user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v4.9.74

pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe

2017-08-25T00:12:21Z

commit dd1c1f2f2028a7b851f701fc6a8ebe39dcb95e7c upstream. This was reported many times, and this was even mentioned in commit 52ee2dfdd4f5 ("pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe") but somehow nobody bothered to fix the obvious problem: task_tgid_nr_ns() is not safe because task->group_leader points to nowhere after the exiting task passes exit_notify(), rcu_read_lock() can not help. We really need to change __unhash_process() to nullify group_leader, parent, and real_parent, but this needs some cleanups. Until then we can turn task_tgid_nr_ns() into another user of __task_pid_nr_ns() and fix the problem. Reported-by: Troy Kensinger Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.

2017-08-11T15:49:36Z

[ Upstream commit 2d39b3cd34e6d323720d4c61bd714f5ae202c022 ] Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we can now trace init processes. init is initially protected with SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can be implicitly cleared. This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing. For example, running: while true; do kill -STOP 1; done & strace -p 1 and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being left in state TASK_STOPPED. Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring them. Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups

2017-04-21T07:31:18Z

commit 77f88796cee819b9c4562b0b6b44691b3b7755b1 upstream. Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between the kthread itself and its creator. Once the new kthread starts running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator. The creator then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its job by waking it up. In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland. When altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical, kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland and then set the affinity. This also prevents the kthread from being migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and many other things. Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy. While the PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation. This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one. Per-cpu workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes stalling workqueue execution. This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to be migrated by userland. kthreadd starts with the flag set making every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration disallowed. The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread should stay in the root cgroup. It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side. Even if userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat, so it's unlikely that this would break anything. v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit field suggested by Oleg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP

2017-01-06T09:40:13Z

commit 64b875f7ac8a5d60a4e191479299e931ee949b67 upstream. When the flag PT_PTRACE_CAP was added the PTRACE_TRACEME path was overlooked. This can result in incorrect behavior when an application like strace traces an exec of a setuid executable. Further PT_PTRACE_CAP does not have enough information for making good security decisions as it does not report which user namespace the capability is in. This has already allowed one mistake through insufficient granulariy. I found this issue when I was testing another corner case of exec and discovered that I could not get strace to set PT_PTRACE_CAP even when running strace as root with a full set of caps. This change fixes the above issue with strace allowing stracing as root a setuid executable without disabling setuid. More fundamentaly this change allows what is allowable at all times, by using the correct information in it's decision. Fixes: 4214e42f96d4 ("v2.4.9.11 -> v2.4.9.12") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/autogroup: Do not use autogroup->tg in zombie threads

2016-11-22T11:33:43Z

Exactly because for_each_thread() in autogroup_move_group() can't see it and update its ->sched_task_group before _put() and possibly free(). So the exiting task needs another sched_move_task() before exit_notify() and we need to re-introduce the PF_EXITING (or similar) check removed by the previous change for another reason. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: hartsjc@redhat.com Cc: vbendel@redhat.com Cc: vlovejoy@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161114184612.GA15968@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter

2016-10-08T01:46:28Z

The global zero page is used to satisfy an anonymous read fault. If THP(Transparent HugePage) is enabled then the global huge zero page is used. The global huge zero page uses an atomic counter for reference counting and is allocated/freed dynamically according to its counter value. CPU time spent on that counter will greatly increase if there are a lot of processes doing anonymous read faults. This patch proposes a way to reduce the access to the global counter so that the CPU load can be reduced accordingly. To do this, a new flag of the mm_struct is introduced: MMF_USED_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE. With this flag, the process only need to touch the global counter in two cases: 1 The first time it uses the global huge zero page; 2 The time when mm_user of its mm_struct reaches zero. Note that right now, the huge zero page is eligible to be freed as soon as its last use goes away. With this patch, the page will not be eligible to be freed until the exit of the last process from which it was ever used. And with the use of mm_user, the kthread is not eligible to use huge zero page either. Since no kthread is using huge zero page today, there is no difference after applying this patch. But if that is not desired, I can change it to when mm_count reaches zero. Case used for test on Haswell EP: usemem -n 72 --readonly -j 0x200000 100G Which spawns 72 processes and each will mmap 100G anonymous space and then do read only access to that space sequentially with a step of 2MB. CPU cycles from perf report for base commit: 54.03% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_huge_zero_page CPU cycles from perf report for this commit: 0.11% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_get_huge_zero_page Performance(throughput) of the workload for base commit: 1784430792 Performance(throughput) of the workload for this commit: 4726928591 164% increase. Runtime of the workload for base commit: 707592 us Runtime of the workload for this commit: 303970 us 50% drop. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe51a88f-446a-4622-1363-ad1282d71385@intel.com Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Ebru Akagunduz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make sure that kthreads will not refault oom reaped memory

2016-10-08T01:46:28Z

There are only few use_mm() users in the kernel right now. Most of them write to the target memory but vhost driver relies on copy_from_user/get_user from a kernel thread context. This makes it impossible to reap the memory of an oom victim which shares the mm with the vhost kernel thread because it could see a zero page unexpectedly and theoretically make an incorrect decision visible outside of the killed task context. To quote Michael S. Tsirkin: : Getting an error from __get_user and friends is handled gracefully. : Getting zero instead of a real value will cause userspace : memory corruption. The vhost kernel thread is bound to an open fd of the vhost device which is not tight to the mm owner life cycle in general. The device fd can be inherited or passed over to another process which means that we really have to be careful about unexpected memory corruption because unlike for normal oom victims the result will be visible outside of the oom victim context. Make sure that no kthread context (users of use_mm) can ever see corrupted data because of the oom reaper and hook into the page fault path by checking MMF_UNSTABLE mm flag. __oom_reap_task_mm will set the flag before it starts unmapping the address space while the flag is checked after the page fault has been handled. If the flag is set then SIGBUS is triggered so any g-u-p user will get a error code. Regular tasks do not need this protection because all which share the mm are killed when the mm is reaped and so the corruption will not outlive them. This patch shouldn't have any visible effect at this moment because the OOM killer doesn't invoke oom reaper for tasks with mm shared with kthreads yet. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-9-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: get rid of signal_struct::oom_victims

2016-10-08T01:46:27Z

After "oom: keep mm of the killed task available" we can safely detect an oom victim by checking task->signal->oom_mm so we do not need the signal_struct counter anymore so let's get rid of it. This alone wouldn't be sufficient for nommu archs because exit_oom_victim doesn't hide the process from the oom killer anymore. We can, however, mark the mm with a MMF flag in __mmput. We can reuse MMF_OOM_REAPED and rename it to a more generic MMF_OOM_SKIP. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel, oom: fix potential pgd_lock deadlock from __mmdrop

2016-10-08T01:46:27Z

Lockdep complains that __mmdrop is not safe from the softirq context: ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 4.6.0-oomfortification2-00011-geeb3eadeab96-dirty #949 Tainted: G W --------------------------------- inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. swapper/1/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: (pgd_lock){+.?...}, at: pgd_free+0x19/0x6b {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: __lock_acquire+0xa06/0x196e lock_acquire+0x139/0x1e1 _raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x41 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x2a5/0xacd change_page_attr_set_clr+0x16f/0x32c set_memory_nx+0x37/0x3a free_init_pages+0x9e/0xc7 alternative_instructions+0xa2/0xb3 check_bugs+0xe/0x2d start_kernel+0x3ce/0x3ea x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c x86_64_start_kernel+0x17a/0x18d irq event stamp: 105916 hardirqs last enabled at (105916): free_hot_cold_page+0x37e/0x390 hardirqs last disabled at (105915): free_hot_cold_page+0x2c1/0x390 softirqs last enabled at (105878): _local_bh_enable+0x42/0x44 softirqs last disabled at (105879): irq_exit+0x6f/0xd1 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(pgd_lock); lock(pgd_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by swapper/1/0: #0: (rcu_callback){......}, at: rcu_process_callbacks+0x390/0x800 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G W 4.6.0-oomfortification2-00011-geeb3eadeab96-dirty #949 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: print_usage_bug.part.25+0x259/0x268 mark_lock+0x381/0x567 __lock_acquire+0x993/0x196e lock_acquire+0x139/0x1e1 _raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x41 pgd_free+0x19/0x6b __mmdrop+0x25/0xb9 __put_task_struct+0x103/0x11e delayed_put_task_struct+0x157/0x15e rcu_process_callbacks+0x660/0x800 __do_softirq+0x1ec/0x4d5 irq_exit+0x6f/0xd1 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x42/0x4d apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xa0 arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x11 default_idle_call+0x32/0x34 cpu_startup_entry+0x20c/0x399 start_secondary+0xfe/0x101 More over commit a79e53d85683 ("x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock") was explicit about pgd_lock not to be called from the irq context. This means that __mmdrop called from free_signal_struct has to be postponed to a user context. We already have a similar mechanism for mmput_async so we can use it here as well. This is safe because mm_count is pinned by mm_users. This fixes bug introduced by "oom: keep mm of the killed task available" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-5-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom: keep mm of the killed task available

2016-10-08T01:46:27Z

oom_reap_task has to call exit_oom_victim in order to make sure that the oom vicim will not block the oom killer for ever. This is, however, opening new problems (e.g oom_killer_disable exclusion - see commit 74070542099c ("oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable race")). exit_oom_victim should be only called from the victim's context ideally. One way to achieve this would be to rely on per mm_struct flags. We already have MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide a task from the oom killer since "mm, oom: hide mm which is shared with kthread or global init". The problem is that the exit path: do_exit exit_mm tsk->mm = NULL; mmput __mmput exit_oom_victim doesn't guarantee that exit_oom_victim will get called in a bounded amount of time. At least exit_aio depends on IO which might get blocked due to lack of memory and who knows what else is lurking there. This patch takes a different approach. We remember tsk->mm into the signal_struct and bind it to the signal struct life time for all oom victims. __oom_reap_task_mm as well as oom_scan_process_thread do not have to rely on find_lock_task_mm anymore and they will have a reliable reference to the mm struct. As a result all the oom specific communication inside the OOM killer can be done via tsk->signal->oom_mm. Increasing the signal_struct for something as unlikely as the oom killer is far from ideal but this approach will make the code much more reasonable and long term we even might want to move task->mm into the signal_struct anyway. In the next step we might want to make the oom killer exclusion and access to memory reserves completely independent which would be also nice. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-4-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds