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<title>mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas</title>
<updated>2017-06-21T13:42:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
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<published>2017-06-19T11:03:24Z</published>
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commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream.

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
[wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide]
[wt: backport to 4.4: adjust context ; drop ppc hugetlb_radix changes]
[wt: backport to 3.18: adjust context ; no FOLL_POPULATE ;
     s390 uses generic arch_get_unmapped_area()]
[wt: backport to 3.16: adjust context]
[wt: backport to 3.10: adjust context ; code logic in PARISC's
     arch_get_unmapped_area() wasn't found ; code inserted into
     expand_upwards() and expand_downwards() runs under anon_vma lock;
     changes for gup.c:faultin_page go to memory.c:__get_user_pages();
     included Hugh Dickins' fixes]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: use ASL assembler mnemonic</title>
<updated>2016-08-27T09:40:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T03:43:31Z</published>
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commit a6416f57ce57fb390b6ee30b12c01c29032a26af upstream.

ARCompact and ARCv2 only have ASL, while binutils used to support LSL as
a alias mnemonic.

Newer binutils (upstream) don't want to do that so replace it.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arc: mm: Fix build failure</title>
<updated>2015-04-29T08:34:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
</author>
<published>2015-01-30T03:15:33Z</published>
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commit e262eb9381ad51b5de7a9e762ee773bbd25ce650 upstream.

Fix misspelled define.

Fixes: 33692f27597f ("vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-04-29T08:34:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32Z</published>
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[shengyong: Backport to 3.10
 - adjust context
 - ignore modification for arch nios2, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore modification for driver lustre, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore VM_FAULT_FALLBACK in VM_FAULT_ERROR, becase 3.10 does not support
   this flag
 - add SIGSEGV handling to powerpc/cell spu_fault.c, because 3.10 does not
   separate it to copro_fault.c
 - add SIGSEGV handling in mm/memory.c, because 3.10 does not separate it
   to gup.c
]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong &lt;shengyong1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:39Z</published>
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commit 759496ba6407c6994d6a5ce3a5e74937d7816208 upstream.

Unlike global OOM handling, memory cgroup code will invoke the OOM killer
in any OOM situation because it has no way of telling faults occuring in
kernel context - which could be handled more gracefully - from
user-triggered faults.

Pass a flag that identifies faults originating in user space from the
architecture-specific fault handlers to generic code so that memcg OOM
handling can be improved.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: azurIt &lt;azurit@pobox.sk&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arch: mm: remove obsolete init OOM protection</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:36Z</published>
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commit 94bce453c78996cc4373d5da6cfabe07fcc6d9f9 upstream.

The memcg code can trap tasks in the context of the failing allocation
until an OOM situation is resolved.  They can hold all kinds of locks
(fs, mm) at this point, which makes it prone to deadlocking.

This series converts memcg OOM handling into a two step process that is
started in the charge context, but any waiting is done after the fault
stack is fully unwound.

Patches 1-4 prepare architecture handlers to support the new memcg
requirements, but in doing so they also remove old cruft and unify
out-of-memory behavior across architectures.

Patch 5 disables the memcg OOM handling for syscalls, readahead, kernel
faults, because they can gracefully unwind the stack with -ENOMEM.  OOM
handling is restricted to user triggered faults that have no other
option.

Patch 6 reworks memcg's hierarchical OOM locking to make it a little
more obvious wth is going on in there: reduce locked regions, rename
locking functions, reorder and document.

Patch 7 implements the two-part OOM handling such that tasks are never
trapped with the full charge stack in an OOM situation.

This patch:

Back before smart OOM killing, when faulting tasks were killed directly on
allocation failures, the arch-specific fault handlers needed special
protection for the init process.

Now that all fault handlers call into the generic OOM killer (see commit
609838cfed97: "mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page
fault handlers"), which already provides init protection, the
arch-specific leftovers can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: azurIt &lt;azurit@pobox.sk&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;	[arch/arc bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault handlers</title>
<updated>2014-11-21T17:22:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T22:59:50Z</published>
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commit 609838cfed972d49a65aac7923a9ff5cbe482e30 upstream.

A few remaining architectures directly kill the page faulting task in an
out of memory situation.  This is usually not a good idea since that
task might not even use a significant amount of memory and so may not be
the optimal victim to resolve the situation.

Since 2.6.29's 1c0fe6e ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault") there
is a hook that architecture page fault handlers are supposed to call to
invoke the OOM killer and let it pick the right task to kill.  Convert
the remaining architectures over to this hook.

To have the previous behavior of simply taking out the faulting task the
vm.oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl can be set to 1.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;   [arch/arc bits]
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.chen@sunplusct.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>ARC: Incorrect mm reference used in vmalloc fault handler</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:05:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
</author>
<published>2013-11-02T12:17:49Z</published>
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commit 9c41f4eeb9d51f3ece20428d35a3ea32cf3b5622 upstream.

A vmalloc fault needs to sync up PGD/PTE entry from init_mm to current
task's "active_mm".  ARC vmalloc fault handler however was using mm.

A vmalloc fault for non user task context (actually pre-userland, from
init thread's open for /dev/console) caused the handler to deref NULL mm
(for mm-&gt;pgd)

The reasons it worked so far is amazing:

1. By default (!SMP), vmalloc fault handler uses a cached value of PGD.
   In SMP that MMU register is repurposed hence need for mm pointer deref.

2. In pre-3.12 SMP kernel, the problem triggering vmalloc didn't exist in
   pre-userland code path - it was introduced with commit 20bafb3d23d108bc
   "n_tty: Move buffers into n_tty_data"

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Noam Camus &lt;noamc@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARC: lazy dcache flush broke gdb in non-aliasing configs</title>
<updated>2013-05-25T08:45:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
</author>
<published>2013-05-25T08:34:25Z</published>
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gdbserver inserting a breakpoint ends up calling copy_user_page() for a
code page. The generic version of which (non-aliasing config) didn't set
the PG_arch_1 bit hence update_mmu_cache() didn't sync dcache/icache for
corresponding dynamic loader code page - causing garbade to be executed.

So now aliasing versions of copy_user_highpage()/clear_page() are made
default. There is no significant overhead since all of special alias
handling code is compiled out for non-aliasing build

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ARC: Brown paper bag bug in macro for checking cache color</title>
<updated>2013-05-23T08:54:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
</author>
<published>2013-05-22T13:08:10Z</published>
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The VM_EXEC check in update_mmu_cache() was getting optimized away
because of a stupid error in definition of macro addr_not_cache_congruent()

The intention was to have the equivalent of following:

	if (a || (1 ? b : 0))

but we ended up with following:

	if (a || 1 ? b : 0)

And because precedence of '||' is more that that of '?', gcc was optimizing
away evaluation of &lt;a&gt;

Nasty Repercussions:
1. For non-aliasing configs it would mean some extraneous dcache flushes
   for non-code pages if U/K mappings were not congruent.
2. For aliasing config, some needed dcache flush for code pages might
   be missed if U/K mappings were congruent.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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