kernel.git/arch/tile/mm, branch linux-3.18.y

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

2017-06-26T05:10:54Z

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 Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Michal Hocko Tested-by: Helge Deller # parisc Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [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()] Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau [gkh: minor build fixes for 3.18] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/hugetlb: use pmd_page() in follow_huge_pmd()

2015-05-17T23:12:31Z

[ Upstream commit 97534127012f0e396eddea4691f4c9b170aed74b ] Commit 61f77eda9bbf ("mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around follow_huge_*") broke follow_huge_pmd() on s390, where pmd and pte layout differ and using pte_page() on a huge pmd will return wrong results. Using pmd_page() instead fixes this. All architectures that were touched by that commit have pmd_page() defined, so this should not break anything on other architectures. Fixes: 61f77eda "mm/hugetlb: reduce arch dependent code around follow_huge_*" Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Michal Hocko , Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-02-06T06:36:01Z

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 Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # "s390 still compiles and boots" Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-10-15T05:48:18Z

Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo: "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other inconsistent operations. This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr(). Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr(). This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully remove the obsolete accessors" * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits) irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write. percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses" percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator. arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr ...

tile: Remove tile-specific _sinitdata and _einitdata

2014-10-02T14:19:33Z

Use standard __init_begin and __init_end instead. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

2014-08-26T17:45:54Z

__get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset. Other use cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area. __get_cpu_var() can be used as an lvalue when writing data or on the right side of an assignment. __get_cpu_var() is defined as : #define __get_cpu_var(var) (*this_cpu_ptr(&(var))) __get_cpu_var() always only does an address determination. However, store and retrieve operations could use a segment prefix (or global register on other platforms) to avoid the address calculation. this_cpu_write() and this_cpu_read() can directly take an offset into a percpu area and use optimized assembly code to read and write per cpu variables. This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either an explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr() or into a use of this_cpu operations that use the offset. Thereby address calculations are avoided and less registers are used when code is generated. At the end of the patch set all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so the macro is removed too. The patch set includes passes over all arches as well. Once these operations are used throughout then specialized macros can be defined in non -x86 arches as well in order to optimize per cpu access by f.e. using a global register that may be set to the per cpu base. Transformations done to __get_cpu_var() 1. Determine the address of the percpu instance of the current processor. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int *x = &__get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(&y); 2. Same as #1 but this time an array structure is involved. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y[20]); int *x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to int *x = this_cpu_ptr(y); 3. Retrieve the content of the current processors instance of a per cpu variable. DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); int x = __get_cpu_var(y) Converts to int x = __this_cpu_read(y); 4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y); struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y); Converts to memcpy(&x, this_cpu_ptr(&y), sizeof(x)); 5. Assignment to a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y) __get_cpu_var(y) = x; Converts to __this_cpu_write(y, x); 6. Increment/Decrement etc of a per cpu variable DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, y); __get_cpu_var(y)++ Converts to __this_cpu_inc(y) Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile

2014-06-11T23:50:01Z

Pull arch/tile changes from Chris Metcalf: "These mostly just address smaller issues reported to me" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: arch: tile: kernel: unaligned.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c: use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO replace strict_strto* call with kstrto* tile: Update comments for generic idle conversion tile: cleanup the comment in init_pgprot tile: use BOOTMEM_DEFAULT instead of magic number 0 for reserve_bootmem flags

mm: page_alloc: convert hot/cold parameter and immediate callers to bool

2014-06-04T23:54:09Z

cold is a bool, make it one. Make the likely case the "if" part of the block instead of the else as according to the optimisation manual this is preferred. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64

2014-06-04T23:53:51Z

Currently hugepage migration is available for all archs which support pmd-level hugepage, but testing is done only for x86_64 and there're bugs for other archs. So to avoid breaking such archs, this patch limits the availability strictly to x86_64 until developers of other archs get interested in enabling this feature. Simply disabling hugepage migration on non-x86_64 archs is not enough to fix the reported problem where sys_move_pages() hits the BUG_ON() in follow_page(FOLL_GET), so let's fix this by checking if hugepage migration is supported in vma_migratable(). Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Reported-by: Michael Ellerman Tested-by: Michael Ellerman Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Russell King Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: James Hogan Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: David Miller Cc: [3.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

replace strict_strto* call with kstrto*

2014-05-28T19:47:16Z

remove obsolete calls to strict_strto* and replace them with kstrto* calls accordingly. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf