Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:
- Add sorting of mcount locations at build time
- Rework uaccess functions with C exception handling to shorten inline
assembly size and enable full inlining. This yields near-optimal code
for small constant copies with a ~40kb kernel size increase
- Add support for a configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS which allows to
generate better code, but also allows to have type checking for debug
builds
- Optimize get_lowcore() for common callers with alternatives that
nearly revert to the pre-relocated lowcore code, while also slightly
reducing syscall entry and exit time
- Convert MACHINE_HAS_* checks for single facility tests into cpu_has_*
style macros that call test_facility(), and for features with
additional conditions, add a new ALT_TYPE_FEATURE alternative to
provide a static branch via alternative patching. Also, move machine
feature detection to the decompressor for early patching and add
debugging functionality to easily show which alternatives are patched
- Add exception table support to early boot / startup code to get rid
of the open coded exception handling
- Use asm_inline for all inline assemblies with EX_TABLE or ALTERNATIVE
to ensure correct inlining and unrolling decisions
- Remove 2k page table leftovers now that s390 has been switched to
always allocate 4k page tables
- Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool() and
remove the architecture-specific kfence_split_mapping()
- Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() to silence
spurious KASAN warnings from opportunistic ftrace argument tracing
- Force __atomic_add_const() variants on s390 to always return void,
ensuring compile errors for improper usage
- Remove s390's ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough() due to
mismatched semantics and lack of known users, relying on asm-generic
fallbacks
- Signal eventfd in vfio-ap to notify userspace when the guest AP
configuration changes, including during mdev removal
- Convert mdev_types from an array to a pointer in vfio-ccw and vfio-ap
drivers to avoid fake flex array confusion
- Cleanup trap code
- Remove references to the outdated linux390@de.ibm.com address
- Other various small fixes and improvements all over the code
* tag 's390-6.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (78 commits)
s390: Use inline qualifier for all EX_TABLE and ALTERNATIVE inline assemblies
s390/kfence: Split kfence pool into 4k mappings in arch_kfence_init_pool()
s390/ptrace: Avoid KASAN false positives in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth()
s390/boot: Ignore vmlinux.map
s390/sysctl: Remove "vm/allocate_pgste" sysctl
s390: Remove 2k vs 4k page table leftovers
s390/tlb: Use mm_has_pgste() instead of mm_alloc_pgste()
s390/lowcore: Use lghi instead llilh to clear register
s390/syscall: Merge __do_syscall() and do_syscall()
s390/spinlock: Implement SPINLOCK_LOCKVAL with inline assembly
s390/smp: Implement raw_smp_processor_id() with inline assembly
s390/current: Implement current with inline assembly
s390/lowcore: Use inline qualifier for get_lowcore() inline assembly
s390: Move s390 sysctls into their own file under arch/s390
s390/syscall: Simplify syscall_get_arguments()
s390/vfio-ap: Notify userspace that guest's AP config changed when mdev removed
s390: Remove ioremap_wt() and pgprot_writethrough()
s390/mm: Add configurable STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
s390/mm: Convert pgste_val() into function
s390/mm: Convert pgprot_val() into function
...
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c
All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems
leading to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This
increases modularity by placing the ctl_tables closer to where they
are actually used and at the same time reducing the chances of merge
conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c.
- ctl_table range fixes
Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in
coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the
extra{1,2} pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the
values that users can pass into the kernel effectively preventing
{under,over}flows.
- Misc fixes
Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl
files in MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in
declaration for alignment_tbl
* tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (22 commits)
selftests/sysctl: fix wording of help messages
selftests: fix spelling/grammar errors in sysctl/sysctl.sh
MAINTAINERS: Update sysctl file list in MAINTAINERS
sysctl: Fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler
sysctl: remove unneeded include
sysctl: remove the vm_table
sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c
sunrpc: simplify rpcauth_cache_shrink_count()
fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c
fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c
security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c
mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c
mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c
mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c
mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
...
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"x86 CPU features support:
- Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config
(H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
- x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
- Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
- Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
Jackman)
- Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
- Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
- Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)
Percpu code:
- Standardize & reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
(Brian Gerst)
- Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
(Brian Gerst)
- Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
- Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
- Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)
MM:
- Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
instruction (Rik van Riel)
- Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
- PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
- Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
(Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
- Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
(Matthew Wilcox)
KASLR:
- x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
Singh)
CPU bugs:
- Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
- speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
- speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
Gupta)
- RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
Gupta)
System calls:
- Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
- Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)
Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
- selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
- selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
- selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling
AMD SMN access updates:
- Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
- Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)
Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
- Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
- ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
- intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
- Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()
Build system:
- Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
- Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)
Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
- Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
- Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
- Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
- Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
- Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
- Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
- Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
- Remove old STA2x11 support
- Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit
Headers:
- Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
headers (Thomas Huth)
Assembly code & machine code patching:
- x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
Poimboeuf)
- x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
- KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
<asm/asm.h> (Uros Bizjak)
- Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
- Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
instructions (Uros Bizjak)
Earlyprintk:
- Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)
NMI handler:
- Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in
nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)
Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
- by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"
* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in <asm/special_insns.h>
x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
x86/head/64: Avoid Clang < 17 stack protector in startup code
x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from <asm/asm.h>
x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
...
Move s390 sysctls (spin_retry and userprocess_debug) into their own
files under arch/s390. Create two new sysctl tables
(2390_{fault,spin}_sysctl_table) which will be initialized with
arch_initcall placing them after their original place in proc_root_init.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: joel granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306-jag-mv_ctltables-v2-6-71b243c8d3f8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Move ctl tables to two files:
- perf_event_{paranoid,mlock_kb,max_sample_rate} and
perf_cpu_time_max_percent into kernel/events/core.c
- perf_event_max_{stack,context_per_stack} into
kernel/events/callchain.c
Make static variables and functions that are fully contained in core.c
and callchain.cand remove them from include/linux/perf_event.h.
Additionally six_hundred_forty_kb is moved to callchain.c.
Two new sysctl tables are added ({callchain,events_core}_sysctl_table)
with their respective sysctl registration functions.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kerenel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218-jag-mv_ctltables-v1-5-cd3698ab8d29@kernel.org
Move the following sysctl tables into arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:
panic_on_{unrecoverable_nmi,io_nmi}
bootloader_{type,version}
io_delay_type
unknown_nmi_panic
acpi_realmode_flags
Variables moved from include/linux/ to arch/x86/include/asm/ because there
is no longer need for them outside arch/x86/kernel:
acpi_realmode_flags
panic_on_{unrecoverable_nmi,io_nmi}
Include <asm/nmi.h> in arch/s86/kernel/setup.h in order to bring in
panic_on_{io_nmi,unrecovered_nmi}.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kerenel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250218-jag-mv_ctltables-v1-8-cd3698ab8d29@kernel.org
After patch1~14 is applied, all sysctls of vm_table
would be moved. So, delete vm_table.
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_SUPERH and CONFIG_VSYSCALL are defined,
vdso_enabled belongs to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c.
So, move it into its own file. To avoid failure when registering
the vdso_table, move the call to register_sysctl_init() into
its own fs_initcall().
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_X86_32 is defined and CONFIG_UML is not defined,
vdso_enabled belongs to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c.
So, move it into its own file.
Before this patch, vdso_enabled was allowed to be set to
a value exceeding 1 on x86_32 architecture. After this patch is
applied, vdso_enabled is not permitted to set the value more than 1.
It does not matter, because according to the function load_vdso32(),
only vdso_enabled is set to 1, VDSO would be enabled. Other values
all mean "disabled". The same limitation could be seen in the
function vdso32_setup().
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure belongs to fs/dcache.c, move it to
fs/dcache.c from kernel/sysctl.c. As a part of fs/dcache.c cleaning,
sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure is changed to a static variable, and change
the inline-type function vfs_pressure_ratio() to out-of-inline type,
export vfs_pressure_ratio() with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to be used by other
files. Move the unneeded include(linux/dcache.h).
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The sysctl_drop_caches to fs/drop_caches.c, move it to
fs/drop_caches.c from /kernel/sysctl.c. And remove the
useless extern variable declaration from include/linux/mm.h
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The dirtytime_expire_interval belongs to fs/fs-writeback.c, move it to
fs/fs-writeback.c from /kernel/sysctl.c. And remove the useless extern
variable declaration and the function declaration from
include/linux/writeback.h
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The sysctl_nr_trim_pages belongs to nommu.c, move it to mm/nommu.c
from /kernel/sysctl.c. And remove the useless extern variable declaration
from include/linux/mm.h
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The dac_mmap_min_addr belongs to min_addr.c, move it to
min_addr.c from /kernel/sysctl.c. In the previous Linux kernel
boot process, sysctl_init_bases needs to be executed before
init_mmap_min_addr, So, register_sysctl_init should be executed
before update_mmap_min_addr in init_mmap_min_addr. And according
to the compilation condition in security/Makefile:
obj-$(CONFIG_MMU) += min_addr.o
if CONFIG_MMU is not defined, min_addr.c would not be included in the
compilation process. So, drop the CONFIG_MMU check.
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
This moves all util related sysctls to mm/util.c, as part of the
kernel/sysctl.c cleaning, also removes redundant external
variable declarations and function declarations.
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
This moves vm_swappiness and zone_reclaim_mode to mm/vmscan.c,
as part of the kernel/sysctl.c cleaning, also moves some external
variable declarations and function declarations from include/linux/swap.h
into mm/internal.h.
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The page-cluster belongs to mm/swap.c, move it to mm/swap.c .
Removes the redundant external variable declaration and unneeded
include(linux/swap.h).
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
This moves all vmstat related sysctls to its own file, removes useless
extern variable declarations, and do some related clean-ups. To avoid
compiler warnings when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not defined, add the macro
definition CONFIG_PROC_FS ahead CONFIG_NUMA in vmstat.c.
Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25c ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The pid_max sysctl is a global value. For a long time the default value
has been 65535 and during the pidfd dicussions Linus proposed to bump
pid_max by default (cf. [1]). Based on this discussion systemd started
bumping pid_max to 2^22. So all new systems now run with a very high
pid_max limit with some distros having also backported that change.
The decision to bump pid_max is obviously correct. It just doesn't make
a lot of sense nowadays to enforce such a low pid number. There's
sufficient tooling to make selecting specific processes without typing
really large pid numbers available.
In any case, there are workloads that have expections about how large
pid numbers they accept. Either for historical reasons or architectural
reasons. One concreate example is the 32-bit version of Android's bionic
libc which requires pid numbers less than 65536. There are workloads
where it is run in a 32-bit container on a 64-bit kernel. If the host
has a pid_max value greater than 65535 the libc will abort thread
creation because of size assumptions of pthread_mutex_t.
That's a fairly specific use-case however, in general specific workloads
that are moved into containers running on a host with a new kernel and a
new systemd can run into issues with large pid_max values. Obviously
making assumptions about the size of the allocated pid is suboptimal but
we have userspace that does it.
Of course, giving containers the ability to restrict the number of
processes in their respective pid namespace indepent of the global limit
through pid_max is something desirable in itself and comes in handy in
general.
Independent of motivating use-cases the existence of pid namespaces
makes this also a good semantical extension and there have been prior
proposals pushing in a similar direction.
The trick here is to minimize the risk of regressions which I think is
doable. The fact that pid namespaces are hierarchical will help us here.
What we mostly care about is that when the host sets a low pid_max
limit, say (crazy number) 100 that no descendant pid namespace can
allocate a higher pid number in its namespace. Since pid allocation is
hierarchial this can be ensured by checking each pid allocation against
the pid namespace's pid_max limit. This means if the allocation in the
descendant pid namespace succeeds, the ancestor pid namespace can reject
it. If the ancestor pid namespace has a higher limit than the descendant
pid namespace the descendant pid namespace will reject the pid
allocation. The ancestor pid namespace will obviously not care about
this.
All in all this means pid_max continues to enforce a system wide limit
on the number of processes but allows pid namespaces sufficient leeway
in handling workloads with assumptions about pid values and allows
containers to restrict the number of processes in a pid namespace
through the pid_max interface.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/CAHk-=wiZ40LVjnXSi9iHLE_-ZBsWFGCgdmNiYZUXn1-V5YBg2g@mail.gmail.com
- rebased from 5.14-rc1
- a few fixes (missing ns_free_inum on error path, missing initialization, etc)
- permission check changes in pid_table_root_permissions
- unsigned int pid_max -> int pid_max (keep pid_max type as it was)
- add READ_ONCE in alloc_pid() as suggested by Christian
- rebased from 6.7 and take into account:
* sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
* sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
* pidfd: add pidfs
* tracing: Move saved_cmdline code into trace_sched_switch.c
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241122132459.135120-2-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reorganize kerneldoc parameter names to match the parameter
order in the function header.
Problems identified using Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.
This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:
```
virtual patch
@r1@
identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
@r2@
identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{ ... }
@r3@
identifier func;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r4@
identifier func, ctl;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *ctl
+ const struct ctl_table *ctl
,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);
@r5@
identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
@@
int func(
- struct ctl_table *
+ const struct ctl_table *
,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
```
* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
adjusted.
* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
proc_handler migration.
Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Linus Torvalds
joel granados
Kaixiong Yu
Christian Brauner
Julia Lawall
Joel Granados