user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v4.14.157

kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace

2019-10-17T20:43:45Z

commit b0f53dbc4bc4c371f38b14c391095a3bb8a0bb40 upstream. Partially revert 16db3d3f1170 ("kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits") because the patch is causing a regression to any workload which needs to override the auto-tuning of the limit provided by kernel. set_max_threads is implementing a boot time guesstimate to provide a sensible limit of the concurrently running threads so that runaways will not deplete all the memory. This is a good thing in general but there are workloads which might need to increase this limit for an application to run (reportedly WebSpher MQ is affected) and that is simply not possible after the mentioned change. It is also very dubious to override an admin decision by an estimation that doesn't have any direct relation to correctness of the kernel operation. Fix this by dropping set_max_threads from sysctl_max_threads so any value is accepted as long as it fits into MAX_THREADS which is important to check because allowing more threads could break internal robust futex restriction. While at it, do not use MIN_THREADS as the lower boundary because it is also only a heuristic for automatic estimation and admin might have a good reason to stop new threads to be created even when below this limit. This became more severe when we switched x86 from 4k to 8k kernel stacks. Starting since 6538b8ea886e ("x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K") (3.16) we use THREAD_SIZE_ORDER = 2 and that halved the auto-tuned value. In the particular case 3.12 kernel.threads-max = 515561 4.4 kernel.threads-max = 200000 Neither of the two values is really insane on 32GB machine. I am not sure we want/need to tune the max_thread value further. If anything the tuning should be removed altogether if proven not useful in general. But we definitely need a way to override this auto-tuning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190922065801.GB18814@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 16db3d3f1170 ("kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Don't free p->numa_faults with concurrent readers

2019-08-04T07:32:03Z

commit 16d51a590a8ce3befb1308e0e7ab77f3b661af33 upstream. When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of freeing them. During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed ->numa_faults allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace. I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently running task of a different CPU. Another way to fix this would be to make ->numa_faults RCU-managed or add extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on execve. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

userfaultfd: use RCU to free the task struct when fork fails

2019-05-21T16:50:17Z

commit c3f3ce049f7d97cc7ec9c01cb51d9ec74e0f37c2 upstream. The task structure is freed while get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() holds rcu_read_lock() and dereferences mm->owner. get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() failing fork() ---- --- task = mm->owner mm->owner = NULL; free(task) if (task) *task; /* use after free */ The fix consists in freeing the task with RCU also in the fork failure case, exactly like it always happens for the regular exit(2) path. That is enough to make the rcu_read_lock hold in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() (left side above) effective to avoid a use after free when dereferencing the task structure. An alternate possible fix would be to defer the delivery of the userfaultfd contexts to the monitor until after fork() is guaranteed to succeed. Such a change would require more changes because it would create a strict ordering dependency where the uffd methods would need to be called beyond the last potentially failing branch in order to be safe. This solution as opposed only adds the dependency to common code to set mm->owner to NULL and to free the task struct that was pointed by mm->owner with RCU, if fork ends up failing. The userfaultfd methods can still be called anywhere during the fork runtime and the monitor will keep discarding orphaned "mm" coming from failed forks in userland. This race condition couldn't trigger if CONFIG_MEMCG was set =n at build time. [aarcange@redhat.com: improve changelog, reduce #ifdefs per Michal] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190429035752.4508-1-aarcange@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325225636.11635-2-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: 893e26e61d04 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: Add fork() event") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Tested-by: zhong jiang Reported-by: syzbot+cbb52e396df3e565ab02@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: zhong jiang Cc: syzbot+cbb52e396df3e565ab02@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: record start_time late

2019-01-13T09:01:02Z

commit 7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf upstream. This changes the fork(2) syscall to record the process start_time after initializing the basic task structure but still before making the new process visible to user-space. Technically, we could record the start_time anytime during fork(2). But this might lead to scenarios where a start_time is recorded long before a process becomes visible to user-space. For instance, with userfaultfd(2) and TLS, user-space can delay the execution of fork(2) for an indefinite amount of time (and will, if this causes network access, or similar). By recording the start_time late, it much closer reflects the point in time where the process becomes live and can be observed by other processes. Lastly, this makes it much harder for user-space to predict and control the start_time they get assigned. Previously, user-space could fork a process and stall it in copy_thread_tls() before its pid is allocated, but after its start_time is recorded. This can be misused to later-on cycle through PIDs and resume the stalled fork(2) yielding a process that has the same pid and start_time as a process that existed before. This can be used to circumvent security systems that identify processes by their pid+start_time combination. Even though user-space was always aware that start_time recording is flaky (but several projects are known to still rely on start_time-based identification), changing the start_time to be recorded late will help mitigate existing attacks and make it much harder for user-space to control the start_time a process gets assigned. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: David Herrmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child

2018-09-15T07:45:27Z

[ Upstream commit 06e62a46bbba20aa5286102016a04214bb446141 ] Before this change, if a multithreaded process forks while one of its threads is changing a signal handler using sigaction(), the memcpy() in copy_sighand() can race with the struct assignment in do_sigaction(). It isn't clear whether this can cause corruption of the userspace signal handler pointer, but it definitely can cause inconsistency between different fields of struct sigaction. Take the appropriate spinlock to avoid this. I have tested that this patch prevents inconsistency between sa_sigaction and sa_flags, which is possible before this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702145108.73189-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: unconditionally clear stack on fork

2018-08-03T05:50:20Z

commit e01e80634ecdde1dd113ac43b3adad21b47f3957 upstream. One of the classes of kernel stack content leaks[1] is exposing the contents of prior heap or stack contents when a new process stack is allocated. Normally, those stacks are not zeroed, and the old contents remain in place. In the face of stack content exposure flaws, those contents can leak to userspace. Fixing this will make the kernel no longer vulnerable to these flaws, as the stack will be wiped each time a stack is assigned to a new process. There's not a meaningful change in runtime performance; it almost looks like it provides a benefit. Performing back-to-back kernel builds before: Run times: 157.86 157.09 158.90 160.94 160.80 Mean: 159.12 Std Dev: 1.54 and after: Run times: 159.31 157.34 156.71 158.15 160.81 Mean: 158.46 Std Dev: 1.46 Instead of making this a build or runtime config, Andy Lutomirski recommended this just be enabled by default. [1] A noisy search for many kinds of stack content leaks can be seen here: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=linux+kernel+stack+leak I did some more with perf and cycle counts on running 100,000 execs of /bin/true. before: Cycles: 218858861551 218853036130 214727610969 227656844122 224980542841 Mean: 221015379122.60 Std Dev: 4662486552.47 after: Cycles: 213868945060 213119275204 211820169456 224426673259 225489986348 Mean: 217745009865.40 Std Dev: 5935559279.99 It continues to look like it's faster, though the deviation is rather wide, but I'm not sure what I could do that would be less noisy. I'm open to ideas! Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180221021659.GA37073@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK

2018-02-22T14:42:23Z

commit 75f296d93bcebcfe375884ddac79e30263a31766 upstream. Convert all allocations that used a NOTRACK flag to stop using it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-3-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tim Hansen Cc: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arch, mm: Allow arch_dup_mmap() to fail

2017-12-29T16:53:43Z

commit c10e83f598d08046dd1ebc8360d4bb12d802d51b upstream. In order to sanitize the LDT initialization on x86 arch_dup_mmap() must be allowed to fail. Fix up all instances. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirsky Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Laight Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Greg KH Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks

2017-10-13T23:18:33Z

Kmemleak considers any pointers on task stacks as references. This patch clears newly allocated and reused vmap stacks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150728990124.744199.8403409836394318684.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

android: binder: drop lru lock in isolate callback

2017-10-04T00:54:24Z

Drop the global lru lock in isolate callback before calling zap_page_range which calls cond_resched, and re-acquire the global lru lock before returning. Also change return code to LRU_REMOVED_RETRY. Use mmput_async when fail to acquire mmap sem in an atomic context. Fix "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" errors when CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled. Also restore mmput_async, which was initially introduced in commit ec8d7c14ea14 ("mm, oom_reaper: do not mmput synchronously from the oom reaper context"), and was removed in commit 212925802454 ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914182231.90908-1-sherryy@android.com Fixes: f2517eb76f1f2 ("android: binder: Add global lru shrinker to binder") Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reported-by: Kyle Yan Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Martijn Coenen Cc: Todd Kjos Cc: Riley Andrews Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Hoeun Ryu Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds