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

copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)

2025-10-19T14:21:44Z

commit 04ff48239f46e8b493571e260bd0e6c3a6400371 upstream. With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was increased from 32-bit to 64-bit. However, the signature of the copy_* helper functions (e.g., copy_sighand) used by copy_process was not adapted. As such, they truncate the flags on any 32-bit architectures that supports clone3 (arc, arm, csky, m68k, microblaze, mips32, openrisc, parisc32, powerpc32, riscv32, x86-32 and xtensa). For copy_sighand with CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND being an actual u64 constant, this triggers an observable bug in kernel selftest clone3_clear_sighand: if (clone_flags & CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND) in function copy_sighand within fork.c will always fail given: unsigned long /* == uint32_t */ clone_flags #define CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND 0x100000000ULL This commit fixes the bug by always passing clone_flags to copy_sighand via their declared u64 type, invariant of architecture-dependent integer sizes. Fixes: b612e5df4587 ("clone3: add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # linux-5.5+ Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-1-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: drop the assumption that VM_SHARED always implies writable

2025-08-28T14:24:30Z

[ Upstream commit e8e17ee90eaf650c855adb0a3e5e965fd6692ff1 ] Patch series "permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings", v4. The man page for fcntl() describing memfd file seals states the following about F_SEAL_WRITE:- Furthermore, trying to create new shared, writable memory-mappings via mmap(2) will also fail with EPERM. With emphasis on 'writable'. In turns out in fact that currently the kernel simply disallows all new shared memory mappings for a memfd with F_SEAL_WRITE applied, rendering this documentation inaccurate. This matters because users are therefore unable to obtain a shared mapping to a memfd after write sealing altogether, which limits their usefulness. This was reported in the discussion thread [1] originating from a bug report [2]. This is a product of both using the struct address_space->i_mmap_writable atomic counter to determine whether writing may be permitted, and the kernel adjusting this counter when any VM_SHARED mapping is performed and more generally implicitly assuming VM_SHARED implies writable. It seems sensible that we should only update this mapping if VM_MAYWRITE is specified, i.e. whether it is possible that this mapping could at any point be written to. If we do so then all we need to do to permit write seals to function as documented is to clear VM_MAYWRITE when mapping read-only. It turns out this functionality already exists for F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE - we can therefore simply adapt this logic to do the same for F_SEAL_WRITE. We then hit a chicken and egg situation in mmap_region() where the check for VM_MAYWRITE occurs before we are able to clear this flag. To work around this, perform this check after we invoke call_mmap(), with careful consideration of error paths. Thanks to Andy Lutomirski for the suggestion! [1]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230324133646.16101dfa666f253c4715d965@linux-foundation.org/ [2]:https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217238 This patch (of 3): There is a general assumption that VMAs with the VM_SHARED flag set are writable. If the VM_MAYWRITE flag is not set, then this is simply not the case. Update those checks which affect the struct address_space->i_mmap_writable field to explicitly test for this by introducing [vma_]is_shared_maywrite() helper functions. This remains entirely conservative, as the lack of VM_MAYWRITE guarantees that the VMA cannot be written to. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d978aefefa83ec42d18dfa964ad180dbcde34795.1697116581.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [isaacmanjarres: resolved merge conflicts due to due to refactoring that happened in upstream commit 5de195060b2e ("mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path behaviour")] Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: use pidfd_prepare()

2025-06-04T12:38:07Z

commit ca7707f5430ad6b1c9cb7cee0a7f67d69328bb2d upstream. Stop open-coding get_unused_fd_flags() and anon_inode_getfile(). That's brittle just for keeping the flags between both calls in sync. Use the dedicated helper. Message-Id: <20230327-pidfd-file-api-v1-2-5c0e9a3158e4@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pid: add pidfd_prepare()

2025-06-04T12:38:07Z

commit 6ae930d9dbf2d093157be33428538c91966d8a9f upstream. Add a new helper that allows to reserve a pidfd and allocates a new pidfd file that stashes the provided struct pid. This will allow us to remove places that either open code this function or that call pidfd_create() but then have to call close_fd() because there are still failure points after pidfd_create() has been called. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20230327-pidfd-file-api-v1-1-5c0e9a3158e4@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

posix-cpu-timers: Clear TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER on clone

2024-11-14T12:13:39Z

[ Upstream commit b5413156bad91dc2995a5c4eab1b05e56914638a ] When cloning a new thread, its posix_cputimers are not inherited, and are cleared by posix_cputimers_init(). However, this does not clear the tick dependency it creates in tsk->tick_dep_mask, and the handler does not reach the code to clear the dependency if there were no timers to begin with. Thus if a thread has a cputimer running before clone/fork, all descendants will prevent nohz_full unless they create a cputimer of their own. Fix this by entirely clearing the tick_dep_mask in copy_process(). (There is currently no inherited state that needs a tick dependency) Process-wide timers do not have this problem because fork does not copy signal_struct as a baseline, it creates one from scratch. Fixes: b78783000d5c ("posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model") Signed-off-by: Ben Segall Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xm26o737bq8o.fsf@google.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

close_range(): fix the logics in descriptor table trimming

2024-10-17T13:11:42Z

commit 678379e1d4f7443b170939525d3312cfc37bf86b upstream. Cloning a descriptor table picks the size that would cover all currently opened files. That's fine for clone() and unshare(), but for close_range() there's an additional twist - we clone before we close, and it would be a shame to have close_range(3, ~0U, CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE) leave us with a huge descriptor table when we are not going to keep anything past stderr, just because some large file descriptor used to be open before our call has taken it out. Unfortunately, it had been dealt with in an inherently racy way - sane_fdtable_size() gets a "don't copy anything past that" argument (passed via unshare_fd() and dup_fd()), close_range() decides how much should be trimmed and passes that to unshare_fd(). The problem is, a range that used to extend to the end of descriptor table back when close_range() had looked at it might very well have stuff grown after it by the time dup_fd() has allocated a new files_struct and started to figure out the capacity of fdtable to be attached to that. That leads to interesting pathological cases; at the very least it's a QoI issue, since unshare(CLONE_FILES) is atomic in a sense that it takes a snapshot of descriptor table one might have observed at some point. Since CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE close_range() is supposed to be a combination of unshare(CLONE_FILES) with plain close_range(), ending up with a weird state that would never occur with unshare(2) is confusing, to put it mildly. It's not hard to get rid of - all it takes is passing both ends of the range down to sane_fdtable_size(). There we are under ->files_lock, so the race is trivially avoided. So we do the following: * switch close_files() from calling unshare_fd() to calling dup_fd(). * undo the calling convention change done to unshare_fd() in 60997c3d45d9 "close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE" * introduce struct fd_range, pass a pointer to that to dup_fd() and sane_fdtable_size() instead of "trim everything past that point" they are currently getting. NULL means "we are not going to be punching any holes"; NR_OPEN_MAX is gone. * make sane_fdtable_size() use find_last_bit() instead of open-coding it; it's easier to follow that way. * while we are at it, have dup_fd() report errors by returning ERR_PTR(), no need to use a separate int *errorp argument. Fixes: 60997c3d45d9 "close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/fork: beware of __put_task_struct() calling context

2023-09-23T09:09:55Z

[ Upstream commit d243b34459cea30cfe5f3a9b2feb44e7daff9938 ] Under PREEMPT_RT, __put_task_struct() indirectly acquires sleeping locks. Therefore, it can't be called from an non-preemptible context. One practical example is splat inside inactive_task_timer(), which is called in a interrupt context: CPU: 1 PID: 2848 Comm: life Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W --------- Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL388p Gen8, BIOS P70 07/15/2012 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d mark_lock_irq.cold+0x33/0xba mark_lock+0x1e7/0x400 mark_usage+0x11d/0x140 __lock_acquire+0x30d/0x930 lock_acquire.part.0+0x9c/0x210 rt_spin_lock+0x27/0xe0 refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0 kmem_cache_free+0x357/0x560 inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340 __run_hrtimer+0x8a/0x1a0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x91/0x130 hrtimer_interrupt+0x10f/0x220 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xd0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0xd0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 RIP: 0033:0x7fff196bf6f5 Instead of calling __put_task_struct() directly, we defer it using call_rcu(). A more natural approach would use a workqueue, but since in PREEMPT_RT, we can't allocate dynamic memory from atomic context, the code would become more complex because we would need to put the work_struct instance in the task_struct and initialize it when we allocate a new task_struct. The issue is reproducible with stress-ng: while true; do stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \ --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \ 1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20 done Reported-by: Hu Chunyu Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614122323.37957-2-wander@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: Move mm_cachep initialization to mm_init()

2023-08-08T17:58:33Z

commit af80602799681c78f14fbe20b6185a56020dedee upstream. In order to allow using mm_alloc() much earlier, move initializing mm_cachep into mm_init(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.751153381@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mm: Use mm_alloc() in poking_init()

2023-08-08T17:58:33Z

commit 3f4c8211d982099be693be9aa7d6fc4607dff290 upstream. Instead of duplicating init_mm, allocate a fresh mm. The advantage is that mm_alloc() has much simpler dependencies. Additionally it makes more conceptual sense, init_mm has no (and must not have) user state to duplicate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.816175235@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bpf: Fix UAF in task local storage

2023-06-14T09:13:01Z

[ Upstream commit b0fd1852bcc21accca6260ef245356d5c141ff66 ] When task local storage was generalized for tracing programs, the bpf_task_local_storage callback was moved from a BPF LSM hook callback for security_task_free LSM hook to it's own callback. But a failure case in bad_fork_cleanup_security was missed which, when triggered, led to a dangling task owner pointer and a subsequent use-after-free. Move the bpf_task_storage_free to the very end of free_task to handle all failure cases. This issue was noticed when a BPF LSM program was attached to the task_alloc hook on a kernel with KASAN enabled. The program used bpf_task_storage_get to copy the task local storage from the current task to the new task being created. Fixes: a10787e6d58c ("bpf: Enable task local storage for tracing programs") Reported-by: Kuba Piecuch Signed-off-by: KP Singh Acked-by: Song Liu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602002612.1117381-1-kpsingh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin