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<title>userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork use after free</title>
<updated>2017-10-12T09:56:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-03T23:15:38+00:00</published>
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commit 384632e67e0829deb8015ee6ad916b180049d252 upstream.

When reading the event from the uffd, we put it on a temporary
fork_event list to detect if we can still access it after releasing and
retaking the event_wqh.lock.

If fork aborts and removes the event from the fork_event all is fine as
long as we're still in the userfault read context and fork_event head is
still alive.

We've to put the event allocated in the fork kernel stack, back from
fork_event list-head to the event_wqh head, before returning from
userfaultfd_ctx_read, because the fork_event head lifetime is limited to
the userfaultfd_ctx_read stack lifetime.

Forgetting to move the event back to its event_wqh place then results in
__remove_wait_queue(&amp;ctx-&gt;event_wqh, &amp;ewq-&gt;wq); in
userfaultfd_event_wait_completion to remove it from a head that has been
already freed from the reader stack.

This could only happen if resolve_userfault_fork failed (for example if
there are no file descriptors available to allocate the fork uffd).  If
it succeeded it was put back correctly.

Furthermore, after find_userfault_evt receives a fork event, the forked
userfault context in fork_nctx and uwq-&gt;msg.arg.reserved.reserved1 can
be released by the fork thread as soon as the event_wqh.lock is
released.  Taking a reference on the fork_nctx before dropping the lock
prevents an use after free in resolve_userfault_fork().

If the fork side aborted and it already released everything, we still
try to succeed resolve_userfault_fork(), if possible.

Fixes: 893e26e61d04eac9 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: Add fork() event")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170920180413.26713-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&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 384632e67e0829deb8015ee6ad916b180049d252 upstream.

When reading the event from the uffd, we put it on a temporary
fork_event list to detect if we can still access it after releasing and
retaking the event_wqh.lock.

If fork aborts and removes the event from the fork_event all is fine as
long as we're still in the userfault read context and fork_event head is
still alive.

We've to put the event allocated in the fork kernel stack, back from
fork_event list-head to the event_wqh head, before returning from
userfaultfd_ctx_read, because the fork_event head lifetime is limited to
the userfaultfd_ctx_read stack lifetime.

Forgetting to move the event back to its event_wqh place then results in
__remove_wait_queue(&amp;ctx-&gt;event_wqh, &amp;ewq-&gt;wq); in
userfaultfd_event_wait_completion to remove it from a head that has been
already freed from the reader stack.

This could only happen if resolve_userfault_fork failed (for example if
there are no file descriptors available to allocate the fork uffd).  If
it succeeded it was put back correctly.

Furthermore, after find_userfault_evt receives a fork event, the forked
userfault context in fork_nctx and uwq-&gt;msg.arg.reserved.reserved1 can
be released by the fork thread as soon as the event_wqh.lock is
released.  Taking a reference on the fork_nctx before dropping the lock
prevents an use after free in resolve_userfault_fork().

If the fork side aborted and it already released everything, we still
try to succeed resolve_userfault_fork(), if possible.

Fixes: 893e26e61d04eac9 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: Add fork() event")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170920180413.26713-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&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>
<title>userfaultfd: replace ENOSPC with ESRCH in case mm has gone during copy/zeropage</title>
<updated>2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-10T22:24:32+00:00</published>
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When the process exit races with outstanding mcopy_atomic, it would be
better to return ESRCH error.  When such race occurs the process and
it's mm are going away and returning "no such process" to the uffd
monitor seems better fit than ENOSPC.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502111545-32305-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.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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When the process exit races with outstanding mcopy_atomic, it would be
better to return ESRCH error.  When such race occurs the process and
it's mm are going away and returning "no such process" to the uffd
monitor seems better fit than ENOSPC.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502111545-32305-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.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>userfaultfd: non-cooperative: flush event_wqh at release time</title>
<updated>2017-08-03T00:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:32:24+00:00</published>
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There may still be threads waiting on event_wqh at the time the
userfault file descriptor is closed.  Flush the events wait-queue to
prevent waiting threads from hanging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501398127-30419-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fixes: 9cd75c3cd4c3d ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add ability to report
non-PF events from uffd descriptor")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.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;
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There may still be threads waiting on event_wqh at the time the
userfault file descriptor is closed.  Flush the events wait-queue to
prevent waiting threads from hanging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501398127-30419-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fixes: 9cd75c3cd4c3d ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add ability to report
non-PF events from uffd descriptor")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd_zeropage: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone</title>
<updated>2017-08-03T00:16:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:32:15+00:00</published>
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In the non-cooperative userfaultfd case, the process exit may race with
outstanding mcopy_atomic called by the uffd monitor.  Returning -ENOSPC
instead of -EINVAL when mm is already gone will allow uffd monitor to
distinguish this case from other error conditions.

Unfortunately I overlooked userfaultfd_zeropage when updating
userfaultd_copy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501136819-21857-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fixes: 96333187ab162 ("userfaultfd_copy: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&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;
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In the non-cooperative userfaultfd case, the process exit may race with
outstanding mcopy_atomic called by the uffd monitor.  Returning -ENOSPC
instead of -EINVAL when mm is already gone will allow uffd monitor to
distinguish this case from other error conditions.

Unfortunately I overlooked userfaultfd_zeropage when updating
userfaultd_copy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501136819-21857-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fixes: 96333187ab162 ("userfaultfd_copy: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&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;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset()</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T23:24:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Punit Agrawal</name>
<email>punit.agrawal@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T22:39:42+00:00</published>
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A poisoned or migrated hugepage is stored as a swap entry in the page
tables.  On architectures that support hugepages consisting of
contiguous page table entries (such as on arm64) this leads to ambiguity
in determining the page table entry to return in huge_pte_offset() when
a poisoned entry is encountered.

Let's remove the ambiguity by adding a size parameter to convey
additional information about the requested address.  Also fixup the
definition/usage of huge_pte_offset() throughout the tree.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522133604.11392-4-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal &lt;punit.agrawal@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt; (odd fixer:METAG ARCHITECTURE)
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt; (supporter:MIPS)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.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: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@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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A poisoned or migrated hugepage is stored as a swap entry in the page
tables.  On architectures that support hugepages consisting of
contiguous page table entries (such as on arm64) this leads to ambiguity
in determining the page table entry to return in huge_pte_offset() when
a poisoned entry is encountered.

Let's remove the ambiguity by adding a size parameter to convey
additional information about the requested address.  Also fixup the
definition/usage of huge_pte_offset() throughout the tree.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522133604.11392-4-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal &lt;punit.agrawal@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt; (odd fixer:METAG ARCHITECTURE)
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt; (supporter:MIPS)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.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: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@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>fs/userfaultfd.c: drop dead code</title>
<updated>2017-07-06T23:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T22:38:35+00:00</published>
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Calculation of start end end in __wake_userfault function are not used
and can be removed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494930917-3134-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.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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Calculation of start end end in __wake_userfault function are not used
and can be removed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494930917-3134-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.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>sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry-&gt;task_list and wq_head-&gt;task_list naming</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:19:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:46+00:00</published>
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So I've noticed a number of instances where it was not obvious from the
code whether -&gt;task_list was for a wait-queue head or a wait-queue entry.

Furthermore, there's a number of wait-queue users where the lists are
not for 'tasks' but other entities (poll tables, etc.), in which case
the 'task_list' name is actively confusing.

To clear this all up, name the wait-queue head and entry list structure
fields unambiguously:

	struct wait_queue_head::task_list	=&gt; ::head
	struct wait_queue_entry::task_list	=&gt; ::entry

For example, this code:

	rqw-&gt;wait.task_list.next != &amp;wait-&gt;task_list

... is was pretty unclear (to me) what it's doing, while now it's written this way:

	rqw-&gt;wait.head.next != &amp;wait-&gt;entry

... which makes it pretty clear that we are iterating a list until we see the head.

Other examples are:

	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &amp;x-&gt;task_list, task_list) {
	list_for_each_entry(wq, &amp;fence-&gt;wait.task_list, task_list) {

... where it's unclear (to me) what we are iterating, and during review it's
hard to tell whether it's trying to walk a wait-queue entry (which would be
a bug), while now it's written as:

	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &amp;x-&gt;head, entry) {
	list_for_each_entry(wq, &amp;fence-&gt;wait.head, entry) {

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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So I've noticed a number of instances where it was not obvious from the
code whether -&gt;task_list was for a wait-queue head or a wait-queue entry.

Furthermore, there's a number of wait-queue users where the lists are
not for 'tasks' but other entities (poll tables, etc.), in which case
the 'task_list' name is actively confusing.

To clear this all up, name the wait-queue head and entry list structure
fields unambiguously:

	struct wait_queue_head::task_list	=&gt; ::head
	struct wait_queue_entry::task_list	=&gt; ::entry

For example, this code:

	rqw-&gt;wait.task_list.next != &amp;wait-&gt;task_list

... is was pretty unclear (to me) what it's doing, while now it's written this way:

	rqw-&gt;wait.head.next != &amp;wait-&gt;entry

... which makes it pretty clear that we are iterating a list until we see the head.

Other examples are:

	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &amp;x-&gt;task_list, task_list) {
	list_for_each_entry(wq, &amp;fence-&gt;wait.task_list, task_list) {

... where it's unclear (to me) what we are iterating, and during review it's
hard to tell whether it's trying to walk a wait-queue entry (which would be
a bug), while now it's written as:

	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &amp;x-&gt;head, entry) {
	list_for_each_entry(wq, &amp;fence-&gt;wait.head, entry) {

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t =&gt; wait_queue_entry_t</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T10:18:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T10:06:13+00:00</published>
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename:

	wait_queue_t		=&gt;	wait_queue_entry_t

'wait_queue_t' was always a slight misnomer: its name implies that it's a "queue",
but in reality it's a queue *entry*. The 'real' queue is the wait queue head,
which had to carry the name.

Start sorting this out by renaming it to 'wait_queue_entry_t'.

This also allows the real structure name 'struct __wait_queue' to
lose its double underscore and become 'struct wait_queue_entry',
which is the more canonical nomenclature for such data types.

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: shmem: handle coredumping in handle_userfault()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T21:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T21:02:37+00:00</published>
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Anon and hugetlbfs handle FOLL_DUMP set by get_dump_page() internally to
__get_user_pages().

shmem as opposed has no special FOLL_DUMP handling there so
handle_mm_fault() is invoked without mmap_sem and ends up calling
handle_userfault() that isn't expecting to be invoked without mmap_sem
held.

This makes handle_userfault() fail immediately if invoked through
shmem_vm_ops-&gt;fault during coredumping and solves the problem.

The side effect is a BUG_ON with no lock held triggered by the
coredumping process which exits.  Only 4.11 is affected, pre-4.11 anon
memory holes are skipped in __get_user_pages by checking FOLL_DUMP
explicitly against empty pagetables (mm/gup.c:no_page_table()).

It's zero cost as we already had a check for current-&gt;flags to prevent
futex to trigger userfaults during exit (PF_EXITING).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170615214838.27429-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.11+]
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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Anon and hugetlbfs handle FOLL_DUMP set by get_dump_page() internally to
__get_user_pages().

shmem as opposed has no special FOLL_DUMP handling there so
handle_mm_fault() is invoked without mmap_sem and ends up calling
handle_userfault() that isn't expecting to be invoked without mmap_sem
held.

This makes handle_userfault() fail immediately if invoked through
shmem_vm_ops-&gt;fault during coredumping and solves the problem.

The side effect is a BUG_ON with no lock held triggered by the
coredumping process which exits.  Only 4.11 is affected, pre-4.11 anon
memory holes are skipped in __get_user_pages by checking FOLL_DUMP
explicitly against empty pagetables (mm/gup.c:no_page_table()).

It's zero cost as we already had a check for current-&gt;flags to prevent
futex to trigger userfaults during exit (PF_EXITING).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170615214838.27429-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.11+]
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>userfaultfd: report actual registered features in fdinfo</title>
<updated>2017-04-08T07:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-07T23:04:42+00:00</published>
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fdinfo for userfault file descriptor reports UFFD_API_FEATURES.  Up
until recently, the UFFD_API_FEATURES was defined as 0, therefore
corresponding field in fdinfo always contained zero.  Now, with
introduction of several additional features, UFFD_API_FEATURES is not
longer 0 and it seems better to report actual features requested for the
userfaultfd object described by the fdinfo.

First, the applications that were using userfault will still see zero at
the features field in fdinfo.  Next, reporting actual features rather
than available features, gives clear indication of what userfault
features are used by an application.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491140181-22121-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.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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fdinfo for userfault file descriptor reports UFFD_API_FEATURES.  Up
until recently, the UFFD_API_FEATURES was defined as 0, therefore
corresponding field in fdinfo always contained zero.  Now, with
introduction of several additional features, UFFD_API_FEATURES is not
longer 0 and it seems better to report actual features requested for the
userfaultfd object described by the fdinfo.

First, the applications that were using userfault will still see zero at
the features field in fdinfo.  Next, reporting actual features rather
than available features, gives clear indication of what userfault
features are used by an application.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491140181-22121-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.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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