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<title>ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages()</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:36:23Z</updated>
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<published>2018-04-13T22:35:30Z</published>
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commit 3f05317d9889ab75c7190dcd39491d2a97921984 upstream.

syzbot reported a use-after-free of shm_file_data(file)-&gt;file-&gt;f_op in
shm_get_unmapped_area(), called via sys_remap_file_pages().

Unfortunately it couldn't generate a reproducer, but I found a bug which
I think caused it.  When remap_file_pages() is passed a full System V
shared memory segment, the memory is first unmapped, then a new map is
created using the -&gt;vm_file.  Between these steps, the shm ID can be
removed and reused for a new shm segment.  But, shm_mmap() only checks
whether the ID is currently valid before calling the underlying file's
-&gt;mmap(); it doesn't check whether it was reused.  Thus it can use the
wrong underlying file, one that was already freed.

Fix this by making the "outer" shm file (the one that gets put in
-&gt;vm_file) hold a reference to the real shm file, and by making
__shm_open() require that the file associated with the shm ID matches
the one associated with the "outer" file.

Taking the reference to the real shm file is needed to fully solve the
problem, since otherwise sfd-&gt;file could point to a freed file, which
then could be reallocated for the reused shm ID, causing the wrong shm
segment to be mapped (and without the required permission checks).

Commit 1ac0b6dec656 ("ipc/shm: handle removed segments gracefully in
shm_mmap()") almost fixed this bug, but it didn't go far enough because
it didn't consider the case where the shm ID is reused.

The following program usually reproduces this bug:

	#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/shm.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

	int main()
	{
		int is_parent = (fork() != 0);
		srand(getpid());
		for (;;) {
			int id = shmget(0xF00F, 4096, IPC_CREAT|0700);
			if (is_parent) {
				void *addr = shmat(id, NULL, 0);
				usleep(rand() % 50);
				while (!syscall(__NR_remap_file_pages, addr, 4096, 0, 0, 0));
			} else {
				usleep(rand() % 50);
				shmctl(id, IPC_RMID, NULL);
			}
		}
	}

It causes the following NULL pointer dereference due to a 'struct file'
being used while it's being freed.  (I couldn't actually get a KASAN
use-after-free splat like in the syzbot report.  But I think it's
possible with this bug; it would just take a more extraordinary race...)

	BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000058
	PGD 0 P4D 0
	Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
	CPU: 9 PID: 258 Comm: syz_ipc Not tainted 4.16.0-05140-gf8cf2f16a7c95 #189
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-20171110_100015-anatol 04/01/2014
	RIP: 0010:d_inode include/linux/dcache.h:519 [inline]
	RIP: 0010:touch_atime+0x25/0xd0 fs/inode.c:1724
	[...]
	Call Trace:
	 file_accessed include/linux/fs.h:2063 [inline]
	 shmem_mmap+0x25/0x40 mm/shmem.c:2149
	 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:1789 [inline]
	 shm_mmap+0x34/0x80 ipc/shm.c:465
	 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:1789 [inline]
	 mmap_region+0x309/0x5b0 mm/mmap.c:1712
	 do_mmap+0x294/0x4a0 mm/mmap.c:1483
	 do_mmap_pgoff include/linux/mm.h:2235 [inline]
	 SYSC_remap_file_pages mm/mmap.c:2853 [inline]
	 SyS_remap_file_pages+0x232/0x310 mm/mmap.c:2769
	 do_syscall_64+0x64/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
	 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7

[ebiggers@google.com: add comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180410192850.235835-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409043039.28915-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+d11f321e7f1923157eac80aa990b446596f46439@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c8d78c1823f4 ("mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_ops</title>
<updated>2018-04-08T12:26:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Kravetz</name>
<email>mike.kravetz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-28T23:01:01Z</published>
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commit 3d942ee079b917b24e2a0c5f18d35ac8ec9fee48 upstream.

If System V shmget/shmat operations are used to create a hugetlbfs
backed mapping, it is possible to munmap part of the mapping and split
the underlying vma such that it is not huge page aligned.  This will
untimately result in the following BUG:

  kernel BUG at /build/linux-jWa1Fv/linux-4.15.0/mm/hugetlb.c:3310!
  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in: kcm nfc af_alg caif_socket caif phonet fcrypt
  CPU: 18 PID: 43243 Comm: trinity-subchil Tainted: G         C  E 4.15.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu
  NIP:  c00000000036e764 LR: c00000000036ee48 CTR: 0000000000000009
  REGS: c000003fbcdcf810 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G         C  E (4.15.0-10-generic)
  MSR:  9000000000029033 &lt;SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 24002222  XER: 20040000
  CFAR: c00000000036ee44 SOFTE: 1
  NIP __unmap_hugepage_range+0xa4/0x760
  LR __unmap_hugepage_range_final+0x28/0x50
  Call Trace:
    0x7115e4e00000 (unreliable)
    __unmap_hugepage_range_final+0x28/0x50
    unmap_single_vma+0x11c/0x190
    unmap_vmas+0x94/0x140
    exit_mmap+0x9c/0x1d0
    mmput+0xa8/0x1d0
    do_exit+0x360/0xc80
    do_group_exit+0x60/0x100
    SyS_exit_group+0x24/0x30
    system_call+0x58/0x6c
  ---[ end trace ee88f958a1c62605 ]---

This bug was introduced by commit 31383c6865a5 ("mm, hugetlbfs:
introduce -&gt;split() to vm_operations_struct").  A split function was
added to vm_operations_struct to determine if a mapping can be split.
This was mostly for device-dax and hugetlbfs mappings which have
specific alignment constraints.

Mappings initiated via shmget/shmat have their original vm_ops
overwritten with shm_vm_ops.  shm_vm_ops functions will call back to the
original vm_ops if needed.  Add such a split function to shm_vm_ops.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180321161314.7711-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Fixes: 31383c6865a5 ("mm, hugetlbfs: introduce -&gt;split() to vm_operations_struct")
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</published>
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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 &amp; 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 &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;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 &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info()</title>
<updated>2017-09-26T00:41:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-26T00:38:45Z</published>
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"uip" misspelled as "up"; unfortunately, the latter happens to be
a function and gcc is happy to convert it to void *...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc/shm: Fix order of parameters when calling copy_compat_shmid_to_user</title>
<updated>2017-09-21T03:27:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-18T16:47:38Z</published>
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Commit 553f770ef71b ("ipc: move compat shmctl to native") moved the
compat IPC syscall handling into ipc/shm.c and refactored the struct
accessors in the process. Unfortunately, the call to
copy_compat_shmid_to_user when handling a compat {IPC,SHM}_STAT command
gets the arguments the wrong way round, passing a kernel stack address
as the user buffer (destination) and the user buffer as the kernel stack
address (source).

This patch fixes the parameter ordering so the buffers are accessed
correctly.

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T00:37:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T00:37:26Z</published>
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Pull ipc compat cleanup and 64-bit time_t from Al Viro:
 "IPC copyin/copyout sanitizing, including 64bit time_t work from Deepa
  Dinamani"

* 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe
  ipc: shm: Make shmid_kernel timestamps y2038 safe
  ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe
  ipc: msg: Make msg_queue timestamps y2038 safe
  ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64
  ipc: Make sys_semtimedop() y2038 safe
  get rid of SYSVIPC_COMPAT on ia64
  semtimedop(): move compat to native
  shmat(2): move compat to native
  msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2): move compat to native
  ipc(2): move compat to native
  ipc: make use of compat ipc_perm helpers
  semctl(): move compat to native
  semctl(): separate all layout-dependent copyin/copyout
  msgctl(): move compat to native
  msgctl(): split the actual work from copyin/copyout
  ipc: move compat shmctl to native
  shmctl: split the work from copyin/copyout
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<entry>
<title>ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Knispel</name>
<email>guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:17:55Z</published>
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ipc_findkey() used to scan all objects to look for the wanted key.  This
is slow when using a high number of keys.  This change adds an rhashtable
of kern_ipc_perm objects in ipc_ids, so that one lookup cease to be O(n).

This change gives a 865% improvement of benchmark reaim.jobs_per_min on a
56 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz with 256G memory [1]

Other (more micro) benchmark results, by the author: On an i5 laptop, the
following loop executed right after a reboot took, without and with this
change:

    for (int i = 0, k=0x424242; i &lt; KEYS; ++i)
        semget(k++, 1, IPC_CREAT | 0600);

                 total       total          max single  max single
   KEYS        without        with        call without   call with

      1            3.5         4.9   Âµs            3.5         4.9
     10            7.6         8.6   Âµs            3.7         4.7
     32           16.2        15.9   Âµs            4.3         5.3
    100           72.9        41.8   Âµs            3.7         4.7
   1000        5,630.0       502.0   Âµs             *           *
  10000    1,340,000.0     7,240.0   Âµs             *           *
  31900   17,600,000.0    22,200.0   Âµs             *           *

 *: unreliable measure: high variance

The duration for a lookup-only usage was obtained by the same loop once
the keys are present:

                 total       total          max single  max single
   KEYS        without        with        call without   call with

      1            2.1         2.5   Âµs            2.1         2.5
     10            4.5         4.8   Âµs            2.2         2.3
     32           13.0        10.8   Âµs            2.3         2.8
    100           82.9        25.1   Âµs             *          2.3
   1000        5,780.0       217.0   Âµs             *           *
  10000    1,470,000.0     2,520.0   Âµs             *           *
  31900   17,400,000.0     7,810.0   Âµs             *           *

Finally, executing each semget() in a new process gave, when still
summing only the durations of these syscalls:

creation:
                 total       total
   KEYS        without        with

      1            3.7         5.0   Âµs
     10           32.9        36.7   Âµs
     32          125.0       109.0   Âµs
    100          523.0       353.0   Âµs
   1000       20,300.0     3,280.0   Âµs
  10000    2,470,000.0    46,700.0   Âµs
  31900   27,800,000.0   219,000.0   Âµs

lookup-only:
                 total       total
   KEYS        without        with

      1            2.5         2.7   Âµs
     10           25.4        24.4   Âµs
     32          106.0        72.6   Âµs
    100          591.0       352.0   Âµs
   1000       22,400.0     2,250.0   Âµs
  10000    2,510,000.0    25,700.0   Âµs
  31900   28,200,000.0   115,000.0   Âµs

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814060507.GE23258@yexl-desktop

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815194954.ck32ta2z35yuzpwp@debix
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel &lt;guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Pardo &lt;marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Guillaume Knispel &lt;guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Pardo &lt;marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc/sem: play nicer with large nsops allocations</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:17:52Z</published>
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Replacing semop()'s kmalloc for kvmalloc was originally proposed by
Manfred on the premise that it can be called for large (than order-1)
sizes.  For example, while Oracle recommends setting SEMOPM to a _minimum_
of 100, some distros[1] encourage the setting to be a factor of the amount
of db tasks (PROCESSES), which can get fishy for large systems (easily
going beyond 1000).

[1] An Example of Semaphore Settings
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Tuning_and_Optimizing_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_for_Oracle_9i_and_10g_Databases/sect-Oracle_9i_and_10g_Tuning_Guide-Setting_Semaphores-An_Example_of_Semaphore_Settings.html

So let's just convert this to kvmalloc, just like the rest of the
allocations we do in ipc.  While the fallback vmalloc obviously involves
more overhead, this by far the uncommon path, and it's better for the user
than just erroring out with kmalloc.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803184136.13855-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc/sem: drop sem_checkid helper</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:17:49Z</published>
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... 'tis not used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803184136.13855-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc: convert kern_ipc_perm.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Elena Reshetova</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:17:45Z</published>
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refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
when the variable is used as a reference counter.  This allows to avoid
accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499417992-3238-4-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;arozansk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.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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