linux-stable.git/fs/proc/task_mmu.c, branch linux-4.13.y

mm: fix KSM data corruption

2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00

Nadav reported KSM can corrupt the user data by the TLB batching
race[1].  That means data user written can be lost.

Quote from Nadav Amit:
 "For this race we need 4 CPUs:

  CPU0: Caches a writable and dirty PTE entry, and uses the stale value
  for write later.

  CPU1: Runs madvise_free on the range that includes the PTE. It would
  clear the dirty-bit. It batches TLB flushes.

  CPU2: Writes 4 to /proc/PID/clear_refs , clearing the PTEs soft-dirty.
  We care about the fact that it clears the PTE write-bit, and of
  course, batches TLB flushes.

  CPU3: Runs KSM. Our purpose is to pass the following test in
  write_protect_page():

	if (pte_write(*pvmw.pte) || pte_dirty(*pvmw.pte) ||
	    (pte_protnone(*pvmw.pte) && pte_savedwrite(*pvmw.pte)))

  Since it will avoid TLB flush. And we want to do it while the PTE is
  stale. Later, and before replacing the page, we would be able to
  change the page.

  Note that all the operations the CPU1-3 perform canhappen in parallel
  since they only acquire mmap_sem for read.

  We start with two identical pages. Everything below regards the same
  page/PTE.

  CPU0        CPU1        CPU2        CPU3
  ----        ----        ----        ----
  Write the same
  value on page

  [cache PTE as
   dirty in TLB]

              MADV_FREE
              pte_mkclean()

                          4 > clear_refs
                          pte_wrprotect()

                                      write_protect_page()
                                      [ success, no flush ]

                                      pages_indentical()
                                      [ ok ]

  Write to page
  different value

  [Ok, using stale
   PTE]

                                      replace_page()

  Later, CPU1, CPU2 and CPU3 would flush the TLB, but that is too late.
  CPU0 already wrote on the page, but KSM ignored this write, and it got
  lost"

In above scenario, MADV_FREE is fixed by changing TLB batching API
including [set|clear]_tlb_flush_pending.  Remained thing is soft-dirty
part.

This patch changes soft-dirty uses TLB batching API instead of
flush_tlb_mm and KSM checks pending TLB flush by using
mm_tlb_flush_pending so that it will flush TLB to avoid data lost if
there are other parallel threads pending TLB flush.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BD3A0EBE-ECF4-41D4-87FA-C755EA9AB6BD@gmail.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-8-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Reported-by: Nadav Amit 
Tested-by: Nadav Amit 
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc/task_mmu.c: remove obsolete comment in show_map_vma()

2017-07-10T23:32:32+00:00

After commit 1be7107fbe18 ("mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas")
we do not hide stack guard page in /proc//maps

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/211f3c2a-f7ef-7c13-82bf-46fd426f6e1b@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

2017-06-19T13:50:20+00:00

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

proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps

2017-05-03T22:52:08+00:00

Show MADV_FREE pages info of each vma in smaps.  The interface is for
diganose or monitoring purpose, userspace could use it to understand
what happens in the application.  Since userspace could dirty MADV_FREE
pages without notice from kernel, this interface is the only place we
can get accurate accounting info about MADV_FREE pages.

[mhocko@kernel.org: update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/89efde633559de1ec07444f2ef0f4963a97a2ce8.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race

2017-04-14T01:24:21+00:00

Yet another instance of the same race.

Fix is identical to change_huge_pmd().

See "thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs.  numa balancing race" for more details.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-5-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

The APIs that are going to be moved first are:

   mm_alloc()
   __mmdrop()
   mmdrop()
   mmdrop_async_fn()
   mmdrop_async()
   mmget_not_zero()
   mmput()
   mmput_async()
   get_task_mm()
   mm_access()
   mm_release()

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: use mmget_not_zero() helper

2017-02-28T02:43:48+00:00

We already have the helper, we can convert the rest of the kernel
mechanically using:

  git grep -l 'atomic_inc_not_zero.*mm_users' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc_not_zero(&\(.*\)->mm_users)/mmget_not_zero\(\1\)/'

This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might
be a worthwhile cleanup on its own.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-3-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add cond_resched() in gather_pte_stats()

2016-12-13T02:55:09+00:00

The other pagetable walks in task_mmu.c have a cond_resched() after
walking their ptes: add a cond_resched() in gather_pte_stats() too, for
reading /proc//numa_maps.  Only pagemap_pmd_range() has a
cond_resched() in its (unusually expensive) pmd_trans_huge case: more
should probably be added, but leave them unchanged for now.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1612052157400.13021@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

2016-10-20T07:21:41+00:00

This reverts more of:

  b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps")

... which was partially reverted by:

  65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation")

Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps.

In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for
threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range.

In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the
target thread's stack's VMA.  This is racy, probably returns garbage
and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone:
KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running
ordinary process-context kernel code.

This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs
in the mm's stack range.  This is IMO much more sensible -- the
actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code,
and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs
that frequently switch stacks on their own.

Reported-by: Jann Horn 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Linux API 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tycho Andersen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar