocated
  mm/page_alloc: duplicate include linux/vmalloc.h
  mm, page_alloc: avoid page_to_pfn() in move_freepages()
  mm/Kconfig: remove default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
  mm: page_alloc: dump migrate-failed pages
  mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_misplaced kernel-doc
  mm/mempolicy: rewrite alloc_pages_vma documentation
  mm/mempolicy: rewrite alloc_pages documentation
  mm/mempolicy: rename alloc_pages_current to alloc_pages
  ...

Merge tag 'xtensa-20210429' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa

2021-04-30T19:09:28+00:00

Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov:

 - switch to generic syscall generation scripts

 - new GDBIO implementation for xtensa semihosting interface

 - various small code fixes and cleanups

 - a few typo fixes in comments and Kconfig help text

* tag 'xtensa-20210429' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa:
  xtensa: ISS: add GDBIO implementation to semihosting interface
  xtensa: ISS: split simcall implementation from semihosting interface
  xtensa: simcall.h: Change compitible to compatible
  xtensa: Couple of typo fixes
  xtensa: drop extraneous register load from initialize_mmu
  xtensa: fix pgprot_noncached assumptions
  xtensa: simplify coherent_kvaddr logic
  xtensa: syscalls: switch to generic syscallhdr.sh
  xtensa: syscalls: switch to generic syscalltbl.sh
  xtensa: stop filling syscall array with sys_ni_syscall
  xtensa: remove unneeded export in boot-elf/Makefile
  xtensa: move CONFIG_CPU_*_ENDIAN defines to Kconfig
  xtensa: fix warning comparing pointer to 0
  xtensa: fix spelling mistake in Kconfig "wont" -> "won't"

mm: move mem_init_print_info() into mm_init()

2021-04-30T18:20:42+00:00

mem_init_print_info() is called in mem_init() on each architecture, and
pass NULL argument, so using void argument and move it into mm_init().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210317015210.33641-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen 	[x86]
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy 	[powerpc]
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev 	[sparc64]
Acked-by: Russell King 	[arm]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Jonas Bonn 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds