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<title>mm: optimize the redundant loop of mm_update_owner_next()</title>
<updated>2024-07-11T10:47:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jinliang Zheng</name>
<email>alexjlzheng@tencent.com</email>
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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 &lt;alexjlzheng@tencent.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tycho Andersen &lt;tandersen@netflix.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops</title>
<updated>2023-03-10T08:33:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-20T01:18:20Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 001c28e57187570e4b5aa4492c7a957fb6d65d7b ]

If a task oopses with irqs disabled, this can cause various cascading
problems in the oops path such as sleep-from-invalid warnings, and
potentially worse.

Since commit 0258b5fd7c712 ("coredump: Limit coredumps to a single
thread group"), the unconditional irq enable in coredump_task_exit()
will "fix" the irq state to be enabled early in do_exit(), so currently
this may not be triggerable, but that is coincidental and fragile.

Detect and fix the irqs_disabled() condition in the oops path before
calling do_exit(), similarly to the way in_atomic() is handled.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221004094401.708299-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T06:24:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T20:26:57Z</published>
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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 &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: tangmeng &lt;tangmeng@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T06:24:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-02T20:59:11Z</published>
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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 &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T06:24:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-17T23:43:23Z</published>
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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" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-3-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T06:24:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-17T23:43:22Z</published>
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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 &amp;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 &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107201317.324457-1-jannh@google.com
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-12T18:00:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-12T18:00:22Z</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)

 - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
   (Valentin Schneider)

 - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)

 - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
   counters (Jiebin Sun)

 - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)

 - lots of other single patches all over the tree!

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
  proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
  mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
  ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
  init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
  ia64: update config files
  nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
  fork: remove duplicate included header files
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  proc: mark more files as permanent
  nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
  checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
  usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
  ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
  percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
  fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
  relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
  proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
  fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-11T00:53:04Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2022-10-10T16:10:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T16:10:28Z</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Debuggability:

   - Change most occurances of BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()

   - Reorganize &amp; fix TASK_ state comparisons, turn it into a bitmap

   - Update/fix misc scheduler debugging facilities

  Load-balancing &amp; regular scheduling:

   - Improve the behavior of the scheduler in presence of lot of
     SCHED_IDLE tasks - in particular they should not impact other
     scheduling classes.

   - Optimize task load tracking, cleanups &amp; fixes

   - Clean up &amp; simplify misc load-balancing code

  Freezer:

   - Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be
     simpler in general, by replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN &amp;
     fixing/adjusting all the fallout.

  Deadline scheduler:

   - Fix the DL capacity-aware code

   - Factor out dl_task_is_earliest_deadline() &amp;
     replenish_dl_new_period()

   - Relax/optimize locking in task_non_contending()

  Cleanups:

   - Factor out the update_current_exec_runtime() helper

   - Various cleanups, simplifications"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons
  sched: Fix TASK_state comparisons
  sched/fair: Move call to list_last_entry() in detach_tasks
  sched/fair: Cleanup loop_max and loop_break
  sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task
  sched: Show PF_flag holes
  freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic
  sched: Widen TAKS_state literals
  sched/wait: Add wait_event_state()
  sched/completion: Add wait_for_completion_state()
  sched: Add TASK_ANY for wait_task_inactive()
  sched: Change wait_task_inactive()s match_state
  freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction
  freezer: Have {,un}lock_system_sleep() save/restore flags
  sched: Rename task_running() to task_on_cpu()
  sched/fair: Cleanup for SIS_PROP
  sched/fair: Default to false in test_idle_cores()
  sched/fair: Remove useless check in select_idle_core()
  sched/fair: Avoid double search on same cpu
  sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'signal-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-10-09T23:14:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-09T23:14:15Z</published>
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Pull ptrace update from Eric Biederman:
 "ptrace: Stop supporting SIGKILL for PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT

  Recently I had a conversation where it was pointed out to me that
  SIGKILL sent to a tracee stropped in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT is quite
  difficult for a tracer to handle.

  Keeping SIGKILL working after the process has been killed is pain from
  an implementation point of view.

  So since the debuggers don't want this behavior let's see if we can
  remove this wart for the userspace API

  If a regression is detected it should only need to be the last change
  that is the reverted. The other two are just general cleanups that
  make the last patch simpler"

* tag 'signal-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed
  signal: Guarantee that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set on process exit
  signal: Ensure SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT gets set in do_group_exit
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