commit 2aea94ac14d1e0a8ae9e34febebe208213ba72f7 upstream.
In NOMMU kernel the value of linux_binprm::p is the offset inside the
temporary program arguments array maintained in separate pages in the
linux_binprm::page. linux_binprm::exec being a copy of linux_binprm::p
thus must be adjusted when that array is copied to the user stack.
Without that adjustment the value passed by the NOMMU kernel to the ELF
program in the AT_EXECFN entry of the aux array doesn't make any sense
and it may break programs that try to access memory pointed to by that
entry.
Adjust linux_binprm::exec before the successful return from the
transfer_args_to_stack().
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: b6a2fea393 ("mm: variable length argument support")
Fixes: 5edc2a5123 ("binfmt_elf_fdpic: wire up AT_EXECFD, AT_EXECFN, AT_SECURE")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240320182607.1472887-1-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 8d7071af890768438c14db6172cc8f9f4d04e184 upstream
This finishes the job of always holding the mmap write lock when
extending the user stack vma, and removes the 'write_locked' argument
from the vm helper functions again.
For some cases, we just avoid expanding the stack at all: drivers and
page pinning really shouldn't be extending any stacks. Let's see if any
strange users really wanted that.
It's worth noting that architectures that weren't converted to the new
lock_mm_and_find_vma() helper function are left using the legacy
"expand_stack()" function, but it has been changed to drop the mmap_lock
and take it for writing while expanding the vma. This makes it fairly
straightforward to convert the remaining architectures.
As a result of dropping and re-taking the lock, the calling conventions
for this function have also changed, since the old vma may no longer be
valid. So it will now return the new vma if successful, and NULL - and
the lock dropped - if the area could not be extended.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[6.1: Patch drivers/iommu/io-pgfault.c instead]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <samjonas@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit f313c51d26aa87e69633c9b46efb37a930faca71 upstream.
This is a small step towards a model where GUP itself would not expand
the stack, and any user that needs GUP to not look up existing mappings,
but actually expand on them, would have to do so manually before-hand,
and with the mm lock held for writing.
It turns out that execve() already did almost exactly that, except it
didn't take the mm lock at all (it's single-threaded so no locking
technically needed, but it could cause lockdep errors). And it only did
it for the CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case, since in that case GUP has
obviously never expanded the stack downwards.
So just make that CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP case do the right thing with
locking, and enable it generally. This will eventually help GUP, and in
the meantime avoids a special case and the lockdep issue.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[6.1 Minor context from still having FOLL_FORCE flags set]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <samjonas@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit f440fa1ac955e2898893f9301568435eb5cdfc4b upstream.
Make calls to extend_vma() and find_extend_vma() fail if the write lock
is required.
To avoid making this a flag-day event, this still allows the old
read-locking case for the trivial situations, and passes in a flag to
say "is it write-locked". That way write-lockers can say "yes, I'm
being careful", and legacy users will continue to work in all the common
cases until they have been fully converted to the new world order.
Co-Developed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <samjonas@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).
- Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
contention.
Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.
Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.
- Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
to the single bit level.
KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.
- Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
memory into THPs.
- Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
support file/shmem-backed pages.
- userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen
- zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov
- cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
memory-failure
- Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.
- memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
memory consumption.
- memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.
- memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.
- Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions
- Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(
- migration enhancements from Peter Xu
- migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying
- Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
drivers, etc.
- vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.
- NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.
- xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
activity.
- THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.
- more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.
- KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.
- DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.
- DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.
- hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.
- Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer
hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
...
Pull ucounts update from Eric Biederman:
"Split rlimit and ucount values and max values
After the ucount rlimit code was merged a bunch of small but
siginificant bugs were found and fixed. At the time it was realized
that part of the problem was that while the ucount rlimits were very
similar to the oridinary ucounts (in being nested counts with limits)
the semantics were slightly different and the code would be less error
prone if there was less sharing.
This is the long awaited cleanup that should hopefully keep things
more comprehensible and less error prone for whoever needs to touch
that code next"
* tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values
Pull file_inode() updates from Al Vrio:
"whack-a-mole: cropped up open-coded file_inode() uses..."
* tag 'pull-file_inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
orangefs: use ->f_mapping
_nfs42_proc_copy(): use ->f_mapping instead of file_inode()->i_mapping
dma_buf: no need to bother with file_inode()->i_mapping
nfs_finish_open(): don't open-code file_inode()
bprm_fill_uid(): don't open-code file_inode()
sgx: use ->f_mapping...
exfat_iterate(): don't open-code file_inode(file)
ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode()
In commit 19e8b701e2 ("a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on
alpha and m68k") the last users of a.out were disabled.
As nothing has turned up to cause this change to be reverted, let's
remove the code implementing a.out support as well.
There may be userspace users of the uapi bits left so the uapi
headers have been left untouched.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> # arm defconfigs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/871qrx3hq3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
To further exploit spatial locality, the aging prefers to walk page tables
to search for young PTEs and promote hot pages. A kill switch will be
added in the next patch to disable this behavior. When disabled, the
aging relies on the rmap only.
NB: this behavior has nothing similar with the page table scanning in the
2.4 kernel [1], which searches page tables for old PTEs, adds cold pages
to swapcache and unmaps them.
To avoid confusion, the term "iteration" specifically means the traversal
of an entire mm_struct list; the term "walk" will be applied to page
tables and the rmap, as usual.
An mm_struct list is maintained for each memcg, and an mm_struct follows
its owner task to the new memcg when this task is migrated. Given an
lruvec, the aging iterates lruvec_memcg()->mm_list and calls
walk_page_range() with each mm_struct on this list to promote hot pages
before it increments max_seq.
When multiple page table walkers iterate the same list, each of them gets
a unique mm_struct; therefore they can run concurrently. Page table
walkers ignore any misplaced pages, e.g., if an mm_struct was migrated,
pages it left in the previous memcg will not be promoted when its current
memcg is under reclaim. Similarly, page table walkers will not promote
pages from nodes other than the one under reclaim.
This patch uses the following optimizations when walking page tables:
1. It tracks the usage of mm_struct's between context switches so that
page table walkers can skip processes that have been sleeping since
the last iteration.
2. It uses generational Bloom filters to record populated branches so
that page table walkers can reduce their search space based on the
query results, e.g., to skip page tables containing mostly holes or
misplaced pages.
3. It takes advantage of the accessed bit in non-leaf PMD entries when
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NONLEAF_PMD_YOUNG=y.
4. It does not zigzag between a PGD table and the same PMD table
spanning multiple VMAs. IOW, it finishes all the VMAs within the
range of the same PMD table before it returns to a PGD table. This
improves the cache performance for workloads that have large
numbers of tiny VMAs [2], especially when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS=5.
Server benchmark results:
Single workload:
fio (buffered I/O): no change
Single workload:
memcached (anon): +[8, 10]%
Ops/sec KB/sec
patch1-7: 1147696.57 44640.29
patch1-8: 1245274.91 48435.66
Configurations:
no change
Client benchmark results:
kswapd profiles:
patch1-7
48.16% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
8.20% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
7.06% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
2.92% ptep_clear_flush
2.53% __zram_bvec_write
2.11% do_raw_spin_lock
2.02% memmove
1.93% lru_gen_look_around
1.56% free_unref_page_list
1.40% memset
patch1-8
49.44% lzo1x_1_do_compress (real work)
6.19% page_vma_mapped_walk (overhead)
5.97% _raw_spin_unlock_irq
3.13% get_pfn_folio
2.85% ptep_clear_flush
2.42% __zram_bvec_write
2.08% do_raw_spin_lock
1.92% memmove
1.44% alloc_zspage
1.36% memset
Configurations:
no change
Thanks to the following developers for their efforts [3].
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/23732/
[2] https://llvm.org/docs/ScudoHardenedAllocator.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202204160827.ekEARWQo-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-9-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 133e2d3e81.
Alexey pointed out a few undesirable side effects of the reverted change.
First, it doesn't take into account that CLONE_VFORK can be used with
CLONE_THREAD. Second, a child process doesn't enter a target time name-space,
if its parent dies before the child calls exec. It happens because the parent
clears vfork_done.
Eric W. Biederman suggests installing a time namespace as a task gets a new mm.
It includes all new processes cloned without CLONE_VM and all tasks that call
exec(). This is an user API change, but we think there aren't users that depend
on the old behavior.
It is too late to make such changes in this release, so let's roll back
this patch and introduce the right one in the next release.
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220913102551.1121611-3-avagin@google.com
Pull execve fix from Kees Cook:
- Replace remaining kmap() uses with kmap_local_page() (Fabio M. De
Francesco)
* tag 'execve-v6.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
exec: Replace kmap{,_atomic}() with kmap_local_page()
The use of kmap() and kmap_atomic() are being deprecated in favor of
kmap_local_page().
There are two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as
mapping space is restricted and protected by a global lock for
synchronization and (2) it also requires global TLB invalidation when the
kmap’s pool wraps and it might block when the mapping space is fully
utilized until a slot becomes available.
With kmap_local_page() the mappings are per thread, CPU local, can take
page faults, and can be called from any context (including interrupts).
It is faster than kmap() in kernels with HIGHMEM enabled. Furthermore,
the tasks can be preempted and, when they are scheduled to run again, the
kernel virtual addresses are restored and are still valid.
Since the use of kmap_local_page() in exec.c is safe, it should be
preferred everywhere in exec.c.
As said, since kmap_local_page() can be also called from atomic context,
and since remove_arg_zero() doesn't (and shouldn't ever) rely on an
implicit preempt_disable(), this function can also safely replace
kmap_atomic().
Therefore, replace kmap() and kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page() in
fs/exec.c.
Tested with xfstests on a QEMU/KVM x86_32 VM, 6GB RAM, booting a kernel
with HIGHMEM64GB enabled.
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220803182856.28246-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Commit 55e8c8eb2c ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a
task") started looking up tasks by PID when deleting a CPU timer.
When a non-leader thread calls execve, it will switch PIDs with the leader
process. Then, as it calls exit_itimers, posix_cpu_timer_del cannot find
the task because the timer still points out to the old PID.
That means that armed timers won't be disarmed, that is, they won't be
removed from the timerqueue_list. exit_itimers will still release their
memory, and when that list is later processed, it leads to a
use-after-free.
Clean up the timers from the de-threaded task before freeing them. This
prevents a reported use-after-free.
Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220809170751.164716-1-cascardo@canonical.com
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- Allow unsharing time namespace on vfork+exec (Andrei Vagin)
- Replace usage of deprecated kmap APIs (Fabio M. De Francesco)
- Fix spelling mistake (Zhang Jiaming)
* tag 'execve-v5.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
exec: Call kmap_local_page() in copy_string_kernel()
exec: Fix a spelling mistake
selftests/timens: add a test for vfork+exit
fs/exec: allow to unshare a time namespace on vfork+exec
The use of kmap_atomic() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().
With kmap_local_page(), the mappings are per thread, CPU local and not
globally visible. Furthermore, the mappings can be acquired from any
context (including interrupts).
Therefore, replace kmap_atomic() with kmap_local_page() in
copy_string_kernel(). Instead of open-coding local mapping + memcpy(),
use memcpy_to_page(). Delete a redundant call to flush_dcache_page().
Tested with xfstests on a QEMU/ KVM x86_32 VM, 6GB RAM, booting a kernel
with HIGHMEM64GB enabled.
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220724212523.13317-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct,
we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear
signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Right now, a new process can't be forked in another time namespace
if it shares mm with its parent. It is prohibited, because each time
namespace has its own vvar page that is mapped into a process address
space.
When a process calls exec, it gets a new mm and so it could be "legal"
to switch time namespace in that case. This was not implemented and
now if we want to do this, we need to add another clone flag to not
break backward compatibility.
We don't have any user requests to switch times on exec except the
vfork+exec combination, so there is no reason to add a new clone flag.
As for vfork+exec, this should be safe to allow switching timens with
the current clone flag. Right now, vfork (CLONE_VFORK | CLONE_VM) fails
if a child is forked into another time namespace. With this change,
vfork creates a new process in parent's timens, and the following exec
does the actual switch to the target time namespace.
Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220613060723.197407-1-avagin@gmail.com
