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Linus Torvalds
8804d970fa Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
David Hildenbrand
9dc21bbd62 prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to optionally exclude VM_HUGEPAGE
Patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when
advised", v5.

This will allow individual processes to opt-out of THP = "always" into THP
= "madvise", without affecting other workloads on the system.  This has
been extensively discussed on the mailing list and has been summarized
very well by David in the first patch which also includes the links to
alternatives, please refer to the first patch commit message for the
motivation for this series.

Patch 1 adds the PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag to implement this,
along with the MMF changes.

Patch 2 is a cleanup patch for tva_flags that will allow the forced
collapse case to be transmitted to vma_thp_disabled (which is done in
patch 3).

Patch 4 adds documentation for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE.

Patches 6-7 implement the selftests for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE for completely
disabling THPs (old behaviour) and only enabling it at advise
(PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).


This patch (of 7):

People want to make use of more THPs, for example, moving from the "never"
system policy to "madvise", or from "madvise" to "always".

While this is great news for every THP desperately waiting to get
allocated out there, apparently there are some workloads that require a
bit of care during that transition: individual processes may need to
opt-out from this behavior for various reasons, and this should be
permitted without needing to make all other workloads on the system
similarly opt-out.

The following scenarios are imaginable:

(1) Switch from "none" system policy to "madvise"/"always", but keep THPs
    disabled for selected workloads.

(2) Stay at "none" system policy, but enable THPs for selected
    workloads, making only these workloads use the "madvise" or "always"
    policy.

(3) Switch from "madvise" system policy to "always", but keep the
    "madvise" policy for selected workloads: allocate THPs only when
    advised.

(4) Stay at "madvise" system policy, but enable THPs even when not advised
    for selected workloads -- "always" policy.

Once can emulate (2) through (1), by setting the system policy to
"madvise"/"always" while disabling THPs for all processes that don't want
THPs.  It requires configuring all workloads, but that is a user-space
problem to sort out.

(4) can be emulated through (3) in a similar way.

Back when (1) was relevant in the past, as people started enabling THPs,
we added PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, so relevant workloads that were not ready yet
(i.e., used by Redis) were able to just disable THPs completely.  Redis
still implements the option to use this interface to disable THPs
completely.

With PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, we added a way to force-disable THPs for a
workload -- a process, including fork+exec'ed process hierarchy.  That
essentially made us support (1): simply disable THPs for all workloads
that are not ready for THPs yet, while still enabling THPs system-wide.

The quest for handling (3) and (4) started, but current approaches
(completely new prctl, options to set other policies per process,
alternatives to prctl -- mctrl, cgroup handling) don't look particularly
promising.  Likely, the future will use bpf or something similar to
implement better policies, in particular to also make better decisions
about THP sizes to use, but this will certainly take a while as that work
just started.

Long story short: a simple enable/disable is not really suitable for the
future, so we're not willing to add completely new toggles.

While we could emulate (3)+(4) through (1)+(2) by simply disabling THPs
completely for these processes, this is a step backwards, because these
processes can no longer allocate THPs in regions where THPs were
explicitly advised: regions flagged as VM_HUGEPAGE.  Apparently, that
imposes a problem for relevant workloads, because "not THPs" is certainly
worse than "THPs only when advised".

Could we simply relax PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, to "disable THPs unless not
explicitly advised by the app through MAD_HUGEPAGE"?  *maybe*, but this
would change the documented semantics quite a bit, and the versatility to
use it for debugging purposes, so I am not 100% sure that is what we want
-- although it would certainly be much easier.

So instead, as an easy way forward for (3) and (4), add an option to
make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE disable *less* THPs for a process.

In essence, this patch:

(A) Adds PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED, to be used as a flag in arg3
    of prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) when disabling THPs (arg2 != 0).

    prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1, PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).

(B) Makes prctl(PR_GET_THP_DISABLE) return 3 if
    PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set while disabling.

    Previously, it would return 1 if THPs were disabled completely. Now
    it returns the set flags as well: 3 if PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED
    was set.

(C) Renames MMF_DISABLE_THP to MMF_DISABLE_THP_COMPLETELY, to express
    the semantics clearly.

    Fortunately, there are only two instances outside of prctl() code.

(D) Adds MMF_DISABLE_THP_EXCEPT_ADVISED to express "no THP except for VMAs
    with VM_HUGEPAGE" -- essentially "thp=madvise" behavior

    Fortunately, we only have to extend vma_thp_disabled().

(E) Indicates "THP_enabled: 0" in /proc/pid/status only if THPs are
    disabled completely

    Only indicating that THPs are disabled when they are really disabled
    completely, not only partially.

    For now, we don't add another interface to obtained whether THPs
    are disabled partially (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED was set). If
    ever required, we could add a new entry.

The documented semantics in the man page for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE "is
inherited by a child created via fork(2) and is preserved across
execve(2)" is maintained.  This behavior, for example, allows for
disabling THPs for a workload through the launching process (e.g., systemd
where we fork() a helper process to then exec()).

For now, MADV_COLLAPSE will *fail* in regions without VM_HUGEPAGE and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE.  As MADV_COLLAPSE is a clear advise that user space thinks
a THP is a good idea, we'll enable that separately next (requiring a bit
of cleanup first).

There is currently not way to prevent that a process will not issue
PR_SET_THP_DISABLE itself to re-enable THP.  There are not really known
users for re-enabling it, and it's against the purpose of the original
interface.  So if ever required, we could investigate just forbidding to
re-enable them, or make this somehow configurable.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yafang <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 16:55:05 -07:00
Lorenzo Stoakes
d14d3f535e mm: convert remaining users to mm_flags_*() accessors
As part of the effort to move to mm->flags becoming a bitmap field,
convert existing users to making use of the mm_flags_*() accessors which
will, when the conversion is complete, be the only means of accessing
mm_struct flags.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cc67a56f9a8746a8ec7d9791853dc892c1c33e0b.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 16:54:58 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
d00f523285 pid: change task_state() to use task_ppid_nr_ns()
to simplify the code.

Note that only tpid and max_fds really need rcu_read_lock(), we could move
task_ppid_nr_ns/task_tgid_nr_ns/task_numa_group_id/get_task_cred outside of
rcu read section.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250810173620.GA20007@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-19 13:38:21 +02:00
Nam Cao
ab251dacfb fs/proc: do_task_stat: Fix ESP not readable during coredump
The field "eip" (instruction pointer) and "esp" (stack pointer) of a task
can be read from /proc/PID/stat. These fields can be interesting for
coredump.

However, these fields were disabled by commit 0a1eb2d474 ("fs/proc: Stop
reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat"), because it is generally unsafe
to do so. But it is safe for a coredumping process, and therefore
exceptions were made:

  - for a coredumping thread by commit fd7d56270b ("fs/proc: Report
    eip/esp in /prod/PID/stat for coredumping").

  - for all other threads in a coredumping process by commit cb8f381f16
    ("fs/proc/array.c: allow reporting eip/esp for all coredumping
    threads").

The above two commits check the PF_DUMPCORE flag to determine a coredump thread
and the PF_EXITING flag for the other threads.

Unfortunately, commit 9230738308 ("coredump:  Don't perform any cleanups
before dumping core") moved coredump to happen earlier and before PF_EXITING is
set. Thus, checking PF_EXITING is no longer the correct way to determine
threads in a coredumping process.

Instead of PF_EXITING, use PF_POSTCOREDUMP to determine the other threads.

Checking of PF_EXITING was added for coredumping, so it probably can now be
removed. But it doesn't hurt to keep.

Fixes: 9230738308 ("coredump:  Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d89af63d478d6c64cc46a01420b46fd6eb147d6f.1735805772.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-01-04 10:12:18 +01:00
Yafang Shao
4cc0473d77 get rid of __get_task_comm()
Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8.

Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the
length of task comm.  Changes in the task comm could result in a
destination string that is overflow.  Therefore, we should explicitly
ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the
task comm.  This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task
comm.

As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the
following git grep command:

  git grep 'memcpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'kstrdup.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strncpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strcpy.*->comm\>'

PATCH #2~#4:   memcpy
PATCH #5~#6:   kstrdup
PATCH #7:      strcpy

Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being
tracked by another effort. [1]


This patch (of 7):

We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following
reasons:

- The task_lock() is unnecessary
  Quoted from Linus [0]:
  : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking
  : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense
  : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there
  : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have
  : long-term mixed results

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Matus Jokay <matus.jokay@stuba.sk>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05 17:12:28 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
7601df8031 fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats
lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup.  If NR_CPUS threads call
do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will
spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.

Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics
outside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will
run lockless.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153357.GA21857@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-07 21:20:33 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
60f92acb60 fs/proc: do_task_stat: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand()
Patch series "fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_".

do_task_stat() has the same problem as getrusage() had before "getrusage:
use sig->stats_lock rather than lock_task_sighand()": a hard lockup.  If
NR_CPUS threads call lock_task_sighand() at the same time and the process
has NR_THREADS, spin_lock_irq will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS *
NR_THREADS) time.


This patch (of 3):

thread_group_cputime() does its own locking, we can safely shift
thread_group_cputime_adjusted() which does another for_each_thread loop
outside of ->siglock protected section.

Not only this removes for_each_thread() from the critical section with
irqs disabled, this removes another case when stats_lock is taken with
siglock held.  We want to remove this dependency, then we can change the
users of stats_lock to not disable irqs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153313.GA21832@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153355.GA21854@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-07 21:20:33 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
7904e53ed5 fs/proc: do_task_stat: use __for_each_thread()
do/while_each_thread should be avoided when possible.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230909164501.GA11581@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04 10:41:57 -07:00
Rick Edgecombe
0ee44885fe x86: Expose thread features in /proc/$PID/status
Applications and loaders can have logic to decide whether to enable
shadow stack. They usually don't report whether shadow stack has been
enabled or not, so there is no way to verify whether an application
actually is protected by shadow stack.

Add two lines in /proc/$PID/status to report enabled and locked features.

Since, this involves referring to arch specific defines in asm/prctl.h,
implement an arch breakout to emit the feature lines.

[Switched to CET, added to commit log]

Co-developed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-37-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
2023-08-02 15:01:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22b8cc3e78 Merge tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 LAM (Linear Address Masking) support from Dave Hansen:
 "Add support for the new Linear Address Masking CPU feature.

  This is similar to ARM's Top Byte Ignore and allows userspace to store
  metadata in some bits of pointers without masking it out before use"

* tag 'x86_mm_for_6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Do not allow to set FORCE_TAGGED_SVA bit from outside
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Fix error code for LAM enabling failure due to SVA
  selftests/x86/lam: Add test cases for LAM vs thread creation
  selftests/x86/lam: Add ARCH_FORCE_TAGGED_SVA test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add inherit test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add io_uring test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add mmap and SYSCALL test cases for linear-address masking
  selftests/x86/lam: Add malloc and tag-bits test cases for linear-address masking
  x86/mm/iommu/sva: Make LAM and SVA mutually exclusive
  iommu/sva: Replace pasid_valid() helper with mm_valid_pasid()
  mm: Expose untagging mask in /proc/$PID/status
  x86/mm: Provide arch_prctl() interface for LAM
  x86/mm: Reduce untagged_addr() overhead for systems without LAM
  x86/uaccess: Provide untagged_addr() and remove tags before address check
  mm: Introduce untagged_addr_remote()
  x86/mm: Handle LAM on context switch
  x86: CPUID and CR3/CR4 flags for Linear Address Masking
  x86: Allow atomic MM_CONTEXT flags setting
  x86/mm: Rework address range check in get_user() and put_user()
2023-04-28 09:43:49 -07:00
Chunguang Wu
522dc4e5f5 fs/proc: add Kthread flag to /proc/$pid/status
The command `ps -ef ` and `top -c` mark kernel thread by '[' and ']', but
sometimes the result is not correct.  The task->flags in /proc/$pid/stat
is good, but we need remember the value of PF_KTHREAD is 0x00200000 and
convert dec to hex.  If we have no binary program and shell script which
read /proc/$pid/stat, we can know it directly by `cat /proc/$pid/status`.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230416052404.2920-1-fullspring2018@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Wu <fullspring2018@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-21 14:54:34 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
f7d304343b mm: Expose untagging mask in /proc/$PID/status
Add a line in /proc/$PID/status to report untag_mask. It can be
used to find out LAM status of the process from the outside. It is
useful for debuggers.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230312112612.31869-10-kirill.shutemov%40linux.intel.com
2023-03-16 13:08:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f122a08b19 capability: just use a 'u64' instead of a 'u32[2]' array
Back in 2008 we extended the capability bits from 32 to 64, and we did
it by extending the single 32-bit capability word from one word to an
array of two words.  It was then obfuscated by hiding the "2" behind two
macro expansions, with the reasoning being that maybe it gets extended
further some day.

That reasoning may have been valid at the time, but the last thing we
want to do is to extend the capability set any more.  And the array of
values not only causes source code oddities (with loops to deal with
it), but also results in worse code generation.  It's a lose-lose
situation.

So just change the 'u32[2]' into a 'u64' and be done with it.

We still have to deal with the fact that the user space interface is
designed around an array of these 32-bit values, but that was the case
before too, since the array layouts were different (ie user space
doesn't use an array of 32-bit values for individual capability masks,
but an array of 32-bit slices of multiple masks).

So that marshalling of data is actually simplified too, even if it does
remain somewhat obscure and odd.

This was all triggered by my reaction to the new "cap_isidentical()"
introduced recently.  By just using a saner data structure, it went from

	unsigned __capi;
	CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) {
		if (a.cap[__capi] != b.cap[__capi])
			return false;
	}
	return true;

to just being

	return a.val == b.val;

instead.  Which is rather more obvious both to humans and to compilers.

Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-01 10:01:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
493ffd6605 Merge tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
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
2022-10-09 16:24:05 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ed8fb78d7e proc: add some (hopefully) insightful comments
* /proc/${pid}/net status
* removing PDE vs last close stuff (again!)
* random small stuff

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YtwrM6sDC0OQ53YB@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-29 18:12:35 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
376b0c2661 proc: delete unused <linux/uaccess.h> includes
Those aren't necessary after seq files won.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YqnA3mS7KBt8Z4If@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-17 17:31:39 -07:00
Alexey Gladkov
de399236e2 ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values
Since the semantics of maximum rlimit values are different, it would be
better not to mix ucount and rlimit values. This will prevent the error
of using inc_count/dec_ucount for rlimit parameters.

This patch also renames the functions to emphasize the lack of
connection between rlimit and ucount.

v3:
- Fix BUG:KASAN:use-after-free_in_dec_ucount.

v2:
- Fix the array-index-out-of-bounds that was found by the lkp project.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220518171730.l65lmnnjtnxnftpq@example.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-05-18 18:24:57 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
355f841a3f tracehook: Remove tracehook.h
Now that all of the definitions have moved out of tracehook.h into
ptrace.h, sched/signal.h, resume_user_mode.h there is nothing left in
tracehook.h so remove it.

Update the few files that were depending upon tracehook.h to bring in
definitions to use the headers they need directly.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-13-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-03-10 16:51:51 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
f4484d138b Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "55 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl,
  misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2,
  hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (55 commits)
  lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
  ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE
  kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
  lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
  btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit
  arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
  configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup
  delayacct: track delays from memory compact
  Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact
  delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it
  delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable
  delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio
  panic: remove oops_id
  panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings
  fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner
  FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait()
  hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region
  nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs
  fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE
  const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs
  ...
2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
Yafang Shao
d6986ce24f kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name
When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN.  For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19
all have the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user.
This issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU
from the task's Cpus_allowed.  But for kthreads corresponding to other
hardware devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from
task comm, for example,

    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    xfs-reclaim/sdf

Currently there are so many truncated kthreads:

    rcu_tasks_kthre
    rcu_tasks_rude_
    rcu_tasks_trace
    poll_mpt3sas0_s
    ext4-rsv-conver
    xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    audit_send_repl
    ecryptfs-kthrea
    vfio-irqfd-clea
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    ...

We can shorten these names to work around this problem, but it may be
not applied to all of the truncated kthreads.  Take 'jbd2/nvme0n1p2-'
for example, it is a nice name, and it is not a good idea to shorten it.

One possible way to fix this issue is extending the task comm size, but
as task->comm is used in lots of places, that may cause some potential
buffer overflows.  Another more conservative approach is introducing a
new pointer to store kthread's full name if it is truncated, which won't
introduce too much overhead as it is in the non-critical path.  Finally
we make a dicision to use the second approach.  See also the discussions
in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/

After this change, the full name of these truncated kthreads will be
displayed via /proc/[pid]/comm:

    rcu_tasks_kthread
    rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
    rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
    poll_mpt3sas0_statu
    ext4-rsv-conversion
    xfs-reclaim/sdf1
    xfs-blockgc/sdf1
    xfs-inodegc/sdf1
    audit_send_reply
    ecryptfs-kthread
    vfio-irqfd-cleanup
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112850.46047-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-20 08:52:53 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
2d18f7f456 exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/<pid>/stat
Since do_proc_statt was modified to return process wide values instead
of per task values the exit_code calculation has never been updated.
Update it now to return the process wide exit_code when it is requested
and available.

History-Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Fixes: bf719d26a5c1 ("[PATCH] distinct tgid/tid CPU usage")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220103213312.9144-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-01-08 12:43:57 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
a602285ac1 Merge branch 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull per signal_struct coredumps from Eric Biederman:
 "Current coredumps are mixed up with the exit code, the signal handling
  code, and the ptrace code making coredumps much more complicated than
  necessary and difficult to follow.

  This series of changes starts with ptrace_stop and cleans it up,
  making it easier to follow what is happening in ptrace_stop. Then
  cleans up the exec interactions with coredumps. Then cleans up the
  coredump interactions with exit. Finally the coredump interactions
  with the signal handling code is cleaned up.

  The first and last changes are bug fixes for minor bugs.

  I believe the fact that vfork followed by execve can kill the process
  the called vfork if exec fails is sufficient justification to change
  the userspace visible behavior.

  In previous discussions some of these changes were organized
  differently and individually appeared to make the code base worse. As
  currently written I believe they all stand on their own as cleanups
  and bug fixes.

  Which means that even if the worst should happen and the last change
  needs to be reverted for some unimaginable reason, the code base will
  still be improved.

  If the worst does not happen there are a more cleanups that can be
  made. Signals that generate coredumps can easily become eligible for
  short circuit delivery in complete_signal. The entire rendezvous for
  generating a coredump can move into get_signal. The function
  force_sig_info_to_task be written in a way that does not modify the
  signal handling state of the target task (because coredumps are
  eligible for short circuit delivery). Many of these future cleanups
  can be done another way but nothing so cleanly as if coredumps become
  per signal_struct"

* 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group
  coredump:  Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core
  exit: Factor coredump_exit_mm out of exit_mm
  exec: Check for a pending fatal signal instead of core_state
  ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop
  signal: Remove the bogus sigkill_pending in ptrace_stop
2021-11-03 12:15:29 -07:00
Kees Cook
4e04615679 proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
The implementations of get_wchan() can be expensive. The only information
imparted here is whether or not a process is currently blocked in the
scheduler (and even this doesn't need to be exact). Avoid doing the
heavy lifting of stack walking and just report that information by using
task_is_running().

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.211281780@infradead.org
2021-10-15 11:25:13 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman
0258b5fd7c coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group
Today when a signal is delivered with a handler of SIG_DFL whose
default behavior is to generate a core dump not only that process but
every process that shares the mm is killed.

In the case of vfork this looks like a real world problem.  Consider
the following well defined sequence.

	if (vfork() == 0) {
		execve(...);
		_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}

If a signal that generates a core dump is received after vfork but
before the execve changes the mm the process that called vfork will
also be killed (as the mm is shared).

Similarly if the execve fails after the point of no return the kernel
delivers SIGSEGV which will kill both the exec'ing process and because
the mm is shared the process that called vfork as well.

As far as I can tell this behavior is a violation of people's
reasonable expectations, POSIX, and is unnecessarily fragile when the
system is low on memory.

Solve this by making a userspace visible change to only kill a single
process/thread group.  This is possible because Jann Horn recently
modified[1] the coredump code so that the mm can safely be modified
while the coredump is happening.  With LinuxThreads long gone I don't
expect anyone to have a notice this behavior change in practice.

To accomplish this move the core_state pointer from mm_struct to
signal_struct, which allows different thread groups to coredump
simultatenously.

In zap_threads remove the work to kill anything except for the current
thread group.

v2: Remove core_state from the VM_BUG_ON_MM print to fix
    compile failure when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled.
    Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

[1] a07279c9a8 ("binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot")
Fixes: d89f3847def4 ("[PATCH] thread-aware coredumps, 2.5.43-C3")
History-tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y27mvnke.fsf@disp2133
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211007144701.67592574@canb.auug.org.au
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-10-08 12:06:02 -05:00