linux/kernel/fork.c, branch v4.19

mm: respect arch_dup_mmap() return value

2018-09-04T23:45:02Z

Commit d70f2a14b72a ("include/linux/sched/mm.h: uninline mmdrop_async(), etc") ignored the return value of arch_dup_mmap(). As a result, on x86, a failure to duplicate the LDT (e.g. due to memory allocation error) would leave the duplicated memory mapping in an inconsistent state. Fix by using the return value, as it was before the change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823051229.211856-1-namit@vmware.com Fixes: d70f2a14b72a4 ("include/linux/sched/mm.h: uninline mmdrop_async(), etc") Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-08-22T19:34:08Z

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - procfs updates - various misc things - more y2038 fixes - get_maintainer updates - lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - various epoll updates - autofs updates - hfsplus - some reiserfs work - fatfs updates - signal.c cleanups - ipc/ updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (166 commits) ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool ipc/util.c: further variable name cleanups ipc: simplify ipc initialization ipc: get rid of ids->tables_initialized hack lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc() ipc: drop ipc_lock() ipc/util.c: correct comment in ipc_obtain_object_check ipc: rename ipcctl_pre_down_nolock() ipc/util.c: use ipc_rcu_putref() for failues in ipc_addid() ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq ipc: compute kern_ipc_perm.id under the ipc lock init/Kconfig: remove EXPERT from CHECKPOINT_RESTORE fs/sysv/inode.c: use ktime_get_real_seconds() for superblock stamp adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion kernel/sysctl.c: fix typos in comments drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: remove redundant pointer md fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child signal: make get_signal() return bool signal: make sigkill_pending() return bool ...

fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child

2018-08-22T17:52:51Z

Before this change, if a multithreaded process forks while one of its threads is changing a signal handler using sigaction(), the memcpy() in copy_sighand() can race with the struct assignment in do_sigaction(). It isn't clear whether this can cause corruption of the userspace signal handler pointer, but it definitely can cause inconsistency between different fields of struct sigaction. Take the appropriate spinlock to avoid this. I have tested that this patch prevents inconsistency between sa_sigaction and sa_flags, which is possible before this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702145108.73189-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout

2018-08-22T17:52:47Z

Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout. This is fine for most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups (syzbot). In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup < RCU stall < workqueue lockup < task hung < silent loss, so that RCU stall is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent machine loss. The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g. if task hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins). The additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests. Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout. This allows to set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs. The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl, similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl. The default value of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to timeout. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: zero out the vma in vma_init()

2018-08-22T17:52:44Z

Rather than in vm_area_alloc(). To ensure that the various oddball stack-based vmas are in a good state. Some of the callers were zeroing them out, others were not. Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Russell King Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2018-08-21T20:47:29Z

Pull core signal handling updates from Eric Biederman: "It was observed that a periodic timer in combination with a sufficiently expensive fork could prevent fork from every completing. This contains the changes to remove the need for that restart. This set of changes is split into several parts: - The first part makes PIDTYPE_TGID a proper pid type instead something only for very special cases. The part starts using PIDTYPE_TGID enough so that in __send_signal where signals are actually delivered we know if the signal is being sent to a a group of processes or just a single process. - With that prep work out of the way the logic in fork is modified so that fork logically makes signals received while it is running appear to be received after the fork completes" * 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (22 commits) signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. fork: Have new threads join on-going signal group stops fork: Skip setting TIF_SIGPENDING in ptrace_init_task signal: Add calculate_sigpending() fork: Unconditionally exit if a fatal signal is pending fork: Move and describe why the code examines PIDNS_ADDING signal: Push pid type down into complete_signal. signal: Push pid type down into __send_signal signal: Push pid type down into send_signal signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info signal: Pass pid type into send_sigio_to_task & send_sigurg_to_task signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue posix-timers: Noralize good_sigevent signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl pids: Compute task_tgid using signal->leader_pid ...

fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcg

2018-08-17T23:20:30Z

Patch series "Directed kmem charging", v8. The Linux kernel's memory cgroup allows limiting the memory usage of the jobs running on the system to provide isolation between the jobs. All the kernel memory allocated in the context of the job and marked with __GFP_ACCOUNT will also be included in the memory usage and be limited by the job's limit. The kernel memory can only be charged to the memcg of the process in whose context kernel memory was allocated. However there are cases where the allocated kernel memory should be charged to the memcg different from the current processes's memcg. This patch series contains two such concrete use-cases i.e. fsnotify and buffer_head. The fsnotify event objects can consume a lot of system memory for large or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. The events are allocated in the context of the event producer. However they should be charged to the event consumer. Similarly the buffer_head objects can be allocated in a memcg different from the memcg of the page for which buffer_head objects are being allocated. To solve this issue, this patch series introduces mechanism to charge kernel memory to a given memcg. In case of fsnotify events, the memcg of the consumer can be used for charging and for buffer_head, the memcg of the page can be charged. For directed charging, the caller can use the scope API memalloc_[un]use_memcg() to specify the memcg to charge for all the __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within the scope. This patch (of 2): A lot of memory can be consumed by the events generated for the huge or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. This can cause system level memory pressure or OOMs. So, it's better to account the fsnotify kmem caches to the memcg of the listener. However the listener can be in a different memcg than the memcg of the producer and these allocations happen in the context of the event producer. This patch introduces remote memcg charging API which the producer can use to charge the allocations to the memcg of the listener. There are seven fsnotify kmem caches and among them allocations from dnotify_struct_cache, dnotify_mark_cache, fanotify_mark_cache and inotify_inode_mark_cachep happens in the context of syscall from the listener. So, SLAB_ACCOUNT is enough for these caches. The objects from fsnotify_mark_connector_cachep are not accounted as they are small compared to the notification mark or events and it is unclear whom to account connector to since it is shared by all events attached to the inode. The allocations from the event caches happen in the context of the event producer. For such caches we will need to remote charge the allocations to the listener's memcg. Thus we save the memcg reference in the fsnotify_group structure of the listener. This patch has also moved the members of fsnotify_group to keep the size same, at least for 64 bit build, even with additional member by filling the holes. [shakeelb@google.com: use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT rather than open-coding it] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702215439.211597-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627191250.209150-2-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Amir Goldstein Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2018-08-14T17:23:25Z

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: "First pull request for this merge window, there will also be a followup request with some stragglers. This pull request contains: - Fix for a thundering heard issue in the wbt block code (Anchal Agarwal) - A few NVMe pull requests: * Improved tracepoints (Keith) * Larger inline data support for RDMA (Steve Wise) * RDMA setup/teardown fixes (Sagi) * Effects log suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni) * Buffered IO suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni) * TP4004 (ANA) support (Christoph) * Various NVMe fixes - Block io-latency controller support. Much needed support for properly containing block devices. (Josef) - Series improving how we handle sense information on the stack (Kees) - Lightnvm fixes and updates/improvements (Mathias/Javier et al) - Zoned device support for null_blk (Matias) - AIX partition fixes (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) - DIF checksum code made generic (Max Gurtovoy) - Add support for discard in iostats (Michael Callahan / Tejun) - Set of updates for BFQ (Paolo) - Removal of async write support for bsg (Christoph) - Bio page dirtying and clone fixups (Christoph) - Set of bcache fix/changes (via Coly) - Series improving blk-mq queue setup/teardown speed (Ming) - Series improving merging performance on blk-mq (Ming) - Lots of other fixes and cleanups from a slew of folks" * tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (190 commits) blkcg: Make blkg_root_lookup() work for queues in bypass mode bcache: fix error setting writeback_rate through sysfs interface null_blk: add lock drop/acquire annotation Blk-throttle: reduce tail io latency when iops limit is enforced block: paride: pd: mark expected switch fall-throughs block: Ensure that a request queue is dissociated from the cgroup controller block: Introduce blk_exit_queue() blkcg: Introduce blkg_root_lookup() block: Remove two superfluous #include directives blk-mq: count the hctx as active before allocating tag block: bvec_nr_vecs() returns value for wrong slab bcache: trivial - remove tailing backslash in macro BTREE_FLAG bcache: make the pr_err statement used for ENOENT only in sysfs_attatch section bcache: set max writeback rate when I/O request is idle bcache: add code comments for bset.c bcache: fix mistaken comments in request.c bcache: fix mistaken code comments in bcache.h bcache: add a comment in super.c bcache: avoid unncessary cache prefetch bch_btree_node_get() bcache: display rate debug parameters to 0 when writeback is not running ...

Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-08-13T23:29:35Z

Pull x86 mm updates from Thomas Gleixner: - Make lazy TLB mode even lazier to avoid pointless switch_mm() operations, which reduces CPU load by 1-2% for memcache workloads - Small cleanups and improvements all over the place * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm: Remove redundant check for kmem_cache_create() arm/asm/tlb.h: Fix build error implicit func declaration x86/mm/tlb: Make clear_asid_other() static x86/mm/tlb: Skip atomic operations for 'init_mm' in switch_mm_irqs_off() x86/mm/tlb: Always use lazy TLB mode x86/mm/tlb: Only send page table free TLB flush to lazy TLB CPUs x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier x86/mm/tlb: Restructure switch_mm_irqs_off() x86/mm/tlb: Leave lazy TLB mode at page table free time mm: Allocate the mm_cpumask (mm->cpu_bitmap[]) dynamically based on nr_cpu_ids x86/mm: Add TLB purge to free pmd/pte page interfaces ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr x86/mm: Disable ioremap free page handling on x86-PAE

signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in.

2018-08-09T18:07:01Z

Wen Yang and majiang report that a periodic signal received during fork can cause fork to continually restart preventing an application from making progress. The code was being overly pessimistic. Fork needs to guarantee that a signal sent to multiple processes is logically delivered before the fork and just to the forking process or logically delivered after the fork to both the forking process and it's newly spawned child. For signals like periodic timers that are always delivered to a single process fork can safely complete and let them appear to logically delivered after the fork(). While examining this issue I also discovered that fork today will miss signals delivered to multiple processes during the fork and handled by another thread. Similarly the current code will also miss blocked signals that are delivered to multiple process, as those signals will not appear pending during fork. Add a list of each thread that is currently forking, and keep on that list a signal set that records all of the signals sent to multiple processes. When fork completes initialize the new processes shared_pending signal set with it. The calculate_sigpending function will see those signals and set TIF_SIGPENDING causing the new task to take the slow path to userspace to handle those signals. Making it appear as if those signals were received immediately after the fork. It is not possible to send real time signals to multiple processes and exceptions don't go to multiple processes, which means that that are no signals sent to multiple processes that require siginfo. This means it is safe to not bother collecting siginfo on signals sent during fork. The sigaction of a child of fork is initially the same as the sigaction of the parent process. So a signal the parent ignores the child will also initially ignore. Therefore it is safe to ignore signals sent to multiple processes and ignored by the forking process. Signals sent to only a single process or only a single thread and delivered during fork are treated as if they are received after the fork, and generally not dealt with. They won't cause any problems. V2: Added removal from the multiprocess list on failure. V3: Use -ERESTARTNOINTR directly V4: - Don't queue both SIGCONT and SIGSTOP - Initialize signal_struct.multiprocess in init_task - Move setting of shared_pending to before the new task is visible to signals. This prevents signals from comming in before shared_pending.signal is set to delayed.signal and being lost. V5: - rework list add and delete to account for idle threads v6: - Use sigdelsetmask when removing stop signals Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200447 Reported-by: Wen Yang and Reported-by: majiang Fixes: 4a2c7a7837da ("[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signals") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"