linux/kernel/kexec.c, branch v3.16

kexec: fix build error when hugetlbfs is disabled

2014-07-31T03:09:37Z

free_huge_page() is undefined without CONFIG_HUGETLBFS and there's no need to filter PageHuge() page is such a configuration either, so avoid exporting the symbol to fix a build error: In file included from kernel/kexec.c:14:0: kernel/kexec.c: In function 'crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init': kernel/kexec.c:1623:20: error: 'free_huge_page' undeclared (first use in this function) VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(free_huge_page); ^ Introduced by commit 8f1d26d0e59b ("kexec: export free_huge_page to VMCOREINFO") Reported-by: kbuild test robot Acked-by: Olof Johansson Cc: Atsushi Kumagai Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: export free_huge_page to VMCOREINFO

2014-07-31T00:16:13Z

PG_head_mask was added into VMCOREINFO to filter huge pages in b3acc56bfe1 ("kexec: save PG_head_mask in VMCOREINFO"), but makedumpfile still need another symbol to filter *hugetlbfs* pages. If a user hope to filter user pages, makedumpfile tries to exclude them by checking the condition whether the page is anonymous, but hugetlbfs pages aren't anonymous while they also be user pages. We know it's possible to detect them in the same way as PageHuge(), so we need the start address of free_huge_page(): int PageHuge(struct page *page) { if (!PageCompound(page)) return 0; page = compound_head(page); return get_compound_page_dtor(page) == free_huge_page; } For that reason, this patch changes free_huge_page() into public to export it to VMCOREINFO. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: save PG_head_mask in VMCOREINFO

2014-06-23T23:47:43Z

To allow filtering of huge pages, makedumpfile must be able to identify them in the dump. This can be done by checking the appropriate page flag, so communicate its value to makedumpfile through the VMCOREINFO interface. There's only one small catch. Depending on how many page flags are available on a given architecture, this bit can be called PG_head or PG_compound. I sent a similar patch back in 2012, but Eric Biederman did not like using an #ifdef. So, this time I'm adding a common symbol (PG_head_mask) instead. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/28/91 for the previous version. Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/kexec.c: convert printk to pr_foo()

2014-06-06T23:08:12Z

+ some pr_warning -> pr_warn and checkpatch warning fixes Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc, kexec: Fix "Processor X is stuck" issue during kexec from ST mode

2014-05-28T03:24:26Z

If we try to perform a kexec when the machine is in ST (Single-Threaded) mode (ppc64_cpu --smt=off), the kexec operation doesn't succeed properly, and we get the following messages during boot: [ 0.089866] POWER8 performance monitor hardware support registered [ 0.089985] power8-pmu: PMAO restore workaround active. [ 5.095419] Processor 1 is stuck. [ 10.097933] Processor 2 is stuck. [ 15.100480] Processor 3 is stuck. [ 20.102982] Processor 4 is stuck. [ 25.105489] Processor 5 is stuck. [ 30.108005] Processor 6 is stuck. [ 35.110518] Processor 7 is stuck. [ 40.113369] Processor 9 is stuck. [ 45.115879] Processor 10 is stuck. [ 50.118389] Processor 11 is stuck. [ 55.120904] Processor 12 is stuck. [ 60.123425] Processor 13 is stuck. [ 65.125970] Processor 14 is stuck. [ 70.128495] Processor 15 is stuck. [ 75.131316] Processor 17 is stuck. Note that only the sibling threads are stuck, while the primary threads (0, 8, 16 etc) boot just fine. Looking closer at the previous step of kexec, we observe that kexec tries to wakeup (bring online) the sibling threads of all the cores, before performing kexec: [ 9464.131231] Starting new kernel [ 9464.148507] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1. [ 9464.148552] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2. [ 9464.148600] kexec: Waking offline cpu 3. [ 9464.148636] kexec: Waking offline cpu 4. [ 9464.148671] kexec: Waking offline cpu 5. [ 9464.148708] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6. [ 9464.148743] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7. [ 9464.148779] kexec: Waking offline cpu 9. [ 9464.148815] kexec: Waking offline cpu 10. [ 9464.148851] kexec: Waking offline cpu 11. [ 9464.148887] kexec: Waking offline cpu 12. [ 9464.148922] kexec: Waking offline cpu 13. [ 9464.148958] kexec: Waking offline cpu 14. [ 9464.148994] kexec: Waking offline cpu 15. [ 9464.149030] kexec: Waking offline cpu 17. Instrumenting this piece of code revealed that the cpu_up() operation actually fails with -EBUSY. Thus, only the primary threads of all the cores are online during kexec, and hence this is a sure-shot receipe for disaster, as explained in commit e8e5c2155b (powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec), as well as in the comment above wake_offline_cpus(). It turns out that cpu_up() was returning -EBUSY because the variable 'cpu_hotplug_disabled' was set to 1; and this disabling of CPU hotplug was done by migrate_to_reboot_cpu() inside kernel_kexec(). Now, migrate_to_reboot_cpu() was originally written with the assumption that any further code will not need to perform CPU hotplug, since we are anyway in the reboot path. However, kexec is clearly not such a case, since we depend on onlining CPUs, atleast on powerpc. So re-enable cpu-hotplug after returning from migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in the kexec path, to fix this regression in kexec on powerpc. Also, wrap the cpu_up() in powerpc kexec code within a WARN_ON(), so that we can catch such issues more easily in the future. Fixes: c97102ba963 (kexec: migrate to reboot cpu) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of attribute((...))

2014-04-07T23:36:11Z

To increase compiler portability there is which provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)). I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes with the right macro in the kernel subsystem. Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code

2014-04-03T23:21:07Z

Code that is obj-y (always built-in) or dependent on a bool Kconfig (built-in or absent) can never be modular. So using module_init as an alias for __initcall can be somewhat misleading. Fix these up now, so that we can relocate module_init from init.h into module.h in the future. If we don't do this, we'd have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that would be a worse thing. The audit targets the following module_init users for change: kernel/user.c obj-y kernel/kexec.c bool KEXEC (one instance per arch) kernel/profile.c bool PROFILING kernel/hung_task.c bool DETECT_HUNG_TASK kernel/sched/stats.c bool SCHEDSTATS kernel/user_namespace.c bool USER_NS Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one of the priority categorized subgroups. As __initcall gets mapped onto device_initcall, our use of subsys_initcall (which makes sense for these files) will thus change this registration from level 6-device to level 4-subsys (i.e. slightly earlier). However no observable impact of that difference has been observed during testing. Also, two instances of missing ";" at EOL are fixed in kexec. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types

2014-03-06T15:30:46Z

In order to allow the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE macro generate code that performs proper zero and sign extension convert all 64 bit parameters to their corresponding 32 bit compat counterparts. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

kernel/kexec.c: use vscnprintf() instead of vsnprintf() in vmcoreinfo_append_str()

2014-01-28T05:02:40Z

vsnprintf() may let 'r' larger than sizeof(buf), in this case, if 'r' is also less than "vmcoreinfo_max_size - vmcoreinfo_size" (left size of destination buffer), next memcpy() will read the unexpected addresses. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load

2014-01-24T00:37:03Z

For general-purpose (i.e. distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they want to do with kexec. However, in the face of trying to lock down a system with such a kernel, there needs to be a way to disable kexec_load (much like module loading can be disabled). Without this, it is too easy for the root user to modify kernel memory even when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM and modules_disabled are set. With this change, it is still possible to load an image for use later, then disable kexec_load so the image (or lack of image) can't be altered. The intention is for using this in environments where "perfect" enforcement is hard. Without a verified boot, along with verified modules, and along with verified kexec, this is trying to give a system a better chance to defend itself (or at least grow the window of discoverability) against attack in the face of a privilege escalation. In my mind, I consider several boot scenarios: 1) Verified boot of read-only verified root fs loading fd-based verification of kexec images. 2) Secure boot of writable root fs loading signed kexec images. 3) Regular boot loading kexec (e.g. kcrash) image early and locking it. 4) Regular boot with no control of kexec image at all. 1 and 2 don't exist yet, but will soon once the verified kexec series has landed. 4 is the state of things now. The gap between 2 and 4 is too large, so this change creates scenario 3, a middle-ground above 4 when 2 and 1 are not possible for a system. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds