linux-stable.git/kernel/time, branch linux-5.18.y

timekeeping: contribute wall clock to rng on time change

2022-08-17T12:42:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit b8ac29b40183a6038919768b5d189c9bd91ce9b4 ]

The rng's random_init() function contributes the real time to the rng at
boot time, so that events can at least start in relation to something
particular in the real world. But this clock might not yet be set that
point in boot, so nothing is contributed. In addition, the relation
between minor clock changes from, say, NTP, and the cycle counter is
potentially useful entropic data.

This commit addresses this by mixing in a time stamp on calls to
settimeofday and adjtimex. No entropy is credited in doing so, so it
doesn't make initialization faster, but it is still useful input to
have.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wireguard: ratelimiter: use hrtimer in selftest

2022-08-17T12:41:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 151c8e499f4705010780189377f85b57400ccbf5 ]

Using msleep() is problematic because it's compared against
ratelimiter.c's ktime_get_coarse_boottime_ns(), which means on systems
with slow jiffies (such as UML's forced HZ=100), the result is
inaccurate. So switch to using schedule_hrtimeout().

However, hrtimer gives us access only to the traditional posix timers,
and none of the _COARSE variants. So now, rather than being too
imprecise like jiffies, it's too precise.

One solution would be to give it a large "range" value, but this will
still fire early on a loaded system. A better solution is to align the
timeout to the actual coarse timer, and then round up to the nearest
tick, plus change.

So add the timeout to the current coarse time, and then
schedule_hrtimer() until the absolute computed time.

This should hopefully reduce flakes in CI as well. Note that we keep the
retry loop in case the entire function is running behind, because the
test could still be scheduled out, by either the kernel or by the
hypervisor's kernel, in which case restarting the test and hoping to not
be scheduled out still helps.

Fixes: e7096c131e51 ("net: WireGuard secure network tunnel")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers

2022-07-22T08:21:18+00:00

commit d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 upstream.

As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct,
we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear
signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held.

Cc: 
Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tick/nohz: unexport __init-annotated tick_nohz_full_setup()

2022-07-02T14:44:55+00:00

commit 2390095113e98fc52fffe35c5206d30d9efe3f78 upstream.

EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.

modpost used to detect it, but it had been broken for a decade.

Commit 28438794aba4 ("modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported
init/exit sections") fixed it so modpost started to warn it again, then
this showed up:

    MODPOST vmlinux.symvers
  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+tick_nohz_full_setup+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_tick_nohz_full_setup to the function .init.text:tick_nohz_full_setup()
  The symbol tick_nohz_full_setup is exported and annotated __init
  Fix this by removing the __init annotation of tick_nohz_full_setup or drop the export.

Drop the export because tick_nohz_full_setup() is only called from the
built-in code in kernel/sched/isolation.c.

Fixes: ae9e557b5be2 ("time: Export tick start/stop functions for rcutorture")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Thomas Backlund 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Add raw clock fallback for random_get_entropy()

2022-05-30T07:24:04+00:00

commit 1366992e16bddd5e2d9a561687f367f9f802e2e4 upstream.

The addition of random_get_entropy_fallback() provides access to
whichever time source has the highest frequency, which is useful for
gathering entropy on platforms without available cycle counters. It's
not necessarily as good as being able to quickly access a cycle counter
that the CPU has, but it's still something, even when it falls back to
being jiffies-based.

In the event that a given arch does not define get_cycles(), falling
back to the get_cycles() default implementation that returns 0 is really
not the best we can do. Instead, at least calling
random_get_entropy_fallback() would be preferable, because that always
needs to return _something_, even falling back to jiffies eventually.
It's not as though random_get_entropy_fallback() is super high precision
or guaranteed to be entropic, but basically anything that's not zero all
the time is better than returning zero all the time.

Finally, since random_get_entropy_fallback() is used during extremely
early boot when randomizing freelists in mm_init(), it can be called
before timekeeping has been initialized. In that case there really is
nothing we can do; jiffies hasn't even started ticking yet. So just give
up and return 0.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timekeeping: Mark NMI safe time accessors as notrace

2022-04-28T22:07:53+00:00

Mark the CLOCK_MONOTONIC fast time accessors as notrace. These functions are
used in tracing to retrieve timestamps, so they should not recurse.

Fixes: 4498e7467e9e ("time: Parametrize all tk_fast_mono users")
Fixes: f09cb9a1808e ("time: Introduce tk_fast_raw")
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220428062432.61063-1-kurt@linutronix.de

tick/sched: Fix non-kernel-doc comment

2022-04-10T10:23:34+00:00

Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning:

kernel/time/tick-sched.c:1563: warning: This comment starts with '/**',
but isn't a kernel-doc comment.

Reported-by: Abaci Robot 
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214084739.63228-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com

tick/nohz: Use WARN_ON_ONCE() to prevent console saturation

2022-04-10T10:23:34+00:00

While running some testing on code that happened to allow the variable
tick_nohz_full_running to get set but with no "possible" NOHZ cores to
back up that setting, this warning triggered:

        if (unlikely(tick_do_timer_cpu == TICK_DO_TIMER_NONE))
                WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running);

The console was overwhemled with an endless stream of one WARN per tick
per core and there was no way to even see what was going on w/o using a
serial console to capture it and then trace it back to this.

Change it to WARN_ON_ONCE().

Fixes: 08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full")
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211206145950.10927-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com

timers: Fix warning condition in __run_timers()

2022-04-09T20:17:47+00:00

When the timer base is empty, base::next_expiry is set to base::clk +
NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA and base::next_expiry_recalc is false. When no timer
is queued until jiffies reaches base::next_expiry value, the warning for
not finding any expired timer and base::next_expiry_recalc is false in
__run_timers() triggers.

To prevent triggering the warning in this valid scenario
base::timers_pending needs to be added to the warning condition.

Fixes: 31cd0e119d50 ("timers: Recalculate next timer interrupt only when necessary")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405191732.7438-3-anna-maria@linutronix.de

Merge tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2022-03-29T00:29:53+00:00

Pull ptrace cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes removes tracehook.h, moves modification of all of
  the ptrace fields inside of siglock to remove races, adds a missing
  permission check to ptrace.c

  The removal of tracehook.h is quite significant as it has been a major
  source of confusion in recent years. Much of that confusion was around
  task_work and TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (which I have now decoupled making the
  semantics clearer).

  For people who don't know tracehook.h is a vestiage of an attempt to
  implement uprobes like functionality that was never fully merged, and
  was later superseeded by uprobes when uprobes was merged. For many
  years now we have been removing what tracehook functionaly a little
  bit at a time. To the point where anything left in tracehook.h was
  some weird strange thing that was difficult to understand"

* tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  ptrace: Remove duplicated include in ptrace.c
  ptrace: Check PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP permission on PTRACE_SEIZE
  ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop
  ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop
  tracehook: Remove tracehook.h
  resume_user_mode: Move to resume_user_mode.h
  resume_user_mode: Remove #ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in set_notify_resume
  signal: Move set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal into sched/signal.h
  task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work
  task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures
  task_work: Introduce task_work_pending
  task_work: Remove unnecessary include from posix_timers.h
  ptrace: Remove tracehook_signal_handler
  ptrace: Remove arch_syscall_{enter,exit}_tracehook
  ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.h
  ptrace/arm: Rename tracehook_report_syscall report_syscall
  ptrace: Move ptrace_report_syscall into ptrace.h