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<updated>2022-10-09T23:01:59Z</updated>
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<title>Merge tag 'interrupting_kthread_stop-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-10-09T23:01:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-10-09T23:01:59Z</published>
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Pull kthread update from Eric Biederman:
 "Break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()

  This is a small tweak to kthread_stop so it breaks out of
  interruptible waits, that don't explicitly test for kthread_stop.

  These interruptible waits occassionaly occur in kernel threads do to
  code sharing"

* tag 'interrupting_kthread_stop-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH</title>
<updated>2022-09-26T17:13:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-08T21:54:56Z</published>
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CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer breaks cross-module function address
equality, which makes WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH unnecessary. Remove
the definition and switch back to WARN_ON_ONCE.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-15-samitolvanen@google.com
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<title>signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()</title>
<updated>2022-07-18T14:53:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-11T23:21:23Z</published>
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I was recently surprised to learn that msleep_interruptible(),
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(), and related functions
simply hung when I called kthread_stop() on kthreads using them. The
solution to fixing the case with msleep_interruptible() was more simply
to move to schedule_timeout_interruptible(). Why?

The reason is that msleep_interruptible(), and many functions just like
it, has a loop like this:

        while (timeout &amp;&amp; !signal_pending(current))
                timeout = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);

The call to kthread_stop() woke up the thread, so schedule_timeout_
interruptible() returned early, but because signal_pending() returned
true, it went back into another timeout, which was never woken up.

This wait loop pattern is common to various pieces of code, and I
suspect that the subtle misuse in a kthread that caused a deadlock in
the code I looked at last week is also found elsewhere.

So this commit causes signal_pending() to return true when
kthread_stop() is called, by setting TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

The same also probably applies to the similar kthread_park()
functionality, but that can be addressed later, as its semantics are
slightly different.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627120020.608117-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627145716.641185-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v3: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628161441.892925-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v4: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711202136.64458-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v5: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711232123.136330-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>kthread: make it clear that kthread_create_on_node() might be terminated by any fatal signal</title>
<updated>2022-06-17T02:11:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-15T10:24:44Z</published>
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The comments in kernel/kthread.c create a feeling that only SIGKILL is
able to terminate the creation of kernel kthreads by
kthread_create()/_on_node()/_on_cpu() APIs.

In reality, wait_for_completion_killable() might be killed by any fatal
signal that does not have a custom handler:

	(!siginmask(signr, SIG_KERNEL_IGNORE_MASK|SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK) &amp;&amp; \
	 (t)-&gt;sighand-&gt;action[(signr)-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL)

static inline void signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *t, bool resume)
{
	signal_wake_up_state(t, resume ? TASK_WAKEKILL : 0);
}

static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type)
{
[...]
	/*
	 * Found a killable thread.  If the signal will be fatal,
	 * then start taking the whole group down immediately.
	 */
	if (sig_fatal(p, sig) ...) {
		if (!sig_kernel_coredump(sig)) {
		[...]
			do {
				task_clear_jobctl_pending(t, JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK);
				sigaddset(&amp;t-&gt;pending.signal, SIGKILL);
				signal_wake_up(t, 1);
			} while_each_thread(p, t);
			return;
		}
	}
}

Update the comments in kernel/kthread.c to make this more obvious.

The motivation for this change was debugging why a module initialization
failed.  The module was being loaded from initrd.  It "magically" failed
when systemd was switching to the real root.  The clean up operations sent
SIGTERM to various pending processed that were started from initrd.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220315102444.2380-1-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>kthread: unexport kthread_blkcg</title>
<updated>2022-05-02T20:06:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-20T04:27:23Z</published>
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kthread_blkcg is only used by the built-in blk-cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2022-03-24T01:03:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-24T01:03:08Z</published>
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Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:

   - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good.

     This was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
     finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly tricky
     and error-prone code. There is a small merge conflict against a
     parisc cleanup, the solution is to use their new version.

   - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel.

     The hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
     the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
     remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
     be updated to a future release.

   - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
     files to pass the compile-time checks"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (27 commits)
  nds32: Remove the architecture
  uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS
  ia64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sparc64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  lib/test_lockup: fix kernel pointer check for separate address spaces
  uaccess: generalize access_ok()
  uaccess: fix type mismatch warnings from access_ok()
  arm64: simplify access_ok()
  m68k: fix access_ok for coldfire
  MIPS: use simpler access_ok()
  MIPS: Handle address errors for accesses above CPU max virtual user address
  uaccess: add generic __{get,put}_kernel_nofault
  nios2: drop access_ok() check from __put_user()
  x86: use more conventional access_ok() definition
  x86: remove __range_not_ok()
  sparc64: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault()
  nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user
  uaccess: fix nios2 and microblaze get_user_8()
  sparc64: fix building assembly files
  ...
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<title>uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS</title>
<updated>2022-02-25T08:36:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-11T20:42:45Z</published>
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There are no remaining callers of set_fs(), so CONFIG_SET_FS
can be removed globally, along with the thread_info field and
any references to it.

This turns access_ok() into a cheaper check against TASK_SIZE_MAX.

As CONFIG_SET_FS is now gone, drop all remaining references to
set_fs()/get_fs(), mm_segment_t, user_addr_max() and uaccess_kernel().

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt; # for sparc32 changes
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;sergey.matyukevich@synopsys.com&gt; # for arc changes
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt; # [openrisc, asm-generic]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/isolation: Use single feature type while referring to housekeeping cpumask</title>
<updated>2022-02-16T14:57:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-07T15:59:06Z</published>
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Refer to housekeeping APIs using single feature types instead of flags.
This prevents from passing multiple isolation features at once to
housekeeping interfaces, which soon won't be possible anymore as each
isolation features will have their own cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-5-frederic@kernel.org
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<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T08:41:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T08:41:01Z</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "55 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl,
  misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2,
  hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (55 commits)
  lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
  ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE
  kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
  lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
  btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit
  arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
  configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup
  delayacct: track delays from memory compact
  Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact
  delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it
  delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable
  delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio
  panic: remove oops_id
  panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings
  fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner
  FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait()
  hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region
  nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs
  fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE
  const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs
  ...
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<title>kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T06:52:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yafang Shao</name>
<email>laoar.shao@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-20T02:08:43Z</published>
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When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN.  For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19
all have the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user.
This issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU
from the task's Cpus_allowed.  But for kthreads corresponding to other
hardware devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from
task comm, for example,

    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    xfs-reclaim/sdf

Currently there are so many truncated kthreads:

    rcu_tasks_kthre
    rcu_tasks_rude_
    rcu_tasks_trace
    poll_mpt3sas0_s
    ext4-rsv-conver
    xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    audit_send_repl
    ecryptfs-kthrea
    vfio-irqfd-clea
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    ...

We can shorten these names to work around this problem, but it may be
not applied to all of the truncated kthreads.  Take 'jbd2/nvme0n1p2-'
for example, it is a nice name, and it is not a good idea to shorten it.

One possible way to fix this issue is extending the task comm size, but
as task-&gt;comm is used in lots of places, that may cause some potential
buffer overflows.  Another more conservative approach is introducing a
new pointer to store kthread's full name if it is truncated, which won't
introduce too much overhead as it is in the non-critical path.  Finally
we make a dicision to use the second approach.  See also the discussions
in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/

After this change, the full name of these truncated kthreads will be
displayed via /proc/[pid]/comm:

    rcu_tasks_kthread
    rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
    rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
    poll_mpt3sas0_statu
    ext4-rsv-conversion
    xfs-reclaim/sdf1
    xfs-blockgc/sdf1
    xfs-inodegc/sdf1
    audit_send_reply
    ecryptfs-kthread
    vfio-irqfd-cleanup
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112850.46047-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;arnaldo.melo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Miroslaw &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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