user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v5.4.298

mm: drop the assumption that VM_SHARED always implies writable

2025-08-28T14:21:36Z

[ 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 Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: use pidfd_prepare()

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

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()

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

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

pidfd: check pid has attached task in fdinfo

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

commit 3d6d8da48d0b214d65ea0227d47228abc75d7c88 upstream. Currently, when a task is dead we still print the pid it used to use in the fdinfo files of its pidfds. This doesn't make much sense since the pid may have already been reused. So verify that the task is still alive by introducing the pid_has_task() helper which will be used by other callers in follow-up patches. If the task is not alive anymore, we will print -1. This allows us to differentiate between a task not being present in a given pid namespace - in which case we already print 0 - and a task having been reaped. Note that this uses PIDTYPE_PID for the check. Technically, we could've checked PIDTYPE_TGID since pidfds currently only refer to thread-group leaders but if they won't anymore in the future then this check becomes problematic without it being immediately obvious to non-experts imho. If a thread is created via clone(CLONE_THREAD) than struct pid has a single non-empty list pid->tasks[PIDTYPE_PID] and this pid can't be used as a PIDTYPE_TGID meaning pid->tasks[PIDTYPE_TGID] will return NULL even though the thread-group leader might still be very much alive. So checking PIDTYPE_PID is fine and is easier to maintain should we ever allow pidfds to refer to threads. Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Christian Kellner Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191017101832.5985-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/fork: beware of __put_task_struct() calling context

2023-09-23T09:00:03Z

[ 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()

2023-08-08T17:56:36Z

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()

2023-08-08T17:56:36Z

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

copy_process(): Move fd_install() out of sighand->siglock critical section

2022-02-23T11:00:00Z

commit ddc204b517e60ae64db34f9832dc41dafa77c751 upstream. I was made aware of the following lockdep splat: [ 2516.308763] ===================================================== [ 2516.309085] WARNING: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected [ 2516.309433] 5.14.0-51.el9.aarch64+debug #1 Not tainted [ 2516.309703] ----------------------------------------------------- [ 2516.310149] stress-ng/153663 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire: [ 2516.310512] ffff0000e422b198 (&newf->file_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: fd_install+0x368/0x4f0 [ 2516.310944] and this task is already holding: [ 2516.311248] ffff0000c08140d8 (&sighand->siglock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: copy_process+0x1e2c/0x3e80 [ 2516.311804] which would create a new lock dependency: [ 2516.312066] (&sighand->siglock){-.-.}-{2:2} -> (&newf->file_lock){+.+.}-{2:2} [ 2516.312446] but this new dependency connects a HARDIRQ-irq-safe lock: [ 2516.312983] (&sighand->siglock){-.-.}-{2:2} : [ 2516.330700] Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: [ 2516.331075] CPU0 CPU1 [ 2516.331328] ---- ---- [ 2516.331580] lock(&newf->file_lock); [ 2516.331790] local_irq_disable(); [ 2516.332231] lock(&sighand->siglock); [ 2516.332579] lock(&newf->file_lock); [ 2516.332922] [ 2516.333069] lock(&sighand->siglock); [ 2516.333291] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 2516.389845] stack backtrace: [ 2516.390101] CPU: 3 PID: 153663 Comm: stress-ng Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-51.el9.aarch64+debug #1 [ 2516.390756] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 2516.391155] Call trace: [ 2516.391302] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3e0 [ 2516.391518] show_stack+0x24/0x30 [ 2516.391717] dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8 [ 2516.391938] dump_stack+0x1c/0x38 [ 2516.392247] print_bad_irq_dependency+0x620/0x710 [ 2516.392525] check_irq_usage+0x4fc/0x86c [ 2516.392756] check_prev_add+0x180/0x1d90 [ 2516.392988] validate_chain+0x8e0/0xee0 [ 2516.393215] __lock_acquire+0x97c/0x1e40 [ 2516.393449] lock_acquire.part.0+0x240/0x570 [ 2516.393814] lock_acquire+0x90/0xb4 [ 2516.394021] _raw_spin_lock+0xe8/0x154 [ 2516.394244] fd_install+0x368/0x4f0 [ 2516.394451] copy_process+0x1f5c/0x3e80 [ 2516.394678] kernel_clone+0x134/0x660 [ 2516.394895] __do_sys_clone3+0x130/0x1f4 [ 2516.395128] __arm64_sys_clone3+0x5c/0x7c [ 2516.395478] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x78/0x1f0 [ 2516.395762] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x22c/0x2c4 [ 2516.396050] do_el0_svc+0xb0/0x10c [ 2516.396252] el0_svc+0x24/0x34 [ 2516.396436] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x12c [ 2516.396688] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c [ 2517.491197] NET: Registered PF_ATMPVC protocol family [ 2517.491524] NET: Registered PF_ATMSVC protocol family [ 2591.991877] sched: RT throttling activated One way to solve this problem is to move the fd_install() call out of the sighand->siglock critical section. Before commit 6fd2fe494b17 ("copy_process(): don't use ksys_close() on cleanups"), the pidfd installation was done without holding both the task_list lock and the sighand->siglock. Obviously, holding these two locks are not really needed to protect the fd_install() call. So move the fd_install() call down to after the releases of both locks. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220208163912.1084752-1-longman@redhat.com Fixes: 6fd2fe494b17 ("copy_process(): don't use ksys_close() on cleanups") Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/hugetlb: initialize hugetlb_usage in mm_init

2021-09-22T10:26:37Z

commit 13db8c50477d83ad3e3b9b0ae247e5cd833a7ae4 upstream. After fork, the child process will get incorrect (2x) hugetlb_usage. If a process uses 5 2MB hugetlb pages in an anonymous mapping, HugetlbPages: 10240 kB and then forks, the child will show, HugetlbPages: 20480 kB The reason for double the amount is because hugetlb_usage will be copied from the parent and then increased when we copy page tables from parent to child. Child will have 2x actual usage. Fix this by adding hugetlb_count_init in mm_init. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210826071742.877-1-liuzixian4@huawei.com Fixes: 5d317b2b6536 ("mm: hugetlb: proc: add HugetlbPages field to /proc/PID/status") Signed-off-by: Liu Zixian Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exec: Transform exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore

2021-01-09T12:44:55Z

[ Upstream commit f7cfd871ae0c5008d94b6f66834e7845caa93c15 ] Recently syzbot reported[0] that there is a deadlock amongst the users of exec_update_mutex. The problematic lock ordering found by lockdep was: perf_event_open (exec_update_mutex -> ovl_i_mutex) chown (ovl_i_mutex -> sb_writes) sendfile (sb_writes -> p->lock) by reading from a proc file and writing to overlayfs proc_pid_syscall (p->lock -> exec_update_mutex) While looking at possible solutions it occured to me that all of the users and possible users involved only wanted to state of the given process to remain the same. They are all readers. The only writer is exec. There is no reason for readers to block on each other. So fix this deadlock by transforming exec_update_mutex into a rw_semaphore named exec_update_lock that only exec takes for writing. Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov Cc: Al Viro Cc: Bernd Edlinger Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Christopher Yeoh Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Sargun Dhillon Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Fixes: eea9673250db ("exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex") [0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000063640c05ade8e3de@google.com Reported-by: syzbot+db9cdf3dd1f64252c6ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ft4mbqen.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin