user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v3.4.78

mm/fork: fix overflow in vma length when copying mmap on clone

2012-06-09T15:36:06Z

commit 7edc8b0ac16cbaed7cb4ea4c6b95ce98d2997e84 upstream. The vma length in dup_mmap is calculated and stored in a unsigned int, which is insufficient and hence overflows for very large maps (beyond 16TB). The following program demonstrates this: #include #include #include #define GIG 1024 * 1024 * 1024L #define EXTENT 16393 int main(void) { int i, r; void *m; char buf[1024]; for (i = 0; i < EXTENT; i++) { m = mmap(NULL, (size_t) 1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024L, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0); if (m == (void *)-1) printf("MMAP Failed: %d\n", m); else printf("%d : MMAP returned %p\n", i, m); r = fork(); if (r == 0) { printf("%d: successed\n", i); return 0; } else if (r < 0) printf("FORK Failed: %d\n", r); else if (r > 0) wait(NULL); } return 0; } Increase the storage size of the result to unsigned long, which is sufficient for storing the difference between addresses. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

namespaces, pid_ns: fix leakage on fork() failure

2012-05-10T22:06:44Z

Fork() failure post namespace creation for a child cloned with CLONE_NEWPID leaks pid_namespace/mnt_cache due to proc being mounted during creation, but not unmounted during cleanup. Call pid_ns_release_proc() during cleanup. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Louis Rilling Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision

2012-03-23T23:58:32Z

Userspace service managers/supervisors need to track their started services. Many services daemonize by double-forking and get implicitly re-parented to PID 1. The service manager will no longer be able to receive the SIGCHLD signals for them, and is no longer in charge of reaping the children with wait(). All information about the children is lost at the moment PID 1 cleans up the re-parented processes. With this prctl, a service manager process can mark itself as a sort of 'sub-init', able to stay as the parent for all orphaned processes created by the started services. All SIGCHLD signals will be delivered to the service manager. Receiving SIGCHLD and doing wait() is in cases of a service-manager much preferred over any possible asynchronous notification about specific PIDs, because the service manager has full access to the child process data in /proc and the PID can not be re-used until the wait(), the service-manager itself is in charge of, has happened. As a side effect, the relevant parent PID information does not get lost by a double-fork, which results in a more elaborate process tree and 'ps' output: before: # ps afx 253 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork 294 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 328 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager 608 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/colord 658 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/upowerd 819 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/imsettings-daemon 916 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon 917 ? S 0:00 \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices after: # ps afx 294 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork 426 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 449 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/modem-manager 635 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/colord 705 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/upowerd 959 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon 960 ? S 0:00 | \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices 977 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/packagekitd This prctl is orthogonal to PID namespaces. PID namespaces are isolated from each other, while a service management process usually requires the services to live in the same namespace, to be able to talk to each other. Users of this will be the systemd per-user instance, which provides init-like functionality for the user's login session and D-Bus, which activates bus services on-demand. Both need init-like capabilities to be able to properly keep track of the services they start. Many thanks to Oleg for several rounds of review and insights. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout and spelling] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add lengthy code comment from Oleg] Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-03-22T16:04:48Z

Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton: "A few misc things and all the MM queue" * emailed from Andrew Morton : (92 commits) memcg: avoid THP split in task migration thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE memcg: clean up existing move charge code mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read() mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/ memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup memcg: simplify move_account() check memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat) memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock() cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock() memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting memcg: remove redundant returns memcg: enum lru_list lru ...

cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3

2012-03-22T00:54:59Z

Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Miao Xie Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add rss counters consistency check

2012-03-22T00:54:55Z

Warn about non-zero rss counters at final mmdrop. This check will prevent reoccurences of bugs such as that fixed in "mm: fix rss count leakage during migration". I didn't hide this check under CONFIG_VM_DEBUG because it rather small and rss counters cover whole page-table management, so this is a good invariant. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2012-03-21T20:25:04Z

Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris: "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook, which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year. Its purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one place. This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which were previously limited to being standalone access control systems. Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu, at least. This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO and others." Fix trivial conflict in due to the jumo_label->static_key rename. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits) AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll(). AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines. AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order. security: fix ima kconfig warning AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking ...

CLONE_PARENT shouldn't allow to set ->exit_signal

2012-03-20T21:16:50Z

The child must not control its ->exit_signal, it is the parent who decides which signal the child should use for notification. This means that CLONE_PARENT should not use "clone_flags & CSIGNAL", the forking task is the sibling of the new process and their parent doesn't control exit_signal in this case. This patch uses ->exit_signal of the forking process, but perhaps we should simply use SIGCHLD. We read group_leader->exit_signal lockless, this can race with the ORIGINAL_SIGNAL -> SIGCHLD transition, but this is fine. Potentially this change allows to kill self_exec_id/parent_exec_id. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfork: kill PF_STARTING

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

Previously it was (ab)used by utrace. Then it was wrongly used by the scheduler code. Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs complete_vfork_done(). zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set. mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds