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<title>mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: fix NULL pointer deref in smaps_pte_range()</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:08:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2018-10-26T22:02:16+00:00</published>
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commit fa76da461bb0be13c8339d984dcf179151167c8f upstream.

Leonardo reports an apparent regression in 4.19-rc7:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f0
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 3 PID: 6032 Comm: python Not tainted 4.19.0-041900rc7-lowlatency #201810071631
 Hardware name: LENOVO 80UG/Toronto 4A2, BIOS 0XCN45WW 08/09/2018
 RIP: 0010:smaps_pte_range+0x32d/0x540
 Code: 80 00 00 00 00 74 a9 48 89 de 41 f6 40 52 40 0f 85 04 02 00 00 49 2b 30 48 c1 ee 0c 49 03 b0 98 00 00 00 49 8b 80 a0 00 00 00 &lt;48&gt; 8b b8 f0 00 00 00 e8 b7 ef ec ff 48 85 c0 0f 84 71 ff ff ff a8
 RSP: 0018:ffffb0cbc484fb88 EFLAGS: 00010202
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000560ddb9e9000 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000560ddb9e9 RDI: 0000000000000001
 RBP: ffffb0cbc484fbc0 R08: ffff94a5a227a578 R09: ffff94a5a227a578
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000560ddbbe7000 R12: ffffe903098ba728
 R13: ffffb0cbc484fc78 R14: ffffb0cbc484fcf8 R15: ffff94a5a2e9cf48
 FS:  00007f6dfb683740(0000) GS:ffff94a5aaf80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00000000000000f0 CR3: 000000011c118001 CR4: 00000000003606e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  __walk_page_range+0x3c2/0x6f0
  walk_page_vma+0x42/0x60
  smap_gather_stats+0x79/0xe0
  ? gather_pte_stats+0x320/0x320
  ? gather_hugetlb_stats+0x70/0x70
  show_smaps_rollup+0xcd/0x1c0
  seq_read+0x157/0x400
  __vfs_read+0x3a/0x180
  ? security_file_permission+0x93/0xc0
  ? security_file_permission+0x93/0xc0
  vfs_read+0x8f/0x140
  ksys_read+0x55/0xc0
  __x64_sys_read+0x1a/0x20
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Decoded code matched to local compilation+disassembly points to
smaps_pte_entry():

        } else if (unlikely(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) &amp;&amp; mss-&gt;check_shmem_swap
                                                        &amp;&amp; pte_none(*pte))) {
                page = find_get_entry(vma-&gt;vm_file-&gt;f_mapping,
                                                linear_page_index(vma, addr));

Here, vma-&gt;vm_file is NULL.  mss-&gt;check_shmem_swap should be false in that
case, however for smaps_rollup, smap_gather_stats() can set the flag true
for one vma and leave it true for subsequent vma's where it should be
false.

To fix, reset the check_shmem_swap flag to false.  There's also related
bug which sets mss-&gt;swap to shmem_swapped, which in the context of
smaps_rollup overwrites any value accumulated from previous vma's.  Fix
that as well.

Note that the report suggests a regression between 4.17.19 and 4.19-rc7,
which makes the 4.19 series ending with commit 258f669e7e88 ("mm:
/proc/pid/smaps_rollup: convert to single value seq_file") suspicious.
But the mss was reused for rollup since 493b0e9d945f ("mm: add
/proc/pid/smaps_rollup") so let's play it safe with the stable backport.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/555fbd1f-4ac9-0b58-dcd4-5dc4380ff7ca@suse.cz
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201377
Fixes: 493b0e9d945f ("mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Leonardo Soares Müller &lt;leozinho29_eu@hotmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Leonardo Soares Müller &lt;leozinho29_eu@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Colascione &lt;dancol@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fa76da461bb0be13c8339d984dcf179151167c8f upstream.

Leonardo reports an apparent regression in 4.19-rc7:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f0
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 3 PID: 6032 Comm: python Not tainted 4.19.0-041900rc7-lowlatency #201810071631
 Hardware name: LENOVO 80UG/Toronto 4A2, BIOS 0XCN45WW 08/09/2018
 RIP: 0010:smaps_pte_range+0x32d/0x540
 Code: 80 00 00 00 00 74 a9 48 89 de 41 f6 40 52 40 0f 85 04 02 00 00 49 2b 30 48 c1 ee 0c 49 03 b0 98 00 00 00 49 8b 80 a0 00 00 00 &lt;48&gt; 8b b8 f0 00 00 00 e8 b7 ef ec ff 48 85 c0 0f 84 71 ff ff ff a8
 RSP: 0018:ffffb0cbc484fb88 EFLAGS: 00010202
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000560ddb9e9000 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000560ddb9e9 RDI: 0000000000000001
 RBP: ffffb0cbc484fbc0 R08: ffff94a5a227a578 R09: ffff94a5a227a578
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000560ddbbe7000 R12: ffffe903098ba728
 R13: ffffb0cbc484fc78 R14: ffffb0cbc484fcf8 R15: ffff94a5a2e9cf48
 FS:  00007f6dfb683740(0000) GS:ffff94a5aaf80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00000000000000f0 CR3: 000000011c118001 CR4: 00000000003606e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  __walk_page_range+0x3c2/0x6f0
  walk_page_vma+0x42/0x60
  smap_gather_stats+0x79/0xe0
  ? gather_pte_stats+0x320/0x320
  ? gather_hugetlb_stats+0x70/0x70
  show_smaps_rollup+0xcd/0x1c0
  seq_read+0x157/0x400
  __vfs_read+0x3a/0x180
  ? security_file_permission+0x93/0xc0
  ? security_file_permission+0x93/0xc0
  vfs_read+0x8f/0x140
  ksys_read+0x55/0xc0
  __x64_sys_read+0x1a/0x20
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Decoded code matched to local compilation+disassembly points to
smaps_pte_entry():

        } else if (unlikely(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHMEM) &amp;&amp; mss-&gt;check_shmem_swap
                                                        &amp;&amp; pte_none(*pte))) {
                page = find_get_entry(vma-&gt;vm_file-&gt;f_mapping,
                                                linear_page_index(vma, addr));

Here, vma-&gt;vm_file is NULL.  mss-&gt;check_shmem_swap should be false in that
case, however for smaps_rollup, smap_gather_stats() can set the flag true
for one vma and leave it true for subsequent vma's where it should be
false.

To fix, reset the check_shmem_swap flag to false.  There's also related
bug which sets mss-&gt;swap to shmem_swapped, which in the context of
smaps_rollup overwrites any value accumulated from previous vma's.  Fix
that as well.

Note that the report suggests a regression between 4.17.19 and 4.19-rc7,
which makes the 4.19 series ending with commit 258f669e7e88 ("mm:
/proc/pid/smaps_rollup: convert to single value seq_file") suspicious.
But the mss was reused for rollup since 493b0e9d945f ("mm: add
/proc/pid/smaps_rollup") so let's play it safe with the stable backport.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/555fbd1f-4ac9-0b58-dcd4-5dc4380ff7ca@suse.cz
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201377
Fixes: 493b0e9d945f ("mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Leonardo Soares Müller &lt;leozinho29_eu@hotmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Leonardo Soares Müller &lt;leozinho29_eu@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Colascione &lt;dancol@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: restrict kernel stack dumps to root</title>
<updated>2018-10-05T23:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-05T22:51:58+00:00</published>
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Currently, you can use /proc/self/task/*/stack to cause a stack walk on
a task you control while it is running on another CPU.  That means that
the stack can change under the stack walker.  The stack walker does
have guards against going completely off the rails and into random
kernel memory, but it can interpret random data from your kernel stack
as instruction pointers and stack pointers.  This can cause exposure of
kernel stack contents to userspace.

Restrict the ability to inspect kernel stacks of arbitrary tasks to root
in order to prevent a local attacker from exploiting racy stack unwinding
to leak kernel task stack contents.  See the added comment for a longer
rationale.

There don't seem to be any users of this userspace API that can't
gracefully bail out if reading from the file fails.  Therefore, I believe
that this change is unlikely to break things.  In the case that this patch
does end up needing a revert, the next-best solution might be to fake a
single-entry stack based on wchan.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180927153316.200286-1-jannh@google.com
Fixes: 2ec220e27f50 ("proc: add /proc/*/stack")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ken Chen &lt;kenchen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently, you can use /proc/self/task/*/stack to cause a stack walk on
a task you control while it is running on another CPU.  That means that
the stack can change under the stack walker.  The stack walker does
have guards against going completely off the rails and into random
kernel memory, but it can interpret random data from your kernel stack
as instruction pointers and stack pointers.  This can cause exposure of
kernel stack contents to userspace.

Restrict the ability to inspect kernel stacks of arbitrary tasks to root
in order to prevent a local attacker from exploiting racy stack unwinding
to leak kernel task stack contents.  See the added comment for a longer
rationale.

There don't seem to be any users of this userspace API that can't
gracefully bail out if reading from the file fails.  Therefore, I believe
that this change is unlikely to break things.  In the case that this patch
does end up needing a revert, the next-best solution might be to fake a
single-entry stack based on wchan.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180927153316.200286-1-jannh@google.com
Fixes: 2ec220e27f50 ("proc: add /proc/*/stack")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ken Chen &lt;kenchen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/kcore.c: fix invalid memory access in multi-page read optimization</title>
<updated>2018-09-20T20:01:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominique Martinet</name>
<email>asmadeus@codewreck.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-20T19:22:35+00:00</published>
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The 'm' kcore_list item could point to kclist_head, and it is incorrect to
look at m-&gt;addr / m-&gt;size in this case.

There is no choice but to run through the list of entries for every
address if we did not find any entry in the previous iteration

Reset 'm' to NULL in that case at Omar Sandoval's suggestion.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536100702-28706-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Fixes: bf991c2231117 ("proc/kcore: optimize multiple page reads")
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The 'm' kcore_list item could point to kclist_head, and it is incorrect to
look at m-&gt;addr / m-&gt;size in this case.

There is no choice but to run through the list of entries for every
address if we did not find any entry in the previous iteration

Reset 'm' to NULL in that case at Omar Sandoval's suggestion.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536100702-28706-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org
Fixes: bf991c2231117 ("proc/kcore: optimize multiple page reads")
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-08-26T18:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-26T18:25:21+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Kernel:
   - Improve kallsyms coverage
   - Add x86 entry trampolines to kcore
   - Fix ARM SPE handling
   - Correct PPC event post processing

  Tools:
   - Make the build system more robust
   - Small fixes and enhancements all over the place
   - Update kernel ABI header copies
   - Preparatory work for converting libtraceevnt to a shared library
   - License cleanups"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
  tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S copy used in 'perf bench mem memcpy'
  tools arch x86: Update tools's copy of cpufeatures.h
  perf python: Fix pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu() interface
  perf mmap: Store real cpu number in 'struct perf_mmap'
  perf tools: Remove ext from struct kmod_path
  perf tools: Add gzip_is_compressed function
  perf tools: Add lzma_is_compressed function
  perf tools: Add is_compressed callback to compressions array
  perf tools: Move the temp file processing into decompress_kmodule
  perf tools: Use compression id in decompress_kmodule()
  perf tools: Store compression id into struct dso
  perf tools: Add compression id into 'struct kmod_path'
  perf tools: Make is_supported_compression() static
  perf tools: Make decompress_to_file() function static
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in __open_dso()
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in symbol__disassemble()
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in read_object_code()
  tools lib traceevent: Change to SPDX License format
  perf llvm: Allow passing options to llc in addition to clang
  perf parser: Improve error message for PMU address filters
  ...
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Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Kernel:
   - Improve kallsyms coverage
   - Add x86 entry trampolines to kcore
   - Fix ARM SPE handling
   - Correct PPC event post processing

  Tools:
   - Make the build system more robust
   - Small fixes and enhancements all over the place
   - Update kernel ABI header copies
   - Preparatory work for converting libtraceevnt to a shared library
   - License cleanups"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits)
  tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S copy used in 'perf bench mem memcpy'
  tools arch x86: Update tools's copy of cpufeatures.h
  perf python: Fix pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu() interface
  perf mmap: Store real cpu number in 'struct perf_mmap'
  perf tools: Remove ext from struct kmod_path
  perf tools: Add gzip_is_compressed function
  perf tools: Add lzma_is_compressed function
  perf tools: Add is_compressed callback to compressions array
  perf tools: Move the temp file processing into decompress_kmodule
  perf tools: Use compression id in decompress_kmodule()
  perf tools: Store compression id into struct dso
  perf tools: Add compression id into 'struct kmod_path'
  perf tools: Make is_supported_compression() static
  perf tools: Make decompress_to_file() function static
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in __open_dso()
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in symbol__disassemble()
  perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in read_object_code()
  tools lib traceevent: Change to SPDX License format
  perf llvm: Allow passing options to llc in addition to clang
  perf parser: Improve error message for PMU address filters
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/vmcore.c: hide vmcoredd_mmap_dumps() for nommu builds</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T01:48:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-24T00:00:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a2036a1ef2ee91acab01a0ae4a534070691a42ec'/>
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Without CONFIG_MMU, we get a build warning:

  fs/proc/vmcore.c:228:12: error: 'vmcoredd_mmap_dumps' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
   static int vmcoredd_mmap_dumps(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long dst,

The function is only referenced from an #ifdef'ed caller, so
this uses the same #ifdef around it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525213526.2117790-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 7efe48df8a3d ("vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Without CONFIG_MMU, we get a build warning:

  fs/proc/vmcore.c:228:12: error: 'vmcoredd_mmap_dumps' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
   static int vmcoredd_mmap_dumps(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long dst,

The function is only referenced from an #ifdef'ed caller, so
this uses the same #ifdef around it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525213526.2117790-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 7efe48df8a3d ("vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ganesh Goudar &lt;ganeshgr@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>proc/kcore: add vmcoreinfo note to /proc/kcore</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:20+00:00</published>
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The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just
for crash dumps.  A lot of this information can be determined by other
means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most
to the file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The vmcoreinfo information is useful for runtime debugging tools, not just
for crash dumps.  A lot of this information can be determined by other
means, but this is much more convenient, and it only adds a page at most
to the file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fddbcd08eed76344863303878b12de1c1e2a04b6.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/kcore: optimize multiple page reads</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:13+00:00</published>
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The current code does a full search of the segment list every time for
every page.  This is wasteful, since it's almost certain that the next
page will be in the same segment.  Instead, check if the previous segment
covers the current page before doing the list search.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd346c11090cf93d867e01b8d73a6567c5ac6361.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The current code does a full search of the segment list every time for
every page.  This is wasteful, since it's almost certain that the next
page will be in the same segment.  Instead, check if the previous segment
covers the current page before doing the list search.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd346c11090cf93d867e01b8d73a6567c5ac6361.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/kcore: clean up ELF header generation</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:09+00:00</published>
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Currently, the ELF file header, program headers, and note segment are
allocated all at once, in some icky code dating back to 2.3.  Programs
tend to read the file header, then the program headers, then the note
segment, all separately, so this is a waste of effort.  It's cleaner and
more efficient to handle the three separately.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/19c92cbad0e11f6103ff3274b2e7a7e51a1eb74b.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, the ELF file header, program headers, and note segment are
allocated all at once, in some icky code dating back to 2.3.  Programs
tend to read the file header, then the program headers, then the note
segment, all separately, so this is a waste of effort.  It's cleaner and
more efficient to handle the three separately.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/19c92cbad0e11f6103ff3274b2e7a7e51a1eb74b.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/kcore: hold lock during read</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:06+00:00</published>
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Now that we're using an rwsem, we can hold it during the entirety of
read_kcore() and have a common return path.  This is preparation for the
next change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix locking bug reported by Tetsuo Handa]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7cfbc1e8a76616f3b699eaff9df0a2730380534.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now that we're using an rwsem, we can hold it during the entirety of
read_kcore() and have a common return path.  This is preparation for the
next change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix locking bug reported by Tetsuo Handa]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d7cfbc1e8a76616f3b699eaff9df0a2730380534.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/kcore: fix memory hotplug vs multiple opens race</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Omar Sandoval</name>
<email>osandov@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:55:02+00:00</published>
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There's a theoretical race condition that will cause /proc/kcore to miss
a memory hotplug event:

CPU0                              CPU1
// hotplug event 1
kcore_need_update = 1

open_kcore()                      open_kcore()
    kcore_update_ram()                kcore_update_ram()
        // Walk RAM                       // Walk RAM
        __kcore_update_ram()              __kcore_update_ram()
            kcore_need_update = 0

// hotplug event 2
kcore_need_update = 1
                                              kcore_need_update = 0

Note that CPU1 set up the RAM kcore entries with the state after hotplug
event 1 but cleared the flag for hotplug event 2.  The RAM entries will
therefore be stale until there is another hotplug event.

This is an extremely unlikely sequence of events, but the fix makes the
synchronization saner, anyways: we serialize the entire update sequence,
which means that whoever clears the flag will always succeed in replacing
the kcore list.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6106c509998779730c12400c1b996425df7d7089.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There's a theoretical race condition that will cause /proc/kcore to miss
a memory hotplug event:

CPU0                              CPU1
// hotplug event 1
kcore_need_update = 1

open_kcore()                      open_kcore()
    kcore_update_ram()                kcore_update_ram()
        // Walk RAM                       // Walk RAM
        __kcore_update_ram()              __kcore_update_ram()
            kcore_need_update = 0

// hotplug event 2
kcore_need_update = 1
                                              kcore_need_update = 0

Note that CPU1 set up the RAM kcore entries with the state after hotplug
event 1 but cleared the flag for hotplug event 2.  The RAM entries will
therefore be stale until there is another hotplug event.

This is an extremely unlikely sequence of events, but the fix makes the
synchronization saner, anyways: we serialize the entire update sequence,
which means that whoever clears the flag will always succeed in replacing
the kcore list.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6106c509998779730c12400c1b996425df7d7089.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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