linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v5.4-rc2

Merge tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2019-10-04T17:36:31+00:00

Pull copy_struct_from_user() helper from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the copy_struct_from_user() helper which got split out
  from the openat2() patchset. It is a generic interface designed to
  copy a struct from userspace.

  The helper will be especially useful for structs versioned by size of
  which we have quite a few. This allows for backwards compatibility,
  i.e. an extended struct can be passed to an older kernel, or a legacy
  struct can be passed to a newer kernel. For the first case (extended
  struct, older kernel) the new fields in an extended struct can be set
  to zero and the struct safely passed to an older kernel.

  The most obvious benefit is that this helper lets us get rid of
  duplicate code present in at least sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(),
  and clone3(). More importantly it will also help to ensure that users
  implementing versioning-by-size end up with the same core semantics.

  This point is especially crucial since we have at least one case where
  versioning-by-size is used but with slighly different semantics:
  sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3() all do do similar
  checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2) always
  rejects differently-sized struct arguments.

  With this pull request we also switch over sched_setattr(),
  perf_event_open(), and clone3() to use the new helper"

* tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  usercopy: Add parentheses around assignment in test_copy_struct_from_user
  perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
  sched_setattr: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
  clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
  lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper

fork: add kernel-doc for clone3

2019-10-03T19:18:06+00:00

Add kernel-doc for the clone3() syscall.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001114701.24661-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user()

2019-10-01T13:45:10+00:00

Switch clone3() syscall from it's own copying struct clone_args from
userspace to the new dedicated copy_struct_from_user() helper.

The change is very straightforward, and helps unify the syscall
interface for struct-from-userspace syscalls. Additionally, explicitly
define CLONE_ARGS_SIZE_VER0 to match the other users of the
struct-extension pattern.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai 
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
[christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: improve commit message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001011055.19283-3-cyphar@cyphar.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-09-28T19:39:07+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Apply a number of membarrier related fixes and cleanups, which fixes
   a use-after-free race in the membarrier code

 - Introduce proper RCU protection for tasks on the runqueue - to get
   rid of the subtle task_rcu_dereference() interface that was easy to
   get wrong

 - Misc fixes, but also an EAS speedup

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Avoid redundant EAS calculation
  sched/core: Remove double update_max_interval() call on CPU startup
  sched/core: Fix preempt_schedule() interrupt return comment
  sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings
  sched/core: Fix migration to invalid CPU in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
  sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on memory allocation failure
  sched/membarrier: Skip IPIs when mm->mm_users == 1
  selftests, sched/membarrier: Add multi-threaded test
  sched/membarrier: Fix p->mm->membarrier_state racy load
  sched/membarrier: Call sync_core only before usermode for same mm
  sched/membarrier: Remove redundant check
  sched/membarrier: Fix private expedited registration check
  tasks, sched/core: RCUify the assignment of rq->curr
  tasks, sched/core: With a grace period after finish_task_switch(), remove unnecessary code
  tasks, sched/core: Ensure tasks are available for a grace period after leaving the runqueue
  tasks: Add a count of task RCU users
  sched/core: Convert vcpu_is_preempted() from macro to an inline function
  sched/fair: Remove unused cfs_rq_clock_task() function

fork: improve error message for corrupted page tables

2019-09-26T00:51:40+00:00

When a user process exits, the kernel cleans up the mm_struct of the user
process and during cleanup, check_mm() checks the page tables of the user
process for corruption (E.g: unexpected page flags set/cleared).  For
corrupted page tables, the error message printed by check_mm() isn't very
clear as it prints the loop index instead of page table type (E.g:
Resident file mapping pages vs Resident shared memory pages).  The loop
index in check_mm() is used to index rss_stat[] which represents
individual memory type stats.  Hence, instead of printing index, print
memory type, thereby improving error message.

Without patch:
--------------
[  204.836425] mm/pgtable-generic.c:29: bad p4d 0000000089eb4e92(800000025f941467)
[  204.836544] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000f75895ea idx:0 val:2
[  204.836615] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000f75895ea idx:1 val:5
[  204.836685] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: 20480

With patch:
-----------
[   69.815453] mm/pgtable-generic.c:29: bad p4d 0000000084653642(800000025ca37467)
[   69.815872] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000014a6c03 type:MM_FILEPAGES val:2
[   69.815962] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000014a6c03 type:MM_ANONPAGES val:5
[   69.816050] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: 20480

Also, change print function (from printk(KERN_ALERT, ..) to pr_alert()) so
that it matches the other print statement.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da75b5153f617f4c5739c08ee6ebeb3d19db0fbc.1565123758.git.sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya 
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tasks, sched/core: Ensure tasks are available for a grace period after leaving the runqueue

2019-09-25T15:42:29+00:00

In the ordinary case today the RCU grace period for a task_struct is
triggered when another process wait's for it's zombine and causes the
kernel to call release_task().  As the waiting task has to receive a
signal and then act upon it before this happens, typically this will
occur after the original task as been removed from the runqueue.

Unfortunaty in some cases such as self reaping tasks it can be shown
that release_task() will be called starting the grace period for
task_struct long before the task leaves the runqueue.

Therefore use put_task_struct_rcu_user() in finish_task_switch() to
guarantee that the there is a RCU lifetime after the task
leaves the runqueue.

Besides the change in the start of the RCU grace period for the
task_struct this change may cause perf_event_delayed_put and
trace_sched_process_free.  The function perf_event_delayed_put boils
down to just a WARN_ON for cases that I assume never show happen.  So
I don't see any problem with delaying it.

The function trace_sched_process_free is a trace point and thus
visible to user space.  Occassionally userspace has the strangest
dependencies so this has a miniscule chance of causing a regression.
This change only changes the timing of when the tracepoint is called.
The change in timing arguably gives userspace a more accurate picture
of what is going on.  So I don't expect there to be a regression.

In the case where a task self reaps we are pretty much guaranteed that
the RCU grace period is delayed.  So we should get quite a bit of
coverage in of this worst case for the change in a normal threaded
workload.  So I expect any issues to turn up quickly or not at all.

I have lightly tested this change and everything appears to work
fine.

Inspired-by: Linus Torvalds 
Inspired-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Kirill Tkhai 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r24jdpl5.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tasks: Add a count of task RCU users

2019-09-25T15:42:29+00:00

Add a count of the number of RCU users (currently 1) of the task
struct so that we can later add the scheduler case and get rid of the
very subtle task_rcu_dereference(), and just use rcu_dereference().

As suggested by Oleg have the count overlap rcu_head so that no
additional space in task_struct is required.

Inspired-by: Linus Torvalds 
Inspired-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Kirill Tkhai 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87woebdplt.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma

2019-09-21T17:07:42+00:00

Pull hmm updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "This is more cleanup and consolidation of the hmm APIs and the very
  strongly related mmu_notifier interfaces. Many places across the tree
  using these interfaces are touched in the process. Beyond that a
  cleanup to the page walker API and a few memremap related changes
  round out the series:

   - General improvement of hmm_range_fault() and related APIs, more
     documentation, bug fixes from testing, API simplification &
     consolidation, and unused API removal

   - Simplify the hmm related kconfigs to HMM_MIRROR and DEVICE_PRIVATE,
     and make them internal kconfig selects

   - Hoist a lot of code related to mmu notifier attachment out of
     drivers by using a refcount get/put attachment idiom and remove the
     convoluted mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release() and related APIs.

   - General API improvement for the migrate_vma API and revision of its
     only user in nouveau

   - Annotate mmu_notifiers with lockdep and sleeping region debugging

  Two series unrelated to HMM or mmu_notifiers came along due to
  dependencies:

   - Allow pagemap's memremap_pages family of APIs to work without
     providing a struct device

   - Make walk_page_range() and related use a constant structure for
     function pointers"

* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (75 commits)
  libnvdimm: Enable unit test infrastructure compile checks
  mm, notifier: Catch sleeping/blocking for !blockable
  kernel.h: Add non_block_start/end()
  drm/radeon: guard against calling an unpaired radeon_mn_unregister()
  csky: add missing brackets in a macro for tlb.h
  pagewalk: use lockdep_assert_held for locking validation
  pagewalk: separate function pointers from iterator data
  mm: split out a new pagewalk.h header from mm.h
  mm/mmu_notifiers: annotate with might_sleep()
  mm/mmu_notifiers: prime lockdep
  mm/mmu_notifiers: add a lockdep map for invalidate_range_start/end
  mm/mmu_notifiers: remove the __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end exports
  mm/hmm: hmm_range_fault() infinite loop
  mm/hmm: hmm_range_fault() NULL pointer bug
  mm/hmm: fix hmm_range_fault()'s handling of swapped out pages
  mm/mmu_notifiers: remove unregister_no_release
  RDMA/odp: remove ib_ucontext from ib_umem
  RDMA/odp: use mmu_notifier_get/put for 'struct ib_ucontext_per_mm'
  RDMA/mlx5: Use odp instead of mr->umem in pagefault_mr
  RDMA/mlx5: Use ib_umem_start instead of umem.address
  ...

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-09-17T19:35:15+00:00

Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Timers and timekeeping updates:

   - A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation
     for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be
     properly accounted on the task/process.

     An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the
     merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for
     travel.

   - Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the
     homebrewn caching of the leftmost node.

   - Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a
     single function

   - Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard
     interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the
     affected timers accordingly.

   - Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect
     RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer
     which should be canceled is currently executing the callback.
     Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the
     timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and
     released by the (hr)timer expiry code.

   - Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests
     resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions.

   - Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device
     tree bindings.

   - The usual small improvements all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression
  posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue
  hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP
  posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly
  posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build
  tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context
  hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD
  x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
  posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage
  posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers
  posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling
  posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons
  posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions
  posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further
  posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks
  rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment
  posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit
  posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array
  posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array
  posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires
  ...

Merge tag 'please-pull-ia64_for_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux

2019-09-16T22:32:01+00:00

Pull ia64 updates from Tony Luck:
 "The big change here is removal of support for SGI Altix"

* tag 'please-pull-ia64_for_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: (33 commits)
  genirq: remove the is_affinity_mask_valid hook
  ia64: remove CONFIG_SWIOTLB ifdefs
  ia64: remove support for machvecs
  ia64: move the screen_info setup to common code
  ia64: move the ROOT_DEV setup to common code
  ia64: rework iommu probing
  ia64: remove the unused sn_coherency_id symbol
  ia64: remove the SGI UV simulator support
  ia64: remove the zx1 swiotlb machvec
  ia64: remove CONFIG_ACPI ifdefs
  ia64: remove CONFIG_PCI ifdefs
  ia64: remove the hpsim platform
  ia64: remove now unused machvec indirections
  ia64: remove support for the SGI SN2 platform
  drivers: remove the SGI SN2 IOC4 base support
  drivers: remove the SGI SN2 IOC3 base support
  qla2xxx: remove SGI SN2 support
  qla1280: remove SGI SN2 support
  misc/sgi-xp: remove SGI SN2 support
  char/mspec: remove SGI SN2 support
  ...