user/sven/linux.git/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v4.4.234

sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds

2020-07-09T07:35:08Z

[ Upstream commit 975e155ed8732cb81f55c021c441ae662dd040b5 ] We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit: ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice") ... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies. This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the value set failed, such as HZ=100: root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms 10 Fix this to be milliseconds all around. Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@nokia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only

2020-01-04T12:34:37Z

[ Upstream commit 204cb79ad42f015312a5bbd7012d09c93d9b46fb ] Currently, the drop_caches proc file and sysctl read back the last value written, suggesting this is somehow a stateful setting instead of a one-time command. Make it write-only, like e.g. compact_memory. While mitigating a VM problem at scale in our fleet, there was confusion about whether writing to this file will permanently switch the kernel into a non-caching mode. This influences the decision making in a tense situation, where tens of people are trying to fix tens of thousands of affected machines: Do we need a rollback strategy? What are the performance implications of operating in a non-caching state for several days? It also caused confusion when the kernel team said we may need to write the file several times to make sure it's effective ("But it already reads back 3?"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191031221602.9375-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Chris Down Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysctl: return -EINVAL if val violates minmax

2019-06-22T06:18:17Z

[ Upstream commit e260ad01f0aa9e96b5386d5cd7184afd949dc457 ] Currently when userspace gives us a values that overflow e.g. file-max and other callers of __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() we simply ignore the new value and leave the current value untouched. This can be problematic as it gives the illusion that the limit has indeed be bumped when in fact it failed. This commit makes sure to return EINVAL when an overflow is detected. Please note that this is a userspace facing change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-4-christian@brauner.io Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Joe Lawrence Cc: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kernel/sysctl.c: fix out-of-bounds access when setting file-max

2019-04-27T07:34:02Z

commit 9002b21465fa4d829edfc94a5a441005cffaa972 upstream. Commit 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max") hooked up min/max values for the file-max sysctl parameter via the .extra1 and .extra2 fields in the corresponding struct ctl_table entry. Unfortunately, the minimum value points at the global 'zero' variable, which is an int. This results in a KASAN splat when accessed as a long by proc_doulongvec_minmax on 64-bit architectures: | BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x5d8/0x6a0 | Read of size 8 at addr ffff2000133d1c20 by task systemd/1 | | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.1.0-rc3-00012-g40b114779944 #2 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | Call trace: | dump_backtrace+0x0/0x228 | show_stack+0x14/0x20 | dump_stack+0xe8/0x124 | print_address_description+0x60/0x258 | kasan_report+0x140/0x1a0 | __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x20 | __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x5d8/0x6a0 | proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x4c/0x78 | proc_sys_call_handler.isra.19+0x144/0x1d8 | proc_sys_write+0x34/0x58 | __vfs_write+0x54/0xe8 | vfs_write+0x124/0x3c0 | ksys_write+0xbc/0x168 | __arm64_sys_write+0x68/0x98 | el0_svc_common+0x100/0x258 | el0_svc_handler+0x48/0xc0 | el0_svc+0x8/0xc | | The buggy address belongs to the variable: | zero+0x0/0x40 | | Memory state around the buggy address: | ffff2000133d1b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa | ffff2000133d1b80: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa | >ffff2000133d1c00: fa fa fa fa 04 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 | ^ | ffff2000133d1c80: fa fa fa fa 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 | ffff2000133d1d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Fix the splat by introducing a unsigned long 'zero_ul' and using that instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403153409.17307-1-will.deacon@arm.com Fixes: 32a5ad9c2285 ("sysctl: handle overflow for file-max") Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Christian Brauner Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Matteo Croce Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysctl: handle overflow for file-max

2019-04-27T07:33:48Z

[ Upstream commit 32a5ad9c22852e6bd9e74bdec5934ef9d1480bc5 ] Currently, when writing echo 18446744073709551616 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max /proc/sys/fs/file-max will overflow and be set to 0. That quickly crashes the system. This commit sets the max and min value for file-max. The max value is set to long int. Any higher value cannot currently be used as the percpu counters are long ints and not unsigned integers. Note that the file-max value is ultimately parsed via __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(). This function does not report error when min or max are exceeded. Which means if a value largen that long int is written userspace will not receive an error instead the old value will be kept. There is an argument to be made that this should be changed and __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() should return an error when a dedicated min or max value are exceeded. However this has the potential to break userspace so let's defer this to an RFC patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190107222700.15954-3-christian@brauner.io Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Joe Lawrence Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Waiman Long [christian@brauner.io: v4] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190210203943.8227-3-christian@brauner.io Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kernel/sysctl.c: add missing range check in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv

2019-03-23T07:44:37Z

commit 8cf7630b29701d364f8df4a50e4f1f5e752b2778 upstream. This bug has apparently existed since the introduction of this function in the pre-git era (4500e91754d3 in Thomas Gleixner's history.git, "[NET]: Add proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies, use it for proper handling of neighbour sysctls."). As a minimal fix we can simply duplicate the corresponding check in do_proc_dointvec_conv(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190207123426.9202-3-zev@bewilderbeest.net Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: [2.6.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files

2018-12-01T08:46:41Z

commit 30aba6656f61ed44cba445a3c0d38b296fa9e8f5 upstream. Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag. The purpose is to make data spoofing attacks harder. This protection can be turned on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like the symlinks/hardlinks protection. This patch is based on Openwall's "HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer. This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation: CVE-2000-1134 CVE-2007-3852 CVE-2008-0525 CVE-2009-0416 CVE-2011-4834 CVE-2015-1838 CVE-2015-7442 CVE-2016-7489 This list is not meant to be complete. It's difficult to track down all vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any mention of this particular attack vector. In fact, before hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite vehicle to exploit them. [s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com [keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future] [keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Suggested-by: Solar Designer Suggested-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Loic Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg

2018-09-05T07:18:33Z

commit 5ccba44ba118a5000cccc50076b0344632459779 upstream. System will hang if user set sysctl_sched_time_avg to 0: [root@XXX ~]# sysctl kernel.sched_time_avg_ms=0 Stack traceback for pid 0 0xffff883f6406c600 0 0 1 3 R 0xffff883f6406cf50 *swapper/3 ffff883f7ccc3ae8 0000000000000018 ffffffff810c4dd0 0000000000000000 0000000000017800 ffff883f7ccc3d78 0000000000000003 ffff883f7ccc3bf8 ffffffff810c4fc9 ffff883f7ccc3c08 00000000810c5043 ffff883f7ccc3c08 Call Trace: [] ? update_group_capacity+0x110/0x200 [] ? update_sd_lb_stats+0x109/0x600 [] ? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x530 [] ? load_balance+0x194/0x900 [] ? update_rq_clock.part.83+0x1a/0xe0 [] ? rebalance_domains+0x152/0x290 [] ? run_rebalance_domains+0xdc/0x1d0 [] ? __do_softirq+0xfb/0x320 [] ? irq_exit+0x125/0x130 [] ? scheduler_ipi+0x97/0x160 [] ? smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x29/0x30 [] ? reschedule_interrupt+0x6e/0x80 [] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xcc/0x230 [] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x9c/0x230 [] ? cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 [] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x38c/0x420 [] ? start_secondary+0x173/0x1e0 Because divide-by-zero error happens in function: update_group_capacity() update_cpu_capacity() scale_rt_capacity() { ... total = sched_avg_period() + delta; used = div_u64(avg, total); ... } To fix this issue, check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg, keep it unchanged when hitting invalid input, and set the minimum limit of sysctl_sched_time_avg to 1 ms. Reported-by: James Puthukattukaran Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: ethan.kernel@gmail.com Cc: keescook@chromium.org Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504504774-18253-1-git-send-email-ethan.zhao@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steve Muckle Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timer/sysclt: Restrict timer migration sysctl values to 0 and 1

2017-10-05T07:41:47Z

commit b94bf594cf8ed67cdd0439e70fa939783471597a upstream. timer_migration sysctl acts as a boolean switch, so the allowed values should be restricted to 0 and 1. Add the necessary extra fields to the sysctl table entry to enforce that. [ tglx: Rewrote changelog ] Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492640690-3550-1-git-send-email-mhjungk@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kazuhiro Hayashi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

2017-07-15T09:57:46Z

commit 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff upstream. Currently, inputting the following command will succeed but actually the value will be truncated: # echo 0x12ffffffff > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat This is not friendly to the user, so instead, we should report error when the value is larger than UINT_MAX. Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman