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<title>signal: Deliver SIGTRAP on perf event asynchronously if blocked</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:22:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
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<published>2022-04-04T11:12:04Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 78ed93d72ded679e3caf0758357209887bda885f ]

With SIGTRAP on perf events, we have encountered termination of
processes due to user space attempting to block delivery of SIGTRAP.
Consider this case:

    &lt;set up SIGTRAP on a perf event&gt;
    ...
    sigset_t s;
    sigemptyset(&amp;s);
    sigaddset(&amp;s, SIGTRAP | &lt;and others&gt;);
    sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &amp;s, ...);
    ...
    &lt;perf event triggers&gt;

When the perf event triggers, while SIGTRAP is blocked, force_sig_perf()
will force the signal, but revert back to the default handler, thus
terminating the task.

This makes sense for error conditions, but not so much for explicitly
requested monitoring. However, the expectation is still that signals
generated by perf events are synchronous, which will no longer be the
case if the signal is blocked and delivered later.

To give user space the ability to clearly distinguish synchronous from
asynchronous signals, introduce siginfo_t::si_perf_flags and
TRAP_PERF_FLAG_ASYNC (opted for flags in case more binary information is
required in future).

The resolution to the problem is then to (a) no longer force the signal
(avoiding the terminations), but (b) tell user space via si_perf_flags
if the signal was synchronous or not, so that such signals can be
handled differently (e.g. let user space decide to ignore or consider
the data imprecise).

The alternative of making the kernel ignore SIGTRAP on perf events if
the signal is blocked may work for some usecases, but likely causes
issues in others that then have to revert back to interception of
sigprocmask() (which we want to avoid). [ A concrete example: when using
breakpoint perf events to track data-flow, in a region of code where
signals are blocked, data-flow can no longer be tracked accurately.
When a relevant asynchronous signal is received after unblocking the
signal, the data-flow tracking logic needs to know its state is
imprecise. ]

Fixes: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220404111204.935357-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: remove compat_alloc_user_space</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T22:32:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T22:18:29Z</published>
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All users of compat_alloc_user_space() and copy_in_user() have been
removed from the kernel, only a few functions in sparc remain that can be
changed to calling arch_copy_in_user() instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210727144859.4150043-7-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>compat: remove some compat entry points</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T22:32:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T22:18:25Z</published>
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These are all handled correctly when calling the native system call entry
point, so remove the special cases.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210727144859.4150043-6-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: simplify compat numa syscalls</title>
<updated>2021-09-08T22:32:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-08T22:18:21Z</published>
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The compat implementations for mbind, get_mempolicy, set_mempolicy and
migrate_pages are just there to handle the subtly different layout of
bitmaps on 32-bit hosts.

The compat implementation however lacks some of the checks that are
present in the native one, in particular for checking that the extra bits
are all zero when user space has a larger mask size than the kernel.
Worse, those extra bits do not get cleared when copying in or out of the
kernel, which can lead to incorrect data as well.

Unify the implementation to handle the compat bitmap layout directly in
the get_nodes() and copy_nodes_to_user() helpers.  Splitting out the
get_bitmap() helper from get_nodes() also helps readability of the native
case.

On x86, two additional problems are addressed by this: compat tasks can
pass a bitmap at the end of a mapping, causing a fault when reading across
the page boundary for a 64-bit word.  x32 tasks might also run into
problems with get_mempolicy corrupting data when an odd number of 32-bit
words gets passed.

On parisc the migrate_pages() system call apparently had the wrong calling
convention, as big-endian architectures expect the words inside of a
bitmap to be swapped.  This is not a problem though since parisc has no
NUMA support.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix mempolicy crash]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210730143417.3700653-1-arnd@kernel.org
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YQPLG20V3dmOfq3a@osiris/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210727144859.4150043-5-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>compat: make linux/compat.h available everywhere</title>
<updated>2021-07-23T13:20:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-22T14:28:58Z</published>
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Parts of linux/compat.h are under an #ifdef, but we end up
using more of those over time, moving things around bit by
bit.

To get it over with once and for all, make all of this file
uncondititonal now so it can be accessed everywhere. There
are only a few types left that are in asm/compat.h but not
yet in the asm-generic version, so add those in the process.

This requires providing a few more types in asm-generic/compat.h
that were not already there. The only tricky one is
compat_sigset_t, which needs a little help on 32-bit architectures
and for x86.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:56:43Z</published>
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Currently we handle SS_AUTODISARM as soon as we have stored the altstack
settings into sigframe - that's the point when we have set the things up
for eventual sigreturn to restore the old settings.  And if we manage to
set the sigframe up (we are not done with that yet), everything's fine.
However, in case of failure we end up with sigframe-to-be abandoned and
SIGSEGV force-delivered.  And in that case we end up with inconsistent
rules - late failures have altstack reset, early ones do not.

It's trivial to get consistent behaviour - just handle SS_AUTODISARM once
we have set the sigframe up and are committed to entering the handler,
i.e.  in signal_delivered().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200404170604.GN23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/876
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422230846.1756380-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-v5.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2021-05-21T16:12:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-21T16:12:52Z</published>
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Pull siginfo fix from Eric Biederman:
 "During the merge window an issue with si_perf and the siginfo ABI came
  up. The alpha and sparc siginfo structure layout had changed with the
  addition of SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF and the new field si_perf.

  The reason only alpha and sparc were affected is that they are the
  only architectures that use si_trapno.

  Looking deeper it was discovered that si_trapno is used for only a few
  select signals on alpha and sparc, and that none of the other
  _sigfault fields past si_addr are used at all. Which means technically
  no regression on alpha and sparc.

  While the alignment concerns might be dismissed the abuse of si_errno
  by SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF does have the potential to cause regressions in
  existing userspace.

  While we still have time before userspace starts using and depending
  on the new definition siginfo for SIGTRAP TRAP_PERF this set of
  changes cleans up siginfo_t.

   - The si_trapno field is demoted from magic alpha and sparc status
     and made an ordinary union member of the _sigfault member of
     siginfo_t. Without moving it of course.

   - si_perf is replaced with si_perf_data and si_perf_type ending the
     abuse of si_errno.

   - Unnecessary additions to signalfd_siginfo are removed"

* 'for-v5.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signalfd: Remove SIL_PERF_EVENT fields from signalfd_siginfo
  signal: Deliver all of the siginfo perf data in _perf
  signal: Factor force_sig_perf out of perf_sigtrap
  signal: Implement SIL_FAULT_TRAPNO
  siginfo: Move si_trapno inside the union inside _si_fault
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<title>signal: Deliver all of the siginfo perf data in _perf</title>
<updated>2021-05-18T21:20:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-02T22:28:31Z</published>
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Don't abuse si_errno and deliver all of the perf data in _perf member
of siginfo_t.

Note: The data field in the perf data structures in a u64 to allow a
pointer to be encoded without needed to implement a 32bit and 64bit
version of the same structure.  There already exists a 32bit and 64bit
versions siginfo_t, and the 32bit version can not include a 64bit
member as it only has 32bit alignment.  So unsigned long is used in
siginfo_t instead of a u64 as unsigned long can encode a pointer on
all architectures linux supports.

v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/m11rarqqx2.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210503203814.25487-10-ebiederm@xmission.com
v3: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505141101.11519-11-ebiederm@xmission.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210517195748.8880-4-ebiederm@xmission.com
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>siginfo: Move si_trapno inside the union inside _si_fault</title>
<updated>2021-05-18T21:17:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T22:06:01Z</published>
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It turns out that linux uses si_trapno very sparingly, and as such it
can be considered extra information for a very narrow selection of
signals, rather than information that is present with every fault
reported in siginfo.

As such move si_trapno inside the union inside of _si_fault.  This
results in no change in placement, and makes it eaiser
to extend _si_fault in the future as this reduces the number of
special cases.  In particular with si_trapno included in the union it
is no longer a concern that the union must be pointer aligned on most
architectures because the union follows immediately after si_addr
which is a pointer.

This change results in a difference in siginfo field placement on
sparc and alpha for the fields si_addr_lsb, si_lower, si_upper,
si_pkey, and si_perf.  These architectures do not implement the
signals that would use si_addr_lsb, si_lower, si_upper, si_pkey, and
si_perf.  Further these architecture have not yet implemented the
userspace that would use si_perf.

The point of this change is in fact to correct these placement issues
before sparc or alpha grow userspace that cares.  This change was
discussed[1] and the agreement is that this change is currently safe.

[1]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAK8P3a0+uKYwL1NhY6Hvtieghba2hKYGD6hcKx5n8=4Gtt+pHA@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/m1tunns7yf.fsf_-_@fess.ebiederm.org
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505141101.11519-5-ebiederm@xmission.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210517195748.8880-1-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-05-07T07:34:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-07T07:34:51Z</published>
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.

  90 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub),
  alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat,
  checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov,
  panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc,
  drivers/char, and spelling"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (90 commits)
  mm: fix typos in comments
  mm: fix typos in comments
  treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft
  ipc/sem.c: spelling fix
  fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values
  kernel/sys.c: fix typo
  kernel/up.c: fix typo
  kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos
  kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes
  include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes
  mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -&gt; "desired"
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw"
  scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo
  scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow"
  arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers
  mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()
  mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr()
  drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
  mm: fix some typos and code style problems
  ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes
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