user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/init_task.h, branch v5.5-rc2

posix-cpu-timers: Create a container struct

2019-08-28T09:50:33Z

Per task/process data of posix CPU timers is all over the place which makes the code hard to follow and requires ifdeffery. Create a container to hold all this information in one place, so data is consolidated and the ifdeffery can be confined to the posix timer header file and removed from places like fork. As a first step, move the cpu_timers list head array into the new struct and clean up the initializers and simplify fork. The remaining #ifdef in fork will be removed later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192920.819418976@linutronix.de

sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t

2019-02-04T07:53:56Z

atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable task_struct.stack_refcount is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. ** Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. The full comparison can be seen in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon in state to be merged to the documentation tree. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the task_struct.stack_refcount it might make a difference in following places: - try_get_task_stack(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart - put_task_stack(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only provides RELEASE ordering and control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: David Windsor Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547814450-18902-6-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct

2018-07-21T15:43:12Z

To access these fields the code always has to go to group leader so going to signal struct is no loss and is actually a fundamental simplification. This saves a little bit of memory by only allocating the pid pointer array once instead of once for every thread, and even better this removes a few potential races caused by the fact that group_leader can be changed by de_thread, while signal_struct can not. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID and remove

2018-01-17T11:30:16Z

Expand INIT_STRUCT_PID in the single place that uses it and then remove it. There doesn't seem any point in the macro. Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Tony Luck Tested-by: Will Deacon (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

Expand the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros and remove

2018-01-17T11:30:16Z

There doesn't seem to be any need to have the INIT_SIGNALS and INIT_SIGHAND macros, so expand them in their single places of use and remove them. Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Tony Luck Tested-by: Will Deacon (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

Expand various INIT_* macros and remove

2018-01-17T11:30:16Z

Expand various INIT_* macros into the single places they're used in init/init_task.c and remove them. Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Tony Luck Tested-by: Will Deacon (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove

2018-01-17T11:30:16Z

It's no longer necessary to have an INIT_TASK() macro, and this can be expanded into the one place it is now used and removed. Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Tony Luck Tested-by: Will Deacon (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union

2018-01-09T23:21:02Z

Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of. The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker script macro: init_thread_union init_stack INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the size of the init stack. init_thread_union is given its own section so that it can be placed into the stack space in the right order. I'm assuming that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the thread_info second. Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Tony Luck Tested-by: Will Deacon (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner

pid: remove pidhash

2017-11-18T00:10:04Z

pidhash is no longer required as all the information can be looked up from idr tree. nr_hashed represented the number of pids that had been hashed. Since, nr_hashed and PIDNS_HASH_ADDING are no longer relevant, it has been renamed to pid_allocated and PIDNS_ADDING respectively. [gs051095@gmail.com: v6] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507760379-21662-3-git-send-email-gs051095@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507583624-22146-3-git-send-email-gs051095@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Gargi Sharma Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Tested-by: Tony Luck [ia64] Cc: Julia Lawall Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman