The kernel tries to atomically unlock the futex without checking
whether there is kernel state associated to the futex.
So if user space manipulated the user space value, this will leave
kernel internal state around associated to the owner task.
For robustness sake, lookup first whether there are waiters on the
futex. If there are waiters, wake the top priority waiter with all the
proper sanity checks applied.
If there are no waiters, do the atomic release. We do not have to
preserve the waiters bit in this case, because a potentially incoming
waiter is blocked on the hb->lock and will acquire the futex
atomically. We neither have to preserve the owner died bit. The caller
is the owner and it was supposed to cleanup the mess.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Cc: wad@chromium.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611204237.016987332@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In case the dead lock detector is enabled we follow the lock chain to
the end in rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain, even if we could stop earlier
due to the priority/waiter constellation.
But once we are no longer the top priority waiter in a certain step
or the task holding the lock has already the same priority then there
is no point in dequeing and enqueing along the lock chain as there is
no change at all.
So stop the queueing at this point.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140522031950.280830190@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The conditions under which deadlock detection is conducted are unclear
and undocumented.
Add constants instead of using 0/1 and provide a selection function
which hides the additional debug dependency from the calling code.
Add comments where needed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140522031949.947264874@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The deadlock logic is only required for futexes.
Remove the extra arguments for the public functions and also for the
futex specific ones which get always called with deadlock detection
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Exit right away, when the removed waiter was not the top priority
waiter on the lock. Get rid of the extra indent level.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Add commentry to document the chain walk and the protection mechanisms
and their scope.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a separate local variable for the boost/deboost logic to make the
code more readable. Add comments where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There is no point to keep the task ref across the check for lock
owner. Drop the ref before that, so the protection context is clear.
Found while documenting the chain walk.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
The current implementation of try_to_take_rtmutex() is correct, but
requires more than a single brain twist to understand the clever
encoded conditionals.
Untangle it and document the cases proper.
Looks less efficient at the first glance, but actually reduces the
binary code size on x8664 by 80 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Oleg noticed that rtmutex_slowtrylock() has a pointless check for
rt_mutex_owner(lock) != current.
To avoid calling try_to_take_rtmutex() we really want to check whether
the lock has an owner at all or whether the trylock failed because the
owner is NULL, but the RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS bit is set. This covers
the lock is owned by caller situation as well.
We can actually do this check lockless. trylock is taking a chance
whether we take lock->wait_lock to do the check or not.
Add comments to the function while at it.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
When the rtmutex fast path is enabled the slow unlock function can
create the following situation:
spin_lock(foo->m->wait_lock);
foo->m->owner = NULL;
rt_mutex_lock(foo->m); <-- fast path
free = atomic_dec_and_test(foo->refcnt);
rt_mutex_unlock(foo->m); <-- fast path
if (free)
kfree(foo);
spin_unlock(foo->m->wait_lock); <--- Use after free.
Plug the race by changing the slow unlock to the following scheme:
while (!rt_mutex_has_waiters(m)) {
/* Clear the waiters bit in m->owner */
clear_rt_mutex_waiters(m);
owner = rt_mutex_owner(m);
spin_unlock(m->wait_lock);
if (cmpxchg(m->owner, owner, 0) == owner)
return;
spin_lock(m->wait_lock);
}
So in case of a new waiter incoming while the owner tries the slow
path unlock we have two situations:
unlock(wait_lock);
lock(wait_lock);
cmpxchg(p, owner, 0) == owner
mark_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
acquire(lock);
Or:
unlock(wait_lock);
lock(wait_lock);
mark_rt_mutex_waiters(lock);
cmpxchg(p, owner, 0) != owner
enqueue_waiter();
unlock(wait_lock);
lock(wait_lock);
wakeup_next waiter();
unlock(wait_lock);
lock(wait_lock);
acquire(lock);
If the fast path is disabled, then the simple
m->owner = NULL;
unlock(m->wait_lock);
is sufficient as all access to m->owner is serialized via
m->wait_lock;
Also document and clarify the wakeup_next_waiter function as suggested
by Oleg Nesterov.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611183852.937945560@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
if "possible cpus" is greater than actual CPUs (including offline CPUs).
Namhyung Kim did some reviews of the patches I sent this merge window and
found a memory leak and had a few clean ups.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing cleanups and bugfixes from Steven Rostedt:
"One bug fix that goes back to 3.10. Accessing a non existent buffer
if "possible cpus" is greater than actual CPUs (including offline
CPUs).
Namhyung Kim did some reviews of the patches I sent this merge window
and found a memory leak and had a few clean ups"
* tag 'trace-3.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix check of ftrace_trace_arrays list_empty() check
tracing: Fix leak of per cpu max data in instances
tracing: Cleanup saved_cmdlines_size changes
ring-buffer: Check if buffer exists before polling
Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Second round of scheduler changes:
- try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
- continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
Pitre
- misc fixes and enhancements"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
sched: Rename capacity related flags
sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period
Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"A second round of perf updates:
- wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
Masami Hiramatsu.
- uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
fixes and robustization work.
- perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
et al:
* Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
* various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates
perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
...
Pull more locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This is the second round of locking tree updates for v3.16, offering
large system scalability improvements:
- optimistic spinning for rwsems, from Davidlohr Bueso.
- 'qrwlocks' core code and x86 enablement, from Waiman Long and PeterZ"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, locking/rwlocks: Enable qrwlocks on x86
locking/rwlocks: Introduce 'qrwlocks' - fair, queued rwlocks
locking/mutexes: Documentation update/rewrite
locking/rwsem: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings
locking/rwsem: Fix warnings for CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
locking/rwsem: Support optimistic spinning
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.
2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
Benniston.
3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
Mork.
4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.
5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
Borkmann.
6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.
7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers. From Ezequiel Garcia.
8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.
9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.
10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.
11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
from Lorenzo Colitti.
12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
Cardwell.
13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.
14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.
15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.
16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
net: fec: Add software TSO support
net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
net: fec: Factorize feature setting
net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
net/core: Add VF link state control policy
net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
...
- I didn't remember correctly that the Hans de Goede's ACPI video
patches actually didn't flip the video.use_native_backlight
default, although we had discussed that and decided to do that.
Since I said we would do that in the previous PM+ACPI pull
request, make that change for real now.
- ACPI bus check notifications for PCI host bridges don't cause
the bus below the host bridge to be checked for changes as they
should because of a mistake in the ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP)
subsystem that forgets to add hotplug contexts to PCI host bridge
ACPI device objects. Create hotplug contexts for PCI host bridges
too as appropriate.
- Revert recent cpufreq commit related to the big.LITTLE cpufreq
driver that breaks arm64 builds.
- Fix for a regression in the ppc-corenet cpufreq driver introduced
during the 3.15 cycle and causing the driver to use the remainder
from do_div instead of the quotient. From Ed Swarthout.
- Resets triggered by panic activate a BUG_ON() in vmalloc.c on
systems where the ACPI reset register is located in memory address
space. Fix from Randy Wright.
- Fix for a problem with cpufreq governors that decisions made by
them may be suboptimal due to the fact that deferrable timers are
used by them for CPU load sampling. From Srivatsa S Bhat.
- Fix for a problem with the Tegra cpufreq driver where the CPU
frequency is temporarily switched to a "stable" level that
is different from both the initial and target frequencies
during transitions which causes udelay() to expire earlier than
it should sometimes. From Viresh Kumar.
- New trace points and rework of some existing trace points for
system suspend/resume profiling from Todd Brandt.
- Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Stratos Karafotis and
Viresh Kumar.
- Copyright notice update for suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt from
Srivatsa S Bhat.
/
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.16-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These are fixups on top of the previous PM+ACPI pull request,
regression fixes (ACPI hotplug, cpufreq ppc-corenet), other bug fixes
(ACPI reset, cpufreq), new PM trace points for system suspend
profiling and a copyright notice update.
Specifics:
- I didn't remember correctly that the Hans de Goede's ACPI video
patches actually didn't flip the video.use_native_backlight
default, although we had discussed that and decided to do that.
Since I said we would do that in the previous PM+ACPI pull request,
make that change for real now.
- ACPI bus check notifications for PCI host bridges don't cause the
bus below the host bridge to be checked for changes as they should
because of a mistake in the ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP)
subsystem that forgets to add hotplug contexts to PCI host bridge
ACPI device objects. Create hotplug contexts for PCI host bridges
too as appropriate.
- Revert recent cpufreq commit related to the big.LITTLE cpufreq
driver that breaks arm64 builds.
- Fix for a regression in the ppc-corenet cpufreq driver introduced
during the 3.15 cycle and causing the driver to use the remainder
from do_div instead of the quotient. From Ed Swarthout.
- Resets triggered by panic activate a BUG_ON() in vmalloc.c on
systems where the ACPI reset register is located in memory address
space. Fix from Randy Wright.
- Fix for a problem with cpufreq governors that decisions made by
them may be suboptimal due to the fact that deferrable timers are
used by them for CPU load sampling. From Srivatsa S Bhat.
- Fix for a problem with the Tegra cpufreq driver where the CPU
frequency is temporarily switched to a "stable" level that is
different from both the initial and target frequencies during
transitions which causes udelay() to expire earlier than it should
sometimes. From Viresh Kumar.
- New trace points and rework of some existing trace points for
system suspend/resume profiling from Todd Brandt.
- Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Stratos Karafotis and
Viresh Kumar.
- Copyright notice update for suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt from
Srivatsa S Bhat"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.16-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Add hotplug contexts to PCI host bridges
PM / sleep: trace events for device PM callbacks
cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: remove dependency on THERMAL and REGULATOR
cpufreq: tegra: update comment for clarity
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Remove duplicate CPU ID check
cpufreq: Mark CPU0 driver with CPUFREQ_NEED_INITIAL_FREQ_CHECK flag
PM / Documentation: Update copyright in suspend-and-cpuhotplug.txt
cpufreq: governor: remove copy_prev_load from 'struct cpu_dbs_common_info'
cpufreq: governor: Be friendly towards latency-sensitive bursty workloads
PM / sleep: trace events for suspend/resume
cpufreq: ppc-corenet-cpu-freq: do_div use quotient
Revert "cpufreq: Enable big.LITTLE cpufreq driver on arm64"
cpufreq: Tegra: implement intermediate frequency callbacks
cpufreq: add support for intermediate (stable) frequencies
ACPI / video: Change the default for video.use_native_backlight to 1
ACPI: Fix bug when ACPI reset register is implemented in system memory
Fix this dependency on the locking tree's smp_mb*() API changes:
kernel/sched/idle.c:247:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_mb__after_atomic’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks, but
the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily).
Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be
handed to init (and ignored by the kernel).
Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling
parse_args().
Cheers,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can
re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks,
but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily).
Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be
handed to init (and ignored by the kernel).
Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling
parse_args()"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.
samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c
cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare
Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx
param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump()
Merge leftovers from Andrew Morton:
"A few leftovers: ocfs2, gcov, RTC"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
rtc: s5m: consolidate two device type switch statements
rtc: s5m: add support for S2MPS14 RTC
rtc: s5m: support different register layout
rtc: s5m: use shorter time of register update
rtc: s5m: remove undocumented time init on first boot
mfd/rtc: sec/s5m: rename SEC* symbols to S5M
gcov: add support for GCC 4.9
ocfs2/o2net: incorrect to terminate accepting connections loop upon rejecting an invalid one
This patch handles the gcov-related changes in GCC 4.9:
A new counter (time profile) is added. The total number is 9 now.
A new profile merge function __gcov_merge_time_profile is added.
See gcc/gcov-io.h and libgcc/libgcov-merge.c
For the first change, the layout of struct gcov_info is affected.
For the second one, a dummy function is added to kernel/gcov/base.c
similarly.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Pengfei <coolypf@qq.com>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kernel has no concept of capabilities with respect to inodes; inodes
exist independently of namespaces. For example, inode_capable(inode,
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE) would be nonsense.
This patch changes inode_capable to check for uid and gid mappings and
renames it to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid, which should make it more
obvious what it does.
Fixes CVE-2014-4014.
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The check that tests if ftrace_trace_arrays is empty in
top_trace_array(), uses the .prev pointer:
if (list_empty(ftrace_trace_arrays.prev))
instead of testing the variable itself:
if (list_empty(&ftrace_trace_arrays))
Although it is technically correct, it is awkward and confusing.
Use the proper method.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87oay1bas8.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The freeing of an instance, if max data is configured, there will be
per cpu data structures created. But these are not freed when the instance
is deleted, which causes a memory leak.
A new helper function is added that frees the individual buffers within a
trace array, instead of duplicating the code. This way changes made for one
are applied to the other (normal buffer vs max buffer).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k38pbake.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com
Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes an easy DoS and possible information disclosure.
This does nothing about the broken state of x32 auditing.
eparis: If the admin has enabled auditd and has specifically loaded
audit rules. This bug has been around since before git. Wow...
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The recent addition of saved_cmdlines_size file had some remaining
(minor - mostly coding style) issues. Fix them by passing pointer
name to sizeof() and using scnprintf().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1402384295-23680-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The per_cpu buffers are created one per possible CPU. But these do
not mean that those CPUs are online, nor do they even exist.
With the addition of the ring buffer polling, it assumes that the
caller polls on an existing buffer. But this is not the case if
the user reads trace_pipe from a CPU that does not exist, and this
causes the kernel to crash.
Simple fix is to check the cpu against buffer bitmask against to see
if the buffer was allocated or not and return -ENODEV if it is
not.
More updates were done to pass the -ENODEV back up to userspace.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5393DB61.6060707@oracle.com
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.
The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers,
such as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
simultaneously.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.
The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
simultaneously"
* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including
locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
a __DEVEL__ mount option. The core support is mostly complete but
individual controllers need further work. To explain the design and
rationales of the the unified hierarchy
Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt
is added.
Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
update. This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
visibility. cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted. The css
iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
used to simplify memcg significantly"
* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
cgroup: don't destroy the default root
cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
cgroup: implement css_tryget()
device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state
cgroup: remove cgroup->parent
device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children
memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
cgroup: remove css_parent()
cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
...
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Lai simplified worker destruction path and internal workqueue locking
and there are some other minor changes.
Except for the removal of some long-deprecated interfaces which
haven't had any in-kernel user for quite a while, there shouldn't be
any difference to workqueue users"
* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
kernel/workqueue.c: pr_warning/pr_warn & printk/pr_info
workqueue: remove the confusing POOL_FREEZING
workqueue: rename first_worker() to first_idle_worker()
workqueue: remove unused work_clear_pending()
workqueue: remove unused WORK_CPU_END
workqueue: declare system_highpri_wq
workqueue: use generic attach/detach routine for rescuers
workqueue: separate pool-attaching code out from create_worker()
workqueue: rename manager_mutex to attach_mutex
workqueue: narrow the protection range of manager_mutex
workqueue: convert worker_idr to worker_ida
workqueue: separate iteration role from worker_idr
workqueue: destroy worker directly in the idle timeout handler
workqueue: async worker destruction
workqueue: destroy_worker() should destroy idle workers only
workqueue: use manager lock only to protect worker_idr
workqueue: Remove deprecated system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
workqueue: Remove deprecated flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
kernel/workqueue.c: pr_warning/pr_warn & printk/pr_info
workqueue: simplify wq_update_unbound_numa() by jumping to use_dfl_pwq if the target cpumask equals wq's
This function is supposed to return true if the new load imbalance is
worse than the old one. It didn't. I can only hope brown paper bags
are in style.
Now things converge much better on both the 4 node and 8 node systems.
I am not sure why this did not seem to impact specjbb performance on the
4 node system, which is the system I have full-time access to.
This bug was introduced recently, with commit e63da03639 ("sched/numa:
Allow task switch if load imbalance improves")
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master',
bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the
merge window.
* accumulated work in next: (6809 commits)
ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy
powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion
cris: update comments for generic idle conversion
idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations
nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT.
mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_*
MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated
MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes
mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging
fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr
fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr
mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated
mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions
mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup
mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free)
mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations
lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations
mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace()
mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum
...
When we walk the lock chain, we drop all locks after each step. So the
lock chain can change under us before we reacquire the locks. That's
harmless in principle as we just follow the wrong lock path. But it
can lead to a false positive in the dead lock detection logic:
T0 holds L0
T0 blocks on L1 held by T1
T1 blocks on L2 held by T2
T2 blocks on L3 held by T3
T4 blocks on L4 held by T4
Now we walk the chain
lock T1 -> lock L2 -> adjust L2 -> unlock T1 ->
lock T2 -> adjust T2 -> drop locks
T2 times out and blocks on L0
Now we continue:
lock T2 -> lock L0 -> deadlock detected, but it's not a deadlock at all.
Brad tried to work around that in the deadlock detection logic itself,
but the more I looked at it the less I liked it, because it's crystal
ball magic after the fact.
We actually can detect a chain change very simple:
lock T1 -> lock L2 -> adjust L2 -> unlock T1 -> lock T2 -> adjust T2 ->
next_lock = T2->pi_blocked_on->lock;
drop locks
T2 times out and blocks on L0
Now we continue:
lock T2 ->
if (next_lock != T2->pi_blocked_on->lock)
return;
So if we detect that T2 is now blocked on a different lock we stop the
chain walk. That's also correct in the following scenario:
lock T1 -> lock L2 -> adjust L2 -> unlock T1 -> lock T2 -> adjust T2 ->
next_lock = T2->pi_blocked_on->lock;
drop locks
T3 times out and drops L3
T2 acquires L3 and blocks on L4 now
Now we continue:
lock T2 ->
if (next_lock != T2->pi_blocked_on->lock)
return;
We don't have to follow up the chain at that point, because T2
propagated our priority up to T4 already.
[ Folded a cleanup patch from peterz ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Brad Mouring <bmouring@ni.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140605152801.930031935@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Even in the case when deadlock detection is not requested by the
caller, we can detect deadlocks. Right now the code stops the lock
chain walk and keeps the waiter enqueued, even on itself. Silly not to
yell when such a scenario is detected and to keep the waiter enqueued.
Return -EDEADLK unconditionally and handle it at the call sites.
The futex calls return -EDEADLK. The non futex ones dequeue the
waiter, throw a warning and put the task into a schedule loop.
Tagged for stable as it makes the code more robust.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Brad Mouring <bmouring@ni.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140605152801.836501969@linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When an instance is created, it also gets a snapshot ring buffer
allocated (with minimum of pages). But when it is deleted the snapshot
buffer is not. There was a helper function added to match the allocation
of these ring buffers to a way to free them, but it wasn't used by
the deletion of an instance. Using that helper function solves this
memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h>
Use #include <linux/types.h> instead of <asm/types.h>
Signed-off-by: Paul McQuade <paulmcquad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
schedstr, sleepstr and kvmstr are only used in strcmp & strlen
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When writing to a sysctl string, each write, regardless of VFS position,
begins writing the string from the start. This means the contents of
the last write to the sysctl controls the string contents instead of the
first:
open("/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe", O_WRONLY) = 1
write(1, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"..., 4096) = 4096
write(1, "/bin/true", 9) = 9
close(1) = 0
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
/bin/true
Expected behaviour would be to have the sysctl be "AAAA..." capped at
maxlen (in this case KMOD_PATH_LEN: 256), instead of truncating to the
contents of the second write. Similarly, multiple short writes would
not append to the sysctl.
The old behavior is unlike regular POSIX files enough that doing audits
of software that interact with sysctls can end up in unexpected or
dangerous situations. For example, "as long as the input starts with a
trusted path" turns out to be an insufficient filter, as what must also
happen is for the input to be entirely contained in a single write
syscall -- not a common consideration, especially for high level tools.
This provides kernel.sysctl_writes_strict as a way to make this behavior
act in a less surprising manner for strings, and disallows non-zero file
position when writing numeric sysctls (similar to what is already done
when reading from non-zero file positions). For now, the default (0) is
to warn about non-zero file position use, but retain the legacy
behavior. Setting this to -1 disables the warning, and setting this to
1 enables the file position respecting behavior.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move misplaced hunk, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Consolidate buffer length checking with new-line/end-of-line checking.
Additionally, instead of reading user memory twice, just do the
assignment during the loop.
This change doesn't affect the potential races here. It was already
possible to read a sysctl that was in the middle of a write. In both
cases, the string will always be NULL terminated. The pre-existing race
remains a problem to be solved.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When writing to a sysctl string, each write, regardless of VFS position,
began writing the string from the start. This meant the contents of the
last write to the sysctl controlled the string contents instead of the
first.
This misbehavior was featured in an exploit against Chrome OS. While
it's not in itself a vulnerability, it's a weirdness that isn't on the
mind of most auditors: "This filter looks correct, the first line
written would not be meaningful to sysctl" doesn't apply here, since the
size of the write and the contents of the final write are what matter
when writing to sysctls.
This adds the sysctl kernel.sysctl_writes_strict to control the write
behavior. The default (0) reports when VFS position is non-0 on a
write, but retains legacy behavior, -1 disables the warning, and 1
enables the position-respecting behavior.
The long-term plan here is to wait for userspace to be fixed in response
to the new warning and to then switch the default kernel behavior to the
new position-respecting behavior.
This patch (of 4):
The char buffer arguments are needlessly cast in weird places. Clean it
up so things are easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot option to run kdump after
running panic_notifiers and dump kmsg. This can help rare situations
where kdump fails because of unstable crashed kernel or hardware failure
(memory corruption on critical data/code), or the 2nd kernel is already
broken by the 1st kernel (it's a broken behavior, but who can guarantee
that the "crashed" kernel works correctly?).
Usage: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" to kernel boot option.
Note that this actually increases risks of the failure of kdump. This
option should be set only if you worry about the rare case of kdump
failure rather than increasing the chance of success.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Motohiro Kosaki <Motohiro.Kosaki@us.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoru MORIYA <satoru.moriya.br@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a longstanding problem related to CPU hotplug which causes IPIs
to be delivered to offline CPUs, and the smp-call-function IPI handler
code prints out a warning whenever this is detected. Every once in a
while this (usually harmless) warning gets reported on LKML, but so far
it has not been completely fixed. Usually the solution involves finding
out the IPI sender and fixing it by adding appropriate synchronization
with CPU hotplug.
However, while going through one such internal bug reports, I found that
there is a significant bug in the receiver side itself (more
specifically, in stop-machine) that can lead to this problem even when
the sender code is perfectly fine. This patchset fixes that
synchronization problem in the CPU hotplug stop-machine code.
Patch 1 adds some additional debug code to the smp-call-function
framework, to help debug such issues easily.
Patch 2 modifies the stop-machine code to ensure that any IPIs that were
sent while the target CPU was online, would be noticed and handled by
that CPU without fail before it goes offline. Thus, this avoids
scenarios where IPIs are received on offline CPUs (as long as the sender
uses proper hotplug synchronization).
In fact, I debugged the problem by using Patch 1, and found that the
payload of the IPI was always the block layer's trigger_softirq()
function. But I was not able to find anything wrong with the block
layer code. That's when I started looking at the stop-machine code and
realized that there is a race-window which makes the IPI _receiver_ the
culprit, not the sender. Patch 2 fixes that race and hence this should
put an end to most of the hard-to-debug IPI-to-offline-CPU issues.
This patch (of 2):
Today the smp-call-function code just prints a warning if we get an IPI
on an offline CPU. This info is sufficient to let us know that
something went wrong, but often it is very hard to debug exactly who
sent the IPI and why, from this info alone.
In most cases, we get the warning about the IPI to an offline CPU,
immediately after the CPU going offline comes out of the stop-machine
phase and reenables interrupts. Since all online CPUs participate in
stop-machine, the information regarding the sender of the IPI is already
lost by the time we exit the stop-machine loop. So even if we dump the
stack on each CPU at this point, we won't find anything useful since all
of them will show the stack-trace of the stopper thread. So we need a
better way to figure out who sent the IPI and why.
To achieve this, when we detect an IPI targeted to an offline CPU, loop
through the call-single-data linked list and print out the payload
(i.e., the name of the function which was supposed to be executed by the
target CPU). This would give us an insight as to who might have sent
the IPI and help us debug this further.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: correctly suppress warning output on second and later occurrences]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>