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<title>revert "memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags".</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:57+00:00</updated>
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<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-09-02T22:59:31+00:00</published>
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commit 2562d67b1bdf91c7395b0225d60fdeb26b4bc5a0 upstream.

This warning is telling userspace developers to pass MFD_EXEC and
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL to memfd_create().  Commit 434ed3350f57 ("memfd: improve
userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags") made the warning more
frequent and visible in the hope that this would accelerate the fixing of
errant userspace.

But the overall effect is to generate far too much dmesg noise.

Fixes: 434ed3350f57 ("memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags")
Reported-by: Damian Tometzki &lt;dtometzki@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZPFzCSIgZ4QuHsSC@fedora.fritz.box
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2562d67b1bdf91c7395b0225d60fdeb26b4bc5a0 upstream.

This warning is telling userspace developers to pass MFD_EXEC and
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL to memfd_create().  Commit 434ed3350f57 ("memfd: improve
userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags") made the warning more
frequent and visible in the hope that this would accelerate the fixing of
errant userspace.

But the overall effect is to generate far too much dmesg noise.

Fixes: 434ed3350f57 ("memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags")
Reported-by: Damian Tometzki &lt;dtometzki@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZPFzCSIgZ4QuHsSC@fedora.fritz.box
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing exec-related flags</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>cyphar@cyphar.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T08:40:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 434ed3350f57c03a9654fe0619755cc137a58935 ]

In order to incentivise userspace to switch to passing MFD_EXEC and
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, we need to provide a warning on each attempt to call
memfd_create() without the new flags.  pr_warn_once() is not useful
because on most systems the one warning is burned up during the boot
process (on my system, systemd does this within the first second of boot)
and thus userspace will in practice never see the warnings to push them to
switch to the new flags.

The original patchset[1] used pr_warn_ratelimited(), however there were
concerns about the degree of spam in the kernel log[2,3].  The resulting
inability to detect every case was flagged as an issue at the time[4].

While we could come up with an alternative rate-limiting scheme such as
only outputting the message if vm.memfd_noexec has been modified, or only
outputting the message once for a given task, these alternatives have
downsides that don't make sense given how low-stakes a single kernel
warning message is.  Switching to pr_info_ratelimited() instead should be
fine -- it's possible some monitoring tool will be unhappy with a stream
of warning-level messages but there's already plenty of info-level message
spam in dmesg.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20221215001205.51969-4-jeffxu@google.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/202212161233.85C9783FB@keescook/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/Y5yS8wCnuYGLHMj4@x1n/
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/f185bb42-b29c-977e-312e-3349eea15383@linuxfoundation.org/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814-memfd-vm-noexec-uapi-fixes-v2-3-7ff9e3e10ba6@cyphar.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 434ed3350f57c03a9654fe0619755cc137a58935 ]

In order to incentivise userspace to switch to passing MFD_EXEC and
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, we need to provide a warning on each attempt to call
memfd_create() without the new flags.  pr_warn_once() is not useful
because on most systems the one warning is burned up during the boot
process (on my system, systemd does this within the first second of boot)
and thus userspace will in practice never see the warnings to push them to
switch to the new flags.

The original patchset[1] used pr_warn_ratelimited(), however there were
concerns about the degree of spam in the kernel log[2,3].  The resulting
inability to detect every case was flagged as an issue at the time[4].

While we could come up with an alternative rate-limiting scheme such as
only outputting the message if vm.memfd_noexec has been modified, or only
outputting the message once for a given task, these alternatives have
downsides that don't make sense given how low-stakes a single kernel
warning message is.  Switching to pr_info_ratelimited() instead should be
fine -- it's possible some monitoring tool will be unhappy with a stream
of warning-level messages but there's already plenty of info-level message
spam in dmesg.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20221215001205.51969-4-jeffxu@google.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/202212161233.85C9783FB@keescook/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/Y5yS8wCnuYGLHMj4@x1n/
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/f185bb42-b29c-977e-312e-3349eea15383@linuxfoundation.org/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814-memfd-vm-noexec-uapi-fixes-v2-3-7ff9e3e10ba6@cyphar.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memfd: replace ratcheting feature from vm.memfd_noexec with hierarchy</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>cyphar@cyphar.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T08:41:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9876cfe8ec1cb3c88de31f4d58d57b0e7e22bcc4 ]

This sysctl has the very unusual behaviour of not allowing any user (even
CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to reduce the restriction setting, meaning that if you were
to set this sysctl to a more restrictive option in the host pidns you
would need to reboot your machine in order to reset it.

The justification given in [1] is that this is a security feature and thus
it should not be possible to disable.  Aside from the fact that we have
plenty of security-related sysctls that can be disabled after being
enabled (fs.protected_symlinks for instance), the protection provided by
the sysctl is to stop users from being able to create a binary and then
execute it.  A user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can trivially do this without
memfd_create(2):

  % cat mount-memfd.c
  #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
  #include &lt;linux/mount.h&gt;

  #define SHELLCODE "#!/bin/echo this file was executed from this totally private tmpfs:"

  int main(void)
  {
  	int fsfd = fsopen("tmpfs", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
  	assert(fsfd &gt;= 0);
  	assert(!fsconfig(fsfd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 2));

  	int dfd = fsmount(fsfd, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, 0);
  	assert(dfd &gt;= 0);

  	int execfd = openat(dfd, "exe", O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC, 0782);
  	assert(execfd &gt;= 0);
  	assert(write(execfd, SHELLCODE, strlen(SHELLCODE)) == strlen(SHELLCODE));
  	assert(!close(execfd));

  	char *execpath = NULL;
  	char *argv[] = { "bad-exe", NULL }, *envp[] = { NULL };
  	execfd = openat(dfd, "exe", O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC);
  	assert(execfd &gt;= 0);
  	assert(asprintf(&amp;execpath, "/proc/self/fd/%d", execfd) &gt; 0);
  	assert(!execve(execpath, argv, envp));
  }
  % ./mount-memfd
  this file was executed from this totally private tmpfs: /proc/self/fd/5
  %

Given that it is possible for CAP_SYS_ADMIN users to create executable
binaries without memfd_create(2) and without touching the host filesystem
(not to mention the many other things a CAP_SYS_ADMIN process would be
able to do that would be equivalent or worse), it seems strange to cause a
fair amount of headache to admins when there doesn't appear to be an
actual security benefit to blocking this.  There appear to be concerns
about confused-deputy-esque attacks[2] but a confused deputy that can
write to arbitrary sysctls is a bigger security issue than executable
memfds.

/* New API */

The primary requirement from the original author appears to be more based
on the need to be able to restrict an entire system in a hierarchical
manner[3], such that child namespaces cannot re-enable executable memfds.

So, implement that behaviour explicitly -- the vm.memfd_noexec scope is
evaluated up the pidns tree to &amp;init_pid_ns and you have the most
restrictive value applied to you.  The new lower limit you can set
vm.memfd_noexec is whatever limit applies to your parent.

Note that a pidns will inherit a copy of the parent pidns's effective
vm.memfd_noexec setting at unshare() time.  This matches the existing
behaviour, and it also ensures that a pidns will never have its
vm.memfd_noexec setting *lowered* behind its back (but it will be raised
if the parent raises theirs).

/* Backwards Compatibility */

As the previous version of the sysctl didn't allow you to lower the
setting at all, there are no backwards compatibility issues with this
aspect of the change.

However it should be noted that now that the setting is completely
hierarchical.  Previously, a cloned pidns would just copy the current
pidns setting, meaning that if the parent's vm.memfd_noexec was changed it
wouldn't propoagate to existing pid namespaces.  Now, the restriction
applies recursively.  This is a uAPI change, however:

 * The sysctl is very new, having been merged in 6.3.
 * Several aspects of the sysctl were broken up until this patchset and
   the other patchset by Jeff Xu last month.

And thus it seems incredibly unlikely that any real users would run into
this issue. In the worst case, if this causes userspace isues we could
make it so that modifying the setting follows the hierarchical rules but
the restriction checking uses the cached copy.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/CABi2SkWnAgHK1i6iqSqPMYuNEhtHBkO8jUuCvmG3RmUB5TKHJw@mail.gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/CALmYWFs_dNCzw_pW1yRAo4bGCPEtykroEQaowNULp7svwMLjOg@mail.gmail.com/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/CALmYWFuahdUF7cT4cm7_TGLqPanuHXJ-hVSfZt7vpTnc18DPrw@mail.gmail.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814-memfd-vm-noexec-uapi-fixes-v2-4-7ff9e3e10ba6@cyphar.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9876cfe8ec1cb3c88de31f4d58d57b0e7e22bcc4 ]

This sysctl has the very unusual behaviour of not allowing any user (even
CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to reduce the restriction setting, meaning that if you were
to set this sysctl to a more restrictive option in the host pidns you
would need to reboot your machine in order to reset it.

The justification given in [1] is that this is a security feature and thus
it should not be possible to disable.  Aside from the fact that we have
plenty of security-related sysctls that can be disabled after being
enabled (fs.protected_symlinks for instance), the protection provided by
the sysctl is to stop users from being able to create a binary and then
execute it.  A user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can trivially do this without
memfd_create(2):

  % cat mount-memfd.c
  #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
  #include &lt;linux/mount.h&gt;

  #define SHELLCODE "#!/bin/echo this file was executed from this totally private tmpfs:"

  int main(void)
  {
  	int fsfd = fsopen("tmpfs", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
  	assert(fsfd &gt;= 0);
  	assert(!fsconfig(fsfd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 2));

  	int dfd = fsmount(fsfd, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, 0);
  	assert(dfd &gt;= 0);

  	int execfd = openat(dfd, "exe", O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC, 0782);
  	assert(execfd &gt;= 0);
  	assert(write(execfd, SHELLCODE, strlen(SHELLCODE)) == strlen(SHELLCODE));
  	assert(!close(execfd));

  	char *execpath = NULL;
  	char *argv[] = { "bad-exe", NULL }, *envp[] = { NULL };
  	execfd = openat(dfd, "exe", O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC);
  	assert(execfd &gt;= 0);
  	assert(asprintf(&amp;execpath, "/proc/self/fd/%d", execfd) &gt; 0);
  	assert(!execve(execpath, argv, envp));
  }
  % ./mount-memfd
  this file was executed from this totally private tmpfs: /proc/self/fd/5
  %

Given that it is possible for CAP_SYS_ADMIN users to create executable
binaries without memfd_create(2) and without touching the host filesystem
(not to mention the many other things a CAP_SYS_ADMIN process would be
able to do that would be equivalent or worse), it seems strange to cause a
fair amount of headache to admins when there doesn't appear to be an
actual security benefit to blocking this.  There appear to be concerns
about confused-deputy-esque attacks[2] but a confused deputy that can
write to arbitrary sysctls is a bigger security issue than executable
memfds.

/* New API */

The primary requirement from the original author appears to be more based
on the need to be able to restrict an entire system in a hierarchical
manner[3], such that child namespaces cannot re-enable executable memfds.

So, implement that behaviour explicitly -- the vm.memfd_noexec scope is
evaluated up the pidns tree to &amp;init_pid_ns and you have the most
restrictive value applied to you.  The new lower limit you can set
vm.memfd_noexec is whatever limit applies to your parent.

Note that a pidns will inherit a copy of the parent pidns's effective
vm.memfd_noexec setting at unshare() time.  This matches the existing
behaviour, and it also ensures that a pidns will never have its
vm.memfd_noexec setting *lowered* behind its back (but it will be raised
if the parent raises theirs).

/* Backwards Compatibility */

As the previous version of the sysctl didn't allow you to lower the
setting at all, there are no backwards compatibility issues with this
aspect of the change.

However it should be noted that now that the setting is completely
hierarchical.  Previously, a cloned pidns would just copy the current
pidns setting, meaning that if the parent's vm.memfd_noexec was changed it
wouldn't propoagate to existing pid namespaces.  Now, the restriction
applies recursively.  This is a uAPI change, however:

 * The sysctl is very new, having been merged in 6.3.
 * Several aspects of the sysctl were broken up until this patchset and
   the other patchset by Jeff Xu last month.

And thus it seems incredibly unlikely that any real users would run into
this issue. In the worst case, if this causes userspace isues we could
make it so that modifying the setting follows the hierarchical rules but
the restriction checking uses the cached copy.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/CABi2SkWnAgHK1i6iqSqPMYuNEhtHBkO8jUuCvmG3RmUB5TKHJw@mail.gmail.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/CALmYWFs_dNCzw_pW1yRAo4bGCPEtykroEQaowNULp7svwMLjOg@mail.gmail.com/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/CALmYWFuahdUF7cT4cm7_TGLqPanuHXJ-hVSfZt7vpTnc18DPrw@mail.gmail.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814-memfd-vm-noexec-uapi-fixes-v2-4-7ff9e3e10ba6@cyphar.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memfd: do not -EACCES old memfd_create() users with vm.memfd_noexec=2</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>cyphar@cyphar.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T08:40:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 202e14222fadb246dfdf182e67de1518e86a1e20 ]

Given the difficulty of auditing all of userspace to figure out whether
every memfd_create() user has switched to passing MFD_EXEC and
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL flags, it seems far less distruptive to make it possible
for older programs that don't make use of executable memfds to run under
vm.memfd_noexec=2.  Otherwise, a small dependency change can result in
spurious errors.  For programs that don't use executable memfds, passing
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL is functionally a no-op and thus having the same

In addition, every failure under vm.memfd_noexec=2 needs to print to the
kernel log so that userspace can figure out where the error came from.
The concerns about pr_warn_ratelimited() spam that caused the switch to
pr_warn_once()[1,2] do not apply to the vm.memfd_noexec=2 case.

This is a user-visible API change, but as it allows programs to do
something that would be blocked before, and the sysctl itself was broken
and recently released, it seems unlikely this will cause any issues.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/Y5yS8wCnuYGLHMj4@x1n/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/202212161233.85C9783FB@keescook/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814-memfd-vm-noexec-uapi-fixes-v2-2-7ff9e3e10ba6@cyphar.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 202e14222fadb246dfdf182e67de1518e86a1e20 ]

Given the difficulty of auditing all of userspace to figure out whether
every memfd_create() user has switched to passing MFD_EXEC and
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL flags, it seems far less distruptive to make it possible
for older programs that don't make use of executable memfds to run under
vm.memfd_noexec=2.  Otherwise, a small dependency change can result in
spurious errors.  For programs that don't use executable memfds, passing
MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL is functionally a no-op and thus having the same

In addition, every failure under vm.memfd_noexec=2 needs to print to the
kernel log so that userspace can figure out where the error came from.
The concerns about pr_warn_ratelimited() spam that caused the switch to
pr_warn_once()[1,2] do not apply to the vm.memfd_noexec=2 case.

This is a user-visible API change, but as it allows programs to do
something that would be blocked before, and the sysctl itself was broken
and recently released, it seems unlikely this will cause any issues.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/Y5yS8wCnuYGLHMj4@x1n/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/202212161233.85C9783FB@keescook/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814-memfd-vm-noexec-uapi-fixes-v2-2-7ff9e3e10ba6@cyphar.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memfd: sysctl: fix MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Xu</name>
<email>jeffxu@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-05T06:33:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4f417bb14ced2be52c8089b80615767c30cafd77'/>
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[ Upstream commit 72de259130229412ca49871e70ffaf17dc9fba98 ]

Patch series "mm/memfd: fix sysctl MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED", v2.

When sysctl vm.memfd_noexec is 2 (MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED),
memfd_create(.., MFD_EXEC) should fail.

This complies with how MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED is defined -
"memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected"

Thanks to Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt; who reported the bug.
see [1] for context.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABi2SkXUX_QqTQ10Yx9bBUGpN1wByOi_=gZU6WEy5a8MaQY3Jw@mail.gmail.com/T/

This patch (of 2):

When vm.memfd_noexec is 2 (MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED),
memfd_create(.., MFD_EXEC) should fail.

This complies with how MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED is
defined - "memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230705063315.3680666-1-jeffxu@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230705063315.3680666-2-jeffxu@google.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Reported-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABi2SkXUX_QqTQ10Yx9bBUGpN1wByOi_=gZU6WEy5a8MaQY3Jw@mail.gmail.com/T/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202306301351.kkbSegQW-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 202e14222fad ("memfd: do not -EACCES old memfd_create() users with vm.memfd_noexec=2")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 72de259130229412ca49871e70ffaf17dc9fba98 ]

Patch series "mm/memfd: fix sysctl MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED", v2.

When sysctl vm.memfd_noexec is 2 (MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED),
memfd_create(.., MFD_EXEC) should fail.

This complies with how MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED is defined -
"memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected"

Thanks to Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt; who reported the bug.
see [1] for context.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABi2SkXUX_QqTQ10Yx9bBUGpN1wByOi_=gZU6WEy5a8MaQY3Jw@mail.gmail.com/T/

This patch (of 2):

When vm.memfd_noexec is 2 (MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED),
memfd_create(.., MFD_EXEC) should fail.

This complies with how MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED is
defined - "memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected"

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230705063315.3680666-1-jeffxu@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230705063315.3680666-2-jeffxu@google.com
Fixes: 105ff5339f49 ("mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC")
Reported-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABi2SkXUX_QqTQ10Yx9bBUGpN1wByOi_=gZU6WEy5a8MaQY3Jw@mail.gmail.com/T/
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202306301351.kkbSegQW-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu &lt;jeffxu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Verkamp &lt;dverkamp@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 202e14222fad ("memfd: do not -EACCES old memfd_create() users with vm.memfd_noexec=2")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vmalloc: add a safer version of find_vm_area() for debug</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-04T18:08:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ab8eda202ecf4d4f413a1d6e0e45ab6775b0ae2b'/>
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commit 0818e739b5c061b0251c30152380600fb9b84c0c upstream.

It is unsafe to dump vmalloc area information when trying to do so from
some contexts.  Add a safer trylock version of the same function to do a
best-effort VMA finding and use it from vmalloc_dump_obj().

[applied test robot feedback on unused function fix.]
[applied Uladzislau feedback on locking.]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230904180806.1002832-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Fixes: 98f180837a89 ("mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory")
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0818e739b5c061b0251c30152380600fb9b84c0c upstream.

It is unsafe to dump vmalloc area information when trying to do so from
some contexts.  Add a safer trylock version of the same function to do a
best-effort VMA finding and use it from vmalloc_dump_obj().

[applied test robot feedback on unused function fix.]
[applied Uladzislau feedback on locking.]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230904180806.1002832-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Fixes: 98f180837a89 ("mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory")
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-04T18:08:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8fb1601ec0a2c4c34fc2170af767e5c2a6400573'/>
<id>8fb1601ec0a2c4c34fc2170af767e5c2a6400573</id>
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commit c83ad36a18c02c0f51280b50272327807916987f upstream.

Currently, for double invoke call_rcu(), will dump rcu_head objects memory
info, if the objects is not allocated from the slab allocator, the
vmalloc_dump_obj() will be invoke and the vmap_area_lock spinlock need to
be held, since the call_rcu() can be invoked in interrupt context,
therefore, there is a possibility of spinlock deadlock scenarios.

And in Preempt-RT kernel, the rcutorture test also trigger the following
lockdep warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
 #0: ffffffffb534ee80 (fullstop_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: torture_init_begin+0x24/0xa0
 #1: ffffffffb5307940 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_torture_init+0x1ec7/0x2370
 #2: ffffffffb536af40 (vmap_area_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
irq event stamp: 565512
hardirqs last  enabled at (565511): [&lt;ffffffffb379b138&gt;] __call_rcu_common+0x218/0x940
hardirqs last disabled at (565512): [&lt;ffffffffb5804262&gt;] rcu_torture_init+0x20b2/0x2370
softirqs last  enabled at (399112): [&lt;ffffffffb36b2586&gt;] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x126/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (399106): [&lt;ffffffffb43fef59&gt;] inet_register_protosw+0x9/0x1d0
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffffffffb58040c3&gt;] rcu_torture_init+0x1f13/0x2370
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.5.0-rc4-rt2-yocto-preempt-rt+ #15
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xb0
 dump_stack+0x14/0x20
 __might_resched+0x1aa/0x280
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_err_cb+0x10/0x10
 rt_spin_lock+0x53/0x130
 ? find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 vmalloc_dump_obj+0x20/0x60
 mem_dump_obj+0x22/0x90
 __call_rcu_common+0x5bf/0x940
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 call_rcu_hurry+0x14/0x20
 rcu_torture_init+0x1f82/0x2370
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_init+0x10/0x10
 do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x300
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 kernel_init_freeable+0x2b9/0x540
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x40/0x50
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

The previous patch fixes this by using the deadlock-safe best-effort
version of find_vm_area.  However, in case of failure print the fact that
the pointer was a vmalloc pointer so that we print at least something.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230904180806.1002832-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Fixes: 98f180837a89 ("mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c83ad36a18c02c0f51280b50272327807916987f upstream.

Currently, for double invoke call_rcu(), will dump rcu_head objects memory
info, if the objects is not allocated from the slab allocator, the
vmalloc_dump_obj() will be invoke and the vmap_area_lock spinlock need to
be held, since the call_rcu() can be invoked in interrupt context,
therefore, there is a possibility of spinlock deadlock scenarios.

And in Preempt-RT kernel, the rcutorture test also trigger the following
lockdep warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
 #0: ffffffffb534ee80 (fullstop_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: torture_init_begin+0x24/0xa0
 #1: ffffffffb5307940 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_torture_init+0x1ec7/0x2370
 #2: ffffffffb536af40 (vmap_area_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
irq event stamp: 565512
hardirqs last  enabled at (565511): [&lt;ffffffffb379b138&gt;] __call_rcu_common+0x218/0x940
hardirqs last disabled at (565512): [&lt;ffffffffb5804262&gt;] rcu_torture_init+0x20b2/0x2370
softirqs last  enabled at (399112): [&lt;ffffffffb36b2586&gt;] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x126/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (399106): [&lt;ffffffffb43fef59&gt;] inet_register_protosw+0x9/0x1d0
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffffffffb58040c3&gt;] rcu_torture_init+0x1f13/0x2370
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.5.0-rc4-rt2-yocto-preempt-rt+ #15
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xb0
 dump_stack+0x14/0x20
 __might_resched+0x1aa/0x280
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_err_cb+0x10/0x10
 rt_spin_lock+0x53/0x130
 ? find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 vmalloc_dump_obj+0x20/0x60
 mem_dump_obj+0x22/0x90
 __call_rcu_common+0x5bf/0x940
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 call_rcu_hurry+0x14/0x20
 rcu_torture_init+0x1f82/0x2370
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_init+0x10/0x10
 do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x300
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 kernel_init_freeable+0x2b9/0x540
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x40/0x50
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

The previous patch fixes this by using the deadlock-safe best-effort
version of find_vm_area.  However, in case of failure print the fact that
the pointer was a vmalloc pointer so that we print at least something.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230904180806.1002832-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Fixes: 98f180837a89 ("mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Multi-gen LRU: fix per-zone reclaim</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kalesh Singh</name>
<email>kaleshsingh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-02T02:56:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6b171ad315005a90541bce8c18748f1631cd4ff8'/>
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commit 669281ee7ef731fb5204df9d948669bf32a5e68d upstream.

MGLRU has a LRU list for each zone for each type (anon/file) in each
generation:

	long nr_pages[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES];

The min_seq (oldest generation) can progress independently for each
type but the max_seq (youngest generation) is shared for both anon and
file. This is to maintain a common frame of reference.

In order for eviction to advance the min_seq of a type, all the per-zone
lists in the oldest generation of that type must be empty.

The eviction logic only considers pages from eligible zones for
eviction or promotion.

    scan_folios() {
	...
	for (zone = sc-&gt;reclaim_idx; zone &gt;= 0; zone--)  {
	    ...
	    sort_folio(); 	// Promote
	    ...
	    isolate_folio(); 	// Evict
	}
	...
    }

Consider the system has the movable zone configured and default 4
generations. The current state of the system is as shown below
(only illustrating one type for simplicity):

Type: ANON

	Zone    DMA32     Normal    Movable    Device

	Gen 0       0          0        4GB         0

	Gen 1       0        1GB        1MB         0

	Gen 2     1MB        4GB        1MB         0

	Gen 3     1MB        1MB        1MB         0

Now consider there is a GFP_KERNEL allocation request (eligible zone
index &lt;= Normal), evict_folios() will return without doing any work
since there are no pages to scan in the eligible zones of the oldest
generation. Reclaim won't make progress until triggered from a ZONE_MOVABLE
allocation request; which may not happen soon if there is a lot of free
memory in the movable zone. This can lead to OOM kills, although there
is 1GB pages in the Normal zone of Gen 1 that we have not yet tried to
reclaim.

This issue is not seen in the conventional active/inactive LRU since
there are no per-zone lists.

If there are no (not enough) folios to scan in the eligible zones, move
folios from ineligible zone (zone_index &gt; reclaim_index) to the next
generation. This allows for the progression of min_seq and reclaiming
from the next generation (Gen 1).

Qualcomm, Mediatek and raspberrypi [1] discovered this issue independently.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5395

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802025606.346758-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Fixes: ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla &lt;quic_charante@quicinc.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Tested-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno &lt;angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com&gt; [mediatek]
Tested-by: Charan Teja Kalla &lt;quic_charante@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) &lt;heftig@archlinux.org&gt;
Cc: Matthias Brugger &lt;matthias.bgg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Barrett &lt;steven@liquorix.net&gt;
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 669281ee7ef731fb5204df9d948669bf32a5e68d upstream.

MGLRU has a LRU list for each zone for each type (anon/file) in each
generation:

	long nr_pages[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES];

The min_seq (oldest generation) can progress independently for each
type but the max_seq (youngest generation) is shared for both anon and
file. This is to maintain a common frame of reference.

In order for eviction to advance the min_seq of a type, all the per-zone
lists in the oldest generation of that type must be empty.

The eviction logic only considers pages from eligible zones for
eviction or promotion.

    scan_folios() {
	...
	for (zone = sc-&gt;reclaim_idx; zone &gt;= 0; zone--)  {
	    ...
	    sort_folio(); 	// Promote
	    ...
	    isolate_folio(); 	// Evict
	}
	...
    }

Consider the system has the movable zone configured and default 4
generations. The current state of the system is as shown below
(only illustrating one type for simplicity):

Type: ANON

	Zone    DMA32     Normal    Movable    Device

	Gen 0       0          0        4GB         0

	Gen 1       0        1GB        1MB         0

	Gen 2     1MB        4GB        1MB         0

	Gen 3     1MB        1MB        1MB         0

Now consider there is a GFP_KERNEL allocation request (eligible zone
index &lt;= Normal), evict_folios() will return without doing any work
since there are no pages to scan in the eligible zones of the oldest
generation. Reclaim won't make progress until triggered from a ZONE_MOVABLE
allocation request; which may not happen soon if there is a lot of free
memory in the movable zone. This can lead to OOM kills, although there
is 1GB pages in the Normal zone of Gen 1 that we have not yet tried to
reclaim.

This issue is not seen in the conventional active/inactive LRU since
there are no per-zone lists.

If there are no (not enough) folios to scan in the eligible zones, move
folios from ineligible zone (zone_index &gt; reclaim_index) to the next
generation. This allows for the progression of min_seq and reclaiming
from the next generation (Gen 1).

Qualcomm, Mediatek and raspberrypi [1] discovered this issue independently.

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5395

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802025606.346758-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Fixes: ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla &lt;quic_charante@quicinc.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lecopzer Chen &lt;lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com&gt;
Tested-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno &lt;angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com&gt; [mediatek]
Tested-by: Charan Teja Kalla &lt;quic_charante@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) &lt;heftig@archlinux.org&gt;
Cc: Matthias Brugger &lt;matthias.bgg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Cc: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Barrett &lt;steven@liquorix.net&gt;
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal &lt;suleiman@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm/pagewalk: fix bootstopping regression from extra pte_unmap()</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-02T15:29:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ee40d543e97d23d3392d8fb1ec9972eb4e9c7611 ]

Mikhail reports early-6.6-based Fedora Rawhide not booting: "rcu_preempt
detected expedited stalls", minutes wait, and then hung_task splat while
kworker trying to synchronize_rcu_expedited().  Nothing logged to disk.

He bisected to my 6.6 a349d72fd9ef ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock()s"): but the one to blame is my 6.5 commit to fix the
espfix "bad pmd" warnings when booting x86_64 with CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y.

Gaah, that added an "addr &gt;= TASK_SIZE" check to avoid pte_offset_map(),
but failed to add the equivalent check when choosing to pte_unmap().

It's not a problem on 6.5 (for different reasons, it's harmless on both
64-bit and 32-bit), but becomes a bootstopper on 6.6 with the unbalanced
rcu_read_unlock() - RCU has a WARN_ON_ONCE for that, but it would have
scrolled off Mikhail's console too quickly.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABXGCsNi8Tiv5zUPNXr6UJw6qV1VdaBEfGqEAMkkXE3QPvZuAQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 8b1cb4a2e819 ("mm/pagewalk: fix EFI_PGT_DUMP of espfix area")
Fixes: a349d72fd9ef ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ee40d543e97d23d3392d8fb1ec9972eb4e9c7611 ]

Mikhail reports early-6.6-based Fedora Rawhide not booting: "rcu_preempt
detected expedited stalls", minutes wait, and then hung_task splat while
kworker trying to synchronize_rcu_expedited().  Nothing logged to disk.

He bisected to my 6.6 a349d72fd9ef ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock()s"): but the one to blame is my 6.5 commit to fix the
espfix "bad pmd" warnings when booting x86_64 with CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y.

Gaah, that added an "addr &gt;= TASK_SIZE" check to avoid pte_offset_map(),
but failed to add the equivalent check when choosing to pte_unmap().

It's not a problem on 6.5 (for different reasons, it's harmless on both
64-bit and 32-bit), but becomes a bootstopper on 6.6 with the unbalanced
rcu_read_unlock() - RCU has a WARN_ON_ONCE for that, but it would have
scrolled off Mikhail's console too quickly.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABXGCsNi8Tiv5zUPNXr6UJw6qV1VdaBEfGqEAMkkXE3QPvZuAQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 8b1cb4a2e819 ("mm/pagewalk: fix EFI_PGT_DUMP of espfix area")
Fixes: a349d72fd9ef ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov &lt;mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net-memcg: Fix scope of sockmem pressure indicators</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:53:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Abel Wu</name>
<email>wuyun.abel@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-14T07:09:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ac8a52962164a50e693fa021d3564d7745b83a7f ]

Now there are two indicators of socket memory pressure sit inside
struct mem_cgroup, socket_pressure and tcpmem_pressure, indicating
memory reclaim pressure in memcg-&gt;memory and -&gt;tcpmem respectively.

When in legacy mode (cgroupv1), the socket memory is charged into
-&gt;tcpmem which is independent of -&gt;memory, so socket_pressure has
nothing to do with socket's pressure at all. Things could be worse
by taking socket_pressure into consideration in legacy mode, as a
pressure in -&gt;memory can lead to premature reclamation/throttling
in socket.

While for the default mode (cgroupv2), the socket memory is charged
into -&gt;memory, and -&gt;tcpmem/-&gt;tcpmem_pressure are simply not used.

So {socket,tcpmem}_pressure are only used in default/legacy mode
respectively for indicating socket memory pressure. This patch fixes
the pieces of code that make mixed use of both.

Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu &lt;wuyun.abel@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ac8a52962164a50e693fa021d3564d7745b83a7f ]

Now there are two indicators of socket memory pressure sit inside
struct mem_cgroup, socket_pressure and tcpmem_pressure, indicating
memory reclaim pressure in memcg-&gt;memory and -&gt;tcpmem respectively.

When in legacy mode (cgroupv1), the socket memory is charged into
-&gt;tcpmem which is independent of -&gt;memory, so socket_pressure has
nothing to do with socket's pressure at all. Things could be worse
by taking socket_pressure into consideration in legacy mode, as a
pressure in -&gt;memory can lead to premature reclamation/throttling
in socket.

While for the default mode (cgroupv2), the socket memory is charged
into -&gt;memory, and -&gt;tcpmem/-&gt;tcpmem_pressure are simply not used.

So {socket,tcpmem}_pressure are only used in default/legacy mode
respectively for indicating socket memory pressure. This patch fixes
the pieces of code that make mixed use of both.

Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
Signed-off-by: Abel Wu &lt;wuyun.abel@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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