linux-stable.git/init/main.c, branch linux-5.17.y

kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh

2022-06-09T08:25:16+00:00

commit 343f4c49f2438d8920f1f76fa823ee59b91f02e4 upstream.

If kthread_is_per_cpu runs concurrently with free_kthread_struct the
kthread_struct that was just freed may be read from.

This bug was introduced by commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure
struct kthread is present for all kthreads").  When kthread_struct
started to be allocated for all tasks that have PF_KTHREAD set.  This
in turn required the kthread_struct to be freed in kernel_execve and
violated the assumption that kthread_struct will have the same
lifetime as the task.

Looking a bit deeper this only applies to callers of kernel_execve
which is just the init process and the user mode helper processes.
These processes really don't want to be kernel threads but are for
historical reasons.  Mostly that copy_thread does not know how to take
a kernel mode function to the process with for processes without
PF_KTHREAD or PF_IO_WORKER set.

Solve this by not allocating kthread_struct for the init process and
the user mode helper processes.

This is done by adding a kthread member to struct kernel_clone_args.
Setting kthread in fork_idle and kernel_thread.  Adding
user_mode_thread that works like kernel_thread except it does not set
kthread.  In fork only allocating the kthread_struct if .kthread is set.

I have looked at kernel/kthread.c and since commit 40966e316f86
("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") there
have been no assumptions added that to_kthread or __to_kthread will
not return NULL.

There are a few callers of to_kthread or __to_kthread that assume a
non-NULL struct kthread pointer will be returned.  These functions are
kthread_data(), kthread_parmme(), kthread_exit(), kthread(),
kthread_park(), kthread_unpark(), kthread_stop().  All of those functions
can reasonably expected to be called when it is know that a task is a
kthread so that assumption seems reasonable.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads")
Reported-by: Максим Кутявин 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-1-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init()

2022-05-30T07:27:17+00:00

commit 2f14062bb14b0fcfcc21e6dc7d5b5c0d25966164 upstream.

Currently, start_kernel() adds latent entropy and the command line to
the entropy bool *after* the RNG has been initialized, deferring when
it's actually used by things like stack canaries until the next time
the pool is seeded. This surely is not intended.

Rather than splitting up which entropy gets added where and when between
start_kernel() and random_init(), just do everything in random_init(),
which should eliminate these kinds of bugs in the future.

While we're at it, rename the awkwardly titled "rand_initialize()" to
the more standard "random_init()" nomenclature.

Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init: call time_init() before rand_initialize()

2022-05-30T07:27:13+00:00

commit fe222a6ca2d53c38433cba5d3be62a39099e708e upstream.

Currently time_init() is called after rand_initialize(), but
rand_initialize() makes use of the timer on various platforms, and
sometimes this timer needs to be initialized by time_init() first. In
order for random_get_entropy() to not return zero during early boot when
it's potentially used as an entropy source, reverse the order of these
two calls. The block doing random initialization was right before
time_init() before, so changing the order shouldn't have any complicated
effects.

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Stafford Horne 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions

2022-04-13T17:27:23+00:00

[ Upstream commit f9a40b0890658330c83c95511f9d6b396610defc ]

initcall_blacklist() should return 1 to indicate that it handled its
cmdline arguments.

set_debug_rodata() should return 1 to indicate that it handled its
cmdline arguments.  Print a warning if the option string is invalid.

This prevents these strings from being added to the 'init' program's
environment as they are not init arguments/parameters.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221050901.23985-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

net: initialize init_net earlier

2022-04-13T17:27:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9c1be1935fb68b2413796cdc03d019b8cf35ab51 ]

While testing a patch that will follow later
("net: add netns refcount tracker to struct nsproxy")
I found that devtmpfs_init() was called before init_net
was initialized.

This is a bug, because devtmpfs_setup() calls
ksys_unshare(CLONE_NEWNS);

This has the effect of increasing init_net refcount,
which will be later overwritten to 1, as part of setup_net(&init_net)

We had too many prior patches [1] trying to work around the root cause.

Really, make sure init_net is in BSS section, and that net_ns_init()
is called earlier at boot time.

Note that another patch ("vfs: add netns refcount tracker
to struct fs_context") also will need net_ns_init() being called
before vfs_caches_init()

As a bonus, this patch saves around 4KB in .data section.

[1]

f8c46cb39079 ("netns: do not call pernet ops for not yet set up init_net namespace")
b5082df8019a ("net: Initialise init_net.count to 1")
734b65417b24 ("net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head")

v2: fixed a build error reported by kernel build bots (CONFIG_NET=n)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc()

2022-01-22T06:33:37+00:00

Currently, enabling CONFIG_STACKDEPOT means its stack_table will be
allocated from memblock, even if stack depot ends up not actually used.
The default size of stack_table is 4MB on 32-bit, 8MB on 64-bit.

This is fine for use-cases such as KASAN which is also a config option
and has overhead on its own.  But it's an issue for functionality that
has to be actually enabled on boot (page_owner) or depends on hardware
(GPU drivers) and thus the memory might be wasted.  This was raised as
an issue [1] when attempting to add stackdepot support for SLUB's debug
object tracking functionality.  It's common to build kernels with
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and enable slub_debug on boot only when needed, or
create only specific kmem caches with debugging for testing purposes.

It would thus be more efficient if stackdepot's table was allocated only
when actually going to be used.  This patch thus makes the allocation
(and whole stack_depot_init() call) optional:

 - Add a CONFIG_STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT flag to keep using the current
   well-defined point of allocation as part of mem_init(). Make
   CONFIG_KASAN select this flag.

 - Other users have to call stack_depot_init() as part of their own init
   when it's determined that stack depot will actually be used. This may
   depend on both config and runtime conditions. Convert current users
   which are page_owner and several in the DRM subsystem. Same will be
   done for SLUB later.

 - Because the init might now be called after the boot-time memblock
   allocation has given all memory to the buddy allocator, change
   stack_depot_init() to allocate stack_table with kvmalloc() when
   memblock is no longer available. Also handle allocation failure by
   disabling stackdepot (could have theoretically happened even with
   memblock allocation previously), and don't unnecessarily align the
   memblock allocation to its own size anymore.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdW=eoVzM1Re5FVoEN87nKfiLmM2+Ah7eNu2KXEhCvbZyA@mail.gmail.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211013073005.11351-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver  # stackdepot
Cc: Marco Elver 
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta 
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: Maxime Ripard 
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Oliver Glitta 
Cc: Imran Khan 
From: Colin Ian King 
Subject: lib/stackdepot: fix spelling mistake and grammar in pr_err message

There is a spelling mistake of the work allocation so fix this and
re-phrase the message to make it easier to read.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211015104159.11282-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
From: Vlastimil Babka 
Subject: lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() - fixup

On FLATMEM, we call page_ext_init_flatmem_late() just before
kmem_cache_init() which means stack_depot_init() (called by page owner
init) will not recognize properly it should use kvmalloc() and not
memblock_alloc().  memblock_alloc() will also not issue a warning and
return a block memory that can be invalid and cause kernel page fault when
saving stacks, as reported by the kernel test robot [1].

Fix this by moving page_ext_init_flatmem_late() below kmem_cache_init() so
that slab_is_available() is true during stack_depot_init().  SPARSEMEM
doesn't have this issue, as it doesn't do page_ext_init_flatmem_late(),
but a different page_ext_init() even later in the boot process.

Thanks to Mike Rapoport for pointing out the FLATMEM init ordering issue.

While at it, also actually resolve a checkpatch warning in stack_depot_init()
from DRM CI, which was supposed to be in the original patch already.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211014085450.GC18719@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6abd9213-19a9-6d58-cedc-2414386d2d81@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
From: Vlastimil Babka 
Subject: lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() - fixup3

Due to cd06ab2fd48f ("drm/locking: add backtrace for locking contended
locks without backoff") landing recently to -next adding a new stack depot
user in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c we need to add an appropriate
call to stack_depot_init() there as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a692365-cfa1-64f2-34e0-8aa5674dce5e@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Jani Nikula 
Cc: Naresh Kamboju 
Cc: Marco Elver 
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta 
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: Maxime Ripard 
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Oliver Glitta 
Cc: Imran Khan 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
From: Vlastimil Babka 
Subject: lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() - fixup4

Due to 4e66934eaadc ("lib: add reference counting tracking
infrastructure") landing recently to net-next adding a new stack depot
user in lib/ref_tracker.c we need to add an appropriate call to
stack_depot_init() there as well.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/45c1b738-1a2f-5b5f-2f6d-86fab206d01c@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Jiri Slab 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-09T18:11:53+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "87 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (pagecache and hugetlb),
  procfs, misc, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, kallsyms, ramfs,
  init, codafs, nilfs2, hfs, crash_dump, signals, seq_file, fork,
  sysvfs, kcov, gdb, resource, selftests, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (87 commits)
  ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: remove fallback for !CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
  ipc: check checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() to modify C/R proc files
  selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): allow running non-executable files
  virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem
  kernel/resource: disallow access to exclusive system RAM regions
  kernel/resource: clean up and optimize iomem_is_exclusive()
  scripts/gdb: handle split debug for vmlinux
  kcov: replace local_irq_save() with a local_lock_t
  kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task()
  kcov: allocate per-CPU memory on the relevant node
  Documentation/kcov: define `ip' in the example
  Documentation/kcov: include types.h in the example
  sysv: use BUILD_BUG_ON instead of runtime check
  kernel/fork.c: unshare(): use swap() to make code cleaner
  seq_file: fix passing wrong private data
  seq_file: move seq_escape() to a header
  signal: remove duplicate include in signal.h
  crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h
  crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning
  hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check
  ...

init: make unknown command line param message clearer

2021-11-09T18:02:51+00:00

The prior message is confusing users, which is the exact opposite of the
goal.  If the message is being seen, one of the following situations is
happening:

 1. the param is misspelled
 2. the param is not valid due to the kernel configuration
 3. the param is intended for init but isn't after the '--'
    delineator on the command line

To make that more clear to the user, explicitly mention "kernel command
line" and also note that the params are still passed to user space to
avoid causing any alarm over params intended for init.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211013223502.96756-1-ahalaney@redhat.com
Fixes: 86d1919a4fb0 ("init: print out unknown kernel parameters")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney 
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...

memblock: use memblock_free for freeing virtual pointers

2021-11-06T20:30:41+00:00

Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()

The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.

    @@
    identifier vaddr;
    expression size;
    @@
    (
    - memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    |
    - memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
    + memblock_free(vaddr, size);
    )

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Shahab Vahedi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds