kernel.git/kernel/fork.c, branch linux-4.17.y

mm: make vm_area_alloc() initialize core fields

2018-08-24T11:07:14Z

[ Upstream commit 490fc053865c9cc40f1085ef8a5504f5341f79d2 ] Like vm_area_dup(), it initializes the anon_vma_chain head, and the basic mm pointer. The rest of the fields end up being different for different users, although the plan is to also initialize the 'vm_ops' field to a dummy entry. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: make vm_area_dup() actually copy the old vma data

2018-08-24T11:07:14Z

[ Upstream commit 95faf6992df468f617edb788da8c21c6eed0dfa7 ] .. and re-initialize th eanon_vma_chain head. This removes some boiler-plate from the users, and also makes it clear why it didn't need use the 'zalloc()' version. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: use helper functions for allocating and freeing vm_area structs

2018-08-24T11:07:14Z

[ Upstream commit 3928d4f5ee37cdc523894f6e549e6aae521d8980 ] The vm_area_struct is one of the most fundamental memory management objects, but the management of it is entirely open-coded evertwhere, ranging from allocation and freeing (using kmem_cache_[z]alloc and kmem_cache_free) to initializing all the fields. We want to unify this in order to end up having some unified initialization of the vmas, and the first step to this is to at least have basic allocation functions. Right now those functions are literally just wrappers around the kmem_cache_*() calls. This is a purely mechanical conversion: # new vma: kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) -> vm_area_alloc() # copy old vma kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) -> vm_area_dup(old) # free vma kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma) -> vm_area_free(vma) to the point where the old vma passed in to the vm_area_dup() function isn't even used yet (because I've left all the old manual initialization alone). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: check for SIGKILL inside dup_mmap() loop

2018-08-03T05:47:32Z

[ Upstream commit 655c79bb40a0870adcd0871057d01de11625882b ] As a theoretical problem, dup_mmap() of an mm_struct with 60000+ vmas can loop while potentially allocating memory, with mm->mmap_sem held for write by current thread. This is bad if current thread was selected as an OOM victim, for current thread will continue allocations using memory reserves while OOM reaper is unable to reclaim memory. As an actually observable problem, it is not difficult to make OOM reaper unable to reclaim memory if the OOM victim is blocked at i_mmap_lock_write() in this loop. Unfortunately, since nobody can explain whether it is safe to use killable wait there, let's check for SIGKILL before trying to allocate memory. Even without an OOM event, there is no point with continuing the loop from the beginning if current thread is killed. I tested with debug printk(). This patch should be safe because we already fail if security_vm_enough_memory_mm() or kmem_cache_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) fails and exit_mmap() handles it. ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL ***** ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL ***** ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL ***** ***** Aborting dup_mmap() due to SIGKILL ***** ***** Aborting exit_mmap() due to NULL mmap ***** [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201804071938.CDE04681.SOFVQJFtMHOOLF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: unconditionally clear stack on fork

2018-04-21T00:18:35Z

One of the classes of kernel stack content leaks[1] is exposing the contents of prior heap or stack contents when a new process stack is allocated. Normally, those stacks are not zeroed, and the old contents remain in place. In the face of stack content exposure flaws, those contents can leak to userspace. Fixing this will make the kernel no longer vulnerable to these flaws, as the stack will be wiped each time a stack is assigned to a new process. There's not a meaningful change in runtime performance; it almost looks like it provides a benefit. Performing back-to-back kernel builds before: Run times: 157.86 157.09 158.90 160.94 160.80 Mean: 159.12 Std Dev: 1.54 and after: Run times: 159.31 157.34 156.71 158.15 160.81 Mean: 158.46 Std Dev: 1.46 Instead of making this a build or runtime config, Andy Lutomirski recommended this just be enabled by default. [1] A noisy search for many kinds of stack content leaks can be seen here: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=linux+kernel+stack+leak I did some more with perf and cycle counts on running 100,000 execs of /bin/true. before: Cycles: 218858861551 218853036130 214727610969 227656844122 224980542841 Mean: 221015379122.60 Std Dev: 4662486552.47 after: Cycles: 213868945060 213119275204 211820169456 224426673259 225489986348 Mean: 217745009865.40 Std Dev: 5935559279.99 It continues to look like it's faster, though the deviation is rather wide, but I'm not sure what I could do that would be less noisy. I'm open to ideas! Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180221021659.GA37073@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm

2018-04-06T04:36:27Z

KASAN splats indicate that in some cases we free a live mm, then continue to access it, with potentially disastrous results. This is likely due to a mismatched mmdrop() somewhere in the kernel, but so far the culprit remains elusive. Let's have __mmdrop() verify that the mm isn't live for the current task, similar to the existing check for init_mm. This way, we can catch this class of issue earlier, and without requiring KASAN. Currently, idle_task_exit() leaves active_mm stale after it switches to init_mm. This isn't harmful, but will trigger the new assertions, so we must adjust idle_task_exit() to update active_mm. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312140103.19235-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare()

2018-04-02T18:16:06Z

Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_unshare() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_unshare(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

mm: use do_futex() instead of sys_futex() in mm_release()

2018-04-02T18:15:02Z

sys_futex() is a wrapper to do_futex() which does not modify any values here: - uaddr, val and val3 are kept the same - op is masked with FUTEX_CMD_MASK, but is always set to FUTEX_WAKE. Therefore, val2 is always 0. - as utime is set to NULL, *timeout is NULL This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

include/linux/sched/mm.h: re-inline mmdrop()

2018-02-21T23:35:42Z

As Peter points out, Doing a CALL+RET for just the decrement is a bit silly. Fixes: d70f2a14b72a4bc ("include/linux/sched/mm.h: uninline mmdrop_async(), etc") Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-02-07T06:15:42Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - kasan updates - procfs - lib/bitmap updates - other lib/ updates - checkpatch tweaks - rapidio - ubsan - pipe fixes and cleanups - lots of other misc bits * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (114 commits) Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch mm: docs: fixup punctuation pipe: read buffer limits atomically pipe: simplify round_pipe_size() pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX pipe: fix off-by-one error when checking buffer limits pipe: actually allow root to exceed the pipe buffer limits pipe, sysctl: remove pipe_proc_fn() pipe, sysctl: drop 'min' parameter from pipe-max-size converter kasan: rework Kconfig settings crash_dump: is_kdump_kernel can be boolean kernel/mutex: mutex_is_locked can be boolean ...