Pull mount handling updates from Al Viro:
"Cleanups (and one fix) around struct mount handling.
The fix is usermode_driver.c one - once you've done kern_mount(), you
must kern_unmount(); simple mntput() will end up with a leak. Several
failure exits in there messed up that way... In practice you won't hit
those particular failure exits without fault injection, though"
* tag 'pull-18-rc1-work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
move mount-related externs from fs.h to mount.h
blob_to_mnt(): kern_unmount() is needed to undo kern_mount()
m->mnt_root->d_inode->i_sb is a weird way to spell m->mnt_sb...
linux/mount.h: trim includes
uninline may_mount() and don't opencode it in fspick(2)/fsopen(2)
Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:
- bitmap: optimize bitmap_weight() usage, from me
- lib/bitmap.c make bitmap_print_bitmask_to_buf parseable, from Mauro
Carvalho Chehab
- include/linux/find: Fix documentation, from Anna-Maria Behnsen
- bitmap: fix conversion from/to fix-sized arrays, from me
- bitmap: Fix return values to be unsigned, from Kees Cook
It has been in linux-next for at least a week with no problems.
* tag 'bitmap-for-5.19-rc1' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (31 commits)
nodemask: Fix return values to be unsigned
bitmap: Fix return values to be unsigned
KVM: x86: hyper-v: replace bitmap_weight() with hweight64()
KVM: x86: hyper-v: fix type of valid_bank_mask
ia64: cleanup remove_siblinginfo()
drm/amd/pm: use bitmap_{from,to}_arr32 where appropriate
KVM: s390: replace bitmap_copy with bitmap_{from,to}_arr64 where appropriate
lib/bitmap: add test for bitmap_{from,to}_arr64
lib: add bitmap_{from,to}_arr64
lib/bitmap: extend comment for bitmap_(from,to)_arr32()
include/linux/find: Fix documentation
lib/bitmap.c make bitmap_print_bitmask_to_buf parseable
MAINTAINERS: add cpumask and nodemask files to BITMAP_API
arch/x86: replace nodes_weight with nodes_empty where appropriate
mm/vmstat: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
clocksource: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty in clocksource.c
genirq/affinity: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
irq: mips: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
drm/i915/pmu: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
arch/x86: replace cpumask_weight with cpumask_empty where appropriate
...
Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
"This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
tasks.
Commit 40966e316f ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
struct kthread possible.
Here, commit 343f4c49f2 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
enough to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
thread.
I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
sitting in linux-next"
* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
Pull tty and serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of tty and serial driver updates for 5.19-rc1.
Lots of tiny cleanups in here, the major stuff is:
- termbit cleanups and unification by Ilpo. A much needed change that
goes a long way to making things simpler for all of the different
arches
- tty documentation cleanups and movements to their own place in the
documentation tree
- old tty driver cleanups and fixes from Jiri to bring some existing
drivers into the modern world
- RS485 cleanups and unifications to make it easier for individual
drivers to support this mode instead of having to duplicate logic
in each driver
- Lots of 8250 driver updates and additions
- new device id additions
- n_gsm continued fixes and cleanups
- other minor serial driver updates and cleanups
All of these have been in linux-next for weeks with no reported issues"
* tag 'tty-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (166 commits)
tty: Rework receive flow control char logic
pcmcia: synclink_cs: Don't allow CS5-6
serial: stm32-usart: Correct CSIZE, bits, and parity
serial: st-asc: Sanitize CSIZE and correct PARENB for CS7
serial: sifive: Sanitize CSIZE and c_iflag
serial: sh-sci: Don't allow CS5-6
serial: txx9: Don't allow CS5-6
serial: rda-uart: Don't allow CS5-6
serial: digicolor-usart: Don't allow CS5-6
serial: uartlite: Fix BRKINT clearing
serial: cpm_uart: Fix build error without CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_CONSOLE
serial: core: Do stop_rx in suspend path for console if console_suspend is disabled
tty: serial: qcom-geni-serial: Remove uart frequency table. Instead, find suitable frequency with call to clk_round_rate.
dt-bindings: serial: renesas,em-uart: Add RZ/V2M clock to access the registers
serial: 8250_fintek: Check SER_RS485_RTS_* only with RS485
Revert "serial: 8250_mtk: Make sure to select the right FEATURE_SEL"
serial: msm_serial: disable interrupts in __msm_console_write()
serial: meson: acquire port->lock in startup()
serial: 8250_dw: Use dev_err_probe()
serial: 8250_dw: Use devm_add_action_or_reset()
...
common_shutdown_1() calls cpumask_weight() to check if any bit of a
given cpumask is set. We can do it more efficiently with cpumask_empty()
because cpumask_empty() stops traversing the cpumask as soon as it finds
first set bit, while cpumask_weight() counts all bits unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"The non-MM patch queue for this merge window.
Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against
various subsystems. Most notably some maintenance work in ocfs2
and initramfs"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (65 commits)
kcov: update pos before writing pc in trace function
ocfs2: dlmfs: fix error handling of user_dlm_destroy_lock
ocfs2: dlmfs: don't clear USER_LOCK_ATTACHED when destroying lock
fs/ntfs: remove redundant variable idx
fat: remove time truncations in vfat_create/vfat_mkdir
fat: report creation time in statx
fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory
fat: split fat_truncate_time() into separate functions
MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as a memcg reviewer
proc/sysctl: make protected_* world readable
ia64: mca: drop redundant spinlock initialization
tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port->lock
relay: remove redundant assignment to pointer buf
fs/ntfs3: validate BOOT sectors_per_clusters
lib/string_helpers: fix not adding strarray to device's resource list
kernel/crash_core.c: remove redundant check of ck_cmdline
ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition
ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree()
ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer
ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments
...
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
reviewed, etc.
- Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.
- Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
managed on a per-cgroup basis.
- Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
feature.
- Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
pagetable invalidation.
- Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
virtualization.
- Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.
- David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.
- Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.
- More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
available.
- Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
mprotect().
- Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
support.
- David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
get_user_pages().
- Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.
- Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
device-dax's compound devmaps.
- Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
Khandual.
- Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
transparent hugepages.
- Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.
... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
ksm: fix typo in comment
selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
...
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core
----
- Support TCPv6 segmentation offload with super-segments larger than
64k bytes using the IPv6 Jumbogram extension header (AKA BIG TCP).
- Generalize skb freeing deferral to per-cpu lists, instead of
per-socket lists.
- Add a netdev statistic for packets dropped due to L2 address
mismatch (rx_otherhost_dropped).
- Continue work annotating skb drop reasons.
- Accept alternative netdev names (ALT_IFNAME) in more netlink
requests.
- Add VLAN support for AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW GSO.
- Allow receiving skb mark from the socket as a cmsg.
- Enable memcg accounting for veth queues, sysctl tables and IPv6.
BPF
---
- Add libbpf support for User Statically-Defined Tracing (USDTs).
- Speed up symbol resolution for kprobes multi-link attachments.
- Support storing typed pointers to referenced and unreferenced
objects in BPF maps.
- Add support for BPF link iterator.
- Introduce access to remote CPU map elements in BPF per-cpu map.
- Allow middle-of-the-road settings for the
kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled sysctl.
- Implement basic types of dynamic pointers e.g. to allow for
dynamically sized ringbuf reservations without extra memory copies.
Protocols
---------
- Retire port only listening_hash table, add a second bind table
hashed by port and address. Avoid linear list walk when binding to
very popular ports (e.g. 443).
- Add bridge FDB bulk flush filtering support allowing user space to
remove all FDB entries matching a condition.
- Introduce accept_unsolicited_na sysctl for IPv6 to implement
router-side changes for RFC9131.
- Support for MPTCP path manager in user space.
- Add MPTCP support for fallback to regular TCP for connections that
have never connected additional subflows or transmitted
out-of-sequence data (partial support for RFC8684 fallback).
- Avoid races in MPTCP-level window tracking, stabilize and improve
throughput.
- Support lockless operation of GRE tunnels with seq numbers enabled.
- WiFi support for host based BSS color collision detection.
- Add support for SO_TXTIME/SCM_TXTIME on CAN sockets.
- Support transmission w/o flow control in CAN ISOTP (ISO 15765-2).
- Support zero-copy Tx with TLS 1.2 crypto offload (sendfile).
- Allow matching on the number of VLAN tags via tc-flower.
- Add tracepoint for tcp_set_ca_state().
Driver API
----------
- Improve error reporting from classifier and action offload.
- Add support for listing line cards in switches (devlink).
- Add helpers for reporting page pool statistics with ethtool -S.
- Add support for reading clock cycles when using PTP virtual clocks,
instead of having the driver convert to time before reporting. This
makes it possible to report time from different vclocks.
- Support configuring low-latency Tx descriptor push via ethtool.
- Separate Clause 22 and Clause 45 MDIO accesses more explicitly.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- Ethernet:
- Marvell's Octeon NIC PCI Endpoint support (octeon_ep)
- Sunplus SP7021 SoC (sp7021_emac)
- Add support for Renesas RZ/V2M (in ravb)
- Add support for MediaTek mt7986 switches (in mtk_eth_soc)
- Ethernet PHYs:
- ADIN1100 industrial PHYs (w/ 10BASE-T1L and SQI reporting)
- TI DP83TD510 PHY
- Microchip LAN8742/LAN88xx PHYs
- WiFi:
- Driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices (plfxlc)
- Driver for Silicon Labs devices (wfx)
- Support for WCN6750 (in ath11k)
- Support Realtek 8852ce devices (in rtw89)
- Mobile:
- MediaTek T700 modems (Intel 5G 5000 M.2 cards)
- CAN:
- ctucanfd: add support for CTU CAN FD open-source IP core from
Czech Technical University in Prague
Drivers
-------
- Delete a number of old drivers still using virt_to_bus().
- Ethernet NICs:
- intel: support TSO on tunnels MPLS
- broadcom: support multi-buffer XDP
- nfp: support VF rate limiting
- sfc: use hardware tx timestamps for more than PTP
- mlx5: multi-port eswitch support
- hyper-v: add support for XDP_REDIRECT
- atlantic: XDP support (including multi-buffer)
- macb: improve real-time perf by deferring Tx processing to NAPI
- High-speed Ethernet switches:
- mlxsw: implement basic line card information querying
- prestera: add support for traffic policing on ingress and egress
- Embedded Ethernet switches:
- lan966x: add support for packet DMA (FDMA)
- lan966x: add support for PTP programmable pins
- ti: cpsw_new: enable bc/mc storm prevention
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- Wake-on-WLAN support for QCA6390 and WCN6855
- device recovery (firmware restart) support
- support setting Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for WCN6855
- read country code from SMBIOS for WCN6855/QCA6390
- enable keep-alive during WoWLAN suspend
- implement remain-on-channel support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- support Wireless Ethernet Dispatch offloading packet movement
between the Ethernet switch and WiFi interfaces
- non-standard VHT MCS10-11 support
- mt7921 AP mode support
- mt7921 IPv6 NS offload support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- micrel: ksz9031/ksz9131: cabletest support
- lan87xx: SQI support for T1 PHYs
- lan937x: add interrupt support for link detection"
* tag 'net-next-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1809 commits)
ptp: ocp: Add firmware header checks
ptp: ocp: fix PPS source selector debugfs reporting
ptp: ocp: add .init function for sma_op vector
ptp: ocp: vectorize the sma accessor functions
ptp: ocp: constify selectors
ptp: ocp: parameterize input/output sma selectors
ptp: ocp: revise firmware display
ptp: ocp: add Celestica timecard PCI ids
ptp: ocp: Remove #ifdefs around PCI IDs
ptp: ocp: 32-bit fixups for pci start address
Revert "net/smc: fix listen processing for SMC-Rv2"
ath6kl: Use cc-disable-warning to disable -Wdangling-pointer
selftests/bpf: Dynptr tests
bpf: Add dynptr data slices
bpf: Add bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write
bpf: Dynptr support for ring buffers
bpf: Add bpf_dynptr_from_mem for local dynptrs
bpf: Add verifier support for dynptrs
bpf: Suppress 'passing zero to PTR_ERR' warning
bpf: Introduce bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
...
Alpha defines a get_cycles() function, but it does not do the usual
`#define get_cycles get_cycles` dance, making it impossible for generic
code to see if an arch-specific function was defined. While the
get_cycles() ifdef is not currently used, the following timekeeping
patch in this series will depend on the macro existing (or not existing)
when defining random_get_entropy().
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Add fn and fn_arg members into struct kernel_clone_args and test for
them in copy_thread (instead of testing for PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER).
This allows any task that wants to be a user space task that only runs
in kernel mode to use this functionality.
The code on x86 is an exception and still retains a PF_KTHREAD test
because x86 unlikely everything else handles kthreads slightly
differently than user space tasks that start with a function.
The functions that created tasks that start with a function
have been updated to set ".fn" and ".fn_arg" instead of
".stack" and ".stack_size". These functions are fork_idle(),
create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
With io_uring we have started supporting tasks that are for most
purposes user space tasks that exclusively run code in kernel mode.
The kernel task that exec's init and tasks that exec user mode
helpers are also user mode tasks that just run kernel code
until they call kernel execve.
Pass kernel_clone_args into copy_thread so these oddball
tasks can be supported more cleanly and easily.
v2: Fix spelling of kenrel_clone_args on h8300
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-2-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Many archs have termbits.h as octal numbers. It makes hard for humans
to parse the magnitude of large numbers correctly and to compare with
hex ones of the same define.
Convert octal values to hex.
First step is an automated conversion with:
for i in $(git ls-files | grep 'termbits\.h'); do
awk --non-decimal-data '/^#define\s+[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*\s+0[0-9]/ {
l=int(((length($3) - 1) * 3 + 3) / 4);
repl = sprintf("0x%0" l "x", $3);
print gensub(/[^[:blank:]]+/, repl, 3);
next} {print}' $i > $i~;
mv $i~ $i;
done
On top of that, some manual processing on alignment and number of zeros.
In addition, small tweaks to formatting of a few comments on the same
lines.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2c8c96f-a12f-aadc-18ac-34c1d371929c@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted bits and pieces"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
aio: drop needless assignment in aio_read()
clean overflow checks in count_mounts() a bit
seq_file: fix NULL pointer arithmetic warning
uml/x86: use x86 load_unaligned_zeropad()
asm/user.h: killed unused macros
constify struct path argument of finish_automount()/do_add_mount()
fs: Remove FIXME comment in generic_write_checks()
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Add new environment variables, USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS to allow
additional flags to be passed to user-space programs.
- Fix missing fflush() bugs in Kconfig and fixdep
- Fix a minor bug in the comment format of the .config file
- Make kallsyms ignore llvm's local labels, .L*
- Fix UAPI compile-test for cross-compiling with Clang
- Extend the LLVM= syntax to support LLVM=<suffix> form for using a
particular version of LLVm, and LLVM=<prefix> form for using custom
LLVM in a particular directory path.
- Clean up Makefiles
* tag 'kbuild-v5.18-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible
kbuild: add --target to correctly cross-compile UAPI headers with Clang
fixdep: use fflush() and ferror() to ensure successful write to files
arch: syscalls: simplify uapi/kapi directory creation
usr/include: replace extra-y with always-y
certs: simplify empty certs creation in certs/Makefile
certs: include certs/signing_key.x509 unconditionally
kallsyms: ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'
kconfig: fix missing '# end of' for empty menu
kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check
kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)
kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags
kbuild: unify cmd_copy and cmd_shipped
$(shell ...) expands to empty. There is no need to assign it to _dummy.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
- do not zero buffer in set_memory_decrypted (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- fix return value of dma-debug __setup handlers (Randy Dunlap)
- swiotlb cleanups (Robin Murphy)
- remove most remaining users of the pci-dma-compat.h API
(Christophe JAILLET)
- share the ABI header for the DMA map_benchmark with userspace
(Tian Tao)
- update the maintainer for DMA MAPPING BENCHMARK (Xiang Chen)
- remove CONFIG_DMA_REMAP (me)
* tag 'dma-mapping-5.18' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
dma-mapping: benchmark: extract a common header file for map_benchmark definition
dma-debug: fix return value of __setup handlers
dma-mapping: remove CONFIG_DMA_REMAP
media: v4l2-pci-skeleton: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
rapidio/tsi721: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
sparc: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
agp/intel: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
alpha: Remove usage of the deprecated "pci-dma-compat.h" API
MAINTAINERS: update maintainer list of DMA MAPPING BENCHMARK
swiotlb: simplify array allocation
swiotlb: tidy up includes
swiotlb: simplify debugfs setup
swiotlb: do not zero buffer in set_memory_decrypted()
Pull ptrace cleanups from Eric Biederman:
"This set of changes removes tracehook.h, moves modification of all of
the ptrace fields inside of siglock to remove races, adds a missing
permission check to ptrace.c
The removal of tracehook.h is quite significant as it has been a major
source of confusion in recent years. Much of that confusion was around
task_work and TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (which I have now decoupled making the
semantics clearer).
For people who don't know tracehook.h is a vestiage of an attempt to
implement uprobes like functionality that was never fully merged, and
was later superseeded by uprobes when uprobes was merged. For many
years now we have been removing what tracehook functionaly a little
bit at a time. To the point where anything left in tracehook.h was
some weird strange thing that was difficult to understand"
* tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
ptrace: Remove duplicated include in ptrace.c
ptrace: Check PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP permission on PTRACE_SEIZE
ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop
ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop
tracehook: Remove tracehook.h
resume_user_mode: Move to resume_user_mode.h
resume_user_mode: Remove #ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in set_notify_resume
signal: Move set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal into sched/signal.h
task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work
task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures
task_work: Introduce task_work_pending
task_work: Remove unnecessary include from posix_timers.h
ptrace: Remove tracehook_signal_handler
ptrace: Remove arch_syscall_{enter,exit}_tracehook
ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.h
ptrace/arm: Rename tracehook_report_syscall report_syscall
ptrace: Move ptrace_report_syscall into ptrace.h
MADV_DONTNEED historically rejects mlocked ranges, but with MLOCK_ONFAULT
and MCL_ONFAULT allowing to mlock without populating, there are valid use
cases for depopulating locked ranges as well.
Users mlock memory to protect secrets. There are allocators for secure
buffers that want in-use memory generally mlocked, but cleared and
invalidated memory to give up the physical pages. This could be done with
explicit munlock -> mlock calls on free -> alloc of course, but that adds
two unnecessary syscalls, heavy mmap_sem write locks, vma splits and
re-merges - only to get rid of the backing pages.
Users also mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) to suppress sustained paging, but are
okay with on-demand initial population. It seems valid to selectively
free some memory during the lifetime of such a process, without having to
mess with its overall policy.
Why add a separate flag? Isn't this a pretty niche usecase?
- MADV_DONTNEED has been bailing on locked vmas forever. It's at least
conceivable that someone, somewhere is relying on mlock to protect
data from perhaps broader invalidation calls. Changing this behavior
now could lead to quiet data corruption.
- It also clarifies expectations around MADV_FREE and maybe
MADV_REMOVE. It avoids the situation where one quietly behaves
different than the others. MADV_FREE_LOCKED can be added later.
- The combination of mlock() and madvise() in the first place is
probably niche. But where it happens, I'd say that dropping pages
from a locked region once they don't contain secrets or won't page
anymore is much saner than relying on mlock to protect memory from
speculative or errant invalidation calls. It's just that we can't
change the default behavior because of the two previous points.
Given that, an explicit new flag seems to make the most sense.
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix mips build]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220304171912.305060-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
