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
initramfs cpio mtime preservation, as implemented in commit 889d51a107
("initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images"),
uses a linked list to defer directory mtime processing until after all
other items in the cpio archive have been processed. This is done to
ensure that parent directory mtimes aren't overwritten via subsequent
child creation.
The lkml link below indicates that the mtime retention use case was for
embedded devices with applications running exclusively out of initramfs,
where the 32-bit mtime value provided a rough file version identifier.
Linux distributions which discard an extracted initramfs immediately after
the root filesystem has been mounted may want to avoid the unnecessary
overhead.
This change adds a new INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option, which can
be used to disable on-by-default mtime retention and in turn speed up
initramfs extraction, particularly for cpio archives with large directory
counts.
Benchmarks with a one million directory cpio archive extracted 20 times
demonstrated:
mean extraction time (s) std dev
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y 3.808 0.006
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME unset 3.056 0.004
The above extraction times were measured using ftrace (initcall_finish -
initcall_start) values for populate_rootfs() with initramfs_async
disabled.
[ddiss@suse.de: rebase atop dir_entry.name flexible array member and drop separate initramfs_mtime.h header]
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/424
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-4-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "initramfs: "crc" cpio format and INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME", v7.
This patchset does some minor initramfs refactoring and allows cpio entry
mtime preservation to be disabled via a new Kconfig
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME option.
Patches 4/6 to 6/6 implement support for creation and extraction of "crc"
cpio archives, which carry file data checksums. Basic tests for this
functionality can be found at https://github.com/rapido-linux/rapido/pull/163
This patch (of 6):
do_header() is called for each cpio entry and fails if the first six bytes
don't match "newc" magic. The magic check includes a special case error
message if POSIX.1 ASCII (cpio -H odc) magic is detected. This special
case POSIX.1 check can be nested under the "newc" mismatch code path to
avoid calling memcmp() twice in a non-error case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-1-ddiss@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-2-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
It is silly for user_mode_thread to leave PF_KTHREAD set
on the resulting task. Update the init process so that
it does not care if PF_KTHREAD is set or not.
Ensure do_populate_rootfs flushes all delayed fput work by calling
task_work_run. In the rare instance that async_schedule_domain calls
do_populate_rootfs synchronously it is possible do_populate_rootfs
will be called directly from the init process. At which point fput
will call "task_work_add(current, ..., TWA_RESUME)". The files on the
initramfs need to be completely put before we attempt to exec them
(which is before the code enters userspace). So call task_work_run
just in case there are any pending fput operations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-5-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Currently, usermodehelper is enabled right before PID1 starts going
through the initcalls. However, any call of a usermodehelper from a
pure_, core_, postcore_, arch_, subsys_ or fs_ initcall is futile, as
there is no filesystem contents yet.
Up until commit e7cb072eb9 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking
asynchronously"), such calls, whether via some request_module(), a
legacy uevent "/sbin/hotplug" notification or something else, would
just fail silently with (presumably) -ENOENT from
kernel_execve(). However, that commit introduced the
wait_for_initramfs() synchronization hook which must be called from
the usermodehelper exec path right before the kernel_execve, in order
that request_module() et al done from *after* rootfs_initcall()
time (i.e. device_ and late_ initcalls) would continue to find a
populated initramfs as they used to.
Any call of wait_for_initramfs() done before the unpacking has been
scheduled (i.e. before rootfs_initcall time) must just return
immediately [and let the caller find an empty file system] in order
not to deadlock the machine. I mistakenly thought, and my limited
testing confirmed, that there were no such calls, so I added a
pr_warn_once() in wait_for_initramfs(). It turns out that one can
indeed hit request_module() as well as kobject_uevent_env() during
those early init calls, leading to a user-visible warning in the
kernel log emitted consistently for certain configurations.
We could just remove the pr_warn_once(), but I think it's better to
postpone enabling the usermodehelper framework until there is at least
some chance of finding the executable. That is also a little more
efficient in that a lot of work done in umh.c will be elided. However,
it does change the error seen by those early callers from -ENOENT to
-EBUSY, so there is a risk of a regression if any caller care about
the exact error value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210728134638.329060-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Fixes: e7cb072eb9 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Goncalves <bgoncalv@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3.
These two patches are independent, but better-together.
The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to
change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g. the empty string, so
that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without
even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the
initramfs unpacking.
The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread,
allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_
initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of
rootfs) to finish. Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the
initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the
firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places
that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any
places I have missed.
There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is
only available as modules. But systems with a custom-made .config and
initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu
earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still
trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating
most of the first benefit).
This patch (of 2):
Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the
initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed. So instead of doing
the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in
populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread.
This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking
even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long
enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get
attention soon enough. By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker
thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the
watchdog much sooner.
Normal desktops might benefit as well. On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel,
my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M.
That takes almost two seconds:
[ 0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K
Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg. With this
patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but
with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing
work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs()
finished.
Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_
and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel
module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs
unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this
completely safe.
But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one
of the official kernel interfaces (i.e. request_firmware*(),
call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might
have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs(). So there is an
escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
"A handful of new RISC-V related patches for this merge window:
- A check to ensure drivers are properly using uaccess. This isn't
manifesting with any of the drivers I'm currently using, but may
catch errors in new drivers.
- Some preliminary support for the FU740, along with the HiFive
Unleashed it will appear on.
- NUMA support for RISC-V, which involves making the arm64 code
generic.
- Support for kasan on the vmalloc region.
- A handful of new drivers for the Kendryte K210, along with the DT
plumbing required to boot on a handful of K210-based boards.
- Support for allocating ASIDs.
- Preliminary support for kernels larger than 128MiB.
- Various other improvements to our KASAN support, including the
utilization of huge pages when allocating the KASAN regions.
We may have already found a bug with the KASAN_VMALLOC code, but it's
passing my tests. There's a fix in the works, but that will probably
miss the merge window.
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.12-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (75 commits)
riscv: Improve kasan population by using hugepages when possible
riscv: Improve kasan population function
riscv: Use KASAN_SHADOW_INIT define for kasan memory initialization
riscv: Improve kasan definitions
riscv: Get rid of MAX_EARLY_MAPPING_SIZE
soc: canaan: Sort the Makefile alphabetically
riscv: Disable KSAN_SANITIZE for vDSO
riscv: Remove unnecessary declaration
riscv: Add Canaan Kendryte K210 SD card defconfig
riscv: Update Canaan Kendryte K210 defconfig
riscv: Add Kendryte KD233 board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIXDUINO board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIX GO board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIX DOCK board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIX BiT board device tree
riscv: Update Canaan Kendryte K210 device tree
dt-bindings: add resets property to dw-apb-timer
dt-bindings: fix sifive gpio properties
dt-bindings: update sifive uart compatible string
dt-bindings: update sifive clint compatible string
...
On systems with large amounts of reserved memory we may fail to
successfully complete unpack_to_rootfs() and be left with:
Kernel panic - not syncing: write error
this is not too helpful to understand what happened, so let's wrap the
panic() calls with a surrounding show_mem() such that we have a chance of
understanding the memory conditions leading to these allocation failures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace macro with C function]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210114231517.1854379-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some architectures(eg, ARM and riscv) have similar logic to
check and reserve the memory of initrd, let's provide a common
function reserve_initrd_mem() to reduce duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
There is only one function in init/initramfs.c that is in the .text
section, and it is marked __weak. When building with clang-12 and the
integrated assembler, this leads to a bug with recordmcount:
./scripts/recordmcount "init/initramfs.o"
Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
init/initramfs.o: failed
I'm not quite sure what exactly goes wrong, but I notice that this
function is only ever called from an __init function, and normally
inlined. Marking it __init as well is clearly correct and it leads to
recordmcount no longer complaining.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201204165742.3815221-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init_stat() returns 0 on success, same as vfs_lstat(). When it replaced
vfs_lstat(), the '!' was dropped.
Fixes: 716308a533 ("init: add an init_stat helper")
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a simple helper to set timestamps with a kernel space file name and
switch the early init code over to it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to mknod with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mknod.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to mkdir with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mkdir.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to symlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_symlink.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to link with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_link.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to rmdir with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_rmdir.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
