kernel/init, branch linux-5.2.y

initramfs: fix populate_initrd_image() section mismatch

2019-06-29T08:43:45Z

With gcc-4.6.3: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x140): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the variable .init.ramfs.info:__initramfs_size The function populate_initrd_image() references the variable __init __initramfs_size. This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of __initramfs_size is wrong. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x14c): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the function .init.text:unpack_to_rootfs() The function populate_initrd_image() references the function __init unpack_to_rootfs(). This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of unpack_to_rootfs is wrong. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x198): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the function .init.text:xwrite() The function populate_initrd_image() references the function __init xwrite(). This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of xwrite is wrong. Indeed, if the compiler decides not to inline populate_initrd_image(), a warning is generated. Fix this by adding the missing __init annotations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617074340.12779-1-geert@linux-m68k.org Fixes: 7c184ecd262fe64f ("initramfs: factor out a helper to populate the initrd image") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'char-misc-5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2019-06-08T19:50:36Z

Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH: "Here are some small char and misc driver fixes for 5.2-rc4 to resolve a number of reported issues. The most "notable" one here is the kernel headers in proc^Wsysfs fixes. Those changes move the header file info into sysfs and fixes the build issues that you reported. Other than that, a bunch of small habanalabs driver fixes, some fpga driver fixes, and a few other tiny driver fixes. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: habanalabs: Read upper bits of trace buffer from RWPHI habanalabs: Fix virtual address access via debugfs for 2MB pages fpga: zynqmp-fpga: Correctly handle error pointer habanalabs: fix bug in checking huge page optimization habanalabs: Avoid using a non-initialized MMU cache mutex habanalabs: fix debugfs code uapi/habanalabs: add opcode for enable/disable device debug mode habanalabs: halt debug engines on user process close test_firmware: Use correct snprintf() limit genwqe: Prevent an integer overflow in the ioctl parport: Fix mem leak in parport_register_dev_model fpga: dfl: expand minor range when registering chrdev region fpga: dfl: Add lockdep classes for pdata->lock fpga: dfl: afu: Pass the correct device to dma_mapping_error() fpga: stratix10-soc: fix use-after-free on s10_init() w1: ds2408: Fix typo after 49695ac46861 (reset on output_write retry with readback) kheaders: Do not regenerate archive if config is not changed kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs lkdtm/bugs: Adjust recursion test to avoid elision lkdtm/usercopy: Moves the KERNEL_DS test to non-canonical

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 167

2019-05-30T18:26:39Z

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation version 2 of the license this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 83 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070034.021731668@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kheaders: Move from proc to sysfs

2019-05-24T18:16:01Z

The kheaders archive consisting of the kernel headers used for compiling bpf programs is in /proc. However there is concern that moving it here will make it permanent. Let us move it to /sys/kernel as discussed [1]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1067310/#1265969 Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

2019-05-21T08:50:46Z

Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which: - Have no license information of any form These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45Z

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd

2019-05-18T22:52:26Z

Since commit 54c7a8916a88 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails"), the kernel has unconditionally attempted to free the initrd even if it doesn't exist. In the non-existent case this causes a boot-time splat if CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled due to a call to virt_to_phys() with a NULL address. Instead we should check that the initrd actually exists and only attempt to free it if it does. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516143125.48948-1-steven.price@arm.com Fixes: 54c7a8916a88 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails") Signed-off-by: Steven Price Reported-by: Mark Rutland Tested-by: Mark Rutland Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization

2019-05-15T02:52:48Z

Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10. This patch (of 3): Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC (high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in front of higher latency persistent memory [1]. Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here: It's been a problem in the HPC space: http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/ A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing users to deploy remedies like: "To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job; nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth falls below 300 GB/s." A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e58f ("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized ("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance. However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case. The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance. Here are some performance impact details of the patches: 1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a 3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts. The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node. 2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8% for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%. 3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with randomization in one case. 4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some improvements and some losses [3]. While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0 parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems. Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first onlined. Quoting Kees: "While we already have a base-address randomization (CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't important: only the relative positions between allocated memory). This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc. I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator." While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated. However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization. Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a follow-on patch). The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10, 4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling. MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the expectation that the security implications of finer granularity randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to other memory initialization work. This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together, page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant impact to the cache conflict rate. [1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/ [2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM [3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309 [dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Qian Cai Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Robert Elliott Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: free_initmem: poison freed init memory

2019-05-14T16:47:47Z

Various architectures including x86 poison the freed init memory. Do the same in the generic free_initmem implementation and switch sparc32 architecture that is identical to the generic code over to it now. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550515285-17446-4-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Kuo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: provide a generic free_initmem implementation

2019-05-14T16:47:47Z

Patch series "provide a generic free_initmem implementation", v2. Many architectures implement free_initmem() in exactly the same or very similar way: they wrap the call to free_initmem_default() with sometimes different 'poison' parameter. These patches switch those architectures to use a generic implementation that does free_initmem_default(POISON_FREE_INITMEM). This was inspired by Christoph's patches for free_initrd_mem [1] and I shamelessly copied changelog entries from his patches :) [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190213174621.29297-1-hch@lst.de/ This patch (of 2): For most architectures free_initmem just a wrapper for the same free_initmem_default(-1) call. Provide that as a generic implementation marked __weak. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550515285-17446-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Kuo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds