This adds a new stress test driver for kmod: the kernel module loader. The new stress test driver, test_kmod, is only enabled as a module right now. It should be possible to load this as built-in and load tests early (refer to the force_init_test module parameter), however since a lot of test can get a system out of memory fast we leave this disabled for now. Using a system with 1024 MiB of RAM can *easily* get your kernel OOM fast with this test driver. The test_kmod driver exposes API knobs for us to fine tune simple request_module() and get_fs_type() calls. Since these API calls only allow each one parameter a test driver for these is rather simple. Other factors that can help out test driver though are the number of calls we issue and knowing current limitations of each. This exposes configuration as much as possible through userspace to be able to build tests directly from userspace. Since it allows multiple misc devices its will eventually (once we add a knob to let us create new devices at will) also be possible to perform more tests in parallel, provided you have enough memory. We only enable tests we know work as of right now. Demo screenshots: # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL kmod_test_0002_driver: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0002_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND kmod_test_0002_fs: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0002_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL kmod_test_0003: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0003: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS kmod_test_0004: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0004: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS kmod_test_0005: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0005: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS kmod_test_0006: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0006: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS kmod_test_0005: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0005: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS kmod_test_0006: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0006: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS XXX: add test restult for 0007 Test completed You can also request for specific tests: # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0001 kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - loading kmod test kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL Test completed Lastly, the current available number of tests: # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help Usage: tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh [ -t <4-number-digit> ] Valid tests: 0001-0009 0001 - Simple test - 1 thread for empty string 0002 - Simple test - 1 thread for modules/filesystems that do not exist 0003 - Simple test - 1 thread for get_fs_type() only 0004 - Simple test - 2 threads for get_fs_type() only 0005 - multithreaded tests with default setup - request_module() only 0006 - multithreaded tests with default setup - get_fs_type() only 0007 - multithreaded tests with default setup test request_module() and get_fs_type() 0008 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for request_module() 0009 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for get_fs_type() The following test cases currently fail, as such they are not currently enabled by default: # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0008 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0009 To be sure to run them as intended please unload both of the modules: o test_module o xfs And ensure they are not loaded on your system prior to testing them. If you use these paritions for your rootfs you can change the default test driver used for get_fs_type() by exporting it into your environment. For example of other test defaults you can override refer to kmod.sh allow_user_defaults(). Behind the scenes this is how we fine tune at a test case prior to hitting a trigger to run it: cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config echo -n "2" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_test_case echo -n "ext4" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_test_fs echo -n "80" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_num_threads cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config echo -n "1" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_num_threads Finally to trigger: echo -n "1" > /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/trigger_config The kmod.sh script uses the above constructs to build different test cases. A bit of interpretation of the current failures follows, first two premises: a) When request_module() is used userspace figures out an optimized version of module order for us. Once it finds the modules it needs, as per depmod symbol dep map, it will finit_module() the respective modules which are needed for the original request_module() request. b) We have an optimization in place whereby if a kernel uses request_module() on a module already loaded we never bother userspace as the module already is loaded. This is all handled by kernel/kmod.c. A few things to consider to help identify root causes of issues: 0) kmod 19 has a broken heuristic for modules being assumed to be built-in to your kernel and will return 0 even though request_module() failed. Upgrade to a newer version of kmod. 1) A get_fs_type() call for "xfs" will request_module() for "fs-xfs", not for "xfs". The optimization in kernel described in b) fails to catch if we have a lot of consecutive get_fs_type() calls. The reason is the optimization in place does not look for aliases. This means two consecutive get_fs_type() calls will bump kmod_concurrent, whereas request_module() will not. This one explanation why test case 0009 fails at least once for get_fs_type(). 2) If a module fails to load --- for whatever reason (kmod_concurrent limit reached, file not yet present due to rootfs switch, out of memory) we have a period of time during which module request for the same name either with request_module() or get_fs_type() will *also* fail to load even if the file for the module is ready. This explains why *multiple* NULLs are possible on test 0009. 3) finit_module() consumes quite a bit of memory. 4) Filesystems typically also have more dependent modules than other modules, its important to note though that even though a get_fs_type() call does not incur additional kmod_concurrent bumps, since userspace loads dependencies it finds it needs via finit_module_fd(), it *will* take much more memory to load a module with a lot of dependencies. Because of 3) and 4) we will easily run into out of memory failures with certain tests. For instance test 0006 fails on qemu with 1024 MiB of RAM. It panics a box after reaping all userspace processes and still not having enough memory to reap. [arnd@arndb.de: add dependencies for test module] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170630154834.3689272-1-arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170628223155.26472-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The existing tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/ tests include two test cases, but these use existing production kernel sysctl interfaces. We want to expand test coverage but we can't just be looking for random safe production values to poke at, that's just insane! Instead just dedicate a test driver for debugging purposes and port the existing scripts to use it. This will make it easier for further tests to be added. Subsequent patches will extend our test coverage for sysctl. The stress test driver uses a new license (GPL on Linux, copyleft-next outside of Linux). Linus was fine with this [0] and later due to Ted's and Alans's request ironed out an "or" language clause to use [1] which is already present upstream. [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFyhxcvD+q7tp+-yrSFDKfR0mOHgyEAe=f_94aKLsOu0Og@mail.gmail.com [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495234558.7848.122.camel@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170630224431.17374-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
"This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
series.
The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
writes have made it to the backing store.
For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
model really sucks for userland.
Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
(unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
setups that coordination may even not be possible.
But wait...it gets worse!
The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
(incorrectly) return 0.
This pile aims to do three things:
1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
regardless of what internal callers are doing
2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.
3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
filesystems should do in this situation.
To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.
Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
There is a lot of work remaining here:
1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
filesystem trees.
2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
prime time yet.
This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:
https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"
* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
An errseq_t is a way of recording errors in one place, and allowing any number of "subscribers" to tell whether an error has been set again since a previous time. It's implemented as an unsigned 32-bit value that is managed with atomic operations. The low order bits are designated to hold an error code (max size of MAX_ERRNO). The upper bits are used as a counter. The API works with consumers sampling an errseq_t value at a particular point in time. Later, that value can be used to tell whether new errors have been set since that time. Note that there is a 1 in 512k risk of collisions here if new errors are being recorded frequently, since we have so few bits to use as a counter. To mitigate this, one bit is used as a flag to tell whether the value has been sampled since a new value was recorded. That allows us to avoid bumping the counter if no one has sampled it since it was last bumped. Later patches will build on this infrastructure to change how writeback errors are tracked in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" char/misc driver patchset for 4.13-rc1. Lots of stuff in here, a large thunderbolt update, w1 driver header reorg, the new mux driver subsystem, google firmware driver updates, and a raft of other smaller things. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with the only reported issue being a merge problem with this tree and the jc-docs tree in the w1 documentation area" * tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (147 commits) misc: apds990x: Use sysfs_match_string() helper mei: drop unreachable code in mei_start mei: validate the message header only in first fragment. DocBook: w1: Update W1 file locations and names in DocBook mux: adg792a: always require I2C support nvmem: rockchip-efuse: add support for rk322x-efuse nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find_cell nvmem: core: Call put_device() in nvmem_unregister() nvmem: core: fix leaks on registration errors nvmem: correct Broadcom OTP controller driver writes w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface drivers/fsi: Add module license to core driver drivers/fsi: Use asynchronous slave mode drivers/fsi: Add hub master support drivers/fsi: Add SCOM FSI client device driver drivers/fsi/gpio: Add tracepoints for GPIO master drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master drivers/fsi: Document FSI master sysfs files in ABI drivers/fsi: Add error handling for slave drivers/fsi: Add tracepoints for low-level operations ...
Add a little helper for crc4 calculations. This works 4-bits-at-a-time, using a simple table approach. We will need this in the FSI core code, as well as any master implementations that need to calculate CRCs in software. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Bostic <cbostic@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of sparse-based checking that is optional. This commit therefore makes it unconditional. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Extract the linked list sorting test code into its own source file, to allow to compile it either to a loadable module, or builtin into the kernel. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488287219-15832-4-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu: "Here is the crypto update for 4.12: API: - Add batch registration for acomp/scomp - Change acomp testing to non-unique compressed result - Extend algorithm name limit to 128 bytes - Require setkey before accept(2) in algif_aead Algorithms: - Add support for deflate rfc1950 (zlib) Drivers: - Add accelerated crct10dif for powerpc - Add crc32 in stm32 - Add sha384/sha512 in ccp - Add 3des/gcm(aes) for v5 devices in ccp - Add Queue Interface (QI) backend support in caam - Add new Exynos RNG driver - Add ThunderX ZIP driver - Add driver for hardware random generator on MT7623 SoC" * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (101 commits) crypto: stm32 - Fix OF module alias information crypto: algif_aead - Require setkey before accept(2) crypto: scomp - add support for deflate rfc1950 (zlib) crypto: scomp - allow registration of multiple scomps crypto: ccp - Change ISR handler method for a v5 CCP crypto: ccp - Change ISR handler method for a v3 CCP crypto: crypto4xx - rename ce_ring_contol to ce_ring_control crypto: testmgr - Allow ecb(cipher_null) in FIPS mode Revert "crypto: arm64/sha - Add constant operand modifier to ASM_EXPORT" crypto: ccp - Disable interrupts early on unload crypto: ccp - Use only the relevant interrupt bits hwrng: mtk - Add driver for hardware random generator on MT7623 SoC dt-bindings: hwrng: Add Mediatek hardware random generator bindings crypto: crct10dif-vpmsum - Fix missing preempt_disable() crypto: testmgr - replace compression known answer test crypto: acomp - allow registration of multiple acomps hwrng: n2 - Use devm_kcalloc() in n2rng_probe() crypto: chcr - Fix error handling related to 'chcr_alloc_shash' padata: get_next is never NULL crypto: exynos - Add new Exynos RNG driver ...
all architectures converted Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>