user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v5.5.8

rseq: Unregister rseq for clone CLONE_VM

2019-12-25T09:41:20Z

It has been reported by Google that rseq is not behaving properly with respect to clone when CLONE_VM is used without CLONE_THREAD. It keeps the prior thread's rseq TLS registered when the TLS of the thread has moved, so the kernel can corrupt the TLS of the parent. The approach of clearing the per task-struct rseq registration on clone with CLONE_THREAD flag is incomplete. It does not cover the use-case of clone with CLONE_VM set, but without CLONE_THREAD. Here is the rationale for unregistering rseq on clone with CLONE_VM flag set: 1) CLONE_THREAD requires CLONE_SIGHAND, which requires CLONE_VM to be set. Therefore, just checking for CLONE_VM covers all CLONE_THREAD uses. There is no point in checking for both CLONE_THREAD and CLONE_VM, 2) There is the possibility of an unlikely scenario where CLONE_SETTLS is used without CLONE_VM. In order to be an issue, it would require that the rseq TLS is in a shared memory area. I do not plan on adding CLONE_SETTLS to the set of clone flags which unregister RSEQ, because it would require that we also unregister RSEQ on set_thread_area(2) and arch_prctl(2) ARCH_SET_FS for completeness. So rather than doing a partial solution, it appears better to let user-space explicitly perform rseq unregistration across clone if needed in scenarios where CLONE_VM is not set. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211161713.4490-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kcov: remote coverage support

2019-12-05T03:44:14Z

Patch series " kcov: collect coverage from usb and vhost", v3. This patchset extends kcov to allow collecting coverage from backgound kernel threads. This extension requires custom annotations for each of the places where coverage collection is desired. This patchset implements this for hub events in the USB subsystem and for vhost workers. See the first patch description for details about the kcov extension. The other two patches apply this kcov extension to USB and vhost. Examples of other subsystems that might potentially benefit from this when custom annotations are added (the list is based on process_one_work() callers for bugs recently reported by syzbot): 1. fs: writeback wb_workfn() worker, 2. net: addrconf_dad_work()/addrconf_verify_work() workers, 3. net: neigh_periodic_work() worker, 4. net/p9: p9_write_work()/p9_read_work() workers, 5. block: blk_mq_run_work_fn() worker. These patches have been used to enable coverage-guided USB fuzzing with syzkaller for the last few years, see the details here: https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/linux/external_fuzzing_usb.md This patchset has been pushed to the public Linux kernel Gerrit instance: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux/+/1524 This patch (of 3): Add background thread coverage collection ability to kcov. With KCOV_ENABLE coverage is collected only for syscalls that are issued from the current process. With KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE it's possible to collect coverage for arbitrary parts of the kernel code, provided that those parts are annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop(). This allows to collect coverage from two types of kernel background threads: the global ones, that are spawned during kernel boot in a limited number of instances (e.g. one USB hub_event() worker thread is spawned per USB HCD); and the local ones, that are spawned when a user interacts with some kernel interface (e.g. vhost workers). To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread, a unique global handle must be assigned and passed to the corresponding kcov_remote_start() call. Then a userspace process can pass a list of such handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles array field of the kcov_remote_arg struct. This will attach the used kcov device to the code sections, that are referenced by those handles. Since there might be many local background threads spawned from different userspace processes, we can't use a single global handle per annotation. Instead, the userspace process passes a non-zero handle through the common_handle field of the kcov_remote_arg struct. This common handle gets saved to the kcov_handle field in the current task_struct and needs to be passed to the newly spawned threads via custom annotations. Those threads should in turn be annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop(). Internally kcov stores handles as u64 integers. The top byte of a handle is used to denote the id of a subsystem that this handle belongs to, and the lower 4 bytes are used to denote the id of a thread instance within that subsystem. A reserved value 0 is used as a subsystem id for common handles as they don't belong to a particular subsystem. The bytes 4-7 are currently reserved and must be zero. In the future the number of bytes used for the subsystem or handle ids might be increased. When a particular userspace process collects coverage by via a common handle, kcov will collect coverage for each code section that is annotated to use the common handle obtained as kcov_handle from the current task_struct. However non common handles allow to collect coverage selectively from different subsystems. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e90e315426a384207edbec1d6aa89e43008e4caf.1572366574.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Alan Stern Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: David Windsor Cc: Elena Reshetova Cc: Anders Roxell Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-12-03T20:20:25Z

Pull timer updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in the timer code in this cycle were: - Clockevent updates: - timer-of framework cleanups. (Geert Uytterhoeven) - Use timer-of for the renesas-ostm and the device name to prevent name collision in case of multiple timers. (Geert Uytterhoeven) - Check if there is an error after calling of_clk_get in asm9260 (Chuhong Yuan) - ABI fix: Zero out high order bits of nanoseconds on compat syscalls. This got broken a year ago, with apparently no side effects so far. Since the kernel would use random data otherwise I don't think we'd have other options but to fix the bug, even if there was a side effect to applications (Dmitry Safonov) - Optimize ns_to_timespec64() on 32-bit systems: move away from div_s64_rem() which can be slow, to div_u64_rem() which is faster (Arnd Bergmann) - Annotate KCSAN-reported false positive data races in hrtimer_is_queued() users by moving timer->state handling over to the READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() APIs. This documents these accesses (Eric Dumazet) - Misc cleanups and small fixes" [ I undid the "ABI fix" and updated the comments instead. The reason there were apparently no side effects is that the fix was a no-op. The updated comment is to say _why_ it was a no-op. - Linus ] * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: time: Zero the upper 32-bits in __kernel_timespec on 32-bit time: Rename tsk->real_start_time to ->start_boottime hrtimer: Remove the comment about not used HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ time: Fix spelling mistake in comment time: Optimize ns_to_timespec64() hrtimer: Annotate lockless access to timer->state clocksource/drivers/asm9260: Add a check for of_clk_get clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Use unique device name instead of ostm clocksource/drivers/renesas-ostm: Convert to timer_of clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Use unique device name instead of timer clocksource/drivers/timer-of: Convert last full_name to %pOF

Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-11-27T00:02:40Z

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al) - Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations. With these performance improvements the generic implementation of refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled unconditionally. (Will Deacon) - Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the header locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values futex: Prevent exit livelock futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting futex: Add mutex around futex exit futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well futex: Sanitize exit state handling futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec exit/exec: Seperate mm_release() futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state ...

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2019-11-26T23:23:14Z

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest changes in this cycle were: - Make kcpustat vtime aware (Frederic Weisbecker) - Rework the CFS load_balance() logic (Vincent Guittot) - Misc cleanups, smaller enhancements, fixes. The load-balancing rework is the most intrusive change: it replaces the old heuristics that have become less meaningful after the introduction of the PELT metrics, with a grounds-up load-balancing algorithm. As such it's not really an iterative series, but replaces the old load-balancing logic with the new one. We hope there are no performance regressions left - but statistically it's highly probable that there *is* going to be some workload that is hurting from these chnages. If so then we'd prefer to have a look at that workload and fix its scheduling, instead of reverting the changes" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits) rackmeter: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor leds: Use all-in-one vtime aware kcpustat accessor cpufreq: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessors for user time procfs: Use all-in-one vtime aware kcpustat accessor sched/vtime: Bring up complete kcpustat accessor sched/cputime: Support other fields on kcpustat_field() sched/cpufreq: Move the cfs_rq_util_change() call to cpufreq_update_util() sched/fair: Add comments for group_type and balancing at SD_NUMA level sched/fair: Fix rework of find_idlest_group() sched/uclamp: Fix overzealous type replacement sched/Kconfig: Fix spelling mistake in user-visible help text sched/core: Further clarify sched_class::set_next_task() sched/fair: Use mul_u32_u32() sched/core: Simplify sched_class::pick_next_task() sched/core: Optimize pick_next_task() sched/core: Make pick_next_task_idle() more consistent sched/fair: Better document newidle_balance() leds: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM cpufreq: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM procfs: Use vtime aware kcpustat accessor to fetch CPUTIME_SYSTEM ...

futex: Add mutex around futex exit

2019-11-20T08:40:10Z

The mutex will be used in subsequent changes to replace the busy looping of a waiter when the futex owner is currently executing the exit cleanup to prevent a potential live lock. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.845798895@linutronix.de

futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state

2019-11-20T08:40:07Z

The futex exit handling relies on PF_ flags. That's suboptimal as it requires a smp_mb() and an ugly lock/unlock of the exiting tasks pi_lock in the middle of do_exit() to enforce the observability of PF_EXITING in the futex code. Add a futex_state member to task_struct and convert the PF_EXITPIDONE logic over to the new state. The PF_EXITING dependency will be cleaned up in a later step. This prepares for handling various futex exit issues later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.149449274@linutronix.de

time: Rename tsk->real_start_time to ->start_boottime

2019-11-13T10:09:49Z

Since it stores CLOCK_BOOTTIME, not, as the name suggests, CLOCK_REALTIME, let's rename ->real_start_time to ->start_bootime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'v5.4-rc7' into sched/core, to pick up fixes

2019-11-11T07:34:59Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring

2019-10-29T18:43:00Z

This adds support for io-wq, a smaller and specialized thread pool implementation. This is meant to replace workqueues for io_uring. Among the reasons for this addition are: - We can assign memory context smarter and more persistently if we manage the life time of threads. - We can drop various work-arounds we have in io_uring, like the async_list. - We can implement hashed work insertion, to manage concurrency of buffered writes without needing a) an extra workqueue, or b) needlessly making the concurrency of said workqueue very low which hurts performance of multiple buffered file writers. - We can implement cancel through signals, for cancelling interruptible work like read/write (or send/recv) to/from sockets. - We need the above cancel for being able to assign and use file tables from a process. - We can implement a more thorough cancel operation in general. - We need it to move towards a syslet/threadlet model for even faster async execution. For that we need to take ownership of the used threads. This list is just off the top of my head. Performance should be the same, or better, at least that's what I've seen in my testing. io-wq supports basic NUMA functionality, setting up a pool per node. io-wq hooks up to the scheduler schedule in/out just like workqueue and uses that to drive the need for more/less workers. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe