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<title>exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore</title>
<updated>2021-01-09T12:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-03T20:12:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f7cfd871ae0c5008d94b6f66834e7845caa93c15 ]

Recently syzbot reported[0] that there is a deadlock amongst the users
of exec_update_mutex.  The problematic lock ordering found by lockdep
was:

   perf_event_open  (exec_update_mutex -&gt; ovl_i_mutex)
   chown            (ovl_i_mutex       -&gt; sb_writes)
   sendfile         (sb_writes         -&gt; p-&gt;lock)
     by reading from a proc file and writing to overlayfs
   proc_pid_syscall (p-&gt;lock           -&gt; exec_update_mutex)

While looking at possible solutions it occured to me that all of the
users and possible users involved only wanted to state of the given
process to remain the same.  They are all readers.  The only writer is
exec.

There is no reason for readers to block on each other.  So fix
this deadlock by transforming exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
named exec_update_lock that only exec takes for writing.

Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christopher Yeoh &lt;cyeoh@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: eea9673250db ("exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex")
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000063640c05ade8e3de@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+db9cdf3dd1f64252c6ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ft4mbqen.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f7cfd871ae0c5008d94b6f66834e7845caa93c15 ]

Recently syzbot reported[0] that there is a deadlock amongst the users
of exec_update_mutex.  The problematic lock ordering found by lockdep
was:

   perf_event_open  (exec_update_mutex -&gt; ovl_i_mutex)
   chown            (ovl_i_mutex       -&gt; sb_writes)
   sendfile         (sb_writes         -&gt; p-&gt;lock)
     by reading from a proc file and writing to overlayfs
   proc_pid_syscall (p-&gt;lock           -&gt; exec_update_mutex)

While looking at possible solutions it occured to me that all of the
users and possible users involved only wanted to state of the given
process to remain the same.  They are all readers.  The only writer is
exec.

There is no reason for readers to block on each other.  So fix
this deadlock by transforming exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore
named exec_update_lock that only exec takes for writing.

Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christopher Yeoh &lt;cyeoh@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: eea9673250db ("exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex")
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000063640c05ade8e3de@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+db9cdf3dd1f64252c6ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ft4mbqen.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/gup: prevent gup_fast from racing with COW during fork</title>
<updated>2020-12-30T10:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgg@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T03:05:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 57efa1fe5957694fa541c9062de0a127f0b9acb0 ]

Since commit 70e806e4e645 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during
fork() for ptes") pages under a FOLL_PIN will not be write protected
during COW for fork.  This means that pages returned from
pin_user_pages(FOLL_WRITE) should not become write protected while the pin
is active.

However, there is a small race where get_user_pages_fast(FOLL_PIN) can
establish a FOLL_PIN at the same time copy_present_page() is write
protecting it:

        CPU 0                             CPU 1
   get_user_pages_fast()
    internal_get_user_pages_fast()
                                       copy_page_range()
                                         pte_alloc_map_lock()
                                           copy_present_page()
                                             atomic_read(has_pinned) == 0
					     page_maybe_dma_pinned() == false
     atomic_set(has_pinned, 1);
     gup_pgd_range()
      gup_pte_range()
       pte_t pte = gup_get_pte(ptep)
       pte_access_permitted(pte)
       try_grab_compound_head()
                                             pte = pte_wrprotect(pte)
	                                     set_pte_at();
                                         pte_unmap_unlock()
      // GUP now returns with a write protected page

The first attempt to resolve this by using the write protect caused
problems (and was missing a barrrier), see commit f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid
early COW write protect games during fork()")

Instead wrap copy_p4d_range() with the write side of a seqcount and check
the read side around gup_pgd_range().  If there is a collision then
get_user_pages_fast() fails and falls back to slow GUP.

Slow GUP is safe against this race because copy_page_range() is only
called while holding the exclusive side of the mmap_lock on the src
mm_struct.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi=iCnYCARbPGjkVJu9eyYeZ13N64tZYLdOB8CP5Q_PLw@mail.gmail.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com
Fixes: f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" &lt;a.darwish@linutronix.de&gt;	[seqcount_t parts]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 57efa1fe5957694fa541c9062de0a127f0b9acb0 ]

Since commit 70e806e4e645 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during
fork() for ptes") pages under a FOLL_PIN will not be write protected
during COW for fork.  This means that pages returned from
pin_user_pages(FOLL_WRITE) should not become write protected while the pin
is active.

However, there is a small race where get_user_pages_fast(FOLL_PIN) can
establish a FOLL_PIN at the same time copy_present_page() is write
protecting it:

        CPU 0                             CPU 1
   get_user_pages_fast()
    internal_get_user_pages_fast()
                                       copy_page_range()
                                         pte_alloc_map_lock()
                                           copy_present_page()
                                             atomic_read(has_pinned) == 0
					     page_maybe_dma_pinned() == false
     atomic_set(has_pinned, 1);
     gup_pgd_range()
      gup_pte_range()
       pte_t pte = gup_get_pte(ptep)
       pte_access_permitted(pte)
       try_grab_compound_head()
                                             pte = pte_wrprotect(pte)
	                                     set_pte_at();
                                         pte_unmap_unlock()
      // GUP now returns with a write protected page

The first attempt to resolve this by using the write protect caused
problems (and was missing a barrrier), see commit f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid
early COW write protect games during fork()")

Instead wrap copy_p4d_range() with the write side of a seqcount and check
the read side around gup_pgd_range().  If there is a collision then
get_user_pages_fast() fails and falls back to slow GUP.

Slow GUP is safe against this race because copy_page_range() is only
called while holding the exclusive side of the mmap_lock on the src
mm_struct.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wi=iCnYCARbPGjkVJu9eyYeZ13N64tZYLdOB8CP5Q_PLw@mail.gmail.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2-v4-908497cf359a+4782-gup_fork_jgg@nvidia.com
Fixes: f3c64eda3e50 ("mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" &lt;a.darwish@linutronix.de&gt;	[seqcount_t parts]
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@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;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting -&gt;real_parent</title>
<updated>2020-11-08T19:18:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eddy Wu</name>
<email>itseddy0402@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-07T06:47:22+00:00</published>
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current-&gt;group_leader-&gt;exit_signal may change during copy_process() if
current-&gt;real_parent exits.

Move the assignment inside tasklist_lock to avoid the race.

Signed-off-by: Eddy Wu &lt;eddy_wu@trendmicro.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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current-&gt;group_leader-&gt;exit_signal may change during copy_process() if
current-&gt;real_parent exits.

Move the assignment inside tasklist_lock to avoid the race.

Signed-off-by: Eddy Wu &lt;eddy_wu@trendmicro.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/: fix repeated words in comments</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:10:28+00:00</published>
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Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: use helper function put_write_access()</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miaohe Lin</name>
<email>linmiaohe@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:10:08+00:00</published>
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In commit 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2"), the helper put_write_access()
came with the atomic_dec operation of the i_writecount field.  But it
forgot to use this helper in __vma_link_file() and dup_mmap().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200924115235.5111-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In commit 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2"), the helper put_write_access()
came with the atomic_dec operation of the i_writecount field.  But it
forgot to use this helper in __vma_link_file() and dup_mmap().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200924115235.5111-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kernel-clone-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T21:32:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-14T21:32:52+00:00</published>
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Pull kernel_clone() updates from Christian Brauner:
 "During the v5.9 merge window we reworked the process creation
  codepaths across multiple architectures. After this work we were only
  left with the _do_fork() helper based on the struct kernel_clone_args
  calling convention. As was pointed out _do_fork() isn't valid
  kernelese especially for a helper that isn't just static.

  This series removes the _do_fork() helper and introduces the new
  kernel_clone() helper. The process creation cleanup didn't change the
  name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used
  in quite a few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the
  better strategy.

  I originally intended to send this early in the v5.9 development cycle
  after the merge window had closed but given that this was touching
  quite a few places I decided to defer this until the v5.10 merge
  window"

* tag 'kernel-clone-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  sched: remove _do_fork()
  tracing: switch to kernel_clone()
  kgdbts: switch to kernel_clone()
  kprobes: switch to kernel_clone()
  x86: switch to kernel_clone()
  sparc: switch to kernel_clone()
  nios2: switch to kernel_clone()
  m68k: switch to kernel_clone()
  ia64: switch to kernel_clone()
  h8300: switch to kernel_clone()
  fork: introduce kernel_clone()
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Pull kernel_clone() updates from Christian Brauner:
 "During the v5.9 merge window we reworked the process creation
  codepaths across multiple architectures. After this work we were only
  left with the _do_fork() helper based on the struct kernel_clone_args
  calling convention. As was pointed out _do_fork() isn't valid
  kernelese especially for a helper that isn't just static.

  This series removes the _do_fork() helper and introduces the new
  kernel_clone() helper. The process creation cleanup didn't change the
  name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used
  in quite a few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the
  better strategy.

  I originally intended to send this early in the v5.9 development cycle
  after the merge window had closed but given that this was touching
  quite a few places I decided to defer this until the v5.10 merge
  window"

* tag 'kernel-clone-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  sched: remove _do_fork()
  tracing: switch to kernel_clone()
  kgdbts: switch to kernel_clone()
  kprobes: switch to kernel_clone()
  x86: switch to kernel_clone()
  sparc: switch to kernel_clone()
  nios2: switch to kernel_clone()
  m68k: switch to kernel_clone()
  ia64: switch to kernel_clone()
  h8300: switch to kernel_clone()
  fork: introduce kernel_clone()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:58:35+00:00</published>
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Currently __set_oom_adj loops through all processes in the system to keep
oom_score_adj and oom_score_adj_min in sync between processes sharing
their mm.  This is done for any task with more that one mm_users, which
includes processes with multiple threads (sharing mm and signals).
However for such processes the loop is unnecessary because their signal
structure is shared as well.

Android updates oom_score_adj whenever a tasks changes its role
(background/foreground/...) or binds to/unbinds from a service, making it
more/less important.  Such operation can happen frequently.  We noticed
that updates to oom_score_adj became more expensive and after further
investigation found out that the patch mentioned in "Fixes" introduced a
regression.  Using Pixel 4 with a typical Android workload, write time to
oom_score_adj increased from ~3.57us to ~362us.  Moreover this regression
linearly depends on the number of multi-threaded processes running on the
system.

Mark the mm with a new MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag bit when task is created with
(CLONE_VM &amp;&amp; !CLONE_THREAD &amp;&amp; !CLONE_VFORK).  Change __set_oom_adj to use
MMF_MULTIPROCESS instead of mm_users to decide whether oom_score_adj
update should be synchronized between multiple processes.  To prevent
races between clone() and __set_oom_adj(), when oom_score_adj of the
process being cloned might be modified from userspace, we use
oom_adj_mutex.  Its scope is changed to global.

The combination of (CLONE_VM &amp;&amp; !CLONE_THREAD) is rarely used except for
the case of vfork().  To prevent performance regressions of vfork(), we
skip taking oom_adj_mutex and setting MMF_MULTIPROCESS when CLONE_VFORK is
specified.  Clearing the MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag (when the last process
sharing the mm exits) is left out of this patch to keep it simple and
because it is believed that this threading model is rare.  Should there
ever be a need for optimizing that case as well, it can be done by hooking
into the exit path, likely following the mm_update_next_owner pattern.

With the combination of (CLONE_VM &amp;&amp; !CLONE_THREAD &amp;&amp; !CLONE_VFORK) being
quite rare, the regression is gone after the change is applied.

[surenb@google.com: v3]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902012558.2335613-1-surenb@google.com

Fixes: 44a70adec910 ("mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj")
Reported-by: Tim Murray &lt;timmurray@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Kellner &lt;christian@kellner.me&gt;
Cc: Adrian Reber &lt;areber@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov &lt;gladkov.alexey@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Cc: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824153036.3201505-1-surenb@google.com
Debugged-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently __set_oom_adj loops through all processes in the system to keep
oom_score_adj and oom_score_adj_min in sync between processes sharing
their mm.  This is done for any task with more that one mm_users, which
includes processes with multiple threads (sharing mm and signals).
However for such processes the loop is unnecessary because their signal
structure is shared as well.

Android updates oom_score_adj whenever a tasks changes its role
(background/foreground/...) or binds to/unbinds from a service, making it
more/less important.  Such operation can happen frequently.  We noticed
that updates to oom_score_adj became more expensive and after further
investigation found out that the patch mentioned in "Fixes" introduced a
regression.  Using Pixel 4 with a typical Android workload, write time to
oom_score_adj increased from ~3.57us to ~362us.  Moreover this regression
linearly depends on the number of multi-threaded processes running on the
system.

Mark the mm with a new MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag bit when task is created with
(CLONE_VM &amp;&amp; !CLONE_THREAD &amp;&amp; !CLONE_VFORK).  Change __set_oom_adj to use
MMF_MULTIPROCESS instead of mm_users to decide whether oom_score_adj
update should be synchronized between multiple processes.  To prevent
races between clone() and __set_oom_adj(), when oom_score_adj of the
process being cloned might be modified from userspace, we use
oom_adj_mutex.  Its scope is changed to global.

The combination of (CLONE_VM &amp;&amp; !CLONE_THREAD) is rarely used except for
the case of vfork().  To prevent performance regressions of vfork(), we
skip taking oom_adj_mutex and setting MMF_MULTIPROCESS when CLONE_VFORK is
specified.  Clearing the MMF_MULTIPROCESS flag (when the last process
sharing the mm exits) is left out of this patch to keep it simple and
because it is believed that this threading model is rare.  Should there
ever be a need for optimizing that case as well, it can be done by hooking
into the exit path, likely following the mm_update_next_owner pattern.

With the combination of (CLONE_VM &amp;&amp; !CLONE_THREAD &amp;&amp; !CLONE_VFORK) being
quite rare, the regression is gone after the change is applied.

[surenb@google.com: v3]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902012558.2335613-1-surenb@google.com

Fixes: 44a70adec910 ("mm, oom_adj: make sure processes sharing mm have same view of oom_score_adj")
Reported-by: Tim Murray &lt;timmurray@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov &lt;esyr@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Kellner &lt;christian@kellner.me&gt;
Cc: Adrian Reber &lt;areber@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov &lt;gladkov.alexey@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bernd Edlinger &lt;bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de&gt;
Cc: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824153036.3201505-1-surenb@google.com
Debugged-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove src/dst mm parameter in copy_page_range()</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:54:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c78f463649d60f4ed12df97a32def4d77b583853'/>
<id>c78f463649d60f4ed12df97a32def4d77b583853</id>
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Both of the mm pointers are not needed after commit 7a4830c380f3
("mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range()").

Jason Gunthorpe also reported that the ordering of copy_page_range() is
odd.  Since working at it, reorder the parameters to be logical, by (1)
always put the dst_* fields to be before src_* fields, and (2) keep the
same type of parameters together.

[peterx@redhat.com: further reorder some parameters and line format, per Jason]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002192647.7161-1-peterx@redhat.com
[peterx@redhat.com: fix warnings]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201006200138.GA6026@xz-x1

Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200930204950.6668-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Both of the mm pointers are not needed after commit 7a4830c380f3
("mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range()").

Jason Gunthorpe also reported that the ordering of copy_page_range() is
odd.  Since working at it, reorder the parameters to be logical, by (1)
always put the dst_* fields to be before src_* fields, and (2) keep the
same type of parameters together.

[peterx@redhat.com: further reorder some parameters and line format, per Jason]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002192647.7161-1-peterx@redhat.com
[peterx@redhat.com: fix warnings]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201006200138.GA6026@xz-x1

Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200930204950.6668-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: use helper function mapping_allow_writable()</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miaohe Lin</name>
<email>linmiaohe@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:54:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cf508b58457cfe51b168d49ea6c79a221900d354'/>
<id>cf508b58457cfe51b168d49ea6c79a221900d354</id>
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Commit 4bb5f5d9395b ("mm: allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings")
changed i_mmap_writable from unsigned int to atomic_t and add the helper
function mapping_allow_writable() to atomic_inc i_mmap_writable.  But it
forgot to use this helper function in dup_mmap() and __vma_link_file().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Kellner &lt;christian@kellner.me&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Reber &lt;areber@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200917112736.7789-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 4bb5f5d9395b ("mm: allow drivers to prevent new writable mappings")
changed i_mmap_writable from unsigned int to atomic_t and add the helper
function mapping_allow_writable() to atomic_inc i_mmap_writable.  But it
forgot to use this helper function in dup_mmap() and __vma_link_file().

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin &lt;linmiaohe@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Kellner &lt;christian@kellner.me&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Reber &lt;areber@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200917112736.7789-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>io_uring: don't rely on weak -&gt;files references</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T02:32:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-13T19:09:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0f2122045b946241a9e549c2a76cea54fa58a7ff'/>
<id>0f2122045b946241a9e549c2a76cea54fa58a7ff</id>
<content type='text'>
Grab actual references to the files_struct. To avoid circular references
issues due to this, we add a per-task note that keeps track of what
io_uring contexts a task has used. When the tasks execs or exits its
assigned files, we cancel requests based on this tracking.

With that, we can grab proper references to the files table, and no
longer need to rely on stashing away ring_fd and ring_file to check
if the ring_fd may have been closed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Grab actual references to the files_struct. To avoid circular references
issues due to this, we add a per-task note that keeps track of what
io_uring contexts a task has used. When the tasks execs or exits its
assigned files, we cancel requests based on this tracking.

With that, we can grab proper references to the files table, and no
longer need to rely on stashing away ring_fd and ring_file to check
if the ring_fd may have been closed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+
Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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