linux/kernel/fork.c, branch v5.0

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2019-01-09T02:58:29Z

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "14 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : mm, page_alloc: do not wake kswapd with zone lock held hugetlbfs: revert "use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization" hugetlbfs: revert "Use i_mmap_rwsem to fix page fault/truncate race" mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP mm/memory.c: initialise mmu_notifier_range correctly tools/vm/page_owner: use page_owner_sort in the use example kasan: fix krealloc handling for tag-based mode kasan: make tag based mode work with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY kasan, arm64: use ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN instead of manual aligning mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback mm/usercopy.c: no check page span for stack objects slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case zram: idle writeback fixes and cleanup

fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case

2019-01-09T01:15:11Z

Commit 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on memcg charge fail") fixes a crash caused due to failed memcg charge of the kernel stack. However the fix misses the cached_stacks case which this patch fixes. So, the same crash can happen if the memcg charge of a cached stack is failed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190102180145.57406-1-shakeelb@google.com Fixes: 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on memcg charge fail") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fork: record start_time late

2019-01-08T17:40:53Z

This changes the fork(2) syscall to record the process start_time after initializing the basic task structure but still before making the new process visible to user-space. Technically, we could record the start_time anytime during fork(2). But this might lead to scenarios where a start_time is recorded long before a process becomes visible to user-space. For instance, with userfaultfd(2) and TLS, user-space can delay the execution of fork(2) for an indefinite amount of time (and will, if this causes network access, or similar). By recording the start_time late, it much closer reflects the point in time where the process becomes live and can be observed by other processes. Lastly, this makes it much harder for user-space to predict and control the start_time they get assigned. Previously, user-space could fork a process and stall it in copy_thread_tls() before its pid is allocated, but after its start_time is recorded. This can be misused to later-on cycle through PIDs and resume the stalled fork(2) yielding a process that has the same pid and start_time as a process that existed before. This can be used to circumvent security systems that identify processes by their pid+start_time combination. Even though user-space was always aware that start_time recording is flaky (but several projects are known to still rely on start_time-based identification), changing the start_time to be recorded late will help mitigate existing attacks and make it much harder for user-space to control the start_time a process gets assigned. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: David Herrmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fork: fix some -Wmissing-prototypes warnings

2019-01-04T21:13:47Z

We get a warning when building kernel with W=1: kernel/fork.c:167:13: warning: no previous prototype for `arch_release_thread_stack' [-Wmissing-prototypes] kernel/fork.c:779:13: warning: no previous prototype for `fork_init' [-Wmissing-prototypes] Add the missing declaration in head file to fix this. Also, remove arch_release_thread_stack() completely because no arch seems to implement it since bb9d81264 (arch: remove tile port). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542170087-23645-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Yi Wang Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c: mark 'stack_vm_area' with __maybe_unused

2018-12-28T20:11:52Z

Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning when CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is not set: kernel/fork.c: In function 'dup_task_struct': kernel/fork.c:843:20: warning: variable 'stack_vm_area' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545965190-2381-1-git-send-email-yuehaibing@huawei.com Signed-off-by: YueHaibing Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic

2018-12-28T20:11:47Z

totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages are made static inline function. Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating things. It was discussed in length here, https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-4-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Arun KS Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function

2018-12-28T20:11:47Z

Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed pages to atomic", v5. This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it. Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a store tear. Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating things. It was discussed in length here, https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 It seemes better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic. With the change, preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus. This patch (of 4): This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. Please note that re-reading the value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to unexpected behavior. There are no known bugs as a result of the current code but it is better to prevent from them in principle. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Arun KS Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on memcg charge fail

2018-12-21T22:51:18Z

Commit 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting") will result in fork failing if allocating a kernel stack for a task in dup_task_struct exceeds the kernel memory allowance for that cgroup. Unfortunately, it also results in a crash. This is due to the code jumping to free_stack and calling free_thread_stack when the memcg kernel stack charge fails, but without tsk->stack pointing at the freshly allocated stack. This in turn results in the vfree_atomic in free_thread_stack oopsing with a backtrace like this: #5 [ffffc900244efc88] die at ffffffff8101f0ab #6 [ffffc900244efcb8] do_general_protection at ffffffff8101cb86 #7 [ffffc900244efce0] general_protection at ffffffff818ff082 [exception RIP: llist_add_batch+7] RIP: ffffffff8150d487 RSP: ffffc900244efd98 RFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88085ef55980 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff88085ef55980 RSI: 343834343531203a RDI: 343834343531203a RBP: ffffc900244efd98 R8: 0000000000000001 R9: ffff8808578c3600 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88029f6c21c0 R13: 0000000000000286 R14: ffff880147759b00 R15: 0000000000000000 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #8 [ffffc900244efda0] vfree_atomic at ffffffff811df2c7 #9 [ffffc900244efdb8] copy_process at ffffffff81086e37 #10 [ffffc900244efe98] _do_fork at ffffffff810884e0 #11 [ffffc900244eff10] sys_vfork at ffffffff810887ff #12 [ffffc900244eff20] do_syscall_64 at ffffffff81002a43 RIP: 000000000049b948 RSP: 00007ffcdb307830 RFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000896030 RCX: 000000000049b948 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffcdb307790 RDI: 00000000005d7421 RBP: 000000000067370f R8: 00007ffcdb3077b0 R9: 000000000001ed00 R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000040 R13: 000000000000000f R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000088d018 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003a CS: 0033 SS: 002b The simplest fix is to assign tsk->stack right where it is allocated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181214231726.7ee4843c@imladris.surriel.com Fixes: 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting") Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2018-11-01T18:46:27Z

Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook: "Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense against at least two classes of flaws: - Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too). - Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but provides the coverage for stacks. The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon). With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin" * tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca() stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls

psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO

2018-10-26T23:26:32Z

When systems are overcommitted and resources become contended, it's hard to tell exactly the impact this has on workload productivity, or how close the system is to lockups and OOM kills. In particular, when machines work multiple jobs concurrently, the impact of overcommit in terms of latency and throughput on the individual job can be enormous. In order to maximize hardware utilization without sacrificing individual job health or risk complete machine lockups, this patch implements a way to quantify resource pressure in the system. A kernel built with CONFIG_PSI=y creates files in /proc/pressure/ that expose the percentage of time the system is stalled on CPU, memory, or IO, respectively. Stall states are aggregate versions of the per-task delay accounting delays: cpu: some tasks are runnable but not executing on a CPU memory: tasks are reclaiming, or waiting for swapin or thrashing cache io: tasks are waiting for io completions These percentages of walltime can be thought of as pressure percentages, and they give a general sense of system health and productivity loss incurred by resource overcommit. They can also indicate when the system is approaching lockup scenarios and OOMs. To do this, psi keeps track of the task states associated with each CPU and samples the time they spend in stall states. Every 2 seconds, the samples are averaged across CPUs - weighted by the CPUs' non-idle time to eliminate artifacts from unused CPUs - and translated into percentages of walltime. A running average of those percentages is maintained over 10s, 1m, and 5m periods (similar to the loadaverage). [hannes@cmpxchg.org: doc fixlet, per Randy] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828205625.GA14030@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: code optimization] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907175015.GA8479@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: rename psi_clock() to psi_update_work(), per Peter] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907145404.GB11088@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180913014222.GA2370@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Daniel Drake Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Enderborg Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vinayak Menon Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds