linux/init/main.c, branch v5.8

Rebase locking/kcsan to locking/urgent

2020-06-11T18:02:46Z

Merge the state of the locking kcsan branch before the read/write_once() and the atomics modifications got merged. Squash the fallout of the rebase on top of the read/write once and atomic fallback work into the merge. The history of the original branch is preserved in tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-02. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line

2020-06-08T18:05:56Z

Patch series "support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line", v3. This series adds support for something that seems like many people always wanted but nobody added it yet, so here's the ability to set sysctl parameters via kernel command line options in the form of sysctl.vm.something=1 The important part is Patch 1. The second, not so important part is an attempt to clean up legacy one-off parameters that do the same thing as a sysctl. I don't want to remove them completely for compatibility reasons, but with generic sysctl support the idea is to remove the one-off param handlers and treat the parameters as aliases for the sysctl variants. I have identified several parameters that mention sysctl counterparts in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt but there might be more. The conversion also has varying level of success: - numa_zonelist_order is converted in Patch 2 together with adding the necessary infrastructure. It's easy as it doesn't really do anything but warn on deprecated value these days. - hung_task_panic is converted in Patch 3, but there's a downside that now it only accepts 0 and 1, while previously it was any integer value - nmi_watchdog maps to two sysctls nmi_watchdog and hardlockup_panic, so there's no straighforward conversion possible - traceoff_on_warning is a flag without value and it would be required to handle that somehow in the conversion infractructure, which seems pointless for a single flag This patch (of 5): A recently proposed patch to add vm_swappiness command line parameter in addition to existing sysctl [1] made me wonder why we don't have a general support for passing sysctl parameters via command line. Googling found only somebody else wondering the same [2], but I haven't found any prior discussion with reasons why not to do this. Settings the vm_swappiness issue aside (the underlying issue might be solved in a different way), quick search of kernel-parameters.txt shows there are already some that exist as both sysctl and kernel parameter - hung_task_panic, nmi_watchdog, numa_zonelist_order, traceoff_on_warning. A general mechanism would remove the need to add more of those one-offs and might be handy in situations where configuration by e.g. /etc/sysctl.d/ is impractical. Hence, this patch adds a new parse_args() pass that looks for parameters prefixed by 'sysctl.' and tries to interpret them as writes to the corresponding sys/ files using an temporary in-kernel procfs mount. This mechanism was suggested by Eric W. Biederman [3], as it handles all dynamically registered sysctl tables, even though we don't handle modular sysctls. Errors due to e.g. invalid parameter name or value are reported in the kernel log. The processing is hooked right before the init process is loaded, as some handlers might be more complicated than simple setters and might need some subsystems to be initialized. At the moment the init process can be started and eventually execute a process writing to /proc/sys/ then it should be also fine to do that from the kernel. Sysctls registered later on module load time are not set by this mechanism - it's expected that in such scenarios, setting sysctl values from userspace is practical enough. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/BL0PR02MB560167492CA4094C91589930E9FC0@BL0PR02MB5601.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/ [2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/558802/how-to-set-sysctl-using-kernel-command-line-parameter [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87bloj2skm.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org/ Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Ivan Teterevkov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" Cc: "Guilherme G . Piccoli" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Christian Brauner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-1-vbabka@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427180433.7029-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: allow distribution configuration of default init

2020-06-05T02:06:25Z

Some init systems (eg. systemd) have init at their own paths, for example, /usr/lib/systemd/systemd. A compatibility symlink to one of the hardcoded init paths is provided by another package, usually named something like systemd-sysvcompat or similar. Currently distro maintainers who are hands-off on the bootloader are more or less required to include those compatibility links as part of their base distribution, because it's hard to migrate away from them since there's a risk some users will not get the message to set init= on the kernel command line appropriately. Moreover, for distributions where the init system is something the distribution itself is opinionated about (eg. Arch, which has systemd in the required `base` package), we could usually reasonably configure this ahead of time when building the distribution kernel. However, we currently simply don't have any way to configure the kernel to do this. Here's an example discussion where removing sysvcompat was discussed by distro maintainers[0]. This patch adds a new Kconfig tunable, CONFIG_DEFAULT_INIT, which if set is tried before the hardcoded fallback list. So the order of precedence is now thus: 1. init= on command line (on failure: panic) 2. CONFIG_DEFAULT_INIT (on failure: try #3) 3. Hardcoded fallback list (on failure: panic) This new config parameter will allow distribution maintainers to move away from these compatibility links safely, without having to worry that their users might not have the right init=. There are also two other benefits of this over having the distribution maintain a symlink: 1. One of the value propositions over simply having distributions maintain a /sbin/init symlink via a package is that it also frees distributions which have a preferred default, but not mandatory, init system from having their package manager fight with their users for control of /{s,}bin/init. Instead, the distribution simply makes their preference known in CONFIG_DEFAULT_INIT, and if the user installs another init system and uninstalls the default one they can still make use of /{s,}bin/init and friends for their own uses. This makes more cases Just Work(tm) without the user having to perform extra configuration via init=. 2. Since before this we don't know which path the distribution actually _intends_ to serve init from, we don't pr_err if it is simply missing, and usually will just silently put the user in a /bin/sh shell. Now that the distribution can make a declaration of intent, we can be more vocal when this init system fails to launch for any reason, even if it's simply because no file exists at that location, speeding up the palaver of init/mount dependency/etc debugging a bit. [0]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2019-January/029435.html Signed-off-by: Chris Down Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200522160234.GA1487022@chrisdown.name Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

padata: initialize earlier

2020-06-04T03:09:45Z

padata will soon initialize the system's struct pages in parallel, so it needs to be ready by page_alloc_init_late(). The error return from padata_driver_init() triggers an initcall warning, so add a warning to padata_init() to avoid silent failure. Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Josh Triplett Cc: Alexander Duyck Cc: Alex Williamson Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Robert Elliott Cc: Shile Zhang Cc: Steffen Klassert Cc: Steven Sistare Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Zi Yan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527173608.2885243-3-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.7-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2020-05-17T18:08:29Z

Pull x86 fix from Borislav Petkov: "A single fix for early boot crashes of kernels built with gcc10 and stack protector enabled" * tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.7-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try

x86: Fix early boot crash on gcc-10, third try

2020-05-15T09:48:01Z

... or the odyssey of trying to disable the stack protector for the function which generates the stack canary value. The whole story started with Sergei reporting a boot crash with a kernel built with gcc-10: Kernel panic — not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc5—00235—gfffb08b37df9 #139 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To be filled by O.E.M./H77M—D3H, BIOS F12 11/14/2013 Call Trace: dump_stack panic ? start_secondary __stack_chk_fail start_secondary secondary_startup_64 -—-[ end Kernel panic — not syncing: stack—protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: start_secondary This happens because gcc-10 tail-call optimizes the last function call in start_secondary() - cpu_startup_entry() - and thus emits a stack canary check which fails because the canary value changes after the boot_init_stack_canary() call. To fix that, the initial attempt was to mark the one function which generates the stack canary with: __attribute__((optimize("-fno-stack-protector"))) ... start_secondary(void *unused) however, using the optimize attribute doesn't work cumulatively as the attribute does not add to but rather replaces previously supplied optimization options - roughly all -fxxx options. The key one among them being -fno-omit-frame-pointer and thus leading to not present frame pointer - frame pointer which the kernel needs. The next attempt to prevent compilers from tail-call optimizing the last function call cpu_startup_entry(), shy of carving out start_secondary() into a separate compilation unit and building it with -fno-stack-protector, was to add an empty asm(""). This current solution was short and sweet, and reportedly, is supported by both compilers but we didn't get very far this time: future (LTO?) optimization passes could potentially eliminate this, which leads us to the third attempt: having an actual memory barrier there which the compiler cannot ignore or move around etc. That should hold for a long time, but hey we said that about the other two solutions too so... Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Tested-by: Kalle Valo Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200314164451.346497-1-slyfox@gentoo.org

bootconfig: Fix to prevent warning message if no bootconfig option

2020-05-12T14:42:51Z

Commit de462e5f1071 ("bootconfig: Fix to remove bootconfig data from initrd while boot") causes a cosmetic regression on dmesg, which warns "no bootconfig data" message without bootconfig cmdline option. Fix setup_boot_config() by moving no bootconfig check after commandline option check. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9b1ba335-071d-c983-89a4-2677b522dcc8@molgen.mpg.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158916116468.21787.14558782332170588206.stgit@devnote2 Fixes: de462e5f1071 ("bootconfig: Fix to remove bootconfig data from initrd while boot") Reported-by: Paul Menzel Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

bootconfig: Fix to remove bootconfig data from initrd while boot

2020-05-06T13:04:11Z

If there is a bootconfig data in the tail of initrd/initramfs, initrd image sanity check caused an error while decompression stage as follows. [ 0.883882] Unpacking initramfs... [ 2.696429] Initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed archive This error will be ignored if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=n, but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y the kernel failed to mount rootfs and causes a panic. To fix this issue, shrink down the initrd_end for removing tailing bootconfig data while boot the kernel. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158788401014.24243.17424755854115077915.stgit@devnote2 Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 7684b8582c24 ("bootconfig: Load boot config from the tail of initrd") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'v5.7-rc1' into locking/kcsan, to resolve conflicts and refresh

2020-04-13T07:44:39Z

Resolve these conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/Makefile Do a minor "evil merge" to move the KCSAN entry up a bit by a few lines in the Kconfig to reduce the probability of future conflicts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready

2020-04-10T20:18:57Z

printk_deferred(), similarly to printk_safe/printk_nmi, does not immediately attempt to print a new message on the consoles, avoiding calls into non-reentrant kernel paths, e.g. scheduler or timekeeping, which potentially can deadlock the system. Those printk() flavors, instead, rely on per-CPU flush irq_work to print messages from safer contexts. For same reasons (recursive scheduler or timekeeping calls) printk() uses per-CPU irq_work in order to wake up user space syslog/kmsg readers. However, only printk_safe/printk_nmi do make sure that per-CPU areas have been initialised and that it's safe to modify per-CPU irq_work. This means that, for instance, should printk_deferred() be invoked "too early", that is before per-CPU areas are initialised, printk_deferred() will perform illegal per-CPU access. Lech Perczak [0] reports that after commit 1b710b1b10ef ("char/random: silence a lockdep splat with printk()") user-space syslog/kmsg readers are not able to read new kernel messages. The reason is printk_deferred() being called too early (as was pointed out by Petr and John). Fix printk_deferred() and do not queue per-CPU irq_work before per-CPU areas are initialized. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aa0732c6-5c4e-8a8b-a1c1-75ebe3dca05b@camlintechnologies.com/ Reported-by: Lech Perczak Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Tested-by: Jann Horn Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: John Ogness Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds