user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v5.4.38

mm: fork: fix kernel_stack memcg stats for various stack implementations

2020-04-01T09:02:03Z

commit 8380ce479010f2f779587b462a9b4681934297c3 upstream. Depending on CONFIG_VMAP_STACK and the THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE ratio the space for task stacks can be allocated using __vmalloc_node_range(), alloc_pages_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node(). In the first and the second cases page->mem_cgroup pointer is set, but in the third it's not: memcg membership of a slab page should be determined using the memcg_from_slab_page() function, which looks at page->slab_cache->memcg_params.memcg . In this case, using mod_memcg_page_state() (as in account_kernel_stack()) is incorrect: page->mem_cgroup pointer is NULL even for pages charged to a non-root memory cgroup. It can lead to kernel_stack per-memcg counters permanently showing 0 on some architectures (depending on the configuration). In order to fix it, let's introduce a mod_memcg_obj_state() helper, which takes a pointer to a kernel object as a first argument, uses mem_cgroup_from_obj() to get a RCU-protected memcg pointer and calls mod_memcg_state(). It allows to handle all possible configurations (CONFIG_VMAP_STACK and various THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE values) without spilling any memcg/kmem specifics into fork.c . Note: This is a special version of the patch created for stable backports. It contains code from the following two patches: - mm: memcg/slab: introduce mem_cgroup_from_obj() - mm: fork: fix kernel_stack memcg stats for various stack implementations [guro@fb.com: introduce mem_cgroup_from_obj()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324004221.GA36662@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com Fixes: 4d96ba353075 ("mm: memcg/slab: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Bharata B Rao Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303233550.251375-1-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

clone3: ensure copy_thread_tls is implemented

2020-01-14T19:08:35Z

commit dd499f7a7e34270208350a849ef103c0b3ae477f upstream. copy_thread implementations handle CLONE_SETTLS by reading the TLS value from the registers containing the syscall arguments for clone. This doesn't work with clone3 since the TLS value is passed in clone_args instead. Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras Cc: # 5.3.x Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200102172413.654385-8-amanieu@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec

2019-11-29T09:10:10Z

commit 150d71584b12809144b8145b817e83b81158ae5f upstream. To allow separate handling of the futex exit state in the futex exit code for exit and exec, split futex_mm_release() into two functions and invoke them from the corresponding exit/exec_mm_release() callsites. Preparatory only, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.332094221@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()

2019-11-29T09:10:10Z

commit 4610ba7ad877fafc0a25a30c6c82015304120426 upstream. mm_release() contains the futex exit handling. mm_release() is called from do_exit()->exit_mm() and from exec()->exec_mm(). In the exit_mm() case PF_EXITING and the futex state is updated. In the exec_mm() case these states are not touched. As the futex exit code needs further protections against exit races, this needs to be split into two functions. Preparatory only, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.240518241@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

futex: Move futex exit handling into futex code

2019-11-29T09:10:08Z

commit ba31c1a48538992316cc71ce94fa9cd3e7b427c0 upstream. The futex exit handling is #ifdeffed into mm_release() which is not pretty to begin with. But upcoming changes to address futex exit races need to add more functionality to this exit code. Split it out into a function, move it into futex code and make the various futex exit functions static. Preparatory only and no functional change. Folded build fix from Borislav. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.049705556@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: fix pidfd_poll()'s return type

2019-11-20T10:48:50Z

pidfd_poll() is defined as returning 'unsigned int' but the .poll method is declared as returning '__poll_t', a bitwise type. Fix this by using the proper return type and using the EPOLL constants instead of the POLL ones, as required for __poll_t. Fixes: b53b0b9d9a61 ("pidfd: add polling support") Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3 Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191120003320.31138-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

clone3: validate stack arguments

2019-11-05T14:50:14Z

Validate the stack arguments and setup the stack depening on whether or not it is growing down or up. Legacy clone() required userspace to know in which direction the stack is growing and pass down the stack pointer appropriately. To make things more confusing microblaze uses a variant of the clone() syscall selected by CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3 that takes an additional stack_size argument. IA64 has a separate clone2() syscall which also takes an additional stack_size argument. Finally, parisc has a stack that is growing upwards. Userspace therefore has a lot nasty code like the following: #define __STACK_SIZE (8 * 1024 * 1024) pid_t sys_clone(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int flags, int *pidfd) { pid_t ret; void *stack; stack = malloc(__STACK_SIZE); if (!stack) return -ENOMEM; #ifdef __ia64__ ret = __clone2(fn, stack, __STACK_SIZE, flags | SIGCHLD, arg, pidfd); #elif defined(__parisc__) /* stack grows up */ ret = clone(fn, stack, flags | SIGCHLD, arg, pidfd); #else ret = clone(fn, stack + __STACK_SIZE, flags | SIGCHLD, arg, pidfd); #endif return ret; } or even crazier variants such as [3]. With clone3() we have the ability to validate the stack. We can check that when stack_size is passed, the stack pointer is valid and the other way around. We can also check that the memory area userspace gave us is fine to use via access_ok(). Furthermore, we probably should not require userspace to know in which direction the stack is growing. It is easy for us to do this in the kernel and I couldn't find the original reasoning behind exposing this detail to userspace. /* Intentional user visible API change */ clone3() was released with 5.3. Currently, it is not documented and very unclear to userspace how the stack and stack_size argument have to be passed. After talking to glibc folks we concluded that trying to change clone3() to setup the stack instead of requiring userspace to do this is the right course of action. Note, that this is an explicit change in user visible behavior we introduce with this patch. If it breaks someone's use-case we will revert! (And then e.g. place the new behavior under an appropriate flag.) Breaking someone's use-case is very unlikely though. First, neither glibc nor musl currently expose a wrapper for clone3(). Second, there is no real motivation for anyone to use clone3() directly since it does not provide features that legacy clone doesn't. New features for clone3() will first happen in v5.5 which is why v5.4 is still a good time to try and make that change now and backport it to v5.3. Searches on [4] did not reveal any packages calling clone3(). [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez3q=BeNcuVTKBN79kJui4vC6nw0Bfq6xc-i0neheT17TA@mail.gmail.com [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028172143.4vnnjpdljfnexaq5@wittgenstein [3]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/raw-clone.h#L31 [4]: https://codesearch.debian.net Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Jann Horn Cc: David Howells Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Florian Weimer Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: # 5.3 Cc: GNU C Library Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031113608.20713-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

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

2019-10-07T22:47:19Z

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

Merge tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2019-10-04T17:36:31Z

Pull copy_struct_from_user() helper from Christian Brauner: "This contains the copy_struct_from_user() helper which got split out from the openat2() patchset. It is a generic interface designed to copy a struct from userspace. The helper will be especially useful for structs versioned by size of which we have quite a few. This allows for backwards compatibility, i.e. an extended struct can be passed to an older kernel, or a legacy struct can be passed to a newer kernel. For the first case (extended struct, older kernel) the new fields in an extended struct can be set to zero and the struct safely passed to an older kernel. The most obvious benefit is that this helper lets us get rid of duplicate code present in at least sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3(). More importantly it will also help to ensure that users implementing versioning-by-size end up with the same core semantics. This point is especially crucial since we have at least one case where versioning-by-size is used but with slighly different semantics: sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3() all do do similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2) always rejects differently-sized struct arguments. With this pull request we also switch over sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3() to use the new helper" * tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: usercopy: Add parentheses around assignment in test_copy_struct_from_user perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user() sched_setattr: switch to copy_struct_from_user() clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user() lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper

fork: add kernel-doc for clone3

2019-10-03T19:18:06Z

Add kernel-doc for the clone3() syscall. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001114701.24661-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner