user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v3.10.88

perf: fix perf bug in fork()

2014-10-09T19:18:42Z

commit 6c72e3501d0d62fc064d3680e5234f3463ec5a86 upstream. Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and 'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent process. This is bad.. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread()

2014-10-05T21:54:15Z

commit 0c740d0afc3bff0a097ad03a1c8df92757516f5c upstream. while_each_thread() and next_thread() should die, almost every lockless usage is wrong. 1. Unless g == current, the lockless while_each_thread() is not safe. while_each_thread(g, t) can loop forever if g exits, next_thread() can't reach the unhashed thread in this case. Note that this can happen even if g is the group leader, it can exec. 2. Even if while_each_thread() itself was correct, people often use it wrongly. It was never safe to just take rcu_read_lock() and loop unless you verify that pid_alive(g) == T, even the first next_thread() can point to the already freed/reused memory. This patch adds signal_struct->thread_head and task->thread_node to create the normal rcu-safe list with the stable head. The new for_each_thread(g, t) helper is always safe under rcu_read_lock() as long as this task_struct can't go away. Note: of course it is ugly to have both task_struct->thread_node and the old task_struct->thread_group, we will kill it later, after we change the users of while_each_thread() to use for_each_thread(). Perhaps we can kill it even before we convert all users, we can reimplement next_thread(t) using the new thread_head/thread_node. But we can't do this right now because this will lead to subtle behavioural changes. For example, do/while_each_thread() always sees at least one task, while for_each_thread() can do nothing if the whole thread group has died. Or thread_group_empty(), currently its semantics is not clear unless thread_group_leader(p) and we need to audit the callers before we can change it. So this patch adds the new interface which has to coexist with the old one for some time, hopefully the next changes will be more or less straightforward and the old one will go away soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Sergey Dyasly Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly Reviewed-by: Sameer Nanda Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: "Ma, Xindong" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): unify CLONE_THREAD-or-thread_group_leader code

2014-10-05T21:54:15Z

commit 80628ca06c5d42929de6bc22c0a41589a834d151 upstream. Cleanup and preparation for the next changes. Move the "if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)" code down under "if (likely(p->pid))" and turn it into into the "else" branch. This makes the process/thread initialization more symmetrical and removes one check. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Sergey Dyasly Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race

2014-07-07T01:54:16Z

commit 4af4206be2bd1933cae20c2b6fb2058dbc887f7c upstream. syscall_regfunc() and syscall_unregfunc() should set/clear TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT system-wide, but do_each_thread() can race with copy_process() and miss the new child which was not added to the process/thread lists yet. Change copy_process() to update the child's TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT under tasklist. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140413185854.GB20668@redhat.com Fixes: a871bd33a6c0 "tracing: Add syscall tracepoints" Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: fix fork event messages across pid namespaces

2014-07-01T03:09:42Z

commit 4e52365f279564cef0ddd41db5237f0471381093 upstream. When tracing a process in another pid namespace, it's important for fork event messages to contain the child's pid as seen from the tracer's pid namespace, not the parent's. Otherwise, the tracer won't be able to correlate the fork event with later SIGTRAP signals it receives from the child. We still risk a race condition if a ptracer from a different pid namespace attaches after we compute the pid_t value. However, sending a bogus fork event message in this unlikely scenario is still a vast improvement over the status quo where we always send bogus fork event messages to debuggers in a different pid namespace than the forking process. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dempsky Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Julien Tinnes Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Jan Kratochvil Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range

2014-01-09T20:24:23Z

commit 20841405940e7be0617612d521e206e4b6b325db upstream. There are a few subtle races, between change_protection_range (used by mprotect and change_prot_numa) on one side, and NUMA page migration and compaction on the other side. The basic race is that there is a time window between when the PTE gets made non-present (PROT_NONE or NUMA), and the TLB is flushed. During that time, a CPU may continue writing to the page. This is fine most of the time, however compaction or the NUMA migration code may come in, and migrate the page away. When that happens, the CPU may continue writing, through the cached translation, to what is no longer the current memory location of the process. This only affects x86, which has a somewhat optimistic pte_accessible. All other architectures appear to be safe, and will either always flush, or flush whenever there is a valid mapping, even with no permissions (SPARC). The basic race looks like this: CPU A CPU B CPU C load TLB entry make entry PTE/PMD_NUMA fault on entry read/write old page start migrating page change PTE/PMD to new page read/write old page [*] flush TLB reload TLB from new entry read/write new page lose data [*] the old page may belong to a new user at this point! The obvious fix is to flush remote TLB entries, by making sure that pte_accessible aware of the fact that PROT_NONE and PROT_NUMA memory may still be accessible if there is a TLB flush pending for the mm. This should fix both NUMA migration and compaction. [mgorman@suse.de: fix build] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Alex Thorlton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

pidns: fix vfork() after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)

2013-09-27T00:18:28Z

commit e79f525e99b04390ca4d2366309545a836c03bf1 upstream. Commit 8382fcac1b81 ("pidns: Outlaw thread creation after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)") nacks CLONE_VM if the forking process unshared pid_ns, this obviously breaks vfork: int main(void) { assert(unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID) == 0); assert(vfork() >= 0); _exit(0); return 0; } fails without this patch. Change this check to use CLONE_SIGHAND instead. This also forbids CLONE_THREAD automatically, and this is what the comment implies. We could probably even drop CLONE_SIGHAND and use CLONE_THREAD, but it would be safer to not do this. The current check denies CLONE_SIGHAND implicitely and there is no reason to change this. Eric said "CLONE_SIGHAND is fine. CLONE_THREAD would be even better. Having shared signal handling between two different pid namespaces is the case that we are fundamentally guarding against." Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Colin Walters Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

microblaze: fix clone syscall

2013-08-20T15:43:02Z

commit dfa9771a7c4784bafd0673bc7abcee3813088b77 upstream. Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that was introduced in commit f3268edbe6fe ("microblaze: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone"). The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the 4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size. The incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd slot. This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc code will work correctly. All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-05-08T18:51:05Z

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "It might look big in volume, but when categorized, not a lot of drivers are touched. The pull request contains: - mtip32xx fixes from Micron. - A slew of drbd updates, this time in a nicer series. - bcache, a flash/ssd caching framework from Kent. - Fixes for cciss" * 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (66 commits) bcache: Use bd_link_disk_holder() bcache: Allocator cleanup/fixes cciss: bug fix to prevent cciss from loading in kdump crash kernel cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter drivers/block/mg_disk.c: add CONFIG_PM_SLEEP to suspend/resume functions mtip32xx: Workaround for unaligned writes bcache: Make sure blocksize isn't smaller than device blocksize bcache: Fix merge_bvec_fn usage for when it modifies the bvm bcache: Correctly check against BIO_MAX_PAGES bcache: Hack around stuff that clones up to bi_max_vecs bcache: Set ra_pages based on backing device's ra_pages bcache: Take data offset from the bdev superblock. mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Disable TRIM support mtip32xx: fix a smatch warning bcache: Disable broken btree fuzz tester bcache: Fix a format string overflow bcache: Fix a minor memory leak on device teardown bcache: Documentation updates bcache: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of __WARN() bcache: Add missing #include ...

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25Z

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds