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<title>proc, time/namespace: Show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets</title>
<updated>2020-04-21T07:08:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrei Vagin</name>
<email>avagin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-11T15:40:31+00:00</published>
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commit 94d440d618467806009c8edc70b094d64e12ee5a upstream.

Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs with symbolic names.

Now the content of these files looks like this:
$ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
monotonic      864000         0
boottime      1728000         0

For setting offsets, both representations of clocks (numeric and symbolic)
can be used.

As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as
userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very new and
there are no userspace tools yet which rely on this format.

But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of
setting time offsets and this is why it's required to continue supporting
the numeric clock IDs on write.

Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets")
Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411154031.642557-1-avagin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 94d440d618467806009c8edc70b094d64e12ee5a upstream.

Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs with symbolic names.

Now the content of these files looks like this:
$ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
monotonic      864000         0
boottime      1728000         0

For setting offsets, both representations of clocks (numeric and symbolic)
can be used.

As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as
userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very new and
there are no userspace tools yet which rely on this format.

But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of
setting time offsets and this is why it's required to continue supporting
the numeric clock IDs on write.

Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets")
Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411154031.642557-1-avagin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>rcu: Don't acquire lock in NMI handler in rcu_nmi_enter_common()</title>
<updated>2020-04-21T07:08:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T23:55:07+00:00</published>
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commit bf37da98c51825c90432d340e135cced37a7460d upstream.

The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers.  If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's -&gt;lock.  Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.

This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the -&gt;lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.

Fixes: 5b14557b073c ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.5.x
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bf37da98c51825c90432d340e135cced37a7460d upstream.

The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers.  If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's -&gt;lock.  Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.

This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the -&gt;lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.

Fixes: 5b14557b073c ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.5.x
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix the race between registering 'snapshot' event trigger and triggering 'snapshot' operation</title>
<updated>2020-04-21T07:08:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Yang</name>
<email>yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-14T01:51:45+00:00</published>
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commit 0bbe7f719985efd9adb3454679ecef0984cb6800 upstream.

Traced event can trigger 'snapshot' operation(i.e. calls snapshot_trigger()
or snapshot_count_trigger()) when register_snapshot_trigger() has completed
registration but doesn't allocate buffer for 'snapshot' event trigger.  In
the rare case, 'snapshot' operation always detects the lack of allocated
buffer so make register_snapshot_trigger() allocate buffer first.

trigger-snapshot.tc in kselftest reproduces the issue on slow vm:
-----------------------------------------------------------
cat trace
...
ftracetest-3028  [002] ....   236.784290: sched_process_fork: comm=ftracetest pid=3028 child_comm=ftracetest child_pid=3036
     &lt;...&gt;-2875  [003] ....   240.460335: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** SNAPSHOT NOT ALLOCATED ***
     &lt;...&gt;-2875  [003] ....   240.460338: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** stopping trace here!   ***
-----------------------------------------------------------

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414015145.66236-1-yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 93e31ffbf417a ("tracing: Add 'snapshot' event trigger command")
Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang &lt;yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0bbe7f719985efd9adb3454679ecef0984cb6800 upstream.

Traced event can trigger 'snapshot' operation(i.e. calls snapshot_trigger()
or snapshot_count_trigger()) when register_snapshot_trigger() has completed
registration but doesn't allocate buffer for 'snapshot' event trigger.  In
the rare case, 'snapshot' operation always detects the lack of allocated
buffer so make register_snapshot_trigger() allocate buffer first.

trigger-snapshot.tc in kselftest reproduces the issue on slow vm:
-----------------------------------------------------------
cat trace
...
ftracetest-3028  [002] ....   236.784290: sched_process_fork: comm=ftracetest pid=3028 child_comm=ftracetest child_pid=3036
     &lt;...&gt;-2875  [003] ....   240.460335: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** SNAPSHOT NOT ALLOCATED ***
     &lt;...&gt;-2875  [003] ....   240.460338: tracing_snapshot_instance_cond: *** stopping trace here!   ***
-----------------------------------------------------------

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414015145.66236-1-yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 93e31ffbf417a ("tracing: Add 'snapshot' event trigger command")
Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang &lt;yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix tnum constraints for 32-bit comparisons</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-30T16:03:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 604dca5e3af1db98bd123b7bfc02b017af99e3a0 ]

The BPF verifier tried to track values based on 32-bit comparisons by
(ab)using the tnum state via 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register
bounds after jmp32 instructions"). The idea is that after a check like
this:

    if ((u32)r0 &gt; 3)
      exit

We can't meaningfully constrain the arithmetic-range-based tracking, but
we can update the tnum state to (value=0,mask=0xffff'ffff'0000'0003).
However, the implementation from 581738a681b6 didn't compute the tnum
constraint based on the fixed operand, but instead derives it from the
arithmetic-range-based tracking. This means that after the following
sequence of operations:

    if (r0 &gt;= 0x1'0000'0001)
      exit
    if ((u32)r0 &gt; 7)
      exit

The verifier assumed that the lower half of r0 is in the range (0, 0)
and apply the tnum constraint (value=0,mask=0xffff'ffff'0000'0000) thus
causing the overall tnum to be (value=0,mask=0x1'0000'0000), which was
incorrect. Provide a fixed implementation.

Fixes: 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register bounds after jmp32 instructions")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200330160324.15259-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 604dca5e3af1db98bd123b7bfc02b017af99e3a0 ]

The BPF verifier tried to track values based on 32-bit comparisons by
(ab)using the tnum state via 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register
bounds after jmp32 instructions"). The idea is that after a check like
this:

    if ((u32)r0 &gt; 3)
      exit

We can't meaningfully constrain the arithmetic-range-based tracking, but
we can update the tnum state to (value=0,mask=0xffff'ffff'0000'0003).
However, the implementation from 581738a681b6 didn't compute the tnum
constraint based on the fixed operand, but instead derives it from the
arithmetic-range-based tracking. This means that after the following
sequence of operations:

    if (r0 &gt;= 0x1'0000'0001)
      exit
    if ((u32)r0 &gt; 7)
      exit

The verifier assumed that the lower half of r0 is in the range (0, 0)
and apply the tnum constraint (value=0,mask=0xffff'ffff'0000'0000) thus
causing the overall tnum to be (value=0,mask=0x1'0000'0000), which was
incorrect. Provide a fixed implementation.

Fixes: 581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register bounds after jmp32 instructions")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200330160324.15259-3-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Remove 'struct sched_in_data'</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-07T09:45:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2c2366c7548ecee65adfd264517ddf50f9e2d029 ]

We can deduce the ctx and cpuctx from the event, no need to pass them
along. Remove the structure and pass in can_add_hw directly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2c2366c7548ecee65adfd264517ddf50f9e2d029 ]

We can deduce the ctx and cpuctx from the event, no need to pass them
along. Remove the structure and pass in can_add_hw directly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix event cgroup tracking</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-18T19:33:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 33238c50451596be86db1505ab65fee5172844d0 ]

Song reports that installing cgroup events is broken since:

  db0503e4f675 ("perf/core: Optimize perf_install_in_event()")

The problem being that cgroup events try to track cpuctx-&gt;cgrp even
for disabled events, which is pointless and actively harmful since the
above commit. Rework the code to have explicit enable/disable hooks
for cgroup events, such that we can limit cgroup tracking to active
events.

More specifically, since the above commit disabled events are no
longer added to their context from the 'right' CPU, and we can't
access things like the current cgroup for a remote CPU.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v5.5+
Fixes: db0503e4f675 ("perf/core: Optimize perf_install_in_event()")
Reported-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318193337.GB20760@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 33238c50451596be86db1505ab65fee5172844d0 ]

Song reports that installing cgroup events is broken since:

  db0503e4f675 ("perf/core: Optimize perf_install_in_event()")

The problem being that cgroup events try to track cpuctx-&gt;cgrp even
for disabled events, which is pointless and actively harmful since the
above commit. Rework the code to have explicit enable/disable hooks
for cgroup events, such that we can limit cgroup tracking to active
events.

More specifically, since the above commit disabled events are no
longer added to their context from the 'right' CPU, and we can't
access things like the current cgroup for a remote CPU.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v5.5+
Fixes: db0503e4f675 ("perf/core: Optimize perf_install_in_event()")
Reported-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318193337.GB20760@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Unify {pinned,flexible}_sched_in()</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-07T09:17:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ab6f824cfdf7363b5e529621cbc72ae6519c78d1 ]

Less is more; unify the two very nearly identical function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ab6f824cfdf7363b5e529621cbc72ae6519c78d1 ]

Less is more; unify the two very nearly identical function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-10T21:33:43+00:00</published>
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commit d7d27cfc5cf0766a26a8f56868c5ad5434735126 upstream.

Patch series "module autoloading fixes and cleanups", v5.

This series fixes a bug where request_module() was reporting success to
kernel code when module autoloading had been completely disabled via
'echo &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe'.

It also addresses the issues raised on the original thread
(https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u)
bydocumenting the modprobe sysctl, adding a self-test for the empty path
case, and downgrading a user-reachable WARN_ONCE().

This patch (of 4):

It's long been possible to disable kernel module autoloading completely
(while still allowing manual module insertion) by setting
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to the empty string.

This can be preferable to setting it to a nonexistent file since it
avoids the overhead of an attempted execve(), avoids potential
deadlocks, and avoids the call to security_kernel_module_request() and
thus on SELinux-based systems eliminates the need to write SELinux rules
to dontaudit module_request.

However, when module autoloading is disabled in this way,
request_module() returns 0.  This is broken because callers expect 0 to
mean that the module was successfully loaded.

Apparently this was never noticed because this method of disabling
module autoloading isn't used much, and also most callers don't use the
return value of request_module() since it's always necessary to check
whether the module registered its functionality or not anyway.

But improperly returning 0 can indeed confuse a few callers, for example
get_fs_type() in fs/filesystems.c where it causes a WARNING to be hit:

	if (!fs &amp;&amp; (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) {
		fs = __get_fs_type(name, len);
		WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name);
	}

This is easily reproduced with:

	echo &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
	mount -t NONEXISTENT none /

It causes:

	request_module fs-NONEXISTENT succeeded, but still no fs?
	WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1106 at fs/filesystems.c:275 get_fs_type+0xd6/0xf0
	[...]

This should actually use pr_warn_once() rather than WARN_ONCE(), since
it's also user-reachable if userspace immediately unloads the module.
Regardless, request_module() should correctly return an error when it
fails.  So let's make it return -ENOENT, which matches the error when
the modprobe binary doesn't exist.

I've also sent patches to document and test this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep &lt;jeffv@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;benh@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312202552.241885-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d7d27cfc5cf0766a26a8f56868c5ad5434735126 upstream.

Patch series "module autoloading fixes and cleanups", v5.

This series fixes a bug where request_module() was reporting success to
kernel code when module autoloading had been completely disabled via
'echo &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe'.

It also addresses the issues raised on the original thread
(https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u)
bydocumenting the modprobe sysctl, adding a self-test for the empty path
case, and downgrading a user-reachable WARN_ONCE().

This patch (of 4):

It's long been possible to disable kernel module autoloading completely
(while still allowing manual module insertion) by setting
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to the empty string.

This can be preferable to setting it to a nonexistent file since it
avoids the overhead of an attempted execve(), avoids potential
deadlocks, and avoids the call to security_kernel_module_request() and
thus on SELinux-based systems eliminates the need to write SELinux rules
to dontaudit module_request.

However, when module autoloading is disabled in this way,
request_module() returns 0.  This is broken because callers expect 0 to
mean that the module was successfully loaded.

Apparently this was never noticed because this method of disabling
module autoloading isn't used much, and also most callers don't use the
return value of request_module() since it's always necessary to check
whether the module registered its functionality or not anyway.

But improperly returning 0 can indeed confuse a few callers, for example
get_fs_type() in fs/filesystems.c where it causes a WARNING to be hit:

	if (!fs &amp;&amp; (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) {
		fs = __get_fs_type(name, len);
		WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name);
	}

This is easily reproduced with:

	echo &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
	mount -t NONEXISTENT none /

It causes:

	request_module fs-NONEXISTENT succeeded, but still no fs?
	WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1106 at fs/filesystems.c:275 get_fs_type+0xd6/0xf0
	[...]

This should actually use pr_warn_once() rather than WARN_ONCE(), since
it's also user-reachable if userspace immediately unloads the module.
Regardless, request_module() should correctly return an error when it
fails.  So let's make it return -ENOENT, which matches the error when
the modprobe binary doesn't exist.

I've also sent patches to document and test this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep &lt;jeffv@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;benh@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312202552.241885-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T07:34:48+00:00</published>
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commit 6a13a0d7b4d1171ef9b80ad69abc37e1daa941b3 upstream.

Show maxactive parameter on kprobe_events.
This allows user to save the current configuration and
restore it without losing maxactive parameter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4762764a-6df7-bc93-ed60-e336146dce1f@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158503528846.22706.5549974121212526020.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 696ced4fb1d76 ("tracing/kprobes: expose maxactive for kretprobe in kprobe_events")
Reported-by: Taeung Song &lt;treeze.taeung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6a13a0d7b4d1171ef9b80ad69abc37e1daa941b3 upstream.

Show maxactive parameter on kprobe_events.
This allows user to save the current configuration and
restore it without losing maxactive parameter.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4762764a-6df7-bc93-ed60-e336146dce1f@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158503528846.22706.5549974121212526020.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 696ced4fb1d76 ("tracing/kprobes: expose maxactive for kretprobe in kprobe_events")
Reported-by: Taeung Song &lt;treeze.taeung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>sched/core: Remove duplicate assignment in sched_tick_remote()</title>
<updated>2020-04-17T14:13:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>swood@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-04T00:35:58+00:00</published>
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commit 82e0516ce3a147365a5dd2a9bedd5ba43a18663d upstream.

A redundant "curr = rq-&gt;curr" was added; remove it.

Fixes: ebc0f83c78a2 ("timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick")
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;swood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580776558-12882-1-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 82e0516ce3a147365a5dd2a9bedd5ba43a18663d upstream.

A redundant "curr = rq-&gt;curr" was added; remove it.

Fixes: ebc0f83c78a2 ("timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick")
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;swood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580776558-12882-1-git-send-email-swood@redhat.com
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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