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This is the 5.2.44 stable release
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commit a9a3ed1eff3601b63aea4fb462d8b3b92c7c1e7e upstream.
... or the odyssey of trying to disable the stack protector for the
function which generates the stack canary value.
The whole story started with Sergei reporting a boot crash with a kernel
built with gcc-10:
Kernel panic — not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5—00235—gfffb08b37df9 #139
Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M—D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013
Call Trace:
dump_stack
panic
? start_secondary
__stack_chk_fail
start_secondary
secondary_startup_64
-—-[ end Kernel panic — not syncing: stack—protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary
This happens because gcc-10 tail-call optimizes the last function call
in start_secondary() - cpu_startup_entry() - and thus emits a stack
canary check which fails because the canary value changes after the
boot_init_stack_canary() call.
To fix that, the initial attempt was to mark the one function which
generates the stack canary with:
__attribute__((optimize("-fno-stack-protector"))) ... start_secondary(void *unused)
however, using the optimize attribute doesn't work cumulatively
as the attribute does not add to but rather replaces previously
supplied optimization options - roughly all -fxxx options.
The key one among them being -fno-omit-frame-pointer and thus leading to
not present frame pointer - frame pointer which the kernel needs.
The next attempt to prevent compilers from tail-call optimizing
the last function call cpu_startup_entry(), shy of carving out
start_secondary() into a separate compilation unit and building it with
-fno-stack-protector, was to add an empty asm("").
This current solution was short and sweet, and reportedly, is supported
by both compilers but we didn't get very far this time: future (LTO?)
optimization passes could potentially eliminate this, which leads us
to the third attempt: having an actual memory barrier there which the
compiler cannot ignore or move around etc.
That should hold for a long time, but hey we said that about the other
two solutions too so...
Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200314164451.346497-1-slyfox@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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commit e99332e7b4cda6e60f5b5916cf9943a79dbef902 upstream.
It seems that for whatever reason, gcc-10 ends up not inlining a couple
of functions that used to be inlined before. Even if they only have one
single callsite - it looks like gcc may have decided that the code was
unlikely, and not worth inlining.
The code generation difference is harmless, but caused a few new section
mismatch errors, since the (now no longer inlined) function wasn't in
the __init section, but called other init functions:
Section mismatch in reference from the function kexec_free_initrd() to the function .init.text:free_initrd_mem()
Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memremap()
Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memunmap()
So add the appropriate __init annotation to make modpost not complain.
In both cases there were trivially just a single callsite from another
__init function.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PG: drop the tpm chunk - doesn't exist until v5.3-rc1~192^2~5.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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commit 78a5255ffb6a1af189a83e493d916ba1c54d8c75 upstream.
We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.
For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions < 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size. And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).
And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.
At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.
So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".
Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would. In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.
That's currently not the world we live in, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[PG: use the 4.19-stable version instead of mainline.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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This is the 5.2.43 stable release
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commit ab6f762f0f53162d41497708b33c9a3236d3609e upstream.
printk_deferred(), similarly to printk_safe/printk_nmi, does not
immediately attempt to print a new message on the consoles, avoiding
calls into non-reentrant kernel paths, e.g. scheduler or timekeeping,
which potentially can deadlock the system.
Those printk() flavors, instead, rely on per-CPU flush irq_work to print
messages from safer contexts. For same reasons (recursive scheduler or
timekeeping calls) printk() uses per-CPU irq_work in order to wake up
user space syslog/kmsg readers.
However, only printk_safe/printk_nmi do make sure that per-CPU areas
have been initialised and that it's safe to modify per-CPU irq_work.
This means that, for instance, should printk_deferred() be invoked "too
early", that is before per-CPU areas are initialised, printk_deferred()
will perform illegal per-CPU access.
Lech Perczak [0] reports that after commit 1b710b1b10ef ("char/random:
silence a lockdep splat with printk()") user-space syslog/kmsg readers
are not able to read new kernel messages.
The reason is printk_deferred() being called too early (as was pointed
out by Petr and John).
Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work before per-CPU
areas are initialized.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/
Reported-by: Lech Perczak <l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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commit 425c5b38779a860062aa62219dc920d374b13c17 in linux-rt-devel.
Avoid overhead on the majority of migrate disable/enable sequences by
only manipulating scheduler data (and grabbing the relevant locks) when
the task actually schedules while migrate-disabled. A kernel build
showed around a 10% reduction in system time (with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=512).
Instead of cpuhp_pin_lock, CPU hotplug is handled by keeping a per-CPU
count of the number of pinned tasks (including tasks which have not
scheduled in the migrate-disabled section); takedown_cpu() will
wait until that reaches zero (confirmed by take_cpu_down() in stop
machine context to deal with races) before migrating tasks off of the
cpu.
To simplify synchronization, updating cpus_mask is no longer deferred
until migrate_enable(). This lets us not have to worry about
migrate_enable() missing the update if it's on the fast path (didn't
schedule during the migrate disabled section). It also makes the code
a bit simpler and reduces deviation from mainline.
While the main motivation for this is the performance benefit, lazy
migrate disable also eliminates the restriction on calling
migrate_disable() while atomic but leaving the atomic region prior to
calling migrate_enable() -- though this won't help with local_bh_disable()
(and thus rcutorture) unless something similar is done with the recently
added local_lock.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
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Introduce the final symbol for PREEMPT_RT_FULL.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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posix-cpu-timer code takes non -rt safe locks in hard irq
context. Move it to a thread.
[ 3.0 fixes from Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> ]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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|BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:915
|in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 87, name: rcuop/7
|1 lock held by rcuop/7/87:
| #0: (rcu_callback){......}, at: [<ffffffff8112c76a>] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x1ca/0x5d0
|Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff811eebd9>] put_cpu_partial+0x29/0x220
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|CPU: 0 PID: 87 Comm: rcuop/7 Tainted: G W 4.0.0-rt0+ #477
|Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
| 000000000007a9fc ffff88013987baf8 ffffffff817441c7 0000000000000007
| 0000000000000000 ffff88013987bb18 ffffffff810eee51 0000000000000000
| ffff88013fc10200 ffff88013987bb48 ffffffff8174a1c4 000000000007a9fc
|Call Trace:
| [<ffffffff817441c7>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x90
| [<ffffffff810eee51>] ___might_sleep+0x121/0x1b0
| [<ffffffff8174a1c4>] rt_spin_lock+0x24/0x60
| [<ffffffff811a689a>] __free_pages_ok+0xaa/0x540
| [<ffffffff811a729d>] __free_pages+0x1d/0x30
| [<ffffffff811eddd5>] __free_slab+0xc5/0x1e0
| [<ffffffff811edf46>] free_delayed+0x56/0x70
| [<ffffffff811eecfd>] put_cpu_partial+0x14d/0x220
| [<ffffffff811efc98>] __slab_free+0x158/0x2c0
| [<ffffffff811f0021>] kmem_cache_free+0x221/0x2d0
| [<ffffffff81204d0c>] file_free_rcu+0x2c/0x40
| [<ffffffff8112c7e3>] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x243/0x5d0
| [<ffffffff810e951c>] kthread+0xfc/0x120
| [<ffffffff8174abc8>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Carsten reported problems when running:
taskset 01 chrt -f 1 sleep 1
from within rc.local on a F15 machine. The task stays running and
never gets on the run queue because some of the run queues have
rt_throttled=1 which does not go away. Works nice from a ssh login
shell. Disabling CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED solves that as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Disable SLAB and SLOB on -RT. Only SLUB is adopted to -RT needs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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In commit 4b53a3412d66 ("sched/core: Remove the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed()
wrapper") the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper was removed. There was not
much difference in !RT but in RT we used this to implement
migrate_disable(). Within a migrate_disable() section the CPU mask is
restricted to single CPU while the "normal" CPU mask remains untouched.
As an alternative implementation Ingo suggested to use
struct task_struct {
const cpumask_t *cpus_ptr;
cpumask_t cpus_mask;
};
with
t->cpus_allowed_ptr = &t->cpus_allowed;
In -RT we then can switch the cpus_ptr to
t->cpus_allowed_ptr = &cpumask_of(task_cpu(p));
in a migration disabled region. The rules are simple:
- Code that 'uses' ->cpus_allowed would use the pointer.
- Code that 'modifies' ->cpus_allowed would use the direct mask.
While converting the existing users I tried to stick with the rules
above however… well mostly CPUFREQ tries to temporary switch the CPU
mask to do something on a certain CPU and then switches the mask back it
its original value. So in theory `cpus_ptr' could or should be used.
However if this is invoked in a migration disabled region (which is not
the case because it would require something like preempt_disable() and
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() might sleep so it can't be) then the "restore"
part would restore the wrong mask. So it only looks strange and I go for
the pointer…
Some drivers copy the cpumask without cpumask_copy() and others use
cpumask_copy but without alloc_cpumask_var(). I did not fix those as
part of this, could do this as a follow up…
So is this the way we want it?
Is the usage of `cpus_ptr' vs `cpus_mask' for the set + restore part
(see cpufreq users) what we want? At some point it looks like they
should use a different interface for their doing. I am not sure why
switching to certain CPU is important but maybe it could be done via a
workqueue from the CPUFREQ core (so we have a comment desribing why are
doing this and a get_online_cpus() to ensure that the CPU does not go
offline too early).
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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vprintk variants are now NMI-safe so there is no longer a need for
the "safe" calls.
NOTE: This also removes printk flushing functionality.
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Introduce the ability to limit the limit the uptime of a kernel.
When enabled, these options set a maximum uptime on the kernel, and
(optionally) trigger a clean reboot at expiration.
This functionality may appear to be very close to the softdog watchdog
implementation. It is. But can't be the softdog for several reasons:
- The soft watchdog should be available while this functionality is active
- The duration range is different between this and the softdog. The
timeout available here is potentially quite a bit longer.
- At expiration, there are different expiration requirements and actions.
- This functionality is specific to a particular use case and should
not impact mainline functionality
To cleanly restart the kernel after one minute of uptime, the following
config items would be required:
CONFIG_UPTIME_LIMITED_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_UPTIME_LIMIT_DURATION=1
CONFIG_UPTIME_LIMIT_KERNEL_REBOOT=y
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
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If a root filesystem is generated as non-root, one of
the tell tale signs is /dev/console not being a character
file. To save a whole class of questions, let's just test
for the condition and let the user know.
Signed-off-by: Richard Laroque <rlarocqu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
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To an end user who doesn't really know linux that well, a
message like:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
may just look like cryptic computer speak indicating some
deep and complex problem, instead of the reality that they
have a simple local configuration problem. Ideally it would
be nice to not use the misleading "panic" at all, but since
various panic notifiers are historically expecting to be
called when there is no valid rootfs, we can't change that.
So instead, this tries to make it 100% clear to folks of
any background that it is an end user configuration issue.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
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With gcc-4.6.3:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x140): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the variable .init.ramfs.info:__initramfs_size
The function populate_initrd_image() references
the variable __init __initramfs_size.
This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of __initramfs_size is wrong.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x14c): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the function .init.text:unpack_to_rootfs()
The function populate_initrd_image() references
the function __init unpack_to_rootfs().
This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of unpack_to_rootfs is wrong.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x198): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the function .init.text:xwrite()
The function populate_initrd_image() references
the function __init xwrite().
This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of xwrite is wrong.
Indeed, if the compiler decides not to inline populate_initrd_image(), a
warning is generated.
Fix this by adding the missing __init annotations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617074340.12779-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Fixes: 7c184ecd262fe64f ("initramfs: factor out a helper to populate the initrd image")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small char and misc driver fixes for 5.2-rc4 to resolve
a number of reported issues.
The most "notable" one here is the kernel headers in proc^Wsysfs
fixes. Those changes move the header file info into sysfs and fixes
the build issues that you reported.
Other than that, a bunch of small habanalabs driver fixes, some fpga
driver fixes, and a few other tiny driver fixes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
habanalabs: Read upper bits of trace buffer from RWPHI
habanalabs: Fix virtual address access via debugfs for 2MB pages
fpga: zynqmp-fpga: Correctly handle error pointer
habanalabs: fix bug in checking huge page optimization
habanalabs: Avoid using a non-initialized MMU cache mutex
habanalabs: fix debugfs code
uapi/habanalabs: add opcode for enable/disable device debug mode
habanalabs: halt debug engines on user process close
test_firmware: Use correct snprintf() limit
genwqe: Prevent an integer overflow in the ioctl
parport: Fix mem leak in parport_register_dev_model
fpga: dfl: expand minor range when registering chrdev region
fpga: dfl: Add lockdep classes for pdata->lock
fpga: dfl: afu: Pass the correct device to dma_mapping_error()
fpga: stratix10-soc: fix use-after-free on s10_init()
w1: ds2408: Fix typo after 49695ac46861 (reset on output_write retry with readback)
kheaders: Do not regenerate archive if config is not changed
kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs
lkdtm/bugs: Adjust recursion test to avoid elision
lkdtm/usercopy: Moves the KERNEL_DS test to non-canonical
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation version 2 of the license this program
is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license along with this program if not write to the free
software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111
1307 usa
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 83 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070034.021731668@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The kheaders archive consisting of the kernel headers used for compiling
bpf programs is in /proc. However there is concern that moving it here
will make it permanent. Let us move it to /sys/kernel as discussed [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1067310/#1265969
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Since commit 54c7a8916a88 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening
/initrd.image fails"), the kernel has unconditionally attempted to free
the initrd even if it doesn't exist.
In the non-existent case this causes a boot-time splat if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled due to a call to virt_to_phys() with a
NULL address.
Instead we should check that the initrd actually exists and only attempt
to free it if it does.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516143125.48948-1-steven.price@arm.com
Fixes: 54c7a8916a88 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails")
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10.
This patch (of 3):
Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of
a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform
capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC
(high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In
that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to
higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going
to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in
front of higher latency persistent memory [1].
Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux
interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here:
It's been a problem in the HPC space:
http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/
A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software
and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com
Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but
also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance
more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible
to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing
users to deploy remedies like:
"To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream
measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job;
nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth
falls below 300 GB/s."
A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e58f
("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this
numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized
("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and
disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance.
However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts
are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate
time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server
platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case.
The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a
workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance
degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to
excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the
valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance.
Here are some performance impact details of the patches:
1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a
3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts.
The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an
instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized
numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they
would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes
without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted
unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node.
2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap
size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8%
for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With
randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%.
3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in
cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with
randomization in one case.
4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization
enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some
improvements and some losses [3].
While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that
depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance
may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the
shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped
memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0
parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems.
Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially
security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and
return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the
location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially
early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for
physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first
onlined.
Quoting Kees:
"While we already have a base-address randomization
(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and
memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of
allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't
important: only the relative positions between allocated memory).
This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain
control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc.
I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar
to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator."
While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab
caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated.
However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to
quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization.
Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform
a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they
are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do
this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line
parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a
follow-on patch).
The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free
pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10,
4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling.
MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator
while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the
expectation that the security implications of finer granularity
randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The
performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to
other memory initialization work.
This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is
introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to
ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to
the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process
putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together,
page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As
more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high
page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant
impact to the cache conflict rate.
[1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/
[2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Various architectures including x86 poison the freed init memory. Do the
same in the generic free_initmem implementation and switch sparc32
architecture that is identical to the generic code over to it now.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550515285-17446-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "provide a generic free_initmem implementation", v2.
Many architectures implement free_initmem() in exactly the same or very
similar way: they wrap the call to free_initmem_default() with sometimes
different 'poison' parameter.
These patches switch those architectures to use a generic implementation
that does free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM).
This was inspired by Christoph's patches for free_initrd_mem [1] and I
shamelessly copied changelog entries from his patches :)
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190213174621.29297-1-hch@lst.de/
This patch (of 2):
For most architectures free_initmem just a wrapper for the same
free_initmem_default(-1) call. Provide that as a generic implementation
marked __weak.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550515285-17446-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Various architectures including x86 poison the freed initrd memory. Do
the same in the generic free_initrd_mem implementation and switch a few
more architectures that are identical to the generic code over to it now.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-9-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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For most architectures free_initrd_mem just expands to the same
free_reserved_area call. Provide that as a generic implementation marked
__weak.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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No need to handle the freeing disable in arch code when we already have a
core hook (and a different name for the option) for it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The code for kernels that support ramdisks or not is mostly the same.
Unify it by using an IS_ENABLED for the info message, and moving the error
message into a stub for populate_initrd_image.
[cai@lca.pw: fix a compilation error]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328014806.36375-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This will allow for cleaner code sharing in the caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Factor the kexec logic into a separate helper, and then inline the rest of
free_initrd into the only caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "initramfs tidyups".
I've spent some time chasing down behavior in initramfs and found
plenty of opportunity to improve the code. A first stab on that is
contained in this series.
This patch (of 7):
We free the initrd memory for all successful or error cases except for the
case where opening /initrd.image fails, which looks like an oversight.
Steven said:
: This also changes the behaviour when CONFIG_INITRAMFS_FORCE is enabled
: - specifically it means that the initrd is freed (previously it was
: ignored and never freed). But that seems like reasonable behaviour and
: the previous behaviour looks like another oversight.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
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/tytso/random
Pull randomness updates from Ted Ts'o:
- initialize the random driver earler
- fix CRNG initialization when we trust the CPU's RNG on NUMA systems
- other miscellaneous cleanups and fixes.
* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
random: add a spinlock_t to struct batched_entropy
random: document get_random_int() family
random: fix CRNG initialization when random.trust_cpu=1
random: move rand_initialize() earlier
random: only read from /dev/random after its pool has received 128 bits
drivers/char/random.c: make primary_crng static
drivers/char/random.c: remove unused stuct poolinfo::poolbits
drivers/char/random.c: constify poolinfo_table
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core/kobject updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.2-rc1
There are a number of ACPI patches in here as well, as Rafael said
they should go through this tree due to the driver core changes they
required. They have all been acked by the ACPI developers.
There are also a number of small subsystem-specific changes in here,
due to some changes to the kobject core code. Those too have all been
acked by the various subsystem maintainers.
As for content, it's pretty boring outside of the ACPI changes:
- spdx cleanups
- kobject documentation updates
- default attribute groups for kobjects
- other minor kobject/driver core fixes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (47 commits)
kobject: clean up the kobject add documentation a bit more
kobject: Fix kernel-doc comment first line
kobject: Remove docstring reference to kset
firmware_loader: Fix a typo ("syfs" -> "sysfs")
kobject: fix dereference before null check on kobj
Revert "driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)"
init/config: Do not select BUILD_BIN2C for IKCONFIG
Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier
kobject: Improve doc clarity kobject_init_and_add()
kobject: Improve docs for kobject_add/del
driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)
livepatch: Replace klp_ktype_patch's default_attrs with groups
cpufreq: schedutil: Replace default_attrs field with groups
padata: Replace padata_attr_type default_attrs field with groups
irqdesc: Replace irq_kobj_type's default_attrs field with groups
net-sysfs: Replace ktype default_attrs field with groups
block: Replace all ktype default_attrs with groups
samples/kobject: Replace foo_ktype's default_attrs field with groups
kobject: Add support for default attribute groups to kobj_type
driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until after devres release for probe failure
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
"This patchset makes it possible to retrieve pidfds at process creation
time by introducing the new flag CLONE_PIDFD to the clone() system
call. Linus originally suggested to implement this as a new flag to
clone() instead of making it a separate system call.
After a thorough review from Oleg CLONE_PIDFD returns pidfds in the
parent_tidptr argument. This means we can give back the associated pid
and the pidfd at the same time. Access to process metadata information
thus becomes rather trivial.
As has been agreed, CLONE_PIDFD creates file descriptors based on
anonymous inodes similar to the new mount api. They are made
unconditional by this patchset as they are now needed by core kernel
code (vfs, pidfd) even more than they already were before (timerfd,
signalfd, io_uring, epoll etc.). The core patchset is rather small.
The bulky looking changelist is caused by David's very simple changes
to Kconfig to make anon inodes unconditional.
A pidfd comes with additional information in fdinfo if the kernel
supports procfs. The fdinfo file contains the pid of the process in
the callers pid namespace in the same format as the procfs status
file, i.e. "Pid:\t%d".
To remove worries about missing metadata access this patchset comes
with a sample/test program that illustrates how a combination of
CLONE_PIDFD and pidfd_send_signal() can be used to gain race-free
access to process metadata through /proc/<pid>.
Further work based on this patchset has been done by Joel. His work
makes pidfds pollable. It finished too late for this merge window. I
would prefer to have it sitting in linux-next for a while and send it
for inclusion during the 5.3 merge window"
* tag 'pidfd-v5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
samples: show race-free pidfd metadata access
signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal
clone: add CLONE_PIDFD
Make anon_inodes unconditional
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow state reset of printk_once() calls.
- Prevent crashes when dereferencing invalid pointers in vsprintf().
Only the first byte is checked for simplicity.
- Make vsprintf warnings consistent and inlined.
- Treewide conversion of obsolete %pf, %pF to %ps, %pF printf
modifiers.
- Some clean up of vsprintf and test_printf code.
* tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
lib/vsprintf: Make function pointer_string static
vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages
vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string()
vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format()
vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings
vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0
vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer()
printk: Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset
treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
lib/test_printf: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
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Poking-mm initialization might require to duplicate the PGD in early
stage. Initialize the PGD cache earlier to prevent boot failures.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 4fc19708b165 ("x86/alternatives: Initialize temporary mm for patching")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190505011124.39692-1-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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To prevent improper use of the PTEs that are used for text patching, the
next patches will use a temporary mm struct. Initailize it by copying
the init mm.
The address that will be used for patching is taken from the lower area
that is usually used for the task memory. Doing so prevents the need to
frequently synchronize the temporary-mm (e.g., when BPF programs are
installed), since different PGDs are used for the task memory.
Finally, randomize the address of the PTEs to harden against exploits
that use these PTEs.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: deneen.t.dock@intel.com
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: kristen@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux_dti@icloud.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426232303.28381-8-nadav.amit@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Since commit 13610aa908dc ("kernel/configs: use .incbin directive to
embed config_data.gz"), IKCONFIG no longer uses BUILD_BIN2C so prevent
it from being selected in Kconfig.
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Introduce in-kernel headers which are made available as an archive
through proc (/proc/kheaders.tar.xz file). This archive makes it
possible to run eBPF and other tracing programs that need to extend the
kernel for tracing purposes without any dependency on the file system
having headers.
A github PR is sent for the corresponding BCC patch at:
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/2312
On Android and embedded systems, it is common to switch kernels but not
have kernel headers available on the file system. Further once a
different kernel is booted, any headers stored on the file system will
no longer be useful. This is an issue even well known to distros.
By storing the headers as a compressed archive within the kernel, we can
avoid these issues that have been a hindrance for a long time.
The best way to use this feature is by building it in. Several users
have a need for this, when they switch debug kernels, they do not want to
update the filesystem or worry about it where to store the headers on
it. However, the feature is also buildable as a module in case the user
desires it not being part of the kernel image. This makes it possible to
load and unload the headers from memory on demand. A tracing program can
load the module, do its operations, and then unload the module to save
kernel memory. The total memory needed is 3.3MB.
By having the archive available at a fixed location independent of
filesystem dependencies and conventions, all debugging tools can
directly refer to the fixed location for the archive, without concerning
with where the headers on a typical filesystem which significantly
simplifies tooling that needs kernel headers.
The code to read the headers is based on /proc/config.gz code and uses
the same technique to embed the headers.
Other approaches were discussed such as having an in-memory mountable
filesystem, but that has drawbacks such as requiring an in-kernel xz
decompressor which we don't have today, and requiring usage of 42 MB of
kernel memory to host the decompressed headers at anytime. Also this
approach is simpler than such approaches.
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Right now rand_initialize() is run as an early_initcall(), but it only
depends on timekeeping_init() (for mixing ktime_get_real() into the
pools). However, the call to boot_init_stack_canary() for stack canary
initialization runs earlier, which triggers a warning at boot:
random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x357/0x548 with crng_init=0
Instead, this moves rand_initialize() to after timekeeping_init(), and moves
canary initialization here as well.
Note that this warning may still remain for machines that do not have
UEFI RNG support (which initializes the RNG pools during setup_arch()),
or for x86 machines without RDRAND (or booting without "random.trust=on"
or CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU=y).
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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When a module option, or core kernel argument, toggles a static-key it
requires jump labels to be initialized early. While x86, PowerPC, and
ARM64 arrange for jump_label_init() to be called before parse_args(),
ARM does not.
Kernel command line: rdinit=/sbin/init page_alloc.shuffle=1 panic=-1 console=ttyAMA0,115200 page_alloc.shuffle=1
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at ./include/linux/jump_label.h:303
page_alloc_shuffle+0x12c/0x1ac
static_key_enable(): static key 'page_alloc_shuffle_key+0x0/0x4' used
before call to jump_label_init()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
5.1.0-rc4-next-20190410-00003-g3367c36ce744 #1
Hardware name: ARM Integrator/CP (Device Tree)
[<c0011c68>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c000ec48>] (show_stack+0x10/0x18)
[<c000ec48>] (show_stack) from [<c07e9710>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x24)
[<c07e9710>] (dump_stack) from [<c001bb1c>] (__warn+0xe0/0x108)
[<c001bb1c>] (__warn) from [<c001bb88>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x6c)
[<c001bb88>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c0b0c4a8>]
(page_alloc_shuffle+0x12c/0x1ac)
[<c0b0c4a8>] (page_alloc_shuffle) from [<c0b0c550>] (shuffle_store+0x28/0x48)
[<c0b0c550>] (shuffle_store) from [<c003e6a0>] (parse_args+0x1f4/0x350)
[<c003e6a0>] (parse_args) from [<c0ac3c00>] (start_kernel+0x1c0/0x488)
Move the fallback call to jump_label_init() to occur before
parse_args().
The redundant calls to jump_label_init() in other archs are left intact
in case they have static key toggling use cases that are even earlier
than option parsing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155544804466.1032396.13418949511615676665.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
VFS code and pidfd code.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message to mention pidfds]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
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%pF and %pf are functionally equivalent to %pS and %ps conversion
specifiers. The former are deprecated, therefore switch the current users
to use the preferred variant.
The changes have been produced by the following command:
git grep -l '%p[fF]' | grep -v '^\(tools\|Documentation\)/' | \
while read i; do perl -i -pe 's/%pf/%ps/g; s/%pF/%pS/g;' $i; done
And verifying the result.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325193229.23390-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> (for btrfs)
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> (for mm/memblock.c)
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> (for drivers/pci)
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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Add panic() calls if memblock_alloc() returns NULL.
The panic() format duplicates the one used by memblock itself and in
order to avoid explosion with long parameters list replace open coded
allocation size calculations with a local variable.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548057848-15136-18-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> [c-sky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> [Xen]
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
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/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- do not generate unneeded top-level built-in.a
- let git ignore O= directory entirely
- optimize scripts/kallsyms slightly
- exclude DWARF info from *.s regardless of config options
- fix GCC toolchain search path for Clang to prepare ld.lld support
- do not generate modules.order when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled
- simplify single target rules and remove VPATH for external module
build
- allow to add optional flags to dpkg-buildpackage when building
deb-pkg
- move some compiler option tests from Makefile to Kconfig
- various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits)
kbuild: remove scripts/basic/% build target
kbuild: use -Werror=implicit-... instead of -Werror-implicit-...
kbuild: clean up scripts/gcc-version.sh
kbuild: remove cc-version macro
kbuild: update comment block of scripts/clang-version.sh
kbuild: remove commented-out INITRD_COMPRESS
kbuild: move -gsplit-dwarf, -gdwarf-4 option tests to Kconfig
kbuild: [bin]deb-pkg: add DPKG_FLAGS variable
kbuild: move ".config not found!" message from Kconfig to Makefile
kbuild: invoke syncconfig if include/config/auto.conf.cmd is missing
kbuild: simplify single target rules
kbuild: remove empty rules for makefiles
kbuild: make -r/-R effective in top Makefile for old Make versions
kbuild: move tools_silent to a more relevant place
kbuild: compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig
kbuild: refactor cc-cross-prefix implementation
kbuild: hardcode genksyms path and remove GENKSYMS variable
scripts/gdb: refactor rules for symlink creation
kbuild: create symlink to vmlinux-gdb.py in scripts_gdb target
scripts/gdb: do not descend into scripts/gdb from scripts
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix to prevent a unmet dependencies warning in Kconfig"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Make VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN depend on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
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Bruce Ashfield
Borislav Petkov
Linus Torvalds
Sergey Senozhatsky
Scott Wood
Thomas Gleixner
John Stultz
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Ingo Molnar
John Ogness
Bruce Ashfield
Paul Gortmaker
Geert Uytterhoeven
Joel Fernandes (Google)
Steven Price
Dan Williams
Mike Rapoport
Christoph Hellwig
Nadav Amit
Nadav Amit
Kees Cook
David Howells
Sakari Ailus