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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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<title>kmsan: introduce __no_sanitize_memory and __no_kmsan_checks</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:03:41Z</published>
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__no_sanitize_memory is a function attribute that instructs KMSAN to skip
a function during instrumentation.  This is needed to e.g.  implement the
noinstr functions.

__no_kmsan_checks is a function attribute that makes KMSAN ignore the
uninitialized values coming from the function's inputs, and initialize the
function's outputs.

Functions marked with this attribute can't be inlined into functions not
marked with it, and vice versa.  This behavior is overridden by
__always_inline.

__SANITIZE_MEMORY__ is a macro that's defined iff the file is instrumented
with KMSAN.  This is not the same as CONFIG_KMSAN, which is defined for
every file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-8-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi</title>
<updated>2022-09-26T17:13:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
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Switch from Clang's original forward-edge control-flow integrity
implementation to -fsanitize=kcfi, which is better suited for the
kernel, as it doesn't require LTO, doesn't use a jump table that
requires altering function references, and won't break cross-module
function address equality.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-6-samitolvanen@google.com
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<entry>
<title>cfi: Use __builtin_function_start</title>
<updated>2022-04-13T19:16:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-05T22:16:18Z</published>
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Clang 14 added support for the __builtin_function_start function,
which allows us to implement the function_nocfi macro without
architecture-specific inline assembly and in a way that also works
with static initializers.

Change CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to depend on Clang &gt;= 14, define
function_nocfi using __builtin_function_start, and remove the arm64
inline assembly implementation.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ec2e26eaf63558934f5b73a6e530edc453cf9508
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1353
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt; # arm64
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405221618.633743-1-samitolvanen@google.com
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<entry>
<title>compiler_types.h: Add unified __diag_ignore_all for GCC/LLVM</title>
<updated>2022-03-05T23:29:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-04T22:46:43Z</published>
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Add a __diag_ignore_all macro, to ignore warnings for both GCC and LLVM,
without having to specify the compiler type and version. By default, GCC
8 and clang 11 are used. This will be used by bpf subsystem to ignore
-Wmissing-prototypes warning for functions that are meant to be global
functions so that they are in vmlinux BTF, but don't have a prototype.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220304224645.3677453-7-memxor@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>compiler-clang.h: Add __diag infrastructure for clang</title>
<updated>2022-03-05T23:29:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-04T22:46:42Z</published>
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Add __diag macros similar to those in compiler-gcc.h, so that warnings
that need to be adjusted for specific cases but not globally can be
ignored when building with clang.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220304224645.3677453-6-memxor@gmail.com

[ Kartikeya: wrote commit message ]
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<entry>
<title>compiler.h: drop fallback overflow checkers</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T17:18:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-10T23:40:39Z</published>
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Once upgrading the minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1, we can drop
the fallback code for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW.

This is effectively a revert of commit f0907827a8a9 ("compiler.h: enable
builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code")

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438#issuecomment-916745801
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:56:49Z</published>
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Until now no compiler supported an attribute to disable coverage
instrumentation as used by KCOV.

To work around this limitation on x86, noinstr functions have their
coverage instrumentation turned into nops by objtool.  However, this
solution doesn't scale automatically to other architectures, such as
arm64, which are migrating to use the generic entry code.

Clang [1] and GCC [2] have added support for the attribute recently.
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/280333021e9550d80f5c1152a34e33e81df1e178
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=cec4d4a6782c9bd8d071839c50a239c49caca689
The changes will appear in Clang 13 and GCC 12.

Add __no_sanitize_coverage for both compilers, and add it to noinstr.

Note: In the Clang case, __has_feature(coverage_sanitizer) is only true if
the feature is enabled, and therefore we do not require an additional
defined(CONFIG_KCOV) (like in the GCC case where __has_attribute(..) is
always true) to avoid adding redundant attributes to functions if KCOV is
off.  That being said, compilers that support the attribute will not
generate errors/warnings if the attribute is redundantly used; however,
where possible let's avoid it as it reduces preprocessed code size and
associated compile-time overheads.

[elver@google.com: Implement __has_feature(coverage_sanitizer) in Clang]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527162655.3246381-1-elver@google.com
[elver@google.com: add comment explaining __has_feature() in Clang]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527194448.3470080-1-elver@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525175819.699786-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.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>cfi: add __cficanonical</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T23:04:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T18:28:27Z</published>
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With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler replaces a function address taken
in C code with the address of a local jump table entry, which passes
runtime indirect call checks. However, the compiler won't replace
addresses taken in assembly code, which will result in a CFI failure
if we later jump to such an address in instrumented C code. The code
generated for the non-canonical jump table looks this:

  &lt;noncanonical.cfi_jt&gt;: /* In C, &amp;noncanonical points here */
	jmp noncanonical
  ...
  &lt;noncanonical&gt;:        /* function body */
	...

This change adds the __cficanonical attribute, which tells the
compiler to use a canonical jump table for the function instead. This
means the compiler will rename the actual function to &lt;function&gt;.cfi
and points the original symbol to the jump table entry instead:

  &lt;canonical&gt;:           /* jump table entry */
	jmp canonical.cfi
  ...
  &lt;canonical.cfi&gt;:       /* function body */
	...

As a result, the address taken in assembly, or other non-instrumented
code always points to the jump table and therefore, can be used for
indirect calls in instrumented code without tripping CFI checks.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;   # pci.h
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-3-samitolvanen@google.com
</content>
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<entry>
<title>add support for Clang CFI</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T23:04:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-08T18:28:26Z</published>
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This change adds support for Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow
Integrity (CFI) checking. With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler
injects a runtime check before each indirect function call to ensure
the target is a valid function with the correct static type. This
restricts possible call targets and makes it more difficult for
an attacker to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored
function pointers. For more details, see:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html

Clang requires CONFIG_LTO_CLANG to be enabled with CFI to gain
visibility to possible call targets. Kernel modules are supported
with Clang’s cross-DSO CFI mode, which allows checking between
independently compiled components.

With CFI enabled, the compiler injects a __cfi_check() function into
the kernel and each module for validating local call targets. For
cross-module calls that cannot be validated locally, the compiler
calls the global __cfi_slowpath_diag() function, which determines
the target module and calls the correct __cfi_check() function. This
patch includes a slowpath implementation that uses __module_address()
to resolve call targets, and with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW enabled, a
shadow map that speeds up module look-ups by ~3x.

Clang implements indirect call checking using jump tables and
offers two methods of generating them. With canonical jump tables,
the compiler renames each address-taken function to &lt;function&gt;.cfi
and points the original symbol to a jump table entry, which passes
__cfi_check() validation. This isn’t compatible with stand-alone
assembly code, which the compiler doesn’t instrument, and would
result in indirect calls to assembly code to fail. Therefore, we
default to using non-canonical jump tables instead, where the compiler
generates a local jump table entry &lt;function&gt;.cfi_jt for each
address-taken function, and replaces all references to the function
with the address of the jump table entry.

Note that because non-canonical jump table addresses are local
to each component, they break cross-module function address
equality. Specifically, the address of a global function will be
different in each module, as it's replaced with the address of a local
jump table entry. If this address is passed to a different module,
it won’t match the address of the same function taken there. This
may break code that relies on comparing addresses passed from other
components.

CFI checking can be disabled in a function with the __nocfi attribute.
Additionally, CFI can be disabled for an entire compilation unit by
filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI.

By default, CFI failures result in a kernel panic to stop a potential
exploit. CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE enables a permissive mode, where the
kernel prints out a rate-limited warning instead, and allows execution
to continue. This option is helpful for locating type mismatches, but
should only be enabled during development.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-2-samitolvanen@google.com
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