user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v4.9.208

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

2019-10-17T20:42:44Z

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

2019-08-04T07:33:45Z

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

fork: record start_time late

2019-01-13T09:03:51Z

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

kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails

2018-09-19T20:47:10Z

commit 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e upstream. If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46fa965) but fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting p->set_child_tid, then the value of p->set_child_tid will be inherited from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct(). kthread() - worker_thread() - process_one_work() | - call_usermodehelper_exec_work() | - kernel_thread() | - _do_fork() | - copy_process() | - dup_task_struct() | - arch_dup_task_struct() | - tsk->set_child_tid = current->set_child_tid // implied | - ... | - goto bad_fork_* | - ... | - free_task(tsk) | - free_kthread_struct(tsk) | - kfree(tsk->set_child_tid) - ... - schedule() - __schedule() - wq_worker_sleeping() - kthread_data(task)->flags // UAF The problem started showing up with commit 1da5c46fa965 since it reused ->set_child_tid for the kthread worker data. A better long-term solution might be to get rid of the ->set_child_tid abuse. The comment in set_kthread_struct() also looks slightly wrong. Debugged-by: Jamie Iles Fixes: 1da5c46fa965 ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed") Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jamie Iles Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2018-09-15T07:42:57Z

[ 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

2018-08-09T10:18:00Z

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 [ Srivatsa: Backported to 4.9.y ] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Reviewed-by: Srinidhi Rao Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks

2018-08-09T10:18:00Z

commit ca182551857cc2c1e6a2b7f1e72090a137a15008 upstream. 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 [ Srivatsa: Backported to 4.9.y ] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE

2018-01-05T14:46:32Z

Kaiser only needs to map one page of the stack; and kernel/fork.c did not build on powerpc (no __PAGE_KERNEL). It's all cleaner if linux/kaiser.h provides kaiser_map_thread_stack() and kaiser_unmap_thread_stack() wrappers around asm/kaiser.h's kaiser_add_mapping() and kaiser_remove_mapping(). And use linux/kaiser.h in init/main.c to avoid the #ifdefs there. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: merged update

2018-01-05T14:46:32Z

Merged fixes and cleanups, rebased to 4.9.51 tree (no 5-level paging). Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation

2018-01-05T14:46:32Z

This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close hardware side channels on kernel address information. More information about the patch can be found on: https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER From: Richard Fellner From: Daniel Gruss Subject: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200 Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149390087310405&w=2 Kaiser-4.10-SHA1: c4b1831d44c6144d3762ccc72f0c4e71a0c713e5 To: To: Cc: Cc: Cc: Michael Schwarz Cc: Richard Fellner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Cc: After several recent works [1,2,3] KASLR on x86_64 was basically considered dead by many researchers. We have been working on an efficient but effective fix for this problem and found that not mapping the kernel space when running in user mode is the solution to this problem [4] (the corresponding paper [5] will be presented at ESSoS17). With this RFC patch we allow anybody to configure their kernel with the flag CONFIG_KAISER to add our defense mechanism. If there are any questions we would love to answer them. We also appreciate any comments! Cheers, Daniel (+ the KAISER team from Graz University of Technology) [1] http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a191.pdf [2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Fogh-Using-Undocumented-CPU-Behaviour-To-See-Into-Kernel-Mode-And-Break-KASLR-In-The-Process.pdf [3] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Jang-Breaking-Kernel-Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-KASLR-With-Intel-TSX.pdf [4] https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER [5] https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf [patch based also on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IAIK/KAISER/master/KAISER/0001-KAISER-Kernel-Address-Isolation.patch] Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman