user/sven/linux.git/kernel/exit.c, branch stable/5.15.y

perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()

2025-06-27T10:05:38Z

[ Upstream commit 4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39 ] Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access MMIO in bad ways. The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address space it is trying to access. It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for various reasons. Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit(). Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem. Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample") Reported-by: Baisheng Gao Suggested-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: optimize the redundant loop of mm_update_owner_next()

2024-07-18T11:07:32Z

commit cf3f9a593dab87a032d2b6a6fb205e7f3de4f0a1 upstream. When mm_update_owner_next() is racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()), it is impossible to find an appropriate task_struct in the loop whose mm_struct is the same as the target mm_struct. If the above race condition is combined with the stress-ng-zombie and stress-ng-dup tests, such a long loop can easily cause a Hard Lockup in write_lock_irq() for tasklist_lock. Recognize this situation in advance and exit early. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240620122123.3877432-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tycho Andersen Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads

2023-02-01T07:27:22Z

commit 7535b832c6399b5ebfc5b53af5c51dd915ee2538 upstream. Use a temporary variable to take full advantage of READ_ONCE() behavior. Without this, the report (and even the test) might be out of sync with the initial test. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5x7GXeluFmZ8E0E@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Fixes: 9fc9e278a5c0 ("panic: Introduce warn_limit") Fixes: d4ccd54d28d3 ("exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops") Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Marco Elver Cc: tangmeng Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Tiezhu Yang Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

2023-02-01T07:27:21Z

commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream. In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit, have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter. Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Huang Ying Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs

2023-02-01T07:27:21Z

commit 9db89b41117024f80b38b15954017fb293133364 upstream. Since Oops count is now tracked and is a fairly interesting signal, add the entry /sys/kernel/oops_count to expose it to userspace. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-3-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops

2023-02-01T07:27:21Z

commit d4ccd54d28d3c8598e2354acc13e28c060961dbb upstream. Many Linux systems are configured to not panic on oops; but allowing an attacker to oops the system **really** often can make even bugs that look completely unexploitable exploitable (like NULL dereferences and such) if each crash elevates a refcount by one or a lock is taken in read mode, and this causes a counter to eventually overflow. The most interesting counters for this are 32 bits wide (like open-coded refcounts that don't use refcount_t). (The ldsem reader count on 32-bit platforms is just 16 bits, but probably nobody cares about 32-bit platforms that much nowadays.) So let's panic the system if the kernel is constantly oopsing. The speed of oopsing 2^32 times probably depends on several factors, like how long the stack trace is and which unwinder you're using; an empirically important one is whether your console is showing a graphical environment or a text console that oopses will be printed to. In a quick single-threaded benchmark, it looks like oopsing in a vfork() child with a very short stack trace only takes ~510 microseconds per run when a graphical console is active; but switching to a text console that oopses are printed to slows it down around 87x, to ~45 milliseconds per run. (Adding more threads makes this faster, but the actual oops printing happens under &die_lock on x86, so you can maybe speed this up by a factor of around 2 and then any further improvement gets eaten up by lock contention.) It looks like it would take around 8-12 days to overflow a 32-bit counter with repeated oopsing on a multi-core X86 system running a graphical environment; both me (in an X86 VM) and Seth (with a distro kernel on normal hardware in a standard configuration) got numbers in that ballpark. 12 days aren't *that* short on a desktop system, and you'd likely need much longer on a typical server system (assuming that people don't run graphical desktop environments on their servers), and this is a *very* noisy and violent approach to exploiting the kernel; and it also seems to take orders of magnitude longer on some machines, probably because stuff like EFI pstore will slow it down a ton if that's active. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107201317.324457-1-jannh@google.com Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-2-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exit: Add and use make_task_dead.

2023-02-01T07:27:20Z

commit 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 upstream. There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new concept. Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code is doing. As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit rewind_stack_and_make_dead. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers

2022-07-21T19:24:11Z

commit d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 upstream. As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct, we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held. Cc: Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

io_uring: remove files pointer in cancellation functions

2021-08-23T19:10:37Z

When doing cancellation, we use a parameter to indicate where it's from do_exit or exec. So a boolean value is good enough for this, remove the struct files* as it is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Hao Xu [axboe: fixup io_uring_files_cancel for !CONFIG_IO_URING] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2021-06-29T03:39:26Z

Pull user namespace rlimit handling update from Eric Biederman: "This is the work mainly by Alexey Gladkov to limit rlimits to the rlimits of the user that created a user namespace, and to allow users to have stricter limits on the resources created within a user namespace." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: cred: add missing return error code when set_cred_ucounts() failed ucounts: Silence warning in dec_rlimit_ucounts ucounts: Set ucount_max to the largest positive value the type can hold kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting Add a reference to ucounts for each cred Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t