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Paul Walmsley 08ee155905 prctl: cfi: change the branch landing pad prctl()s to be more descriptive
Per Linus' comments requesting the replacement of "INDIR_BR_LP" in the
indirect branch tracking prctl()s with something more readable, and
suggesting the use of the speculation control prctl()s as an exemplar,
reimplement the prctl()s and related constants that control per-task
forward-edge control flow integrity.

This primarily involves two changes.  First, the prctls are
restructured to resemble the style of the speculative execution
workaround control prctls PR_{GET,SET}_SPECULATION_CTRL, to make them
easier to extend in the future.  Second, the "indir_br_lp" abbrevation
is expanded to "branch_landing_pads" to be less telegraphic.  The
kselftest and documentation is adjusted accordingly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAHk-=whhSLGZAx3N5jJpb4GLFDqH_QvS07D+6BnkPWmCEzTAgw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
2026-04-04 18:40:58 -06:00
Linus Torvalds cee73b1e84 Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Paul Walmsley:

 - Add support for control flow integrity for userspace processes.

   This is based on the standard RISC-V ISA extensions Zicfiss and
   Zicfilp

 - Improve ptrace behavior regarding vector registers, and add some
   selftests

 - Optimize our strlen() assembly

 - Enable the ISO-8859-1 code page as built-in, similar to ARM64, for
   EFI volume mounting

 - Clean up some code slightly, including defining copy_user_page() as
   copy_page() rather than memcpy(), aligning us with other
   architectures; and using max3() to slightly simplify an expression
   in riscv_iommu_init_check()

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-7.0-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (42 commits)
  riscv: lib: optimize strlen loop efficiency
  selftests: riscv: vstate_exec_nolibc: Use the regular prctl() function
  selftests: riscv: verify ptrace accepts valid vector csr values
  selftests: riscv: verify ptrace rejects invalid vector csr inputs
  selftests: riscv: verify syscalls discard vector context
  selftests: riscv: verify initial vector state with ptrace
  selftests: riscv: test ptrace vector interface
  riscv: ptrace: validate input vector csr registers
  riscv: csr: define vtype register elements
  riscv: vector: init vector context with proper vlenb
  riscv: ptrace: return ENODATA for inactive vector extension
  kselftest/riscv: add kselftest for user mode CFI
  riscv: add documentation for shadow stack
  riscv: add documentation for landing pad / indirect branch tracking
  riscv: create a Kconfig fragment for shadow stack and landing pad support
  arch/riscv: add dual vdso creation logic and select vdso based on hw
  arch/riscv: compile vdso with landing pad and shadow stack note
  riscv: enable kernel access to shadow stack memory via the FWFT SBI call
  riscv: add kernel command line option to opt out of user CFI
  riscv/hwprobe: add zicfilp / zicfiss enumeration in hwprobe
  ...
2026-02-12 19:17:44 -08:00
Deepak GuptaandPaul Walmsley 5ca243f6e3 prctl: add arch-agnostic prctl()s for indirect branch tracking
Three architectures (x86, aarch64, riscv) have support for indirect
branch tracking feature in a very similar fashion. On a very high
level, indirect branch tracking is a CPU feature where CPU tracks
branches which use a memory operand to transfer control. As part of
this tracking, during an indirect branch, the CPU expects a landing
pad instruction on the target PC, and if not found, the CPU raises
some fault (architecture-dependent).

x86 landing pad instr - 'ENDBRANCH'
arch64 landing pad instr - 'BTI'
riscv landing instr - 'lpad'

Given that three major architectures have support for indirect branch
tracking, this patch creates architecture-agnostic 'prctls' to allow
userspace to control this feature.  They are:
 - PR_GET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS: Get the current configured status for indirect
   branch tracking.
 - PR_SET_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS: Set the configuration for indirect branch
   tracking.
   The following status options are allowed:
       - PR_INDIR_BR_LP_ENABLE: Enables indirect branch tracking on user
         thread.
       - PR_INDIR_BR_LP_DISABLE: Disables indirect branch tracking on user
         thread.
 - PR_LOCK_INDIR_BR_LP_STATUS: Locks configured status for indirect branch
   tracking for user thread.

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zong Li <zong.li@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Korb <andreas.korb@aisec.fraunhofer.de> # QEMU, custom CVA6
Tested-by: Valentin Haudiquet <valentin.haudiquet@canonical.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112-v5_user_cfi_series-v23-13-b55691eacf4f@rivosinc.com
[pjw@kernel.org: cleaned up patch description, code comments]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
2026-01-29 02:36:32 -07:00
Thomas GleixnerandPeter Zijlstra 28621ec2d4 rseq: Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
Implement a prctl() so that tasks can enable the time slice extension
mechanism. This fails, when time slice extensions are disabled at compile
time or on the kernel command line and when no rseq pointer is registered
in the kernel.

That allows to implement a single trivial check in the exit to user mode
hotpath, to decide whether the whole mechanism needs to be invoked.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.858717691@linutronix.de
2026-01-22 11:11:17 +01:00
David HildenbrandandAndrew Morton 8cdc4d2701 mm/huge_memory: respect MADV_COLLAPSE with PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED
Let's allow for making MADV_COLLAPSE succeed on areas that neither have
VM_HUGEPAGE nor VM_NOHUGEPAGE when we have THP disabled unless explicitly
advised (PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).

MADV_COLLAPSE is a clear advice that we want to collapse.

Note that we still respect the VM_NOHUGEPAGE flag, just like
MADV_COLLAPSE always does. So consequently, MADV_COLLAPSE is now only
refused on VM_NOHUGEPAGE with PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED,
including for shmem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250815135549.130506-4-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Co-developed-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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
David HildenbrandandAndrew Morton 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
Linus Torvalds 6fb44438a5 Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "A quick summary: perf support for Branch Record Buffer Extensions
  (BRBE), typical PMU hardware updates, small additions to MTE for
  store-only tag checking and exposing non-address bits to signal
  handlers, HAVE_LIVEPATCH enabled on arm64, VMAP_STACK forced on.

  There is also a TLBI optimisation on hardware that does not require
  break-before-make when changing the user PTEs between contiguous and
  non-contiguous.

  More details:

  Perf and PMU updates:

   - Add support for new (v3) Hisilicon SLLC and DDRC PMUs

   - Add support for Arm-NI PMU integrations that share interrupts
     between clock domains within a given instance

   - Allow SPE to be configured with a lower sample period than the
     minimum recommendation advertised by PMSIDR_EL1.Interval

   - Add suppport for Arm's "Branch Record Buffer Extension" (BRBE)

   - Adjust the perf watchdog period according to cpu frequency changes

   - Minor driver fixes and cleanups

  Hardware features:

   - Support for MTE store-only checking (FEAT_MTE_STORE_ONLY)

   - Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE
     tag check fault (FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR)

   - Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contiguous PTEs on
     hardware with FEAT_BBM (break-before-make) level 2 and no TLB
     conflict aborts

  Software features:

   - Enable HAVE_LIVEPATCH after implementing arch_stack_walk_reliable()
     and using the text-poke API for late module relocations

   - Force VMAP_STACK always on and change arm64_efi_rt_init() to use
     arch_alloc_vmap_stack() in order to avoid KASAN false positives

  ACPI:

   - Improve SPCR handling and messaging on systems lacking an SPCR
     table

  Debug:

   - Simplify the debug exception entry path

   - Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros

  Kselftests:

   - Cleanups and improvements for SME, SVE and FPSIMD tests

  Miscellaneous:

   - Optimise loop to reduce redundant operations in contpte_ptep_get()

   - Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 during signal handling

   - Mark the kernel as tainted on SEA and SError panic

   - Remove redundant gcs_free() call"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (93 commits)
  arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task
  arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered
  arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0
  kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems
  kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace
  kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems
  arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
  kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3
  arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic
  arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct
  drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt
  drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version
  perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance
  perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling
  ...
2025-07-29 20:21:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 78bb43e51b Merge tag 'core-entry-2025-07-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull generic entry code updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Split the code into syscall and exception/interrupt parts to ease the
   conversion of ARM[64] to the generic entry infrastructure

 - Extend syscall user dispatching to support a single intercepted range
   instead of the default single non-intercepted range. That allows
   monitoring/analysis of a specific executable range, e.g. a library,
   and also provides flexibility for sandboxing scenarios

 - Cleanup and extend the user dispatch selftest

* tag 'core-entry-2025-07-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  entry: Split generic entry into generic exception and syscall entry
  selftests: Add tests for PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON
  syscall_user_dispatch: Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON
  selftests: Fix errno checking in syscall_user_dispatch test
2025-07-29 15:14:29 -07:00
Sebastian Andrzej SiewiorandPeter Zijlstra 760e6f7bef futex: Remove support for IMMUTABLE
The FH_FLAG_IMMUTABLE flag was meant to avoid the reference counting on
the private hash and so to avoid the performance regression on big
machines.
With the switch to per-CPU counter this is no longer needed. That flag
was never useable on any released kernel.

Remove any support for IMMUTABLE while preserve the flags argument and
enforce it to be zero.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250710110011.384614-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2025-07-11 16:02:01 +02:00
Yeoreum YunandCatalin Marinas b1fabef37b prctl: Introduce PR_MTE_STORE_ONLY
PR_MTE_STORE_ONLY is used to restrict the MTE tag check for store
opeartion only.

Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618092957.2069907-3-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2025-07-02 18:49:03 +01:00
Dmitry VyukovandThomas Gleixner a2fc422ed7 syscall_user_dispatch: Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON
There are two possible scenarios for syscall filtering:
 - having a trusted/allowed range of PCs, and intercepting everything else
 - or the opposite: a single untrusted/intercepted range and allowing
   everything else (this is relevant for any kind of sandboxing scenario,
   or monitoring behavior of a single library)

The current API only allows the former use case due to allowed
range wrap-around check. Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON that
enables the second use case.

Add PR_SYS_DISPATCH_EXCLUSIVE_ON alias for PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON
to make it clear how it's different from the new
PR_SYS_DISPATCH_INCLUSIVE_ON.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/97947cc8e205ff49675826d7b0327ef2e2c66eea.1747839857.git.dvyukov@google.com
2025-06-13 18:36:39 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej SiewiorandPeter Zijlstra 63e8595c06 futex: Allow to make the private hash immutable
My initial testing showed that:

	perf bench futex hash

reported less operations/sec with private hash. After using the same
amount of buckets in the private hash as used by the global hash then
the operations/sec were about the same.

This changed once the private hash became resizable. This feature added
an RCU section and reference counting via atomic inc+dec operation into
the hot path.
The reference counting can be avoided if the private hash is made
immutable.
Extend PR_FUTEX_HASH_SET_SLOTS by a fourth argument which denotes if the
private should be made immutable. Once set (to true) the a further
resize is not allowed (same if set to global hash).
Add PR_FUTEX_HASH_GET_IMMUTABLE which returns true if the hash can not
be changed.
Update "perf bench" suite.

For comparison, results of "perf bench futex hash -s":
- Xeon CPU E5-2650, 2 NUMA nodes, total 32 CPUs:
  - Before the introducing task local hash
    shared  Averaged 1.487.148 operations/sec (+- 0,53%), total secs = 10
    private Averaged 2.192.405 operations/sec (+- 0,07%), total secs = 10

  - With the series
    shared  Averaged 1.326.342 operations/sec (+- 0,41%), total secs = 10
    -b128   Averaged   141.394 operations/sec (+- 1,15%), total secs = 10
    -Ib128  Averaged   851.490 operations/sec (+- 0,67%), total secs = 10
    -b8192  Averaged   131.321 operations/sec (+- 2,13%), total secs = 10
    -Ib8192 Averaged 1.923.077 operations/sec (+- 0,61%), total secs = 10
    128 is the default allocation of hash buckets.
    8192 was the previous amount of allocated hash buckets.

- Xeon(R) CPU E7-8890 v3, 4 NUMA nodes, total 144 CPUs:
  - Before the introducing task local hash
    shared   Averaged 1.810.936 operations/sec (+- 0,26%), total secs = 20
    private  Averaged 2.505.801 operations/sec (+- 0,05%), total secs = 20

  - With the series
    shared   Averaged 1.589.002 operations/sec (+- 0,25%), total secs = 20
    -b1024   Averaged    42.410 operations/sec (+- 0,20%), total secs = 20
    -Ib1024  Averaged   740.638 operations/sec (+- 1,51%), total secs = 20
    -b65536  Averaged    48.811 operations/sec (+- 1,35%), total secs = 20
    -Ib65536 Averaged 1.963.165 operations/sec (+- 0,18%), total secs = 20
    1024 is the default allocation of hash buckets.
    65536 was the previous amount of allocated hash buckets.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250416162921.513656-16-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2025-05-03 12:02:08 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej SiewiorandPeter Zijlstra 80367ad01d futex: Add basic infrastructure for local task local hash
The futex hash is system wide and shared by all tasks. Each slot
is hashed based on futex address and the VMA of the thread. Due to
randomized VMAs (and memory allocations) the same logical lock (pointer)
can end up in a different hash bucket on each invocation of the
application. This in turn means that different applications may share a
hash bucket on the first invocation but not on the second and it is not
always clear which applications will be involved. This can result in
high latency's to acquire the futex_hash_bucket::lock especially if the
lock owner is limited to a CPU and can not be effectively PI boosted.

Introduce basic infrastructure for process local hash which is shared by
all threads of process. This hash will only be used for a
PROCESS_PRIVATE FUTEX operation.

The hashmap can be allocated via:

        prctl(PR_FUTEX_HASH, PR_FUTEX_HASH_SET_SLOTS, num);

A `num' of 0 means that the global hash is used instead of a private
hash.
Other values for `num' specify the number of slots for the hash and the
number must be power of two, starting with two.
The prctl() returns zero on success. This function can only be used
before a thread is created.

The current status for the private hash can be queried via:

        num = prctl(PR_FUTEX_HASH, PR_FUTEX_HASH_GET_SLOTS);

which return the current number of slots. The value 0 means that the
global hash is used. Values greater than 0 indicate the number of slots
that are used. A negative number indicates an error.

For optimisation, for the private hash jhash2() uses only two arguments
the address and the offset. This omits the VMA which is always the same.

[peterz: Use 0 for global hash. A bit shuffling and renaming. ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250416162921.513656-13-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2025-05-03 12:02:07 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner ec2d0c0462 posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer ID
Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU) requires to reconstruct posix timers
with the same timer ID on restore. It uses sys_timer_create() and relies on
the monotonic increasing timer ID provided by this syscall. It creates and
deletes timers until the desired ID is reached. This is can loop for a long
time, when the checkpointed process had a very sparse timer ID range.

It has been debated to implement a new syscall to allow the creation of
timers with a given timer ID, but that's tideous due to the 32/64bit compat
issues of sigevent_t and of dubious value.

The restore mechanism of CRIU creates the timers in a state where all
threads of the restored process are held on a barrier and cannot issue
syscalls. That means the restorer task has exclusive control.

This allows to address this issue with a prctl() so that the restorer
thread can do:

   if (prctl(PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS, PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS_ON))
      goto linear_mode;
   create_timers_with_explicit_ids();
   prctl(PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS, PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS_OFF);
   
This is backwards compatible because the prctl() fails on older kernels and
CRIU can fall back to the linear timer ID mechanism. CRIU versions which do
not know about the prctl() just work as before.

Implement the prctl() and modify timer_create() so that it copies the
requested timer ID from userspace by utilizing the existing timer_t
pointer, which is used to copy out the allocated timer ID on success.

If the prctl() is disabled, which it is by default, timer_create() works as
before and does not try to read from the userspace pointer.

There is no problem when a broken or rogue user space application enables
the prctl(). If the user space pointer does not contain a valid ID, then
timer_create() fails. If the data is not initialized, but constains a
random valid ID, timer_create() will create that random timer ID or fail if
the ID is already given out. 
 
As CRIU must use the raw syscall to avoid manipulating the internal state
of the restored process, this has no library dependencies and can be
adopted by CRIU right away.

Recreating two timers with IDs 1000000 and 2000000 takes 1.5 seconds with
the create/delete method. With the prctl() it takes 3 microseconds.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jz8vz0en.ffs@tglx
2025-03-13 12:07:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 91dbbe6c9f Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.13-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-v updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for pointer masking in userspace

 - Support for probing vector misaligned access performance

 - Support for qspinlock on systems with Zacas and Zabha

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.13-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (38 commits)
  RISC-V: Remove unnecessary include from compat.h
  riscv: Fix default misaligned access trap
  riscv: Add qspinlock support
  dt-bindings: riscv: Add Ziccrse ISA extension description
  riscv: Add ISA extension parsing for Ziccrse
  asm-generic: ticket-lock: Add separate ticket-lock.h
  asm-generic: ticket-lock: Reuse arch_spinlock_t of qspinlock
  riscv: Implement xchg8/16() using Zabha
  riscv: Implement arch_cmpxchg128() using Zacas
  riscv: Improve zacas fully-ordered cmpxchg()
  riscv: Implement cmpxchg8/16() using Zabha
  dt-bindings: riscv: Add Zabha ISA extension description
  riscv: Implement cmpxchg32/64() using Zacas
  riscv: Do not fail to build on byte/halfword operations with Zawrs
  riscv: Move cpufeature.h macros into their own header
  KVM: riscv: selftests: Add Smnpm and Ssnpm to get-reg-list test
  RISC-V: KVM: Allow Smnpm and Ssnpm extensions for guests
  riscv: hwprobe: Export the Supm ISA extension
  riscv: selftests: Add a pointer masking test
  riscv: Allow ptrace control of the tagged address ABI
  ...
2024-11-27 11:19:09 -08:00
Samuel HollandandPalmer Dabbelt 09d6775f50 riscv: Add support for userspace pointer masking
RISC-V supports pointer masking with a variable number of tag bits
(which is called "PMLEN" in the specification) and which is configured
at the next higher privilege level.

Wire up the PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL and PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL prctls
so userspace can request a lower bound on the number of tag bits and
determine the actual number of tag bits. As with arm64's
PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE, the pointer masking configuration is
thread-scoped, inherited on clone() and fork() and cleared on execve().

Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016202814.4061541-5-samuel.holland@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2024-10-24 14:12:55 -07:00
Mark BrownandCatalin Marinas 91e102e797 prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for shadow stack
Three architectures (x86, aarch64, riscv) have announced support for
shadow stacks with fairly similar functionality.  While x86 is using
arch_prctl() to control the functionality neither arm64 nor riscv uses
that interface so this patch adds arch-agnostic prctl() support to
get and set status of shadow stacks and lock the current configuation to
prevent further changes, with support for turning on and off individual
subfeatures so applications can limit their exposure to features that
they do not need.  The features are:

  - PR_SHADOW_STACK_ENABLE: Tracking and enforcement of shadow stacks,
    including allocation of a shadow stack if one is not already
    allocated.
  - PR_SHADOW_STACK_WRITE: Writes to specific addresses in the shadow
    stack.
  - PR_SHADOW_STACK_PUSH: Push additional values onto the shadow stack.

These features are expected to be inherited by new threads and cleared
on exec(), unknown features should be rejected for enable but accepted
for locking (in order to allow for future proofing).

This is based on a patch originally written by Deepak Gupta but modified
fairly heavily, support for indirect landing pads is removed, additional
modes added and the locking interface reworked.  The set status prctl()
is also reworked to just set flags, if setting/reading the shadow stack
pointer is required this could be a separate prctl.

Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001-arm64-gcs-v13-4-222b78d87eee@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2024-10-04 12:04:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 0bfbc914d9 Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.10-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Add byte/half-word compare-and-exchange, emulated via LR/SC loops

 - Support for Rust

 - Support for Zihintpause in hwprobe

 - Add PR_RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX prctl()

 - Support lockless lockrefs

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.10-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (42 commits)
  riscv: defconfig: Enable CONFIG_CLK_SOPHGO_CV1800
  riscv: select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
  riscv: mm: still create swiotlb buffer for kmalloc() bouncing if required
  riscv: Annotate pgtable_l{4,5}_enabled with __ro_after_init
  riscv: Remove redundant CONFIG_64BIT from pgtable_l{4,5}_enabled
  riscv: mm: Always use an ASID to flush mm contexts
  riscv: mm: Preserve global TLB entries when switching contexts
  riscv: mm: Make asid_bits a local variable
  riscv: mm: Use a fixed layout for the MM context ID
  riscv: mm: Introduce cntx2asid/cntx2version helper macros
  riscv: Avoid TLB flush loops when affected by SiFive CIP-1200
  riscv: Apply SiFive CIP-1200 workaround to single-ASID sfence.vma
  riscv: mm: Combine the SMP and UP TLB flush code
  riscv: Only send remote fences when some other CPU is online
  riscv: mm: Broadcast kernel TLB flushes only when needed
  riscv: Use IPIs for remote cache/TLB flushes by default
  riscv: Factor out page table TLB synchronization
  riscv: Flush the instruction cache during SMP bringup
  riscv: hwprobe: export Zihintpause ISA extension
  riscv: misaligned: remove CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE specific code
  ...
2024-05-22 09:56:00 -07:00
Benjamin GrayandMichael Ellerman 628d701f2d powerpc/dexcr: Add DEXCR prctl interface
Now that we track a DEXCR on a per-task basis, individual tasks are free
to configure it as they like.

The interface is a pair of getter/setter prctl's that work on a single
aspect at a time (multiple aspects at once is more difficult if there
are different rules applied for each aspect, now or in future). The
getter shows the current state of the process config, and the setter
allows setting/clearing the aspect.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Account for PR_RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX, shrink some longs lines]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240417112325.728010-5-bgray@linux.ibm.com
2024-05-06 22:04:31 +10:00
Charlie JenkinsandPalmer Dabbelt 6b9391b581 riscv: Include riscv_set_icache_flush_ctx prctl
Support new prctl with key PR_RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX to enable
optimization of cross modifying code. This prctl enables userspace code
to use icache flushing instructions such as fence.i with the guarantee
that the icache will continue to be clean after thread migration.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312-fencei-v13-2-4b6bdc2bbf32@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2024-04-18 08:10:58 -07:00
Florent RevestandAndrew Morton 24e41bf8a6 mm: add a NO_INHERIT flag to the PR_SET_MDWE prctl
This extends the current PR_SET_MDWE prctl arg with a bit to indicate that
the process doesn't want MDWE protection to propagate to children.

To implement this no-inherit mode, the tag in current->mm->flags must be
absent from MMF_INIT_MASK.  This means that the encoding for "MDWE but
without inherit" is different in the prctl than in the mm flags.  This
leads to a bit of bit-mangling in the prctl implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828150858.393570-6-revest@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@amd.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-06 14:44:11 -07:00
Florent RevestandAndrew Morton 0da668333f mm: make PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN an unsigned long
Defining a prctl flag as an int is a footgun because on a 64 bit machine
and with a variadic implementation of prctl (like in musl and glibc), when
used directly as a prctl argument, it can get casted to long with garbage
upper bits which would result in unexpected behaviors.

This patch changes the constant to an unsigned long to eliminate that
possibilities.  This does not break UAPI.

I think that a stable backport would be "nice to have": to reduce the
chances that users build binaries that could end up with garbage bits in
their MDWE prctl arguments.  We are not aware of anyone having yet
encountered this corner case with MDWE prctls but a backport would reduce
the likelihood it happens, since this sort of issues has happened with
other prctls.  But If this is perceived as a backporting burden, I suppose
we could also live without a stable backport.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828150858.393570-5-revest@chromium.org
Fixes: b507808ebc ("mm: implement memory-deny-write-execute as a prctl")
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@amd.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-06 14:44:11 -07:00
Andy ChiuandPalmer Dabbelt 1fd96a3e9d riscv: Add prctl controls for userspace vector management
This patch add two riscv-specific prctls, to allow usespace control the
use of vector unit:

 * PR_RISCV_V_SET_CONTROL: control the permission to use Vector at next,
   or all following execve for a thread. Turning off a thread's Vector
   live is not possible since libraries may have registered ifunc that
   may execute Vector instructions.
 * PR_RISCV_V_GET_CONTROL: get the same permission setting for the
   current thread, and the setting for following execve(s).

Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605110724.21391-22-andy.chiu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2023-06-08 07:16:53 -07:00
Stefan RoeschandAndrew Morton d7597f59d1 mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
Patch series "mm: process/cgroup ksm support", v9.

So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions.  To
be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be
enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level.

Use case 1:
  The madvise call is not available in the programming language.  An
  example for this are programs with forked workloads using a garbage
  collected language without pointers.  In such a language madvise cannot
  be made available.

  In addition the addresses of objects get moved around as they are
  garbage collected.  KSM sharing needs to be enabled "from the outside"
  for these type of workloads.

Use case 2:
  The same interpreter can also be used for workloads where KSM brings
  no benefit or even has overhead.  We'd like to be able to enable KSM on
  a workload by workload basis.

Use case 3:
  With the madvise call sharing opportunities are only enabled for the
  current process: it is a workload-local decision.  A considerable number
  of sharing opportunities may exist across multiple workloads or jobs (if
  they are part of the same security domain).  Only a higler level entity
  like a job scheduler or container can know for certain if its running
  one or more instances of a job.  That job scheduler however doesn't have
  the necessary internal workload knowledge to make targeted madvise
  calls.

Security concerns:

  In previous discussions security concerns have been brought up.  The
  problem is that an individual workload does not have the knowledge about
  what else is running on a machine.  Therefore it has to be very
  conservative in what memory areas can be shared or not.  However, if the
  system is dedicated to running multiple jobs within the same security
  domain, its the job scheduler that has the knowledge that sharing can be
  safely enabled and is even desirable.

Performance:

  Experiments with using UKSM have shown a capacity increase of around 20%.

  Here are the metrics from an instagram workload (taken from a machine
  with 64GB main memory):

   full_scans: 445
   general_profit: 20158298048
   max_page_sharing: 256
   merge_across_nodes: 1
   pages_shared: 129547
   pages_sharing: 5119146
   pages_to_scan: 4000
   pages_unshared: 1760924
   pages_volatile: 10761341
   run: 1
   sleep_millisecs: 20
   stable_node_chains: 167
   stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs: 2000
   stable_node_dups: 2751
   use_zero_pages: 0
   zero_pages_sharing: 0

After the service is running for 30 minutes to an hour, 4 to 5 million
shared pages are common for this workload when using KSM.


Detailed changes:

1. New options for prctl system command
   This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call. 
   The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second
   one to query the setting.

The setting will be inherited by child processes.

With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a cgroup
and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting.

2. Changes to KSM processing
   When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate
   over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's.

   When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be
   inherited by the new child process.

3. Add general_profit metric
   The general_profit metric of KSM is specified in the documentation,
   but not calculated.  This adds the general profit metric to
   /sys/kernel/debug/mm/ksm.

4. Add more metrics to ksm_stat
   This adds the process profit metric to /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat.

5. Add more tests to ksm_tests and ksm_functional_tests
   This adds an option to specify the merge type to the ksm_tests. 
   This allows to test madvise and prctl KSM.

   It also adds a two new tests to ksm_functional_tests: one to test
   the new prctl options and the other one is a fork test to verify that
   the KSM process setting is inherited by client processes.


This patch (of 3):

So far KSM can only be enabled by calling madvise for memory regions.  To
be able to use KSM for more workloads, KSM needs to have the ability to be
enabled / disabled at the process / cgroup level.

1. New options for prctl system command

   This patch series adds two new options to the prctl system call.
   The first one allows to enable KSM at the process level and the second
   one to query the setting.

   The setting will be inherited by child processes.

   With the above setting, KSM can be enabled for the seed process of a
   cgroup and all processes in the cgroup will inherit the setting.

2. Changes to KSM processing

   When KSM is enabled at the process level, the KSM code will iterate
   over all the VMA's and enable KSM for the eligible VMA's.

   When forking a process that has KSM enabled, the setting will be
   inherited by the new child process.

  1) Introduce new MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag

     This introduces the new flag MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag.  When this flag
     is set, kernel samepage merging (ksm) gets enabled for all vma's of a
     process.

  2) Setting VM_MERGEABLE on VMA creation

     When a VMA is created, if the MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY flag is set, the
     VM_MERGEABLE flag will be set for this VMA.

  3) support disabling of ksm for a process

     This adds the ability to disable ksm for a process if ksm has been
     enabled for the process with prctl.

  4) add new prctl option to get and set ksm for a process

     This adds two new options to the prctl system call
     - enable ksm for all vmas of a process (if the vmas support it).
     - query if ksm has been enabled for a process.

3. Disabling MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY for storage keys in s390

   In the s390 architecture when storage keys are used, the
   MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY will be disabled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-1-shr@devkernel.io
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418051342.1919757-2-shr@devkernel.io
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-21 14:52:03 -07:00
Josh TriplettandAndrew Morton ddc65971bb prctl: add PR_GET_AUXV to copy auxv to userspace
If a library wants to get information from auxv (for instance,
AT_HWCAP/AT_HWCAP2), it has a few options, none of them perfectly reliable
or ideal:

- Be main or the pre-main startup code, and grub through the stack above
  main. Doesn't work for a library.
- Call libc getauxval. Not ideal for libraries that are trying to be
  libc-independent and/or don't otherwise require anything from other
  libraries.
- Open and read /proc/self/auxv. Doesn't work for libraries that may run
  in arbitrarily constrained environments that may not have /proc
  mounted (e.g. libraries that might be used by an init program or a
  container setup tool).
- Assume you're on the main thread and still on the original stack, and
  try to walk the stack upwards, hoping to find auxv. Extremely bad
  idea.
- Ask the caller to pass auxv in for you. Not ideal for a user-friendly
  library, and then your caller may have the same problem.

Add a prctl that copies current->mm->saved_auxv to a userspace buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d81864a7f7f43bca6afa2a09fc2e850e4050ab42.1680611394.git.josh@joshtriplett.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-18 16:29:53 -07:00