Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- User events are finally ready!
After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
with user space only tracing.
This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
listening to the trace.
There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
directory, where it can be enabled.
When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
application to start writing to the kernel.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/
- Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
direct trampolines.
Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
own trampoline for performance reasons.
- Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
will be exposed as dynamic events.
- More updates to references to the obsolete path of
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.
- Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
line by line instead of all at once.
There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
than what printk() allowed as a single print.
Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.
- Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
crash by a bpf program or live patching.
- Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
of the events. It's easier to read by humans.
- Some minor fixes and clean ups.
* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
tracing: Unbreak user events
tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
...
During tracefs discussions it was decided instead of requiring a mapping
within a user-process to track the lifetime of memory descriptors we
should hook the appropriate calls. Do this by adding the minimal stubs
required for task fork, exec, and exit. Currently this is just a NOP.
Future patches will implement these calls fully.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add
F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X
bit.
- Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
related to PMD unsharing.
- Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes
- Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()")
which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.
- SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
"mm/damon/core: implement damos filter".
These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's
actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work.
- Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").
- Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
tree".
- Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
reclaim.
- David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".
- Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
function in the series "remove generic_writepages".
- Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
his series "Some small improvements for compaction".
- Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
series "Get rid of tail page fields".
- David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series
"mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with
swap PTEs".
- Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".
- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with
his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".
- Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
writeable+executable mappings.
The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel
support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)".
- Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
"mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() & fix UAF".
- T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
"mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".
- Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a
per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
statistics".
- Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage
during compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
"cleanup vfree and vunmap".
- Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in
ths series "remove ->rw_page".
- We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".
- Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier
functions".
- Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's
series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for
FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"
- Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
/proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
"mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".
- Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest
of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for
GUP".
- SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the
series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".
- Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
and clean-ups" series.
- Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".
- Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits)
include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs
mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range()
mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers
mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page()
mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb()
mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page()
mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write
kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code
kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline
mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()
sh: initialize max_mapnr
m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size()
maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier
mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails
mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries
migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code
migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB
migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Improve the scalability of the CFS bandwidth unthrottling logic with
large number of CPUs.
- Fix & rework various cpuidle routines, simplify interaction with the
generic scheduler code. Add __cpuidle methods as noinstr to objtool's
noinstr detection and fix boatloads of cpuidle bugs & quirks.
- Add new ABI: introduce MEMBARRIER_CMD_GET_REGISTRATIONS, to query
previously issued registrations.
- Limit scheduler slice duration to the sysctl_sched_latency period, to
improve scheduling granularity with a large number of SCHED_IDLE
tasks.
- Debuggability enhancement on sys_exit(): warn about disabled IRQs,
but also enable them to prevent a cascade of followup problems and
repeat warnings.
- Fix the rescheduling logic in prio_changed_dl().
- Micro-optimize cpufreq and sched-util methods.
- Micro-optimize ttwu_runnable()
- Micro-optimize the idle-scanning in update_numa_stats(),
select_idle_capacity() and steal_cookie_task().
- Update the RSEQ code & self-tests
- Constify various scheduler methods
- Remove unused methods
- Refine __init tags
- Documentation updates
- Misc other cleanups, fixes
* tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry
sched/deadline: Add more reschedule cases to prio_changed_dl()
sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
sched/fair: Remove capacity inversion detection
sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized
objtool: mem*() are not uaccess safe
cpuidle: Fix poll_idle() noinstr annotation
sched/clock: Make local_clock() noinstr
sched/clock/x86: Mark sched_clock() noinstr
x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
x86/atomics: Always inline arch_atomic64*()
cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing
cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()
cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code
KVM: selftests: Fix build of rseq test
exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops
cpuidle, arm64: Fix the ARM64 cpuidle logic
cpuidle: mvebu: Fix duplicate flags assignment
sched/fair: Limit sched slice duration
...
Introduce shrink_vma() which uses the vma_prepare() and vma_complete()
functions to reduce the vma coverage.
Convert shift_arg_pages() to use expand_vma() and the new shrink_vma()
function. Remove support from __vma_adjust() to reduce a vma size since
shift_arg_pages() is the only user that shrinks a VMA in this way.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230120162650.984577-46-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Change the vma_adjust() function definition to accept the vma iterator and
pass it through to __vma_adjust().
Update fs/exec to use the new vma_adjust() function parameters.
Update mm/mremap to use the new vma_adjust() function parameters.
Revert the __split_vma() calls back from __vma_adjust() to vma_adjust()
and pass through the vma iterator.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230120162650.984577-37-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Convert to struct mnt_idmap.
Remove legacy file_mnt_user_ns() and mnt_user_ns().
Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.
Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.
Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Convert to struct mnt_idmap.
Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.
Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.
Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Convert to struct mnt_idmap.
Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.
Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.
Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
This feature allows the scheduler to expose a per-memory map concurrency
ID to user-space. This concurrency ID is within the possible cpus range,
and is temporarily (and uniquely) assigned while threads are actively
running within a memory map. If a memory map has fewer threads than
cores, or is limited to run on few cores concurrently through sched
affinity or cgroup cpusets, the concurrency IDs will be values close
to 0, thus allowing efficient use of user-space memory for per-cpu
data structures.
This feature is meant to be exposed by a new rseq thread area field.
The primary purpose of this feature is to do the heavy-lifting needed
by memory allocators to allow them to use per-cpu data structures
efficiently in the following situations:
- Single-threaded applications,
- Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with limited
cpu affinity mask,
- Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with
restricted cgroup cpuset per container.
One of the key concern from scheduler maintainers is the overhead
associated with additional spin locks or atomic operations in the
scheduler fast-path. This is why the following optimization is
implemented.
On context switch between threads belonging to the same memory map,
transfer the mm_cid from prev to next without any atomic ops. This
takes care of use-cases involving frequent context switch between
threads belonging to the same memory map.
Additional optimizations can be done if the spin locks added when
context switching between threads belonging to different memory maps end
up being a performance bottleneck. Those are left out of this patch
though. A performance impact would have to be clearly demonstrated to
justify the added complexity.
The credit goes to Paul Turner (Google) for the original virtual cpu id
idea. This feature is implemented based on the discussions with Paul
Turner and Peter Oskolkov (Google), but I took the liberty to implement
scheduler fast-path optimizations and my own NUMA-awareness scheme. The
rumor has it that Google have been running a rseq vcpu_id extension
internally in production for a year. The tcmalloc source code indeed has
comments hinting at a vcpu_id prototype extension to the rseq system
call [1].
The following benchmarks do not show any significant overhead added to
the scheduler context switch by this feature:
* perf bench sched messaging (process)
Baseline: 86.5±0.3 ms
With mm_cid: 86.7±2.6 ms
* perf bench sched messaging (threaded)
Baseline: 84.3±3.0 ms
With mm_cid: 84.7±2.6 ms
* hackbench (process)
Baseline: 82.9±2.7 ms
With mm_cid: 82.9±2.9 ms
* hackbench (threaded)
Baseline: 85.2±2.6 ms
With mm_cid: 84.4±2.9 ms
[1] https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/master/tcmalloc/internal/linux_syscall_support.h#L26
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122203932.231377-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Pull vfsuid updates from Christian Brauner:
"Last cycle we introduced the vfs{g,u}id_t types and associated helpers
to gain type safety when dealing with idmapped mounts. That initial
work already converted a lot of places over but there were still some
left,
This converts all remaining places that still make use of non-type
safe idmapping helpers to rely on the new type safe vfs{g,u}id based
helpers.
Afterwards it removes all the old non-type safe helpers"
* tag 'fs.vfsuid.conversion.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping:
fs: remove unused idmapping helpers
ovl: port to vfs{g,u}id_t and associated helpers
fuse: port to vfs{g,u}id_t and associated helpers
ima: use type safe idmapping helpers
apparmor: use type safe idmapping helpers
caps: use type safe idmapping helpers
fs: use type safe idmapping helpers
mnt_idmapping: add missing helpers
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
"Most are small refactorings and bug fixes, but three things stand out:
switching timens (which got reverted before) looks solid now,
FOLL_FORCE has been removed (no failures seen yet across several weeks
in -next), and some whitespace cleanups (which are long overdue).
- Add timens support (when switching mm). This version has survived
in -next for the entire cycle (Andrei Vagin)
- Various small bug fixes, refactoring, and readability improvements
(Bernd Edlinger, Rolf Eike Beer, Bo Liu, Li Zetao Liu Shixin)
- Remove FOLL_FORCE for stack setup (Kees Cook)
- Whitespace cleanups (Rolf Eike Beer, Kees Cook)"
* tag 'execve-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_misc: fix shift-out-of-bounds in check_special_flags
binfmt: Fix error return code in load_elf_fdpic_binary()
exec: Remove FOLL_FORCE for stack setup
binfmt_elf: replace IS_ERR() with IS_ERR_VALUE()
binfmt_elf: simplify error handling in load_elf_phdrs()
binfmt_elf: fix documented return value for load_elf_phdrs()
exec: simplify initial stack size expansion
binfmt: Fix whitespace issues
exec: Add comments on check_unsafe_exec() fs counting
ELF uapi: add spaces before '{'
selftests/timens: add a test for vfork+exit
fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mm
Pull misc hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
"Eight fix pre-6.0 bugs and the remainder address issues which were
introduced in the 6.1-rc merge cycle, or address issues which aren't
considered sufficiently serious to warrant a -stable backport"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2022-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (23 commits)
mm: multi-gen LRU: move lru_gen_add_mm() out of IRQ-off region
lib: maple_tree: remove unneeded initialization in mtree_range_walk()
mmap: fix remap_file_pages() regression
mm/shmem: ensure proper fallback if page faults
mm/userfaultfd: replace kmap/kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page()
x86: fortify: kmsan: fix KMSAN fortify builds
x86: asm: make sure __put_user_size() evaluates pointer once
Kconfig.debug: disable CONFIG_FRAME_WARN for KMSAN by default
x86/purgatory: disable KMSAN instrumentation
mm: kmsan: export kmsan_copy_page_meta()
mm: migrate: fix return value if all subpages of THPs are migrated successfully
mm/uffd: fix vma check on userfault for wp
mm: prep_compound_tail() clear page->private
mm,madvise,hugetlb: fix unexpected data loss with MADV_DONTNEED on hugetlbfs
mm/page_isolation: fix clang deadcode warning
fs/ext4/super.c: remove unused `deprecated_msg'
ipc/msg.c: fix percpu_counter use after free
memory tier, sysfs: rename attribute "nodes" to "nodelist"
MAINTAINERS: git://github.com -> https://github.com for nilfs2
mm/kmemleak: prevent soft lockup in kmemleak_scan()'s object iteration loops
...
lru_gen_add_mm() has been added within an IRQ-off region in the commit
mentioned below. The other invocations of lru_gen_add_mm() are not within
an IRQ-off region.
The invocation within IRQ-off region is problematic on PREEMPT_RT because
the function is using a spin_lock_t which must not be used within
IRQ-disabled regions.
The other invocations of lru_gen_add_mm() occur while
task_struct::alloc_lock is acquired. Move lru_gen_add_mm() after
interrupts are enabled and before task_unlock().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221026134830.711887-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Fixes: bd74fdaea1 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We already ported most parts and filesystems over for v6.0 to the new
vfs{g,u}id_t type and associated helpers for v6.0. Convert the remaining
places so we can remove all the old helpers.
This is a non-functional change.
Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
I had a hard time trying to understand completely why it is using vm_end in
one side of the expression and vm_start in the other one, and using
something in the "if" clause that is not an exact copy of what is used
below. The whole point is that the stack_size variable that was used in the
"if" clause is the difference between vm_start and vm_end, which is not far
away but makes this thing harder to read than it must be.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@emlix.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2017429.gqNitNVd0C@mobilepool36.emlix.com
Changing a time namespace requires remapping a vvar page, so we don't want
to allow doing that if any other tasks can use the same mm.
Currently, we install a time namespace when a task is created with a new
vm. exec() is another case when a task gets a new mm and so it can switch
a time namespace safely, but it isn't handled now.
One more issue of the current interface is that clone() with CLONE_VM isn't
allowed if the current task has unshared a time namespace
(timens_for_children doesn't match the current timens).
Both these issues make some inconvenience for users. For example, Alexey
and Florian reported that posix_spawn() uses vfork+exec and this pattern
doesn't work with time namespaces due to the both described issues.
LXC needed to workaround the exec() issue by calling setns.
In the commit 133e2d3e81 ("fs/exec: allow to unshare a time namespace on
vfork+exec"), we tried to fix these issues with minimal impact on UAPI. But
it adds extra complexity and some undesirable side effects. Eric suggested
fixing the issues properly because here are all the reasons to suppose that
there are no users that depend on the old behavior.
Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Origin-author: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921003120.209637-1-avagin@google.com
