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<title>exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:35Z</updated>
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<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2023-02-03T00:33:54Z</published>
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commit 7535b832c6399b5ebfc5b53af5c51dd915ee2538 upstream.

Use a temporary variable to take full advantage of READ_ONCE() behavior.
Without this, the report (and even the test) might be out of sync with
the initial test.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5x7GXeluFmZ8E0E@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Fixes: 9fc9e278a5c0 ("panic: Introduce warn_limit")
Fixes: d4ccd54d28d3 ("exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops")
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: tangmeng &lt;tangmeng@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2023-02-03T00:33:52Z</published>
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commit 8b05aa26336113c4cea25f1c333ee8cd4fc212a6 upstream.

Since Warn count is now tracked and is a fairly interesting signal, add
the entry /sys/kernel/warn_count to expose it to userspace.

Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: tangmeng &lt;tangmeng@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-6-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>panic: Introduce warn_limit</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:51Z</published>
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commit 9fc9e278a5c0b708eeffaf47d6eb0c82aa74ed78 upstream.

Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when
panic_on_warn is not set.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: tangmeng &lt;tangmeng@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-5-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:50Z</published>
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commit 79cc1ba7badf9e7a12af99695a557e9ce27ee967 upstream.

Several run-time checkers (KASAN, UBSAN, KFENCE, KCSAN, sched) roll
their own warnings, and each check "panic_on_warn". Consolidate this
into a single function so that future instrumentation can be added in
a single location.

Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Cc: tangmeng &lt;tangmeng@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-4-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:49Z</published>
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commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream.

In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit,
have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter.

Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:48Z</published>
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commit 9db89b41117024f80b38b15954017fb293133364 upstream.

Since Oops count is now tracked and is a fairly interesting signal, add
the entry /sys/kernel/oops_count to expose it to userspace.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-3-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:47Z</published>
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commit d4ccd54d28d3c8598e2354acc13e28c060961dbb upstream.

Many Linux systems are configured to not panic on oops; but allowing an
attacker to oops the system **really** often can make even bugs that look
completely unexploitable exploitable (like NULL dereferences and such) if
each crash elevates a refcount by one or a lock is taken in read mode, and
this causes a counter to eventually overflow.

The most interesting counters for this are 32 bits wide (like open-coded
refcounts that don't use refcount_t). (The ldsem reader count on 32-bit
platforms is just 16 bits, but probably nobody cares about 32-bit platforms
that much nowadays.)

So let's panic the system if the kernel is constantly oopsing.

The speed of oopsing 2^32 times probably depends on several factors, like
how long the stack trace is and which unwinder you're using; an empirically
important one is whether your console is showing a graphical environment or
a text console that oopses will be printed to.
In a quick single-threaded benchmark, it looks like oopsing in a vfork()
child with a very short stack trace only takes ~510 microseconds per run
when a graphical console is active; but switching to a text console that
oopses are printed to slows it down around 87x, to ~45 milliseconds per
run.
(Adding more threads makes this faster, but the actual oops printing
happens under &amp;die_lock on x86, so you can maybe speed this up by a factor
of around 2 and then any further improvement gets eaten up by lock
contention.)

It looks like it would take around 8-12 days to overflow a 32-bit counter
with repeated oopsing on a multi-core X86 system running a graphical
environment; both me (in an X86 VM) and Seth (with a distro kernel on
normal hardware in a standard configuration) got numbers in that ballpark.

12 days aren't *that* short on a desktop system, and you'd likely need much
longer on a typical server system (assuming that people don't run graphical
desktop environments on their servers), and this is a *very* noisy and
violent approach to exploiting the kernel; and it also seems to take orders
of magnitude longer on some machines, probably because stuff like EFI
pstore will slow it down a ton if that's active.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107201317.324457-1-jannh@google.com
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>exit: Add and use make_task_dead.</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:42Z</published>
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commit 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 upstream.

There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>panic: unset panic_on_warn inside panic()</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:41Z</published>
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commit 1a2383e8b84c0451fd9b1eec3b9aab16f30b597c upstream.

In the current code, the following three places need to unset
panic_on_warn before calling panic() to avoid recursive panics:

kernel/kcsan/report.c: print_report()
kernel/sched/core.c: __schedule_bug()
mm/kfence/report.c: kfence_report_error()

In order to avoid copy-pasting "panic_on_warn = 0" all over the places,
it is better to move it inside panic() and then remove it from the other
places.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-4-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Xuefeng Li &lt;lixuefeng@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Make sure trace_printk() can output as soon as it can be used</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T06:46:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-04T21:14:12Z</published>
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commit 3bb06eb6e9acf7c4a3e1b5bc87aed398ff8e2253 upstream.

Currently trace_printk() can be used as soon as early_trace_init() is
called from start_kernel(). But if a crash happens, and
"ftrace_dump_on_oops" is set on the kernel command line, all you get will
be:

  [    0.456075]   &lt;idle&gt;-0         0dN.2. 347519us : Unknown type 6
  [    0.456075]   &lt;idle&gt;-0         0dN.2. 353141us : Unknown type 6
  [    0.456075]   &lt;idle&gt;-0         0dN.2. 358684us : Unknown type 6

This is because the trace_printk() event (type 6) hasn't been registered
yet. That gets done via an early_initcall(), which may be early, but not
early enough.

Instead of registering the trace_printk() event (and other ftrace events,
which are not trace events) via an early_initcall(), have them registered at
the same time that trace_printk() can be used. This way, if there is a
crash before early_initcall(), then the trace_printk()s will actually be
useful.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104161412.019f6c55@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: e725c731e3bb1 ("tracing: Split tracing initialization into two for early initialization")
Reported-by: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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