linux.git/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, branch v4.14 Linux kernel source tree License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org 2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00 b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13T19:38:49+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-07-13T19:38:49+00:00 ad51271afc21a72479974713abb40ca4b96d1f6b Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - various misc things - kexec updates - sysctl core updates - scripts/gdb udpates - checkpoint-restart updates - ipc updates - kernel/watchdog updates - Kees's "rough equivalent to the glibc _FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 feature" - "stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary" - more MM bits - checkpatch updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (96 commits) writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions ARM: samsung: usb-ohci: move inline before return type video: fbdev: omap: move inline before return type video: fbdev: intelfb: move inline before return type USB: serial: safe_serial: move __inline__ before return type drivers: tty: serial: move inline before return type drivers: s390: move static and inline before return type x86/efi: move asmlinkage before return type sh: move inline before return type MIPS: SMP: move asmlinkage before return type m68k: coldfire: move inline before return type ia64: sn: pci: move inline before type ia64: move inline before return type FRV: tlbflush: move asmlinkage before return type CRIS: gpio: move inline before return type ARM: HP Jornada 7XX: move inline before return type ARM: KVM: move asmlinkage before type checkpatch: improve the STORAGE_CLASS test mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory drm/i915: use __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL ... 
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

- various misc things

- kexec updates

- sysctl core updates

- scripts/gdb udpates

- checkpoint-restart updates

- ipc updates

- kernel/watchdog updates

- Kees's "rough equivalent to the glibc _FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 feature"

- "stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary"

- more MM bits

- checkpatch updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (96 commits)
  writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions
  ARM: samsung: usb-ohci: move inline before return type
  video: fbdev: omap: move inline before return type
  video: fbdev: intelfb: move inline before return type
  USB: serial: safe_serial: move __inline__ before return type
  drivers: tty: serial: move inline before return type
  drivers: s390: move static and inline before return type
  x86/efi: move asmlinkage before return type
  sh: move inline before return type
  MIPS: SMP: move asmlinkage before return type
  m68k: coldfire: move inline before return type
  ia64: sn: pci: move inline before type
  ia64: move inline before return type
  FRV: tlbflush: move asmlinkage before return type
  CRIS: gpio: move inline before return type
  ARM: HP Jornada 7XX: move inline before return type
  ARM: KVM: move asmlinkage before type
  checkpatch: improve the STORAGE_CLASS test
  mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory
  drm/i915: use __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
  ...
sysctl: add unsigned int range support 2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00 Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@kernel.org 2017-07-12T21:33:40+00:00 61d9b56a89208d8cccd0b4cfec7e6959717e16e3 To keep parity with regular int interfaces provide the an unsigned int proc_douintvec_minmax() which allows you to specify a range of allowed valid numbers. Adding proc_douintvec_minmax_sysadmin() is easy but we can wait for an actual user for that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-6-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
To keep parity with regular int interfaces provide the an unsigned int
proc_douintvec_minmax() which allows you to specify a range of allowed
valid numbers.

Adding proc_douintvec_minmax_sysadmin() is easy but we can wait for an
actual user for that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sysctl: simplify unsigned int support 2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00 Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@kernel.org 2017-07-12T21:33:36+00:00 4f2fec00afa60aa8e5d1b7f2a8e0526900f55623 Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") added proc_douintvec() to start help adding support for unsigned int, this however was only half the work needed. Two fixes have come in since then for the following issues: o Printing the values shows a negative value, this happens since do_proc_dointvec() and this uses proc_put_long() This was fixed by commit 5380e5644afbba9 ("sysctl: don't print negative flag for proc_douintvec"). o We can easily wrap around the int values: UINT_MAX is 4294967295, if we echo in 4294967295 + 1 we end up with 0, using 4294967295 + 2 we end up with 1. o We echo negative values in and they are accepted This was fixed by commit 425fffd886ba ("sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec"). It still also failed to be added to sysctl_check_table()... instead of adding it with the current implementation just provide a proper and simplified unsigned int support without any array unsigned int support with no negative support at all. Historically sysctl proc helpers have supported arrays, due to the complexity this adds though we've taken a step back to evaluate array users to determine if its worth upkeeping for unsigned int. An evaluation using Coccinelle has been done to perform a grammatical search to ask ourselves: o How many sysctl proc_dointvec() (int) users exist which likely should be moved over to proc_douintvec() (unsigned int) ? Answer: about 8 - Of these how many are array users ? Answer: Probably only 1 o How many sysctl array users exist ? Answer: about 12 This last question gives us an idea just how popular arrays: they are not. Array support should probably just be kept for strings. The identified uint ports are: drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c - max_backlog drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c - default_backlog net/core/sysctl_net_core.c - rps_sock_flow_sysctl() net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c - nf_conntrack_timestamp -- bool net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.c nf_conntrack_acct -- bool net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c - nf_conntrack_events -- bool net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c - nf_conntrack_helper -- bool net/phonet/sysctl.c proc_local_port_range() The only possible array users is proc_local_port_range() but it does not seem worth it to add array support just for this given the range support works just as well. Unsigned int support should be desirable more for when you *need* more than INT_MAX or using int min/max support then does not suffice for your ranges. If you forget and by mistake happen to register an unsigned int proc entry with an array, the driver will fail and you will get something as follows: sysctl table check failed: debug/test_sysctl//uint_0002 array now allowed CPU: 2 PID: 1342 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W E <etc> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS <etc> Call Trace: dump_stack+0x63/0x81 __register_sysctl_table+0x350/0x650 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240 __register_sysctl_paths+0x1b3/0x1e0 ? 0xffffffffc005f000 register_sysctl_table+0x1f/0x30 test_sysctl_init+0x10/0x1000 [test_sysctl] do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1a0 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240 do_init_module+0x5f/0x200 load_module+0x1867/0x1bd0 ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60 SYSC_finit_module+0xdf/0x110 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad RIP: 0033:0x7f042b22d119 <etc> Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-5-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32
fields") added proc_douintvec() to start help adding support for
unsigned int, this however was only half the work needed.  Two fixes
have come in since then for the following issues:

  o Printing the values shows a negative value, this happens since
    do_proc_dointvec() and this uses proc_put_long()

This was fixed by commit 5380e5644afbba9 ("sysctl: don't print negative
flag for proc_douintvec").

  o We can easily wrap around the int values: UINT_MAX is 4294967295, if
    we echo in 4294967295 + 1 we end up with 0, using 4294967295 + 2 we
    end up with 1.
  o We echo negative values in and they are accepted

This was fixed by commit 425fffd886ba ("sysctl: report EINVAL if value
is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec").

It still also failed to be added to sysctl_check_table()...  instead of
adding it with the current implementation just provide a proper and
simplified unsigned int support without any array unsigned int support
with no negative support at all.

Historically sysctl proc helpers have supported arrays, due to the
complexity this adds though we've taken a step back to evaluate array
users to determine if its worth upkeeping for unsigned int.  An
evaluation using Coccinelle has been done to perform a grammatical
search to ask ourselves:

  o How many sysctl proc_dointvec() (int) users exist which likely
    should be moved over to proc_douintvec() (unsigned int) ?
	Answer: about 8
	- Of these how many are array users ?
		Answer: Probably only 1
  o How many sysctl array users exist ?
	Answer: about 12

This last question gives us an idea just how popular arrays: they are not.
Array support should probably just be kept for strings.

The identified uint ports are:

  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c - max_backlog
  drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c - default_backlog
  net/core/sysctl_net_core.c - rps_sock_flow_sysctl()
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c - nf_conntrack_timestamp -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.c nf_conntrack_acct -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c - nf_conntrack_events -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c - nf_conntrack_helper -- bool
  net/phonet/sysctl.c proc_local_port_range()

The only possible array users is proc_local_port_range() but it does not
seem worth it to add array support just for this given the range support
works just as well.  Unsigned int support should be desirable more for
when you *need* more than INT_MAX or using int min/max support then does
not suffice for your ranges.

If you forget and by mistake happen to register an unsigned int proc
entry with an array, the driver will fail and you will get something as
follows:

sysctl table check failed: debug/test_sysctl//uint_0002 array now allowed
CPU: 2 PID: 1342 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W   E <etc>
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS <etc>
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x63/0x81
 __register_sysctl_table+0x350/0x650
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240
 __register_sysctl_paths+0x1b3/0x1e0
 ? 0xffffffffc005f000
 register_sysctl_table+0x1f/0x30
 test_sysctl_init+0x10/0x1000 [test_sysctl]
 do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1a0
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240
 do_init_module+0x5f/0x200
 load_module+0x1867/0x1bd0
 ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60
 SYSC_finit_module+0xdf/0x110
 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
RIP: 0033:0x7f042b22d119
<etc>

Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-5-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sysctl: fix lax sysctl_check_table() sanity check 2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00 Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@kernel.org 2017-07-12T21:33:27+00:00 89c5b53b16bf577079d4f0311406dbea3c71202c Patch series "sysctl: few fixes", v5. I've been working on making kmod more deterministic, and as I did that I couldn't help but notice a few issues with sysctl. My end goal was just to fix unsigned int support, which back then was completely broken. Liping Zhang has sent up small atomic fixes, however it still missed yet one more fix and Alexey Dobriyan had also suggested to just drop array support given its complexity. I have inspected array support using Coccinelle and indeed its not that popular, so if in fact we can avoid it for new interfaces, I agree its best. I did develop a sysctl stress driver but will hold that off for another series. This patch (of 5): Commit 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks") improved sanity checks considerbly, however the enhancements on sysctl_check_table() meant adding a functional change so that only the last table entry's sanity error is propagated. It also changed the way errors were propagated so that each new check reset the err value, this means only last sanity check computed is used for an error. This has been in the kernel since v3.4 days. Fix this by carrying on errors from previous checks and iterations as we traverse the table and ensuring we keep any error from previous checks. We keep iterating on the table even if an error is found so we can complain for all errors found in one shot. This works as -EINVAL is always returned on error anyway, and the check for error is any non-zero value. Fixes: 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Patch series "sysctl: few fixes", v5.

I've been working on making kmod more deterministic, and as I did that I
couldn't help but notice a few issues with sysctl.  My end goal was just
to fix unsigned int support, which back then was completely broken.
Liping Zhang has sent up small atomic fixes, however it still missed yet
one more fix and Alexey Dobriyan had also suggested to just drop array
support given its complexity.

I have inspected array support using Coccinelle and indeed its not that
popular, so if in fact we can avoid it for new interfaces, I agree its
best.

I did develop a sysctl stress driver but will hold that off for another
series.

This patch (of 5):

Commit 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks")
improved sanity checks considerbly, however the enhancements on
sysctl_check_table() meant adding a functional change so that only the
last table entry's sanity error is propagated.  It also changed the way
errors were propagated so that each new check reset the err value, this
means only last sanity check computed is used for an error.  This has
been in the kernel since v3.4 days.

Fix this by carrying on errors from previous checks and iterations as we
traverse the table and ensuring we keep any error from previous checks.
We keep iterating on the table even if an error is found so we can
complain for all errors found in one shot.  This works as -EINVAL is
always returned on error anyway, and the check for error is any non-zero
value.

Fixes: 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-2-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference 2017-07-11T16:01:24+00:00 Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com 2017-07-06T13:41:06+00:00 2fd1d2c4ceb2248a727696962cf3370dc9f5a0a4 Andrei Vagin writes: FYI: This bug has been reproduced on 4.11.7 > BUG: Dentry ffff895a3dd01240{i=4e7c09a,n=lo} still in use (1) [unmount of proc proc] > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 13588 at fs/dcache.c:1445 umount_check+0x6e/0x80 > CPU: 1 PID: 13588 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.11.7-200.fc25.x86_64 #1 > Hardware name: CompuLab sbc-flt1/fitlet, BIOS SBCFLT_0.08.04 06/27/2015 > Workqueue: events proc_cleanup_work > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x63/0x86 > __warn+0xcb/0xf0 > warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 > umount_check+0x6e/0x80 > d_walk+0xc6/0x270 > ? dentry_free+0x80/0x80 > do_one_tree+0x26/0x40 > shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2d/0x90 > generic_shutdown_super+0x1f/0xf0 > kill_anon_super+0x12/0x20 > proc_kill_sb+0x40/0x50 > deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70 > deactivate_super+0x5a/0x60 > cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90 > mntput_no_expire+0x13b/0x190 > kern_unmount+0x3e/0x50 > pid_ns_release_proc+0x15/0x20 > proc_cleanup_work+0x15/0x20 > process_one_work+0x197/0x450 > worker_thread+0x4e/0x4a0 > kthread+0x109/0x140 > ? process_one_work+0x450/0x450 > ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 > ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 > ---[ end trace e1c109611e5d0b41 ]--- > VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of proc. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > IP: _raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x30 > PGD 0 Fix this by taking a reference to the super block in proc_sys_prune_dcache. The superblock reference is the core of the fix however the sysctl_inodes list is converted to a hlist so that hlist_del_init_rcu may be used. This allows proc_sys_prune_dache to remove inodes the sysctl_inodes list, while not causing problems for proc_sys_evict_inode when if it later choses to remove the inode from the sysctl_inodes list. Removing inodes from the sysctl_inodes list allows proc_sys_prune_dcache to have a progress guarantee, while still being able to drop all locks. The fact that head->unregistering is set in start_unregistering ensures that no more inodes will be added to the the sysctl_inodes list. Previously the code did a dance where it delayed calling iput until the next entry in the list was being considered to ensure the inode remained on the sysctl_inodes list until the next entry was walked to. The structure of the loop in this patch does not need that so is much easier to understand and maintain. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.") Fixes: d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> 
Andrei Vagin writes:
FYI: This bug has been reproduced on 4.11.7
> BUG: Dentry ffff895a3dd01240{i=4e7c09a,n=lo}  still in use (1) [unmount of proc proc]
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 13588 at fs/dcache.c:1445 umount_check+0x6e/0x80
> CPU: 1 PID: 13588 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.11.7-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
> Hardware name: CompuLab sbc-flt1/fitlet, BIOS SBCFLT_0.08.04 06/27/2015
> Workqueue: events proc_cleanup_work
> Call Trace:
>  dump_stack+0x63/0x86
>  __warn+0xcb/0xf0
>  warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
>  umount_check+0x6e/0x80
>  d_walk+0xc6/0x270
>  ? dentry_free+0x80/0x80
>  do_one_tree+0x26/0x40
>  shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2d/0x90
>  generic_shutdown_super+0x1f/0xf0
>  kill_anon_super+0x12/0x20
>  proc_kill_sb+0x40/0x50
>  deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70
>  deactivate_super+0x5a/0x60
>  cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90
>  mntput_no_expire+0x13b/0x190
>  kern_unmount+0x3e/0x50
>  pid_ns_release_proc+0x15/0x20
>  proc_cleanup_work+0x15/0x20
>  process_one_work+0x197/0x450
>  worker_thread+0x4e/0x4a0
>  kthread+0x109/0x140
>  ? process_one_work+0x450/0x450
>  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
>  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
> ---[ end trace e1c109611e5d0b41 ]---
> VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of proc. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
> IP: _raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x30
> PGD 0

Fix this by taking a reference to the super block in proc_sys_prune_dcache.

The superblock reference is the core of the fix however the sysctl_inodes
list is converted to a hlist so that hlist_del_init_rcu may be used.  This
allows proc_sys_prune_dache to remove inodes the sysctl_inodes list, while
not causing problems for proc_sys_evict_inode when if it later choses to
remove the inode from the sysctl_inodes list.  Removing inodes from the
sysctl_inodes list allows proc_sys_prune_dcache to have a progress
guarantee, while still being able to drop all locks.  The fact that
head->unregistering is set in start_unregistering ensures that no more
inodes will be added to the the sysctl_inodes list.

Previously the code did a dance where it delayed calling iput until the
next entry in the list was being considered to ensure the inode remained on
the sysctl_inodes list until the next entry was walked to.  The structure
of the loop in this patch does not need that so is much easier to
understand and maintain.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.")
Fixes: d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-05-05T18:08:43+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-05-05T18:08:43+00:00 e579dde654fc2c6b0d3e4b77a9a4b2d2405c510e Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman: "This is a set of small fixes that were mostly stumbled over during more significant development. This proc fix and the fix to posix-timers are the most significant of the lot. There is a lot of good development going on but unfortunately it didn't quite make the merge window" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers signal: Make kill_proc_info static rlimit: Properly call security_task_setrlimit signal: Remove unused definition of sig_user_definied ia64: Remove unused IA64_TASK_SIGHAND_OFFSET and IA64_SIGHAND_SIGLOCK_OFFSET ipc: Remove unused declaration of recompute_msgmni posix-timers: Correct sanity check in posix_cpu_nsleep sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root 
Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a set of small fixes that were mostly stumbled over during
  more significant development. This proc fix and the fix to
  posix-timers are the most significant of the lot.

  There is a lot of good development going on but unfortunately it
  didn't quite make the merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers
  signal: Make kill_proc_info static
  rlimit: Properly call security_task_setrlimit
  signal: Remove unused definition of sig_user_definied
  ia64: Remove unused IA64_TASK_SIGHAND_OFFSET and IA64_SIGHAND_SIGLOCK_OFFSET
  ipc: Remove unused declaration of recompute_msgmni
  posix-timers: Correct sanity check in posix_cpu_nsleep
  sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root
sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root 2017-04-17T04:42:49+00:00 Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com 2017-03-24T13:38:20+00:00 b54807fa52ae21bdf6bad72b0f00fd400af412eb The function no longer does anything. The is only a single caller of register_sysctl_root when semantically there should be two. Remove this function so that if someone decides this functionality is needed again it will be obvious all of the callers of setup_sysctl_set need to be audited and modified appropriately. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> 
The function no longer does anything.  The is only a single caller of
register_sysctl_root when semantically there should be two.  Remove
this function so that if someone decides this functionality is needed
again it will be obvious all of the callers of setup_sysctl_set need
to be audited and modified appropriately.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
sysctl: add sanity check for proc_douintvec 2017-04-07T16:46:44+00:00 Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com 2017-04-07T15:51:05+00:00 1680a3868f00be638a8a213a321e88d11ce7e9f7 Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") introduced the proc_douintvec helper function, but it forgot to add the related sanity check when doing register_sysctl_table. So add it now. Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32
fields") introduced the proc_douintvec helper function, but it forgot to
add the related sanity check when doing register_sysctl_table.  So add
it now.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com>
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00 590dce2d4934fb909b112cd80c80486362337744 Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro. This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail what kind of information it wants. It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems: is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what? From David Howells. Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx interface was posted June 29, 2010: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html * 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available 
Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available