Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain:
- The whole caching of module code into huge pages by Mike Rapoport is
going in through Andrew Morton's tree due to some other code
dependencies. That's really the biggest highlight for Linux kernel
modules in this release. With it we share huge pages for modules,
starting off with x86. Expect to see that soon through Andrew!
- Helge Deller addressed some lingering low hanging fruit alignment
enhancements by. It is worth pointing out that from his old patch
series I dropped his vmlinux.lds.h change at Masahiro's request as he
would prefer this to be specified in asm code [0].
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240129192644.3359978-5-mcgrof@kernel.org/T/#m9efef5e700fbecd28b7afb462c15eed8ba78ef5a
- Matthew Maurer and Sami Tolvanen have been tag teaming to help get us
closer to a modversions for Rust. In this cycle we take in quite a
lot of the refactoring for ELF validation. I expect modversions for
Rust will be merged by v6.14 as that code is mostly ready now.
- Adds a new modules selftests: kallsyms which helps us tests
find_symbol() and the limits of kallsyms on Linux today.
- We have a realtime mailing list to kernel-ci testing for modules now
which relies and combines patchwork, kpd and kdevops:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-modules/list/https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops/blob/main/docs/kernel-ci/README.mdhttps://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops/blob/main/docs/kernel-ci/kernel-ci-kpd.mdhttps://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops/blob/main/docs/kernel-ci/linux-modules-kdevops-ci.md
If you want to help avoid Linux kernel modules regressions, now its
simple, just add a new Linux modules sefltests under
tools/testing/selftests/module/ That is it. All new selftests will be
used and leveraged automatically by the CI.
* tag 'modules-6.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux:
tests/module/gen_test_kallsyms.sh: use 0 value for variables
scripts: Remove export_report.pl
selftests: kallsyms: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION
selftests: add new kallsyms selftests
module: Reformat struct for code style
module: Additional validation in elf_validity_cache_strtab
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_strtab
module: Group section index calculations together
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_index_str
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_index_sym
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_index_mod
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_index_info
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_secstrings
module: Factor out elf_validity_cache_sechdrs
module: Factor out elf_validity_ehdr
module: Take const arg in validate_section_offset
modules: Add missing entry for __ex_table
modules: Ensure 64-bit alignment on __ksymtab_* sections
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.
- Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
series which clean up the implementation:
- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
- "refine storing null"
- The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.
- The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
code.
- The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
shadow entries.
- The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.
- The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
the hugetlb code.
- The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.
- The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.
- The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
do.
- The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.
- The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
splitting.
- The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.
- The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
addresses some potential performance issues.
- The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
read-only-execute module text.
- The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
feature.
- The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
struct page.
- The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
DAMON's self testing code.
- The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
this zswap operation.
- The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
tests over to the KUnit framework.
- The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
expected.
- The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
activity.
- The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.
- The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
from the kernel boot command line.
- The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.
- The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
is enabled.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
mm: define general function pXd_init()
kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
...
Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro:
"The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff
Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope
where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing
them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}).
We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff
trivial to verify"
* tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file()
css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...)
memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd)
assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)
do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd)
convert do_select()
convert vfs_dedupe_file_range().
convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk()
convert media_request_get_by_fd()
convert spu_run(2)
switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use
convert cachestat(2)
convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev()
fdget(), more trivial conversions
fdget(), trivial conversions
privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget()
o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput()
introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it.
fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)
...
all failure exits prior to fdget() leave the scope, all matching fdput()
are immediately followed by leaving the scope.
[xfs_ioc_commit_range() chunk moved here as well]
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With few exceptions emptiness checks are done as fd_file(...) in boolean
context (usually something like if (!fd_file(f))...); those will be
taken care of later.
However, there's a couple of places where we do those checks as
'store fd_file(...) into a variable, then check if this variable is
NULL' and those are harder to spot.
Get rid of those now.
use fd_empty() instead of extracting file and then checking it for NULL.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Validate properties of the strtab that are depended on elsewhere, but
were previously unchecked:
* String table nonempty (offset 0 is valid)
* String table has a leading NUL (offset 0 corresponds to "")
* String table is NUL terminated (strfoo functions won't run out of the
table while reading).
* All symbols names are inbounds of the string table.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
This patch only moves the existing strtab population to a function.
Validation comes in a following patch, this is split out to make the new
validation checks more clearly separated.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Group all the index detection together to make the parent function
easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Pull out index validation for the symbol string section.
Note that this does not validate the *contents* of the string table,
only shape and presence of the section.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Factor out the validation of section names.
There are two behavioral changes:
1. Previously, we did not validate non-SHF_ALLOC sections.
This may have once been safe, as find_sec skips non-SHF_ALLOC
sections, but find_any_sec, which will be used to load BTF if that is
enabled, ignores the SHF_ALLOC flag. Since there's no need to support
invalid section names, validate all of them, not just SHF_ALLOC
sections.
2. Section names were validated *after* accessing them for the purposes
of detecting ".modinfo" and ".gnu.linkonce.this_module". They are now
checked prior to the access, which could avoid bad accesses with
malformed modules.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Factor out and document the validation of section headers.
Because we now validate all section offsets and lengths before accessing
them, we can remove the ad-hoc checks.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
`validate_section_offset` doesn't modify the info passed in. Make this
clear by adjusting the type signature.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
some of those used to be needed, some had been cargo-culted for
no reason...
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"There are a few fixes / cleanups from Vincent, Chunhui, and Petr, but
the most important part of this pull request is the Rust community
stepping up to help maintain both C / Rust code for future Rust module
support. We grow the set of modules maintainers by three now, and with
this hope to scale to help address what's needed to properly support
future Rust module support.
A lot of exciting stuff coming in future kernel releases.
This has been on linux-next for ~ 3 weeks now with no issues"
* tag 'modules-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
module: Refine kmemleak scanned areas
module: abort module loading when sysfs setup suffer errors
MAINTAINERS: scale modules with more reviewers
module: Clean up the description of MODULE_SIG_<type>
module: Split modules_install compression and in-kernel decompression
Currently the Rust support is gated on not having MODVERSIONS enabled,
and as a result an "allmodconfig" build will disable Rust build tests.
While MODVERSIONS configurations are worth build testing, the feature is
not actually meaningful unless you run the result, and I'd rather get
build coverage of Rust than MODVERSIONS. So let's disable MODVERSIONS
for build testing until the Rust side clears up.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull 'struct fd' updates from Al Viro:
"Just the 'struct fd' layout change, with conversion to accessor
helpers"
* tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to_fd()
struct fd: representation change
introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.
Pull x86 build updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for KCOV instrumentation on x86:
- Prevent spurious KCOV coverage in common_interrupt()
- Fixup the KCOV Makefile directive which got stale due to a source
file rename
- Exclude stack unwinding from KCOV as it creates large amounts of
uninteresting coverage
- Provide a self test to validate that KCOV coverage of the interrupt
handling code starts not before preempt count got updated"
* tag 'x86-build-2024-09-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Ignore stack unwinding in KCOV
module: Fix KCOV-ignored file name
kcov: Add interrupt handling self test
x86/entry: Remove unwanted instrumentation in common_interrupt()
