linux-stable.git/kernel/signal.c, branch v4.10.2

sigaltstack: support SS_AUTODISARM for CONFIG_COMPAT

2017-03-12T05:44:10+00:00

commit 441398d378f29a5ad6d0fcda07918e54e4961800 upstream.

Currently SS_AUTODISARM is not supported in compatibility mode, but does
not return -EINVAL either.  This makes dosemu built with -m32 on x86_64
to crash.  Also the kernel's sigaltstack selftest fails if compiled with
-m32.

This patch adds the needed support.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170205101213.8163-2-stsp@list.ru
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev 
Cc: Milosz Tanski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Nicolas Pitre 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Dmitry Safonov 
Cc: Wang Xiaoqiang 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.

2017-01-11T02:31:55+00:00

Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we
can now trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ktime: Get rid of the union

2016-12-25T16:21:22+00:00

ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in
scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec
variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant
and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but
become completely pointless.

Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.

The conversion was done with coccinelle and some manual mopping up.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra

Replace with globally

2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signals: avoid unnecessary taking of sighand->siglock

2016-12-15T00:04:07+00:00

When running certain database workload on a high-end system with many
CPUs, it was found that spinlock contention in the sigprocmask syscalls
became a significant portion of the overall CPU cycles as shown below.

  9.30%  9.30%  905387  dataserver  /proc/kcore 0x7fff8163f4d2
  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
            |
            ---_raw_spin_lock_irq
               |
               |--99.34%-- __set_current_blocked
               |          sigprocmask
               |          sys_rt_sigprocmask
               |          system_call_fastpath
               |          |
               |          |--50.63%-- __swapcontext
               |          |          |
               |          |          |--99.91%-- upsleepgeneric
               |          |
               |          |--49.36%-- __setcontext
               |          |          ktskRun

Looking further into the swapcontext function in glibc, it was found that
the function always call sigprocmask() without checking if there are
changes in the signal mask.

A check was added to the __set_current_blocked() function to avoid taking
the sighand->siglock spinlock if there is no change in the signal mask.
This will prevent unneeded spinlock contention when many threads are
trying to call sigprocmask().

With this patch applied, the spinlock contention in sigprocmask() was
gone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474979209-11867-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Stas Sergeev 
Cc: Scott J Norton 
Cc: Douglas Hatch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

posix-timers: Make them configurable

2016-11-16T08:26:35+00:00

Some embedded systems have no use for them.  This removes about
25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out.

Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to
use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were
disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create,
timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete,
clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm.

The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast
majority of use cases with very little code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Acked-by: Richard Cochran 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: John Stultz 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Paul Bolle 
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek 
Cc: Edward Cree 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86/signal: Add SA_{X32,IA32}_ABI sa_flags

2016-09-14T19:28:11+00:00

Introduce new flags that defines which ABI to use on creating sigframe.
Those flags kernel will set according to sigaction syscall ABI,
which set handler for the signal being delivered.

So that will drop the dependency on TIF_IA32/TIF_X32 flags on signal deliver.
Those flags will be used only under CONFIG_COMPAT.

Similar way ARM uses sa_flags to differ in which mode deliver signal
for 26-bit applications (look at SA_THIRYTWO).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov 
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: 0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: gorcunov@openvz.org
Cc: xemul@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160905133308.28234-7-dsafonov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

signals: Use hrtimer for sigtimedwait()

2016-07-07T08:35:07+00:00

We've converted most timeout related syscalls to hrtimers, but
sigtimedwait() did not get this treatment.

Convert it so we get a reasonable accuracy and remove the
user space exposure to the timer wheel properties.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Cyril Hrubis 
Cc: George Spelvin 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094341.787164909@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/signal.c: convert printk(KERN_ ...) to pr_(...)

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

Use pr_ instead of printk(KERN_ ).

Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaoqiang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signals/sigaltstack: Report current flag bits in sigaltstack()

2016-05-04T06:34:14+00:00

sigaltstack()'s reported previous state uses a somewhat odd
convention, but the concept of flag bits is new, and we can do the
flag bits sensibly.  Specifically, let's just report them directly.

This will allow saving and restoring the sigaltstack state using
sigaltstack() to work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Amanieu d'Antras 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Shuah Khan 
Cc: Stas Sergeev 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94b291ec9fd47741a9264851e316e158ded0b00d.1462296606.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar