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When a user process exits, the kernel cleans up the mm_struct of the user
process and during cleanup, check_mm() checks the page tables of the user
process for corruption (E.g: unexpected page flags set/cleared). For
corrupted page tables, the error message printed by check_mm() isn't very
clear as it prints the loop index instead of page table type (E.g:
Resident file mapping pages vs Resident shared memory pages). The loop
index in check_mm() is used to index rss_stat[] which represents
individual memory type stats. Hence, instead of printing index, print
memory type, thereby improving error message.
Without patch:
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[ 204.836425] mm/pgtable-generic.c:29: bad p4d 0000000089eb4e92(800000025f941467)
[ 204.836544] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000f75895ea idx:0 val:2
[ 204.836615] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000f75895ea idx:1 val:5
[ 204.836685] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: 20480
With patch:
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[ 69.815453] mm/pgtable-generic.c:29: bad p4d 0000000084653642(800000025ca37467)
[ 69.815872] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000014a6c03 type:MM_FILEPAGES val:2
[ 69.815962] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:00000000014a6c03 type:MM_ANONPAGES val:5
[ 69.816050] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: 20480
Also, change print function (from printk(KERN_ALERT, ..) to pr_alert()) so
that it matches the other print statement.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/da75b5153f617f4c5739c08ee6ebeb3d19db0fbc.1565123758.git.sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma
Pull hmm updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
"This is more cleanup and consolidation of the hmm APIs and the very
strongly related mmu_notifier interfaces. Many places across the tree
using these interfaces are touched in the process. Beyond that a
cleanup to the page walker API and a few memremap related changes
round out the series:
- General improvement of hmm_range_fault() and related APIs, more
documentation, bug fixes from testing, API simplification &
consolidation, and unused API removal
- Simplify the hmm related kconfigs to HMM_MIRROR and DEVICE_PRIVATE,
and make them internal kconfig selects
- Hoist a lot of code related to mmu notifier attachment out of
drivers by using a refcount get/put attachment idiom and remove the
convoluted mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release() and related APIs.
- General API improvement for the migrate_vma API and revision of its
only user in nouveau
- Annotate mmu_notifiers with lockdep and sleeping region debugging
Two series unrelated to HMM or mmu_notifiers came along due to
dependencies:
- Allow pagemap's memremap_pages family of APIs to work without
providing a struct device
- Make walk_page_range() and related use a constant structure for
function pointers"
* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (75 commits)
libnvdimm: Enable unit test infrastructure compile checks
mm, notifier: Catch sleeping/blocking for !blockable
kernel.h: Add non_block_start/end()
drm/radeon: guard against calling an unpaired radeon_mn_unregister()
csky: add missing brackets in a macro for tlb.h
pagewalk: use lockdep_assert_held for locking validation
pagewalk: separate function pointers from iterator data
mm: split out a new pagewalk.h header from mm.h
mm/mmu_notifiers: annotate with might_sleep()
mm/mmu_notifiers: prime lockdep
mm/mmu_notifiers: add a lockdep map for invalidate_range_start/end
mm/mmu_notifiers: remove the __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end exports
mm/hmm: hmm_range_fault() infinite loop
mm/hmm: hmm_range_fault() NULL pointer bug
mm/hmm: fix hmm_range_fault()'s handling of swapped out pages
mm/mmu_notifiers: remove unregister_no_release
RDMA/odp: remove ib_ucontext from ib_umem
RDMA/odp: use mmu_notifier_get/put for 'struct ib_ucontext_per_mm'
RDMA/mlx5: Use odp instead of mr->umem in pagefault_mr
RDMA/mlx5: Use ib_umem_start instead of umem.address
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Timers and timekeeping updates:
- A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation
for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be
properly accounted on the task/process.
An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the
merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for
travel.
- Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the
homebrewn caching of the leftmost node.
- Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a
single function
- Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard
interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the
affected timers accordingly.
- Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect
RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer
which should be canceled is currently executing the callback.
Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the
timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and
released by the (hr)timer expiry code.
- Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests
resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions.
- Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device
tree bindings.
- The usual small improvements all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression
posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue
hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP
posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly
posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build
tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context
hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD
x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage
posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers
posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling
posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons
posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions
posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further
posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks
rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment
posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit
posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array
posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array
posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull ia64 updates from Tony Luck:
"The big change here is removal of support for SGI Altix"
* tag 'please-pull-ia64_for_5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: (33 commits)
genirq: remove the is_affinity_mask_valid hook
ia64: remove CONFIG_SWIOTLB ifdefs
ia64: remove support for machvecs
ia64: move the screen_info setup to common code
ia64: move the ROOT_DEV setup to common code
ia64: rework iommu probing
ia64: remove the unused sn_coherency_id symbol
ia64: remove the SGI UV simulator support
ia64: remove the zx1 swiotlb machvec
ia64: remove CONFIG_ACPI ifdefs
ia64: remove CONFIG_PCI ifdefs
ia64: remove the hpsim platform
ia64: remove now unused machvec indirections
ia64: remove support for the SGI SN2 platform
drivers: remove the SGI SN2 IOC4 base support
drivers: remove the SGI SN2 IOC3 base support
qla2xxx: remove SGI SN2 support
qla1280: remove SGI SN2 support
misc/sgi-xp: remove SGI SN2 support
char/mspec: remove SGI SN2 support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd/waitid updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains two features and various tests.
First, it adds support for waiting on process through pidfds by adding
the P_PIDFD type to the waitid() syscall. This completes the basic
functionality of the pidfd api (cf. [1]). In the meantime we also have
a new adition to the userspace projects that make use of the pidfd
api. The qt project was nice enough to send a mail pointing out that
they have a pr up to switch to the pidfd api (cf. [2]).
Second, this tag contains an extension to the waitid() syscall to make
it possible to wait on the current process group in a race free manner
(even though the actual problem is very unlikely) by specifing 0
together with the P_PGID type. This extension traces back to a
discussion on the glibc development mailing list.
There are also a range of tests for the features above. Additionally,
the test-suite which detected the pidfd-polling race we fixed in [3]
is included in this tag"
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/794707/
[2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/108456
[3] commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state")
* tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group
tests: add pidfd poll tests
tests: move common definitions and functions into pidfd.h
pidfd: add pidfd_wait tests
pidfd: add P_PIDFD to waitid()
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Previously, higher 32 bits of exit_signal fields were lost when copied
to the kernel args structure (that uses int as a type for the respective
field). Moreover, as Oleg has noted, exit_signal is used unchecked, so
it has to be checked for sanity before use; for the legacy syscalls,
applying CSIGNAL mask guarantees that it is at least non-negative;
however, there's no such thing is done in clone3() code path, and that
can break at least thread_group_leader.
This commit adds a check to copy_clone_args_from_user() to verify that
the exit signal is limited by CSIGNAL as with legacy clone() and that
the signal is valid. With this we don't get the legacy clone behavior
were an invalid signal could be handed down and would only be detected
and ignored in do_notify_parent(). Users of clone3() will now get a
proper error when they pass an invalid exit signal. Note, that this is
not user-visible behavior since no kernel with clone3() has been
released yet.
The following program will cause a splat on a non-fixed clone3() version
and will fail correctly on a fixed version:
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
pid_t pid = -1;
struct clone_args args = {0};
args.exit_signal = -1;
pid = syscall(__NR_clone3, &args, sizeof(struct clone_args));
if (pid < 0)
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
if (pid == 0)
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
wait(NULL);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3")
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b38fa4ce420b119a4c6345f42fe3cec2de9b0b5.1568223594.git.esyr@redhat.com
[christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: simplify check and rework commit message]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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Put it where it belongs and clean up the ifdeffery in fork completely.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192922.743229404@linutronix.de
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The expiry cache belongs into the posix_cputimers container where the other
cpu timers information is.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192921.014444012@linutronix.de
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Per task/process data of posix CPU timers is all over the place which
makes the code hard to follow and requires ifdeffery.
Create a container to hold all this information in one place, so data is
consolidated and the ifdeffery can be confined to the posix timer header
file and removed from places like fork.
As a first step, move the cpu_timers list head array into the new struct
and clean up the initializers and simplify fork. The remaining #ifdef in
fork will be removed later.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192920.819418976@linutronix.de
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From rdma.git
Jason Gunthorpe says:
====================
This is a collection of general cleanups for ODP to clarify some of the
flows around umem creation and use of the interval tree.
====================
The branch is based on v5.3-rc5 due to dependencies, and is being taken
into hmm.git due to dependencies in the next patches.
* odp_fixes:
RDMA/mlx5: Use odp instead of mr->umem in pagefault_mr
RDMA/mlx5: Use ib_umem_start instead of umem.address
RDMA/core: Make invalidate_range a device operation
RDMA/odp: Use kvcalloc for the dma_list and page_list
RDMA/odp: Check for overflow when computing the umem_odp end
RDMA/odp: Provide ib_umem_odp_release() to undo the allocs
RDMA/odp: Split creating a umem_odp from ib_umem_get
RDMA/odp: Make the three ways to create a umem_odp clear
RMDA/odp: Consolidate umem_odp initialization
RDMA/odp: Make it clearer when a umem is an implicit ODP umem
RDMA/odp: Iterate over the whole rbtree directly
RDMA/odp: Use the common interval tree library instead of generic
RDMA/mlx5: Fix MR npages calculation for IB_ACCESS_HUGETLB
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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This is a significant simplification, it eliminates all the remaining
'hmm' stuff in mm_struct, eliminates krefing along the critical notifier
paths, and takes away all the ugly locking and abuse of page_table_lock.
mmu_notifier_get() provides the single struct hmm per struct mm which
eliminates mm->hmm.
It also directly guarantees that no mmu_notifier op callback is callable
while concurrent free is possible, this eliminates all the krefs inside
the mmu_notifier callbacks.
The remaining krefs in the range code were overly cautious, drivers are
already not permitted to free the mirror while a range exists.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190806231548.25242-6-jgg@ziepe.ca
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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If CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR is set task_struct_whitelist is
never called, and thus generates a compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190812065524.19959-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This adds the P_PIDFD type to waitid().
One of the last remaining bits for the pidfd api is to make it possible
to wait on pidfds. With P_PIDFD added to waitid() the parts of userspace
that want to use the pidfd api to exclusively manage processes can do so
now.
One of the things this will unblock in the future is the ability to make
it possible to retrieve the exit status via waitid(P_PIDFD) for
non-parent processes if handed a _suitable_ pidfd that has this feature
set. This is similar to what you can do on FreeBSD with kqueue(). It
might even end up being possible to wait on a process as a non-parent if
an appropriate property is enabled on the pidfd.
With P_PIDFD no scoping of the process identified by the pidfd is
possible, i.e. it explicitly blocks things such as wait4(-1), wait4(0),
waitid(P_ALL), waitid(P_PGID) etc. It only allows for semantics
equivalent to wait4(pid), waitid(P_PID). Users that need scoping should
rely on pid-based wait*() syscalls for now.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190727222229.6516-2-christian@brauner.io
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When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of
freeing them.
During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A
concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed ->numa_faults
allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace.
I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur
through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can
lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently
running task of a different CPU.
Another way to fix this would be to make ->numa_faults RCU-managed or add
extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on
execve.
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd and clone3 fixes from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a bugfix for CLONE_PIDFD when used with the legacy clone
syscall, two fixes to ensure that syscall numbering and clone3
entrypoint implementations will stay consistent, and an update for the
maintainers file:
- The addition of clone3 broke CLONE_PIDFD for legacy clone on all
architectures that use do_fork() directly instead of calling the
clone syscall itself. (Fwiw, cleaning do_fork() up is on my todo.)
The reason this happened was that during conversion of _do_fork()
to use struct kernel_clone_args we missed that do_fork() is called
directly by various architectures. This is fixed by making sure
that the pidfd argument in struct kernel_clone_args is correctly
initialized with the parent_tidptr argument passed down from
do_fork(). Additionally, do_fork() missed a check to make
CLONE_PIDFD and CLONE_PARENT_SETTID mutually exclusive just a
clone() does. This is now fixed too.
- When clone3() was introduced we skipped architectures that require
special handling for fork-like syscalls. Their syscall tables did
not contain any mention of clone3().
To make sure that Arnd's work to make syscall numbers on all
architectures identical (minus alpha) was not for naught we are
placing a comment in all syscall tables that do not yet implement
clone3(). The comment makes it clear that 435 is reserved for
clone3 and should not be used.
- Also, this contains a patch to make the clone3() syscall definition
in asm-generic/unist.h conditional on __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3. This
lets us catch new architectures that implicitly make use of clone3
without setting __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 which is a good indicator
that they did not check whether it needs special treatment or not.
- Finally, this contains a patch to add me as maintainer for pidfd
stuff so people can start blaming me (more)"
* tag 'for-linus-20190715' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
MAINTAINERS: add new entry for pidfd api
unistd: protect clone3 via __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
arch: mark syscall number 435 reserved for clone3
clone: fix CLONE_PIDFD support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma
Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
"Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:
- Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror'
feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and
nouveau to be using this API.
- Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the
past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree
conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't
make the merge window cut off.
- Improve some core mm APIs:
- export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
- refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
- refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
struct
- Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers
use the simplified API directly
- Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC
- Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code"
* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits)
mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR
mm: remove the HMM config option
mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess
mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data
mm: remove hmm_devmem_add
mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page
nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly
nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly
PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap
memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag
memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap
memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops
memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages
memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to ->kill and ->cleanup
memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure
memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages
mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper
mm: export alloc_pages_vma
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The introduction of clone3 syscall accidentally broke CLONE_PIDFD
support in traditional clone syscall on compat x86 and those
architectures that use do_fork to implement clone syscall.
This bug was found by strace test suite.
Link: https://strace.io/logs/strace/2019-07-12
Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3")
Bisected-and-tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190714162047.GB10389@altlinux.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
and thus all legacy workloads.
There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
argument.
The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:
/* uapi */
struct clone_args {
__aligned_u64 flags;
__aligned_u64 pidfd;
__aligned_u64 child_tid;
__aligned_u64 parent_tid;
__aligned_u64 exit_signal;
__aligned_u64 stack;
__aligned_u64 stack_size;
__aligned_u64 tls;
};
and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:
/* kernel internal */
struct kernel_clone_args {
u64 flags;
int __user *pidfd;
int __user *child_tid;
int __user *parent_tid;
int exit_signal;
unsigned long stack;
unsigned long stack_size;
unsigned long tls;
};
The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.
A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
legacy clone().
This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.
Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
massaging.
Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"
* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
fork: add clone3
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds two main features.
- First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process
managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free
way.
The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is
currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's
death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an
{e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e.
thread-group) exit.
- The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible
to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created
using CLONE_PIDFD.
A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these
processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This
is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service
managers such as systemd.
Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests.
It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done
in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see
some adoption:
- Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS
kernels [1]
- Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to
wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption.
- And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and
CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too"
[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22
https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22
https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22
[2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753
* tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
tests: add pidfd_open() tests
arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
pid: add pidfd_open()
pidfd: add polling selftests
pidfd: add polling support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Remove the unused per rq load array and all its infrastructure, by
Dietmar Eggemann.
- Add utilization clamping support by Patrick Bellasi. This is a
refinement of the energy aware scheduling framework with support for
boosting of interactive and capping of background workloads: to make
sure critical GUI threads get maximum frequency ASAP, and to make
sure background processing doesn't unnecessarily move to cpufreq
governor to higher frequencies and less energy efficient CPU modes.
- Add the bare minimum of tracepoints required for LISA EAS regression
testing, by Qais Yousef - which allows automated testing of various
power management features, including energy aware scheduling.
- Restructure the former tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() facility that the -rt
kernel used to modify the scheduler's CPU affinity logic such as
migrate_disable() - introduce the task->cpus_ptr value instead of
taking the address of &task->cpus_allowed directly - by Sebastian
Andrzej Siewior.
- Misc optimizations, fixes, cleanups and small enhancements - see the
Git log for details.
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
sched/uclamp: Add uclamp support to energy_compute()
sched/uclamp: Add uclamp_util_with()
sched/cpufreq, sched/uclamp: Add clamps for FAIR and RT tasks
sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks
sched/uclamp: Reset uclamp values on RESET_ON_FORK
sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping
sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy
sched/uclamp: Add system default clamps
sched/uclamp: Enforce last task's UCLAMP_MAX
sched/uclamp: Add bucket local max tracking
sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting
sched/fair: Rename weighted_cpuload() to cpu_runnable_load()
sched/debug: Export the newly added tracepoints
sched/debug: Add sched_overutilized tracepoint
sched/debug: Add new tracepoint to track PELT at se level
sched/debug: Add new tracepoints to track PELT at rq level
sched/debug: Add a new sched_trace_*() helper functions
sched/autogroup: Make autogroup_path() always available
sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while
sched/topology: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from arch_scale_cpu_capacity()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
rather impressive:
"On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255
After the patchset, they became:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"
There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
locking.
Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
improvements are:
"With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
after this patchset were:
# of Threads Before Patch After Patch
------------ ------------ -----------
2 2,618 4,193
4 1,202 3,726
8 802 3,622
16 729 3,359
32 319 2,826
64 102 2,744"
The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
going forward.
- jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
as well.
- atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.
- A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
all around the place.
- A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.
- Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
locking/rwsem: Make rwsem->owner an atomic_long_t
locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The timer and timekeeping departement delivers:
Core:
- The consolidation of the VDSO code into a generic library including
the conversion of x86 and ARM64. Conversion of ARM and MIPS are en
route through the relevant maintainer trees and should end up in
5.4.
This gets rid of the unnecessary different copies of the same code
and brings all architectures on the same level of VDSO
functionality.
- Make the NTP user space interface more robust by restricting the
TAI offset to prevent undefined behaviour. Includes a selftest.
- Validate user input in the compat settimeofday() syscall to catch
invalid values which would be turned into valid values by a
multiplication overflow
- Consolidate the time accessors
- Small fixes, improvements and cleanups all over the place
Drivers:
- Support for the NXP system counter, TI davinci timer
- Move the Microsoft HyperV clocksource/events code into the
drivers/clocksource directory so it can be shared between x86 and
ARM64.
- Overhaul of the Tegra driver
- Delay timer support for IXP4xx
- Small fixes, improvements and cleanups as usual"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
time: Validate user input in compat_settimeofday()
timer: Document TIMER_PINNED
clocksource/drivers: Continue making Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic
clocksource/drivers: Make Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic
MAINTAINERS: Fix Andy's surname and the directory entries of VDSO
hrtimer: Use a bullet for the returns bullet list
arm64: vdso: Fix compilation with clang older than 8
arm64: compat: Fix __arch_get_hw_counter() implementation
arm64: Fix __arch_get_hw_counter() implementation
lib/vdso: Make delta calculation work correctly
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the generic VDSO library
arm64: compat: No need for pre-ARMv7 barriers on an ARMv8 system
arm64: vdso: Remove unnecessary asm-offsets.c definitions
vdso: Remove superfluous #ifdef __KERNEL__ in vdso/datapage.h
clocksource/drivers/davinci: Add support for clocksource
clocksource/drivers/davinci: Add support for clockevents
clocksource/drivers/tegra: Set up maximum-ticks limit properly
clocksource/drivers/tegra: Cycles can't be 0
clocksource/drivers/tegra: Restore base address before cleanup
clocksource/drivers/tegra: Add verbose definition for 1MHz constant
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Required for dependencies in the next patches.
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Make sure to return a proper negative error code from copy_process()
when anon_inode_getfile() fails with CLONE_PIDFD.
Otherwise _do_fork() will not detect an error and get_task_pid() will
operator on a nonsensical pointer:
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000006dbc2c
R13: 00007ffc15fbb0ff R14: 00007ff07e47e9c0 R15: 0000000000000000
kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 7990 Comm: syz-executor290 Not tainted 5.2.0-rc6+ #9
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:__read_once_size include/linux/compiler.h:194 [inline]
RIP: 0010:get_task_pid+0xe1/0x210 kernel/pid.c:372
Code: 89 ff e8 62 27 5f 00 49 8b 07 44 89 f1 4c 8d bc c8 90 01 00 00 eb 0c
e8 0d fe 25 00 49 81 c7 38 05 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <80> 3c 18 00 74
08 4c 89 ff e8 31 27 5f 00 4d 8b 37 e8 f9 47 12 00
RSP: 0018:ffff88808a4a7d78 EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 00000000000000a7 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffff888088180600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88808a4a7d90 R08: ffffffff814fb3a8 R09: ffffed1015d66bf8
R10: ffffed1015d66bf8 R11: 1ffff11015d66bf7 R12: 0000000000041ffc
R13: 1ffff11011494fbc R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000000053d
FS: 00007ff07e47e700(0000) GS:ffff8880aeb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000004b5100 CR3: 0000000094df2000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
_do_fork+0x1b9/0x5f0 kernel/fork.c:2360
__do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2454 [inline]
__se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2448 [inline]
__x64_sys_clone+0xc1/0xd0 kernel/fork.c:2448
do_syscall_64+0xfe/0x140 arch/x86/entry/common.c:301
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000e0dc0d058c9e7142@google.com
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+002e636502bc4b64eb5c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 6fd2fe494b17 ("copy_process(): don't use ksys_close() on cleanups")
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
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Commit 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on
memcg charge fail") corrected two instances, but there was a third
instance of this bug.
Without setting tsk->stack, if memcg_charge_kernel_stack fails, it'll
execute free_thread_stack() on a dangling pointer.
Enterprise kernels are compiled with VMAP_STACK=y so this isn't
critical, but custom VMAP_STACK=n builds should have some performance
advantage, with the drawback of risking to fail fork because compaction
didn't succeed. So as long as VMAP_STACK=n is a supported option it's
worth fixing it upstream.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190619011450.28048-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds polling support to pidfd.
Android low memory killer (LMK) needs to know when a process dies once
it is sent the kill signal. It does so by checking for the existence of
/proc/pid which is both racy and slow. For example, if a PID is reused
between when LMK sends a kill signal and checks for existence of the
PID, since the wrong PID is now possibly checked for existence.
Using the polling support, LMK will be able to get notified when a process
exists in race-free and fast way, and allows the LMK to do other things
(such as by polling on other fds) while awaiting the process being killed
to die.
For notification to polling processes, we follow the same existing
mechanism in the kernel used when the parent of the task group is to be
notified of a child's death (do_notify_parent). This is precisely when the
tasks waiting on a poll of pidfd are also awakened in this patch.
We have decided to include the waitqueue in struct pid for the following
reasons:
1. The wait queue has to survive for the lifetime of the poll. Including
it in task_struct would not be option in this case because the task can
be reaped and destroyed before the poll returns.
2. By including the struct pid for the waitqueue means that during
de_thread(), the new thread group leader automatically gets the new
waitqueue/pid even though its task_struct is different.
Appropriate test cases are added in the second patch to provide coverage of
all the cases the patch is handling.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Kowalski <bl0pbl33p@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
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anon_inode_getfd() should be used *ONLY* in situations when we are
guaranteed to be past the last failure point (including copying the
descriptor number to userland, at that). And ksys_close() should
not be used for cleanups at all.
anon_inode_getfile() is there for all nontrivial cases like that.
Just use that...
Fixes: b3e583825266 ("clone: add CLONE_PIDFD")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
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Give userspace a cheap and reliable way to tell whether CLONE_PIDFD is
supported by the kernel or not. The easiest way is to pass an invalid
file descriptor value in parent_tidptr, perform the syscall and verify
that parent_tidptr has been changed to a valid file descriptor value.
CLONE_PIDFD uses parent_tidptr to return pidfds. CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
will use parent_tidptr to return the tid of the parent. The two flags
cannot be used together. Old kernels that only support
CLONE_PARENT_SETTID will not verify the value pointed to by
parent_tidptr. This behavior is unchanged even with the introduction of
CLONE_PIDFD.
However, if CLONE_PIDFD is specified the kernel will currently check the
value pointed to by parent_tidptr before placing the pidfd in the memory
pointed to. EINVAL will be returned if the value in parent_tidptr is not
0.
If CLONE_PIDFD is supported and fd 0 is closed, then the returned pidfd
can and likely will be 0 and parent_tidptr will be unchanged. This means
userspace must either check CLONE_PIDFD support beforehand or check that
fd 0 is not closed when invoking CLONE_PIDFD.
The check for pidfd == 0 was introduced during the v5.2 merge window by
commit b3e583825266 ("clone: add CLONE_PIDFD") to ensure that
CLONE_PIDFD could be potentially extended by passing in flags through
the return argument.
However, that extension would look horrible, and with the upcoming
introduction of the clone3 syscall in v5.3 there is no need to extend
legacy clone syscall this way. (Even if it would need to be extended,
CLONE_DETACHED can be reused with CLONE_PIDFD.)
So remove the pidfd == 0 check. Userspace that needs to be portable to
kernels without CLONE_PIDFD support can then be advised to initialize
pidfd to -1 and check the pidfd value returned by CLONE_PIDFD.
Fixes: b3e583825266 ("clone: add CLONE_PIDFD")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
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This makes boot uniformly boottime and tai uniformly clocktai, to
address the remaining oversights.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621203249.3909-2-Jason@zx2c4.com
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This cleanly handles arches who do not yet define clone3.
clone3() was initially placed under __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE under the
assumption that this would cleanly handle all architectures. It does
not.
Architectures such as nios2 or h8300 simply take the asm-generic syscall
definitions and generate their syscall table from it. Since they don't
define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE the build would fail complaining about
sys_clone3 missing. The reason this doesn't happen for legacy clone is
that nios2 and h8300 provide assembly stubs for sys_clone. This seems to
be done for architectural reasons.
The build failures for nios2 and h8300 were caught int -next luckily.
The solution is to define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 that architectures can
add. Additionally, we need a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures such
as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table in the way I
explained above.
Fixes: 8f3220a80654 ("arch: wire-up clone3() syscall")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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So long as a struct hmm pointer exists, so should the struct mm it is
linked too. Hold the mmgrab() as soon as a hmm is created, and mmdrop() it
once the hmm refcount goes to zero.
Since mmdrop() (ie a 0 kref on struct mm) is now impossible with a !NULL
mm->hmm delete the hmm_hmm_destroy().
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@amd.com>
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This adds the clone3 system call.
As mentioned several times already (cf. [7], [8]) here's the promised
patchset for clone3().
We recently merged the CLONE_PIDFD patchset (cf. [1]). It took the last
free flag from clone().
Independent of the CLONE_PIDFD patchset a time namespace has been discussed
at Linux Plumber Conference last year and has been sent out and reviewed
(cf. [5]). It is expected that it will go upstream in the not too distant
future. However, it relies on the addition of the CLONE_NEWTIME flag to
clone(). The only other good candidate - CLONE_DETACHED - is currently not
recyclable as we have identified at least two large or widely used
codebases that currently pass this flag (cf. [2], [3], and [4]). Given that
CLONE_PIDFD grabbed the last clone() flag the time namespace is effectively
blocked. clone3() has the advantage that it will unblock this patchset
again. In general, clone3() is extensible and allows for the implementation
of new features.
The idea is to keep clone3() very simple and close to the original clone(),
specifically, to keep on supportin |