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<title>x86/mm/pat: Fix VM_PAT handling when fork() fails in copy_page_range()</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:44:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-21T11:23:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dc84bc2aba85a1508f04a936f9f9a15f64ebfb31 ]

If track_pfn_copy() fails, we already added the dst VMA to the maple
tree. As fork() fails, we'll cleanup the maple tree, and stumble over
the dst VMA for which we neither performed any reservation nor copied
any page tables.

Consequently untrack_pfn() will see VM_PAT and try obtaining the
PAT information from the page table -- which fails because the page
table was not copied.

The easiest fix would be to simply clear the VM_PAT flag of the dst VMA
if track_pfn_copy() fails. However, the whole thing is about "simply"
clearing the VM_PAT flag is shaky as well: if we passed track_pfn_copy()
and performed a reservation, but copying the page tables fails, we'll
simply clear the VM_PAT flag, not properly undoing the reservation ...
which is also wrong.

So let's fix it properly: set the VM_PAT flag only if the reservation
succeeded (leaving it clear initially), and undo the reservation if
anything goes wrong while copying the page tables: clearing the VM_PAT
flag after undoing the reservation.

Note that any copied page table entries will get zapped when the VMA will
get removed later, after copy_page_range() succeeded; as VM_PAT is not set
then, we won't try cleaning VM_PAT up once more and untrack_pfn() will be
happy. Note that leaving these page tables in place without a reservation
is not a problem, as we are aborting fork(); this process will never run.

A reproducer can trigger this usually at the first try:

  https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/reproducers/pat_fork.c

  WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 11650 at arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c:983 get_pat_info+0xf6/0x110
  Modules linked in: ...
  CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 11650 Comm: repro3 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5+ #92
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:get_pat_info+0xf6/0x110
  ...
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   ...
   untrack_pfn+0x52/0x110
   unmap_single_vma+0xa6/0xe0
   unmap_vmas+0x105/0x1f0
   exit_mmap+0xf6/0x460
   __mmput+0x4b/0x120
   copy_process+0x1bf6/0x2aa0
   kernel_clone+0xab/0x440
   __do_sys_clone+0x66/0x90
   do_syscall_64+0x95/0x180

Likely this case was missed in:

  d155df53f310 ("x86/mm/pat: clear VM_PAT if copy_p4d_range failed")

... and instead of undoing the reservation we simply cleared the VM_PAT flag.

Keep the documentation of these functions in include/linux/pgtable.h,
one place is more than sufficient -- we should clean that up for the other
functions like track_pfn_remap/untrack_pfn separately.

Fixes: d155df53f310 ("x86/mm/pat: clear VM_PAT if copy_p4d_range failed")
Fixes: 2ab640379a0a ("x86: PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions - v3")
Reported-by: xingwei lee &lt;xrivendell7@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: yuxin wang &lt;wang1315768607@163.com&gt;
Reported-by: Marius Fleischer &lt;fleischermarius@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321112323.153741-1-david@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABOYnLx_dnqzpCW99G81DmOr+2UzdmZMk=T3uxwNxwz+R1RAwg@mail.gmail.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJg=8jwijTP5fre8woS4JVJQ8iUA6v+iNcsOgtj9Zfpc3obDOQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dc84bc2aba85a1508f04a936f9f9a15f64ebfb31 ]

If track_pfn_copy() fails, we already added the dst VMA to the maple
tree. As fork() fails, we'll cleanup the maple tree, and stumble over
the dst VMA for which we neither performed any reservation nor copied
any page tables.

Consequently untrack_pfn() will see VM_PAT and try obtaining the
PAT information from the page table -- which fails because the page
table was not copied.

The easiest fix would be to simply clear the VM_PAT flag of the dst VMA
if track_pfn_copy() fails. However, the whole thing is about "simply"
clearing the VM_PAT flag is shaky as well: if we passed track_pfn_copy()
and performed a reservation, but copying the page tables fails, we'll
simply clear the VM_PAT flag, not properly undoing the reservation ...
which is also wrong.

So let's fix it properly: set the VM_PAT flag only if the reservation
succeeded (leaving it clear initially), and undo the reservation if
anything goes wrong while copying the page tables: clearing the VM_PAT
flag after undoing the reservation.

Note that any copied page table entries will get zapped when the VMA will
get removed later, after copy_page_range() succeeded; as VM_PAT is not set
then, we won't try cleaning VM_PAT up once more and untrack_pfn() will be
happy. Note that leaving these page tables in place without a reservation
is not a problem, as we are aborting fork(); this process will never run.

A reproducer can trigger this usually at the first try:

  https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/scratchspace/-/raw/main/reproducers/pat_fork.c

  WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 11650 at arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c:983 get_pat_info+0xf6/0x110
  Modules linked in: ...
  CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 11650 Comm: repro3 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5+ #92
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:get_pat_info+0xf6/0x110
  ...
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   ...
   untrack_pfn+0x52/0x110
   unmap_single_vma+0xa6/0xe0
   unmap_vmas+0x105/0x1f0
   exit_mmap+0xf6/0x460
   __mmput+0x4b/0x120
   copy_process+0x1bf6/0x2aa0
   kernel_clone+0xab/0x440
   __do_sys_clone+0x66/0x90
   do_syscall_64+0x95/0x180

Likely this case was missed in:

  d155df53f310 ("x86/mm/pat: clear VM_PAT if copy_p4d_range failed")

... and instead of undoing the reservation we simply cleared the VM_PAT flag.

Keep the documentation of these functions in include/linux/pgtable.h,
one place is more than sufficient -- we should clean that up for the other
functions like track_pfn_remap/untrack_pfn separately.

Fixes: d155df53f310 ("x86/mm/pat: clear VM_PAT if copy_p4d_range failed")
Fixes: 2ab640379a0a ("x86: PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions - v3")
Reported-by: xingwei lee &lt;xrivendell7@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: yuxin wang &lt;wang1315768607@163.com&gt;
Reported-by: Marius Fleischer &lt;fleischermarius@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321112323.153741-1-david@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CABOYnLx_dnqzpCW99G81DmOr+2UzdmZMk=T3uxwNxwz+R1RAwg@mail.gmail.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJg=8jwijTP5fre8woS4JVJQ8iUA6v+iNcsOgtj9Zfpc3obDOQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: be more careful about dup_mmap() failures and uprobe registering</title>
<updated>2025-02-01T11:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liam R. Howlett</name>
<email>Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T17:02:21+00:00</published>
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If a memory allocation fails during dup_mmap(), the maple tree can be left
in an unsafe state for other iterators besides the exit path.  All the
locks are dropped before the exit_mmap() call (in mm/mmap.c), but the
incomplete mm_struct can be reached through (at least) the rmap finding
the vmas which have a pointer back to the mm_struct.

Up to this point, there have been no issues with being able to find an
mm_struct that was only partially initialised.  Syzbot was able to make
the incomplete mm_struct fail with recent forking changes, so it has been
proven unsafe to use the mm_struct that hasn't been initialised, as
referenced in the link below.

Although 8ac662f5da19f ("fork: avoid inappropriate uprobe access to
invalid mm") fixed the uprobe access, it does not completely remove the
race.

This patch sets the MMF_OOM_SKIP to avoid the iteration of the vmas on the
oom side (even though this is extremely unlikely to be selected as an oom
victim in the race window), and sets MMF_UNSTABLE to avoid other potential
users from using a partially initialised mm_struct.

When registering vmas for uprobe, skip the vmas in an mm that is marked
unstable.  Modifying a vma in an unstable mm may cause issues if the mm
isn't fully initialised.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250127170221.1761366-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If a memory allocation fails during dup_mmap(), the maple tree can be left
in an unsafe state for other iterators besides the exit path.  All the
locks are dropped before the exit_mmap() call (in mm/mmap.c), but the
incomplete mm_struct can be reached through (at least) the rmap finding
the vmas which have a pointer back to the mm_struct.

Up to this point, there have been no issues with being able to find an
mm_struct that was only partially initialised.  Syzbot was able to make
the incomplete mm_struct fail with recent forking changes, so it has been
proven unsafe to use the mm_struct that hasn't been initialised, as
referenced in the link below.

Although 8ac662f5da19f ("fork: avoid inappropriate uprobe access to
invalid mm") fixed the uprobe access, it does not completely remove the
race.

This patch sets the MMF_OOM_SKIP to avoid the iteration of the vmas on the
oom side (even though this is extremely unlikely to be selected as an oom
victim in the race window), and sets MMF_UNSTABLE to avoid other potential
users from using a partially initialised mm_struct.

When registering vmas for uprobe, skip the vmas in an mm that is marked
unstable.  Modifying a vma in an unstable mm may cause issues if the mm
isn't fully initialised.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250127170221.1761366-1-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T01:50:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T01:50:53+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
  in this pull are:

   - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
     from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
     library code

   - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
     some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code

   - "Update reference to include/asm-&lt;arch&gt;" from Geert Uytterhoeven
     fixes pathnames in some code comments

   - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
     the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
     appropriate

   - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
     switches two filesystems to the new mount API

   - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that

   - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
     Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
     places

   - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
     Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
     some maintainability work

   - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
     tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work

   - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
     with a corrupted image

   - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc

   - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
     addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger

   - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
     some maintenance work on the min/max library code

   - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
     work on the xarray library code"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
  ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
  include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
  Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
  Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
  Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
  Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
  Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
  ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
  gcov: clang: use correct function param names
  latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
  minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
  minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
  minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
  minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo &lt; hi test in clamp()
  minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
  minmax.h: update some comments
  minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
  nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
  nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
  CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
  in this pull are:

   - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
     from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
     library code

   - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
     some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code

   - "Update reference to include/asm-&lt;arch&gt;" from Geert Uytterhoeven
     fixes pathnames in some code comments

   - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
     the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
     appropriate

   - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
     switches two filesystems to the new mount API

   - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that

   - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
     Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
     places

   - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
     Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
     some maintainability work

   - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
     tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work

   - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
     with a corrupted image

   - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc

   - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
     addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger

   - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
     some maintenance work on the min/max library code

   - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
     work on the xarray library code"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
  ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
  include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
  Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
  Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
  Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
  Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
  Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
  ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
  gcov: clang: use correct function param names
  latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
  minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
  minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
  minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
  minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo &lt; hi test in clamp()
  minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
  minmax.h: update some comments
  minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
  nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
  nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
  CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</published>
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Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-01-21T18:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-21T18:52:03+00:00</published>
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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Seqlock optimizations that arose in a perf context and were merged
  into the perf tree:

   - seqlock: Add raw_seqcount_try_begin (Suren Baghdasaryan)
   - mm: Convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount (Suren Baghdasaryan)
   - mm: Introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} (Suren
     Baghdasaryan)
   - mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin() (Peter Zijlstra)

  Core perf enhancements:

   - Reduce 'struct page' footprint of perf by mapping pages in advance
     (Lorenzo Stoakes)
   - Save raw sample data conditionally based on sample type (Yabin Cui)
   - Reduce sampling overhead by checking sample_type in
     perf_sample_save_callchain() and perf_sample_save_brstack() (Yabin
     Cui)
   - Export perf_exclude_event() (Namhyung Kim)

  Uprobes scalability enhancements: (Andrii Nakryiko)

   - Simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
   - Add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
   - Simplify session consumer tracking
   - Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
   - Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
   - Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
   - Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()

  AMD core PMU driver enhancements:

   - Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS (Namhyung Kim)

  AMD RAPL energy counters support: (Dhananjay Ugwekar)

   - Introduce topology_logical_core_id() (K Prateek Nayak)
   - Remove the unused get_rapl_pmu_cpumask() function
   - Remove the cpu_to_rapl_pmu() function
   - Rename rapl_pmu variables
   - Make rapl_model struct global
   - Add arguments to the init and cleanup functions
   - Modify the generic variable names to *_pkg*
   - Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
   - Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
   - Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs

  Intel core PMU driver enhancements:

   - Support RDPMC 'metrics clear mode' feature (Kan Liang)
   - Clarify adaptive PEBS processing (Kan Liang)
   - Factor out functions for PEBS records processing (Kan Liang)
   - Simplify the PEBS records processing for adaptive PEBS (Kan Liang)

  Intel uncore driver enhancements: (Kan Liang)

   - Convert buggy pmu-&gt;func_id use to pmu-&gt;registered
   - Support more units on Granite Rapids"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  perf: map pages in advance
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support more units on Granite Rapids
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up func_id
  perf/x86/intel: Support RDPMC metrics clear mode
  uprobes: Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()
  perf/x86: Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS
  perf/core: Export perf_exclude_event()
  uprobes: Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
  uprobes: Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
  uprobes: Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
  uprobes: Simplify session consumer tracking
  uprobes: add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
  uprobes: simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
  mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry}
  mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount
  mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin
  perf/x86/rapl: Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs
  perf/x86/rapl: Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
  perf/x86/rapl: Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
  ...
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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Seqlock optimizations that arose in a perf context and were merged
  into the perf tree:

   - seqlock: Add raw_seqcount_try_begin (Suren Baghdasaryan)
   - mm: Convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount (Suren Baghdasaryan)
   - mm: Introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} (Suren
     Baghdasaryan)
   - mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin() (Peter Zijlstra)

  Core perf enhancements:

   - Reduce 'struct page' footprint of perf by mapping pages in advance
     (Lorenzo Stoakes)
   - Save raw sample data conditionally based on sample type (Yabin Cui)
   - Reduce sampling overhead by checking sample_type in
     perf_sample_save_callchain() and perf_sample_save_brstack() (Yabin
     Cui)
   - Export perf_exclude_event() (Namhyung Kim)

  Uprobes scalability enhancements: (Andrii Nakryiko)

   - Simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
   - Add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
   - Simplify session consumer tracking
   - Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
   - Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
   - Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
   - Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()

  AMD core PMU driver enhancements:

   - Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS (Namhyung Kim)

  AMD RAPL energy counters support: (Dhananjay Ugwekar)

   - Introduce topology_logical_core_id() (K Prateek Nayak)
   - Remove the unused get_rapl_pmu_cpumask() function
   - Remove the cpu_to_rapl_pmu() function
   - Rename rapl_pmu variables
   - Make rapl_model struct global
   - Add arguments to the init and cleanup functions
   - Modify the generic variable names to *_pkg*
   - Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
   - Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
   - Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs

  Intel core PMU driver enhancements:

   - Support RDPMC 'metrics clear mode' feature (Kan Liang)
   - Clarify adaptive PEBS processing (Kan Liang)
   - Factor out functions for PEBS records processing (Kan Liang)
   - Simplify the PEBS records processing for adaptive PEBS (Kan Liang)

  Intel uncore driver enhancements: (Kan Liang)

   - Convert buggy pmu-&gt;func_id use to pmu-&gt;registered
   - Support more units on Granite Rapids"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  perf: map pages in advance
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support more units on Granite Rapids
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up func_id
  perf/x86/intel: Support RDPMC metrics clear mode
  uprobes: Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()
  perf/x86: Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS
  perf/core: Export perf_exclude_event()
  uprobes: Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
  uprobes: Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
  uprobes: Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
  uprobes: Simplify session consumer tracking
  uprobes: add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
  uprobes: simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
  mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry}
  mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount
  mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin()
  seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin
  perf/x86/rapl: Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs
  perf/x86/rapl: Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
  perf/x86/rapl: Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>get_task_exe_file: check PF_KTHREAD locklessly</title>
<updated>2025-01-13T04:21:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T14:35:26+00:00</published>
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Same thing as 8ac5dc66599c ("get_task_mm: check PF_KTHREAD lockless")

Nowadays PF_KTHREAD is sticky and it was never protected by -&gt;alloc_lock. 
Move the PF_KTHREAD check outside of task_lock() section to make this code
more understandable.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241119143526.704986-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Same thing as 8ac5dc66599c ("get_task_mm: check PF_KTHREAD lockless")

Nowadays PF_KTHREAD is sticky and it was never protected by -&gt;alloc_lock. 
Move the PF_KTHREAD check outside of task_lock() section to make this code
more understandable.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241119143526.704986-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: avoid inappropriate uprobe access to invalid mm</title>
<updated>2024-12-19T03:04:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-10T17:24:12+00:00</published>
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If dup_mmap() encounters an issue, currently uprobe is able to access the
relevant mm via the reverse mapping (in build_map_info()), and if we are
very unlucky with a race window, observe invalid XA_ZERO_ENTRY state which
we establish as part of the fork error path.

This occurs because uprobe_write_opcode() invokes anon_vma_prepare() which
in turn invokes find_mergeable_anon_vma() that uses a VMA iterator,
invoking vma_iter_load() which uses the advanced maple tree API and thus
is able to observe XA_ZERO_ENTRY entries added to dup_mmap() in commit
d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in
dup_mmap()").

This change was made on the assumption that only process tear-down code
would actually observe (and make use of) these values.  However this very
unlikely but still possible edge case with uprobes exists and
unfortunately does make these observable.

The uprobe operation prevents races against the dup_mmap() operation via
the dup_mmap_sem semaphore, which is acquired via uprobe_start_dup_mmap()
and dropped via uprobe_end_dup_mmap(), and held across
register_for_each_vma() prior to invoking build_map_info() which does the
reverse mapping lookup.

Currently these are acquired and dropped within dup_mmap(), which exposes
the race window prior to error handling in the invoking dup_mm() which
tears down the mm.

We can avoid all this by just moving the invocation of
uprobe_start_dup_mmap() and uprobe_end_dup_mmap() up a level to dup_mm()
and only release this lock once the dup_mmap() operation succeeds or clean
up is done.

This means that the uprobe code can never observe an incompletely
constructed mm and resolves the issue in this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210172412.52995-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+2d788f4f7cb660dac4b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If dup_mmap() encounters an issue, currently uprobe is able to access the
relevant mm via the reverse mapping (in build_map_info()), and if we are
very unlucky with a race window, observe invalid XA_ZERO_ENTRY state which
we establish as part of the fork error path.

This occurs because uprobe_write_opcode() invokes anon_vma_prepare() which
in turn invokes find_mergeable_anon_vma() that uses a VMA iterator,
invoking vma_iter_load() which uses the advanced maple tree API and thus
is able to observe XA_ZERO_ENTRY entries added to dup_mmap() in commit
d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in
dup_mmap()").

This change was made on the assumption that only process tear-down code
would actually observe (and make use of) these values.  However this very
unlikely but still possible edge case with uprobes exists and
unfortunately does make these observable.

The uprobe operation prevents races against the dup_mmap() operation via
the dup_mmap_sem semaphore, which is acquired via uprobe_start_dup_mmap()
and dropped via uprobe_end_dup_mmap(), and held across
register_for_each_vma() prior to invoking build_map_info() which does the
reverse mapping lookup.

Currently these are acquired and dropped within dup_mmap(), which exposes
the race window prior to error handling in the invoking dup_mm() which
tears down the mm.

We can avoid all this by just moving the invocation of
uprobe_start_dup_mmap() and uprobe_end_dup_mmap() up a level to dup_mm()
and only release this lock once the dup_mmap() operation succeeds or clean
up is done.

This means that the uprobe code can never observe an incompletely
constructed mm and resolves the issue in this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210172412.52995-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+2d788f4f7cb660dac4b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files</title>
<updated>2024-12-11T16:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-28T14:25:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") removed
the legacy behavior of getting ETXTBSY on attempt to open and executable
file for write while it is being executed.

This commit was reverted because an application that depends on this
legacy behavior was broken by the change.

We need to allow HSM writing into executable files while executed to
fill their content on-the-fly.

To that end, disable the ETXTBSY legacy behavior for files that are
watched by pre-content events.

This change is not expected to cause regressions with existing systems
which do not have any pre-content event listeners.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241128142532.465176-1-amir73il@gmail.com
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Commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec") removed
the legacy behavior of getting ETXTBSY on attempt to open and executable
file for write while it is being executed.

This commit was reverted because an application that depends on this
legacy behavior was broken by the change.

We need to allow HSM writing into executable files while executed to
fill their content on-the-fly.

To that end, disable the ETXTBSY legacy behavior for files that are
watched by pre-content events.

This change is not expected to cause regressions with existing systems
which do not have any pre-content event listeners.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241128142532.465176-1-amir73il@gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T11:01:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suren Baghdasaryan</name>
<email>surenb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-22T17:44:15+00:00</published>
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Convert mm_lock_seq to be seqcount_t and change all mmap_write_lock
variants to increment it, in-line with the usual seqcount usage pattern.
This lets us check whether the mmap_lock is write-locked by checking
mm_lock_seq.sequence counter (odd=locked, even=unlocked). This will be
used when implementing mmap_lock speculation functions.
As a result vm_lock_seq is also change to be unsigned to match the type
of mm_lock_seq.sequence.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241122174416.1367052-2-surenb@google.com
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Convert mm_lock_seq to be seqcount_t and change all mmap_write_lock
variants to increment it, in-line with the usual seqcount usage pattern.
This lets us check whether the mmap_lock is write-locked by checking
mm_lock_seq.sequence counter (odd=locked, even=unlocked). This will be
used when implementing mmap_lock speculation functions.
As a result vm_lock_seq is also change to be unsigned to match the type
of mm_lock_seq.sequence.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241122174416.1367052-2-surenb@google.com
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<title>Revert "fs: don't block i_writecount during exec"</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T11:51:30+00:00</updated>
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<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-11-27T11:45:02+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 2a010c41285345da60cece35575b4e0af7e7bf44.

Rui Ueyama &lt;rui314@gmail.com&gt; writes:

&gt; I'm the creator and the maintainer of the mold linker
&gt; (https://github.com/rui314/mold). Recently, we discovered that mold
&gt; started causing process crashes in certain situations due to a change
&gt; in the Linux kernel. Here are the details:
&gt;
&gt; - In general, overwriting an existing file is much faster than
&gt; creating an empty file and writing to it on Linux, so mold attempts to
&gt; reuse an existing executable file if it exists.
&gt;
&gt; - If a program is running, opening the executable file for writing
&gt; previously failed with ETXTBSY. If that happens, mold falls back to
&gt; creating a new file.
&gt;
&gt; - However, the Linux kernel recently changed the behavior so that
&gt; writing to an executable file is now always permitted
&gt; (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a010c412853).
&gt;
&gt; That caused mold to write to an executable file even if there's a
&gt; process running that file. Since changes to mmap'ed files are
&gt; immediately visible to other processes, any processes running that
&gt; file would almost certainly crash in a very mysterious way.
&gt; Identifying the cause of these random crashes took us a few days.
&gt;
&gt; Rejecting writes to an executable file that is currently running is a
&gt; well-known behavior, and Linux had operated that way for a very long
&gt; time. So, I don’t believe relying on this behavior was our mistake;
&gt; rather, I see this as a regression in the Linux kernel.

Quoting myself from commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec")

&gt; Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not
&gt; completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's
&gt; actually the case and not guess.

It seems we found out that someone is relying on this obscure behavior.
So revert the change.

Link: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1361
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4a2bc207-76be-4715-8e12-7fc45a76a125@leemhuis.info
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 2a010c41285345da60cece35575b4e0af7e7bf44.

Rui Ueyama &lt;rui314@gmail.com&gt; writes:

&gt; I'm the creator and the maintainer of the mold linker
&gt; (https://github.com/rui314/mold). Recently, we discovered that mold
&gt; started causing process crashes in certain situations due to a change
&gt; in the Linux kernel. Here are the details:
&gt;
&gt; - In general, overwriting an existing file is much faster than
&gt; creating an empty file and writing to it on Linux, so mold attempts to
&gt; reuse an existing executable file if it exists.
&gt;
&gt; - If a program is running, opening the executable file for writing
&gt; previously failed with ETXTBSY. If that happens, mold falls back to
&gt; creating a new file.
&gt;
&gt; - However, the Linux kernel recently changed the behavior so that
&gt; writing to an executable file is now always permitted
&gt; (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a010c412853).
&gt;
&gt; That caused mold to write to an executable file even if there's a
&gt; process running that file. Since changes to mmap'ed files are
&gt; immediately visible to other processes, any processes running that
&gt; file would almost certainly crash in a very mysterious way.
&gt; Identifying the cause of these random crashes took us a few days.
&gt;
&gt; Rejecting writes to an executable file that is currently running is a
&gt; well-known behavior, and Linux had operated that way for a very long
&gt; time. So, I don’t believe relying on this behavior was our mistake;
&gt; rather, I see this as a regression in the Linux kernel.

Quoting myself from commit 2a010c412853 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec")

&gt; Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not
&gt; completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's
&gt; actually the case and not guess.

It seems we found out that someone is relying on this obscure behavior.
So revert the change.

Link: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1361
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4a2bc207-76be-4715-8e12-7fc45a76a125@leemhuis.info
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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