user/sven/linux.git/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v4.15.5

kernel/sysctl.c: code cleanups

2017-11-18T00:10:03Z

Remove unnecessary else block, remove redundant return and call to kfree in if block. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510238435-1655-1-git-send-email-mail@okal.no Signed-off-by: Ola N. Kaldestad Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: check for UINT_MAX before unsigned int min/max

2017-11-18T00:10:03Z

Mikulas noticed in the existing do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv() and do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv() introduced in this patchset, that they inconsistently handle overflow and min/max range inputs: For example: 0 ... param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE param->min ... param->max ---> the value is accepted param->max + 1 ... 0x100000000L + param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE 0x100000000L + param->min ... 0x100000000L + param->max ---> EINVAL 0x100000000L + param->max + 1, 0x200000000L + param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE 0x200000000L + param->min ... 0x200000000L + param->max ---> EINVAL 0x200000000L + param->max + 1, 0x300000000L + param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE In do_proc_do*() routines which store values into unsigned int variables (4 bytes wide for 64-bit builds), first validate that the input unsigned long value (8 bytes wide for 64-bit builds) will fit inside the smaller unsigned int variable. Then check that the unsigned int value falls inside the specified parameter min, max range. Otherwise the unsigned long -> unsigned int conversion drops leading bits from the input value, leading to the inconsistent pattern Mikulas documented above. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-5-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Al Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pipe: add proc_dopipe_max_size() to safely assign pipe_max_size

2017-11-18T00:10:03Z

pipe_max_size is assigned directly via procfs sysctl: static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { ... { .procname = "pipe-max-size", .data = &pipe_max_size, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &pipe_proc_fn, .extra1 = &pipe_min_size, }, ... int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { ... ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos) ... and then later rounded in-place a few statements later: ... pipe_max_size = round_pipe_size(pipe_max_size); ... This leaves a window of time between initial assignment and rounding that may be visible to other threads. (For example, one thread sets a non-rounded value to pipe_max_size while another reads its value.) Similar reads of pipe_max_size are potentially racy: pipe.c :: alloc_pipe_info() pipe.c :: pipe_set_size() Add a new proc_dopipe_max_size() that consolidates reading the new value from the user buffer, verifying bounds, and calling round_pipe_size() with a single assignment to pipe_max_size. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-4-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Al Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pipe: match pipe_max_size data type with procfs

2017-11-18T00:10:02Z

Patch series "A few round_pipe_size() and pipe-max-size fixups", v3. While backporting Michael's "pipe: fix limit handling" patchset to a distro-kernel, Mikulas noticed that current upstream pipe limit handling contains a few problems: 1 - procfs signed wrap: echo'ing a large number into /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size and then cat'ing it back out shows a negative value. 2 - round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32bit: this would subsequently try roundup_pow_of_two(0), which is undefined. 3 - visible non-rounded pipe-max-size value: there is no mutual exclusion or protection between the time pipe_max_size is assigned a raw value from proc_dointvec_minmax() and when it is rounded. 4 - unsigned long -> unsigned int conversion makes for potential odd return errors from do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv() and do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv(). This version underwent the same testing as v1: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150643571406022&w=2 This patch (of 4): pipe_max_size is defined as an unsigned int: unsigned int pipe_max_size = 1048576; but its procfs/sysctl representation is an integer: static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { ... { .procname = "pipe-max-size", .data = &pipe_max_size, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &pipe_proc_fn, .extra1 = &pipe_min_size, }, ... that is signed: int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { ... ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos) This leads to signed results via procfs for large values of pipe_max_size: % echo 2147483647 >/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size % cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size -2147483648 Use unsigned operations on this variable to avoid such negative values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-2-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Al Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable

2017-11-16T02:21:07Z

This is the second step which introduces a tunable interface that allow numa stats configurable for optimizing zone_statistics(), as suggested by Dave Hansen and Ying Huang. ========================================================================= When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can do: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat In this case, numa counter update is ignored. We can see about *4.8%*(185->176) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench01 (single thread) and *8.1%*(343->315) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 (88 threads) running on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based server (88 threads, 126G memory). Benchmark link provided by Jesper D Brouer (increase loop times to 10000000): https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench ========================================================================= When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all tooling to work, you can do: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat This is system default setting. Many thanks to Michal Hocko, Dave Hansen, Ying Huang and Vlastimil Babka for comments to help improve the original patch. [keescook@chromium.org: make sure mutex is a global static] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107213809.GA4314@beast Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508290927-8518-1-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Suggested-by: Dave Hansen Suggested-by: Ying Huang Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Aaron Lu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmemcheck: rip it out

2017-11-16T02:21:05Z

Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Tim Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-11-14T23:32:19Z

Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1. Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc. In particular, this pull request contains: - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue quescing. - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for multipath) and ability to move bio chains around. - NVMe - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph). - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith). - Command side-effects support (Keith). - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart) - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various) - bcache - New maintainer (Michael Lyle) - Writeback control improvements (Michael) - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al) - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh). - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph) - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously (me). - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang Shao). - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me). - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me). - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me). - blk-mq optimizations (me). - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar). - NBD fixes (Josef). - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq (Luca Miccio). - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup. - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers, getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again. - BFQ updates (Paolo). - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z). - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua). - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and driver code" * 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits) nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags brd: remove unused brd_mutex blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems nvme: track shared namespaces nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure nvme: track subsystems block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag ...

Merge branch 'core-watchdog-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-10-06T15:36:41Z

Pull watchddog clean-up and fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The watchdog (hard/softlockup detector) code is pretty much broken in its current state. The patch series addresses this by removing all duct tape and refactoring it into a workable state. The reasons why I ask for inclusion that late in the cycle are: 1) The code causes lockdep splats vs. hotplug locking which get reported over and over. Unfortunately there is no easy fix. 2) The risk of breakage is minimal because it's already broken 3) As 4.14 is a long term stable kernel, I prefer to have working watchdog code in that and the lockdep issues resolved. I wouldn't ask you to pull if 4.14 wouldn't be a LTS kernel or if the solution would be easy to backport. 4) The series was around before the merge window opened, but then got delayed due to the UP failure caused by the for_each_cpu() surprise which we discussed recently. Changes vs. V1: - Addressed your review points - Addressed the warning in the powerpc code which was discovered late - Changed two function names which made sense up to a certain point in the series. Now they match what they do in the end. - Fixed a 'unused variable' warning, which got not detected by the intel robot. I triggered it when trying all possible related config combinations manually. Randconfig testing seems not random enough. The changes have been tested by and reviewed by Don Zickus and tested and acked by Micheal Ellerman for powerpc" * 'core-watchdog-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits) watchdog/core: Put softlockup_threads_initialized under ifdef guard watchdog/core: Rename some softlockup_* functions powerpc/watchdog: Make use of watchdog_nmi_probe() watchdog/core, powerpc: Lock cpus across reconfiguration watchdog/core, powerpc: Replace watchdog_nmi_reconfigure() watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Fix spelling mistake: "permanetely" -> "permanently" watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Cure UP damage watchdog/hardlockup: Clean up hotplug locking mess watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Use new perf CPU enable mechanism watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement CPU enable replacement watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time detection of perf watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time perf validation watchdog/core: Get rid of the racy update loop watchdog/core, powerpc: Make watchdog_nmi_reconfigure() two stage watchdog/sysctl: Clean up sysctl variable name space watchdog/sysctl: Get rid of the #ifdeffery watchdog/core: Clean up header mess watchdog/core: Further simplify sysctl handling watchdog/core: Get rid of the thread teardown/setup dance ...

sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads

2017-10-04T17:24:16Z

This tunable has been obsolete since 2.6.32, and writes to the file have been failing and complaining in dmesg since then: nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal That was 8 years ago. Remove the file ABI obsolete notice, and the sysfs file. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

kernel/sysctl.c: remove duplicate UINT_MAX check on do_proc_douintvec_conv()

2017-10-04T00:54:25Z

do_proc_douintvec_conv() has two UINT_MAX checks, we can remove one. This has no functional changes other than fixing a compiler warning: kernel/sysctl.c:2190]: (warning) Identical condition '*lvalp>UINT_MAX', second condition is always false Fixes: 4f2fec00afa60 ("sysctl: simplify unsigned int support") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170919072918.12066-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Reported-by: David Binderman Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds