kernel/include/linux/sched/mm.h, branch linux-5.2.y

coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping

2019-06-14T03:34:56Z

When fixing the race conditions between the coredump and the mmap_sem holders outside the context of the process, we focused on mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() callers in 04f5866e41fb70 ("coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping"), but those aren't the only cases where the mmap_sem can be taken outside of the context of the process as Michal Hocko noticed while backporting that commit to older -stable kernels. If mmgrab() is called in the context of the process, but then the mm_count reference is transferred outside the context of the process, that can also be a problem if the mmap_sem has to be taken for writing through that mm_count reference. khugepaged registration calls mmgrab() in the context of the process, but the mmap_sem for writing is taken later in the context of the khugepaged kernel thread. collapse_huge_page() after taking the mmap_sem for writing doesn't modify any vma, so it's not obvious that it could cause a problem to the coredump, but it happens to modify the pmd in a way that breaks an invariant that pmd_trans_huge_lock() relies upon. collapse_huge_page() needs the mmap_sem for writing just to block concurrent page faults that call pmd_trans_huge_lock(). Specifically the invariant that "!pmd_trans_huge()" cannot become a "pmd_trans_huge()" doesn't hold while collapse_huge_page() runs. The coredump will call __get_user_pages() without mmap_sem for reading, which eventually can invoke a lockless page fault which will need a functional pmd_trans_huge_lock(). So collapse_huge_page() needs to use mmget_still_valid() to check it's not running concurrently with the coredump... as long as the coredump can invoke page faults without holding the mmap_sem for reading. This has "Fixes: khugepaged" to facilitate backporting, but in my view it's more a bug in the coredump code that will eventually have to be rewritten to stop invoking page faults without the mmap_sem for reading. So the long term plan is still to drop all mmget_still_valid(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190607161558.32104-1-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: ba76149f47d8 ("thp: khugepaged") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping

2019-04-19T16:46:05Z

The core dumping code has always run without holding the mmap_sem for writing, despite that is the only way to ensure that the entire vma layout will not change from under it. Only using some signal serialization on the processes belonging to the mm is not nearly enough. This was pointed out earlier. For example in Hugh's post from Jul 2017: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1707191716030.2055@eggly.anvils "Not strictly relevant here, but a related note: I was very surprised to discover, only quite recently, how handle_mm_fault() may be called without down_read(mmap_sem) - when core dumping. That seems a misguided optimization to me, which would also be nice to correct" In particular because the growsdown and growsup can move the vm_start/vm_end the various loops the core dump does around the vma will not be consistent if page faults can happen concurrently. Pretty much all users calling mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and then taking the mmap_sem had the potential to introduce unexpected side effects in the core dumping code. Adding mmap_sem for writing around the ->core_dump invocation is a viable long term fix, but it requires removing all copy user and page faults and to replace them with get_dump_page() for all binary formats which is not suitable as a short term fix. For the time being this solution manually covers the places that can confuse the core dump either by altering the vma layout or the vma flags while it runs. Once ->core_dump runs under mmap_sem for writing the function mmget_still_valid() can be dropped. Allowing mmap_sem protected sections to run in parallel with the coredump provides some minor parallelism advantage to the swapoff code (which seems to be safe enough by never mangling any vma field and can keep doing swapins in parallel to the core dumping) and to some other corner case. In order to facilitate the backporting I added "Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6" however the side effect of this same race condition in /proc/pid/mem should be reproducible since before 2.6.12-rc2 so I couldn't add any other "Fixes:" because there's no hash beyond the git genesis commit. Because find_extend_vma() is the only location outside of the process context that could modify the "mm" structures under mmap_sem for reading, by adding the mmget_still_valid() check to it, all other cases that take the mmap_sem for reading don't need the new check after mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm(). The expand_stack() in page fault context also doesn't need the new check, because all tasks under core dumping are frozen. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325224949.11068-1-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: 86039bd3b4e6 ("userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Jann Horn Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Peter Xu Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/cma: add PF flag to force non cma alloc

2019-03-06T05:07:19Z

Patch series "mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA region", v8. ppc64 uses the CMA area for the allocation of guest page table (hash page table). We won't be able to start guest if we fail to allocate hash page table. We have observed hash table allocation failure because we failed to migrate pages out of CMA region because they were pinned. This happen when we are using VFIO. VFIO on ppc64 pins the entire guest RAM. If the guest RAM pages get allocated out of CMA region, we won't be able to migrate those pages. The pages are also pinned for the lifetime of the guest. Currently we support migration of non-compound pages. With THP and with the addition of hugetlb migration we can end up allocating compound pages from CMA region. This patch series add support for migrating compound pages. This patch (of 4): Add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context is marked non-movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region. This is useful with get_user_pages_longterm where we want to take a page pin by migrating pages from CMA region. Marking the section PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA ensures that we avoid unnecessary page migration later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114095438.32470-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy Cc: David Gibson Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Fix various typos in comments

2018-12-03T10:55:42Z

Go over the scheduler source code and fix common typos in comments - and a typo in an actual variable name. No change in functionality intended. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcg

2018-08-17T23:20:30Z

Patch series "Directed kmem charging", v8. The Linux kernel's memory cgroup allows limiting the memory usage of the jobs running on the system to provide isolation between the jobs. All the kernel memory allocated in the context of the job and marked with __GFP_ACCOUNT will also be included in the memory usage and be limited by the job's limit. The kernel memory can only be charged to the memcg of the process in whose context kernel memory was allocated. However there are cases where the allocated kernel memory should be charged to the memcg different from the current processes's memcg. This patch series contains two such concrete use-cases i.e. fsnotify and buffer_head. The fsnotify event objects can consume a lot of system memory for large or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. The events are allocated in the context of the event producer. However they should be charged to the event consumer. Similarly the buffer_head objects can be allocated in a memcg different from the memcg of the page for which buffer_head objects are being allocated. To solve this issue, this patch series introduces mechanism to charge kernel memory to a given memcg. In case of fsnotify events, the memcg of the consumer can be used for charging and for buffer_head, the memcg of the page can be charged. For directed charging, the caller can use the scope API memalloc_[un]use_memcg() to specify the memcg to charge for all the __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within the scope. This patch (of 2): A lot of memory can be consumed by the events generated for the huge or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. This can cause system level memory pressure or OOMs. So, it's better to account the fsnotify kmem caches to the memcg of the listener. However the listener can be in a different memcg than the memcg of the producer and these allocations happen in the context of the event producer. This patch introduces remote memcg charging API which the producer can use to charge the allocations to the memcg of the listener. There are seven fsnotify kmem caches and among them allocations from dnotify_struct_cache, dnotify_mark_cache, fanotify_mark_cache and inotify_inode_mark_cachep happens in the context of syscall from the listener. So, SLAB_ACCOUNT is enough for these caches. The objects from fsnotify_mark_connector_cachep are not accounted as they are small compared to the notification mark or events and it is unclear whom to account connector to since it is shared by all events attached to the inode. The allocations from the event caches happen in the context of the event producer. For such caches we will need to remote charge the allocations to the listener's memcg. Thus we save the memcg reference in the fsnotify_group structure of the listener. This patch has also moved the members of fsnotify_group to keep the size same, at least for 64 bit build, even with additional member by filling the holes. [shakeelb@google.com: use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT rather than open-coding it] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702215439.211597-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627191250.209150-2-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Amir Goldstein Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lockdep: fix fs_reclaim annotation

2018-06-08T00:34:35Z

While revisiting my Btrfs swapfile series [1], I introduced a situation in which reclaim would lock i_rwsem, and even though the swapon() path clearly made GFP_KERNEL allocations while holding i_rwsem, I got no complaints from lockdep. It turns out that the rework of the fs_reclaim annotation was broken: if the current task has PF_MEMALLOC set, we don't acquire the dummy fs_reclaim lock, but when reclaiming we always check this _after_ we've just set the PF_MEMALLOC flag. In most cases, we can fix this by moving the fs_reclaim_{acquire,release}() outside of the memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore}(), althought kswapd is slightly different. After applying this, I got the expected lockdep splats. 1: https://lwn.net/Articles/625412/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9f8aa70652a98e98d7c4de0fc96a4addcee13efe.1523778026.git.osandov@fb.com Fixes: d92a8cfcb37e ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation") Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs

2018-05-29T12:45:42Z

Although the api is documented in the source code Ted has pointed out that there is no mention in the core-api Documentation and there are people looking there to find answers how to use a specific API. Requested-by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next

2018-04-16T20:25:08Z

Mike Rapoport says: These patches convert files in Documentation/vm to ReST format, add an initial index and link it to the top level documentation. There are no contents changes in the documentation, except few spelling fixes. The relatively large diffstat stems from the indentation and paragraph wrapping changes. I've tried to keep the formatting as consistent as possible, but I could miss some places that needed markup and add some markup where it was not necessary. [jc: significant conflicts in vm/hmm.rst]

docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst

2018-04-16T20:18:15Z

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

exec: pass stack rlimit into mm layout functions

2018-04-11T17:28:37Z

Patch series "exec: Pin stack limit during exec". Attempts to solve problems with the stack limit changing during exec continue to be frustrated[1][2]. In addition to the specific issues around the Stack Clash family of flaws, Andy Lutomirski pointed out[3] other places during exec where the stack limit is used and is assumed to be unchanging. Given the many places it gets used and the fact that it can be manipulated/raced via setrlimit() and prlimit(), I think the only way to handle this is to move away from the "current" view of the stack limit and instead attach it to the bprm, and plumb this down into the functions that need to know the stack limits. This series implements the approach. [1] 04e35f4495dd ("exec: avoid RLIMIT_STACK races with prlimit()") [2] 779f4e1c6c7c ("Revert "exec: avoid RLIMIT_STACK races with prlimit()"") [3] to security@kernel.org, "Subject: existing rlimit races?" This patch (of 3): Since it is possible that the stack rlimit can change externally during exec (either via another thread calling setrlimit() or another process calling prlimit()), provide a way to pass the rlimit down into the per-architecture mm layout functions so that the rlimit can stay in the bprm structure instead of sitting in the signal structure until exec is finalized. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518638796-20819-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Greg KH Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Brad Spengler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds