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<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:24Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
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<published>2019-07-16T23:30:06Z</published>
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struct pid's count is an atomic_t field used as a refcount.  Use
refcount_t for it which is basically atomic_t but does additional
checking to prevent use-after-free bugs.

For memory ordering, the only change is with the following:

 -	if ((atomic_read(&amp;pid-&gt;count) == 1) ||
 -	     atomic_dec_and_test(&amp;pid-&gt;count)) {
 +	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&amp;pid-&gt;count)) {
 		kmem_cache_free(ns-&gt;pid_cachep, pid);

Here the change is from: Fully ordered --&gt; RELEASE + ACQUIRE (as per
refcount-vs-atomic.rst) This ACQUIRE should take care of making sure the
free happens after the refcount_dec_and_test().

The above hunk also removes atomic_read() since it is not needed for the
code to work and it is unclear how beneficial it is.  The removal lets
refcount_dec_and_test() check for cases where get_pid() happened before
the object was freed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701183826.191936-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: KJ Tsanaktsidis &lt;ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T05:17:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T05:17:21Z</published>
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Pull pidfd updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds two main features.

   - First, it adds polling support for pidfds. This allows process
     managers to know when a (non-parent) process dies in a race-free
     way.

     The notification mechanism used follows the same logic that is
     currently used when the parent of a task is notified of a child's
     death. With this patchset it is possible to put pidfds in an
     {e}poll loop and get reliable notifications for process (i.e.
     thread-group) exit.

   - The second feature compliments the first one by making it possible
     to retrieve pollable pidfds for processes that were not created
     using CLONE_PIDFD.

     A lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
     such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these
     processes a caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This
     is a problem for Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service
     managers such as systemd.

  Both patchsets are accompanied by selftests.

  It's perhaps worth noting that the work done so far and the work done
  in this branch for pidfd_open() and polling support do already see
  some adoption:

   - Android is in the process of backporting this work to all their LTS
     kernels [1]

   - Service managers make use of pidfd_send_signal but will need to
     wait until we enable waiting on pidfds for full adoption.

   - And projects I maintain make use of both pidfd_send_signal and
     CLONE_PIDFD [2] and will use polling support and pidfd_open() too"

[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.9+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.14+backport%22
    https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:%22pidfd+polling+support+4.19+backport%22

[2] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/aab6e3eb73c343231cdde775db938994fc6f2803/src/lxc/start.c#L1753

* tag 'pidfd-updates-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  tests: add pidfd_open() tests
  arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
  pid: add pidfd_open()
  pidfd: add polling selftests
  pidfd: add polling support
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<entry>
<title>pid: add pidfd_open()</title>
<updated>2019-06-28T10:17:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian@brauner.io</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-24T10:43:51Z</published>
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This adds the pidfd_open() syscall. It allows a caller to retrieve pollable
pidfds for a process which did not get created via CLONE_PIDFD, i.e. for a
process that is created via traditional fork()/clone() calls that is only
referenced by a PID:

int pidfd = pidfd_open(1234, 0);
ret = pidfd_send_signal(pidfd, SIGSTOP, NULL, 0);

With the introduction of pidfds through CLONE_PIDFD it is possible to
created pidfds at process creation time.
However, a lot of processes get created with traditional PID-based calls
such as fork() or clone() (without CLONE_PIDFD). For these processes a
caller can currently not create a pollable pidfd. This is a problem for
Android's low memory killer (LMK) and service managers such as systemd.
Both are examples of tools that want to make use of pidfds to get reliable
notification of process exit for non-parents (pidfd polling) and race-free
signal sending (pidfd_send_signal()). They intend to switch to this API for
process supervision/management as soon as possible. Having no way to get
pollable pidfds from PID-only processes is one of the biggest blockers for
them in adopting this api. With pidfd_open() making it possible to retrieve
pidfds for PID-based processes we enable them to adopt this api.

In line with Arnd's recent changes to consolidate syscall numbers across
architectures, I have added the pidfd_open() syscall to all architectures
at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>pidfd: add polling support</title>
<updated>2019-06-28T10:17:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-30T16:21:53Z</published>
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This patch adds polling support to pidfd.

Android low memory killer (LMK) needs to know when a process dies once
it is sent the kill signal. It does so by checking for the existence of
/proc/pid which is both racy and slow. For example, if a PID is reused
between when LMK sends a kill signal and checks for existence of the
PID, since the wrong PID is now possibly checked for existence.
Using the polling support, LMK will be able to get notified when a process
exists in race-free and fast way, and allows the LMK to do other things
(such as by polling on other fds) while awaiting the process being killed
to die.

For notification to polling processes, we follow the same existing
mechanism in the kernel used when the parent of the task group is to be
notified of a child's death (do_notify_parent). This is precisely when the
tasks waiting on a poll of pidfd are also awakened in this patch.

We have decided to include the waitqueue in struct pid for the following
reasons:
1. The wait queue has to survive for the lifetime of the poll. Including
   it in task_struct would not be option in this case because the task can
   be reaped and destroyed before the poll returns.

2. By including the struct pid for the waitqueue means that during
   de_thread(), the new thread group leader automatically gets the new
   waitqueue/pid even though its task_struct is different.

Appropriate test cases are added in the second patch to provide coverage of
all the cases the patch is handling.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Colascione &lt;dancol@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Murray &lt;timmurray@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Kowalski &lt;bl0pbl33p@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Colascione &lt;dancol@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione &lt;dancol@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:55Z</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>kernel/pid.c: remove unneeded hash header file</title>
<updated>2019-05-15T02:52:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Timmy Li</name>
<email>scuttimmy@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-14T22:45:16Z</published>
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Hash functions are not needed since idr is used now.  Let's remove hash
header file for cleanup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190430053319.95913-1-scuttimmy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Timmy Li &lt;scuttimmy@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: KJ Tsanaktsidis &lt;ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com&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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<entry>
<title>Fix failure path in alloc_pid()</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:42:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T15:22:26Z</published>
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The failure path removes the allocated PIDs from the wrong namespace.
This could lead to us inadvertently reusing PIDs in the leaf namespace
and leaking PIDs in parent namespaces.

Fixes: 95846ecf9dac ("pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h</title>
<updated>2018-10-31T15:54:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T22:09:49Z</published>
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Move remaining definitions and declarations from include/linux/bootmem.h
into include/linux/memblock.h and remove the redundant header.

The includes were replaced with the semantic patch below and then
semi-automated removal of duplicated '#include &lt;linux/memblock.h&gt;

@@
@@
- #include &lt;linux/bootmem.h&gt;
+ #include &lt;linux/memblock.h&gt;

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: dma-direct: fix up for the removal of linux/bootmem.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002185342.133d1680@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc: fix up for removal of linux/bootmem.h]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005161406.73ef8727@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: x86/kaslr, ACPI/NUMA: fix for linux/bootmem.h removal]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008190341.5e396491@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-30-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Greentime Hu &lt;green.hu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Serge Semin &lt;fancer.lancer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>fork: report pid exhaustion correctly</title>
<updated>2018-09-20T20:01:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>KJ Tsanaktsidis</name>
<email>ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-20T19:22:25Z</published>
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Make the clone and fork syscalls return EAGAIN when the limit on the
number of pids /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max is exceeded.

Currently, when the pid_max limit is exceeded, the kernel will return
ENOSPC from the fork and clone syscalls.  This is contrary to the
documented behaviour, which explicitly calls out the pid_max case as one
where EAGAIN should be returned.  It also leads to really confusing error
messages in userspace programs which will complain about a lack of disk
space when they fail to create processes/threads for this reason.

This error is being returned because alloc_pid() uses the idr api to find
a new pid; when there are none available, idr_alloc_cyclic() returns
-ENOSPC, and this is being propagated back to userspace.

This behaviour has been broken before, and was explicitly fixed in
commit 35f71bc0a09a ("fork: report pid reservation failure properly"),
so I think -EAGAIN is definitely the right thing to return in this case.
The current behaviour change dates from commit 95846ecf9dac ("pid:
replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR AIP") and was I believe
unintentional.

This patch has no impact on the case where allocating a pid fails because
the child reaper for the namespace is dead; that case will still return
-ENOMEM.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180903111016.46461-1-ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com
Fixes: 95846ecf9dac ("pid: replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR AIP")
Signed-off-by: KJ Tsanaktsidis &lt;ktsanaktsidis@zendesk.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Gargi Sharma &lt;gs051095@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID</title>
<updated>2018-07-21T15:43:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-04T09:32:13Z</published>
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Everywhere except in the pid array we distinguish between a tasks pid and
a tasks tgid (thread group id).  Even in the enumeration we want that
distinction sometimes so we have added __PIDTYPE_TGID.  With leader_pid
we almost have an implementation of PIDTYPE_TGID in struct signal_struct.

Add PIDTYPE_TGID as a first class member of the pid_type enumeration and
into the pids array.  Then remove the __PIDTYPE_TGID special case and the
leader_pid in signal_struct.

The net size increase is just an extra pointer added to struct pid and
an extra pair of pointers of an hlist_node added to task_struct.

The effect on code maintenance is the removal of a number of special
cases today and the potential to remove many more special cases as
PIDTYPE_TGID gets used to it's fullest.  The long term potential
is allowing zombie thread group leaders to exit, which will remove
a lot more special cases in the code.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</content>
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