linux-stable.git/include/linux, branch v4.9.76

kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators

2018-01-10T08:29:52+00:00

commit bdcf0a423ea1c40bbb40e7ee483b50fc8aa3d758 upstream.

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker 
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fscache: Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page()

2018-01-10T08:29:52+00:00

commit 98801506552593c9b8ac11021b0cdad12cab4f6b upstream.

Fix the default for fscache_maybe_release_page() for when the cookie isn't
valid or the page isn't cached.  It mustn't return false as that indicates
the page cannot yet be freed.

The problem with the default is that if, say, there's no cache, but a
network filesystem's pages are using up almost all the available memory, a
system can OOM because the filesystem ->releasepage() op will not allow
them to be released as fscache_maybe_release_page() incorrectly prevents
it.

This can be tested by writing a sequence of 512MiB files to an AFS mount.
It does not affect NFS or CIFS because both of those wrap the call in a
check of PG_fscache and it shouldn't bother Ceph as that only has
PG_private set whilst writeback is in progress.  This might be an issue for
9P, however.

Note that the pages aren't entirely stuck.  Removing a file or unmounting
will clear things because that uses ->invalidatepage() instead.

Fixes: 201a15428bd5 ("FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions")
Reported-by: Marc Dionne 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Tested-by: Marc Dionne 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KPTI: Rename to PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION

2018-01-05T14:46:35+00:00

This renames CONFIG_KAISER to CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: vmstat show NR_KAISERTABLE as nr_overhead

2018-01-05T14:46:33+00:00

The kaiser update made an interesting choice, never to free any shadow
page tables.  Contention on global spinlock was worrying, particularly
with it held across page table scans when freeing.  Something had to be
done: I was going to add refcounting; but simply never to free them is
an appealing choice, minimizing contention without complicating the code
(the more a page table is found already, the less the spinlock is used).

But leaking pages in this way is also a worry: can we get away with it?
At the very least, we need a count to show how bad it actually gets:
in principle, one might end up wasting about 1/256 of memory that way
(1/512 for when direct-mapped pages have to be user-mapped, plus 1/512
for when they are user-mapped from the vmalloc area on another occasion
(but we don't have vmalloc'ed stacks, so only large ldts are vmalloc'ed).

Add per-cpu stat NR_KAISERTABLE: including 256 at startup for the
shared pgd entries, and 1 for each intermediate page table added
thereafter for user-mapping - but leave out the 1 per mm, for its
shadow pgd, because that distracts from the monotonic increase.
Shown in /proc/vmstat as nr_overhead (0 if kaiser not enabled).

In practice, it doesn't look so bad so far: more like 1/12000 after
nine hours of gtests below; and movable pageblock segregation should
tend to cluster the kaiser tables into a subset of the address space
(if not, they will be bad for compaction too).  But production may
tell a different story: keep an eye on this number, and bring back
lighter freeing if it gets out of control (maybe a shrinker).

["nr_overhead" should of course say "nr_kaisertable", if it needs
to stay; but for the moment we are being coy, preferring that when
Joe Blow notices a new line in his /proc/vmstat, he does not get
too curious about what this "kaiser" stuff might be.]

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: cleanups while trying for gold link

2018-01-05T14:46:33+00:00

While trying to get our gold link to work, four cleanups:
matched the gdt_page declaration to its definition;
in fiddling unsuccessfully with PERCPU_INPUT(), lined up backslashes;
lined up the backslashes according to convention in percpu-defs.h;
deleted the unused irq_stack_pointer addition to irq_stack_union.

Sad to report that aligning backslashes does not appear to help gold
align to 8192: but while these did not help, they are worth keeping.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE

2018-01-05T14:46:32+00:00

Kaiser only needs to map one page of the stack; and
kernel/fork.c did not build on powerpc (no __PAGE_KERNEL).
It's all cleaner if linux/kaiser.h provides kaiser_map_thread_stack()
and kaiser_unmap_thread_stack() wrappers around asm/kaiser.h's
kaiser_add_mapping() and kaiser_remove_mapping().  And use
linux/kaiser.h in init/main.c to avoid the #ifdefs there.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: merged update

2018-01-05T14:46:32+00:00

Merged fixes and cleanups, rebased to 4.9.51 tree (no 5-level paging).

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation

2018-01-05T14:46:32+00:00

This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to
have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close
hardware side channels on kernel address information.

More information about the patch can be found on:

        https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER

From: Richard Fellner 
From: Daniel Gruss 
Subject: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149390087310405&w=2
Kaiser-4.10-SHA1: c4b1831d44c6144d3762ccc72f0c4e71a0c713e5

To: 
To: 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Cc: Michael Schwarz 
Cc: Richard Fellner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: 
Cc: 

After several recent works [1,2,3] KASLR on x86_64 was basically
considered dead by many researchers. We have been working on an
efficient but effective fix for this problem and found that not mapping
the kernel space when running in user mode is the solution to this
problem [4] (the corresponding paper [5] will be presented at ESSoS17).

With this RFC patch we allow anybody to configure their kernel with the
flag CONFIG_KAISER to add our defense mechanism.

If there are any questions we would love to answer them.
We also appreciate any comments!

Cheers,
Daniel (+ the KAISER team from Graz University of Technology)

[1] http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a191.pdf
[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Fogh-Using-Undocumented-CPU-Behaviour-To-See-Into-Kernel-Mode-And-Break-KASLR-In-The-Process.pdf
[3] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Jang-Breaking-Kernel-Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-KASLR-With-Intel-TSX.pdf
[4] https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER
[5] https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf

[patch based also on
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IAIK/KAISER/master/KAISER/0001-KAISER-Kernel-Address-Isolation.patch]

Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner 
Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss 
Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz 
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/vmstat: Make NR_TLB_REMOTE_FLUSH_RECEIVED available even on UP

2018-01-02T19:35:18+00:00

commit 5dd0b16cdaff9b94da06074d5888b03235c0bf17 upstream.

This fixes CONFIG_SMP=n, CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH=y without introducing
further #ifdef soup.  Caught by a Kbuild bot randconfig build.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: ce4a4e565f52 ("x86/mm: Remove the UP asm/tlbflush.h code, always use the (formerly) SMP code")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/76da9a3cc4415996f2ad2c905b93414add322021.1496673616.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers: Reinitialize per cpu bases on hotplug

2018-01-02T19:35:17+00:00

commit 26456f87aca7157c057de65c9414b37f1ab881d1 upstream.

The timer wheel bases are not (re)initialized on CPU hotplug. That leaves
them with a potentially stale clk and next_expiry valuem, which can cause
trouble then the CPU is plugged.

Add a prepare callback which forwards the clock, sets next_expiry to far in
the future and reset the control flags to a known state.

Set base->must_forward_clk so the first timer which is queued will try to
forward the clock to current jiffies.

Fixes: 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Sebastian Siewior 
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712272152200.2431@nanos
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman