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<title>Merge branch 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2021-11-03T19:15:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull per signal_struct coredumps from Eric Biederman:
 "Current coredumps are mixed up with the exit code, the signal handling
  code, and the ptrace code making coredumps much more complicated than
  necessary and difficult to follow.

  This series of changes starts with ptrace_stop and cleans it up,
  making it easier to follow what is happening in ptrace_stop. Then
  cleans up the exec interactions with coredumps. Then cleans up the
  coredump interactions with exit. Finally the coredump interactions
  with the signal handling code is cleaned up.

  The first and last changes are bug fixes for minor bugs.

  I believe the fact that vfork followed by execve can kill the process
  the called vfork if exec fails is sufficient justification to change
  the userspace visible behavior.

  In previous discussions some of these changes were organized
  differently and individually appeared to make the code base worse. As
  currently written I believe they all stand on their own as cleanups
  and bug fixes.

  Which means that even if the worst should happen and the last change
  needs to be reverted for some unimaginable reason, the code base will
  still be improved.

  If the worst does not happen there are a more cleanups that can be
  made. Signals that generate coredumps can easily become eligible for
  short circuit delivery in complete_signal. The entire rendezvous for
  generating a coredump can move into get_signal. The function
  force_sig_info_to_task be written in a way that does not modify the
  signal handling state of the target task (because coredumps are
  eligible for short circuit delivery). Many of these future cleanups
  can be done another way but nothing so cleanly as if coredumps become
  per signal_struct"

* 'per_signal_struct_coredumps-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group
  coredump:  Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core
  exit: Factor coredump_exit_mm out of exit_mm
  exec: Check for a pending fatal signal instead of core_state
  ptrace: Remove the unnecessary arguments from arch_ptrace_stop
  signal: Remove the bogus sigkill_pending in ptrace_stop
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-01T20:48:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-01T20:48:52Z</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Revert the printk format based wchan() symbol resolution as it can
   leak the raw value in case that the symbol is not resolvable.

 - Make wchan() more robust and work with all kind of unwinders by
   enforcing that the task stays blocked while unwinding is in progress.

 - Prevent sched_fork() from accessing an invalid sched_task_group

 - Improve asymmetric packing logic

 - Extend scheduler statistics to RT and DL scheduling classes and add
   statistics for bandwith burst to the SCHED_FAIR class.

 - Properly account SCHED_IDLE entities

 - Prevent a potential deadlock when initial priority is assigned to a
   newly created kthread. A recent change to plug a race between cpuset
   and __sched_setscheduler() introduced a new lock dependency which is
   now triggered. Break the lock dependency chain by moving the priority
   assignment to the thread function.

 - Fix the idle time reporting in /proc/uptime for NOHZ enabled systems.

 - Improve idle balancing in general and especially for NOHZ enabled
   systems.

 - Provide proper interfaces for live patching so it does not have to
   fiddle with scheduler internals.

 - Add cluster aware scheduling support.

 - A small set of tweaks for RT (irqwork, wait_task_inactive(), various
   scheduler options and delaying mmdrop)

 - The usual small tweaks and improvements all over the place

* tag 'sched-core-2021-11-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (69 commits)
  sched/fair: Cleanup newidle_balance
  sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost condition
  sched/fair: Wait before decaying max_newidle_lb_cost
  sched/fair: Skip update_blocked_averages if we are defering load balance
  sched/fair: Account update_blocked_averages in newidle_balance cost
  x86: Fix __get_wchan() for !STACKTRACE
  sched,x86: Fix L2 cache mask
  sched/core: Remove rq_relock()
  sched: Improve wake_up_all_idle_cpus() take #2
  irq_work: Also rcuwait for !IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Handle some irq_work in a per-CPU thread on PREEMPT_RT
  irq_work: Allow irq_work_sync() to sleep if irq_work() no IRQ support.
  sched/rt: Annotate the RT balancing logic irqwork as IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level for x86
  sched: Add cluster scheduler level in core and related Kconfig for ARM64
  topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die
  sched: Disable -Wunused-but-set-variable
  sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked
  x86: Fix get_wchan() to support the ORC unwinder
  proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in /proc/$pid/stat
  ...
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<entry>
<title>kernel: remove spurious blkdev.h includes</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T12:17:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-20T12:33:17Z</published>
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Various files have acquired spurious includes of &lt;linux/blkdev.h&gt; over
time.  Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920123328.1399408-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>coredump: Limit coredumps to a single thread group</title>
<updated>2021-10-08T17:06:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-22T16:24:02Z</published>
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Today when a signal is delivered with a handler of SIG_DFL whose
default behavior is to generate a core dump not only that process but
every process that shares the mm is killed.

In the case of vfork this looks like a real world problem.  Consider
the following well defined sequence.

	if (vfork() == 0) {
		execve(...);
		_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}

If a signal that generates a core dump is received after vfork but
before the execve changes the mm the process that called vfork will
also be killed (as the mm is shared).

Similarly if the execve fails after the point of no return the kernel
delivers SIGSEGV which will kill both the exec'ing process and because
the mm is shared the process that called vfork as well.

As far as I can tell this behavior is a violation of people's
reasonable expectations, POSIX, and is unnecessarily fragile when the
system is low on memory.

Solve this by making a userspace visible change to only kill a single
process/thread group.  This is possible because Jann Horn recently
modified[1] the coredump code so that the mm can safely be modified
while the coredump is happening.  With LinuxThreads long gone I don't
expect anyone to have a notice this behavior change in practice.

To accomplish this move the core_state pointer from mm_struct to
signal_struct, which allows different thread groups to coredump
simultatenously.

In zap_threads remove the work to kill anything except for the current
thread group.

v2: Remove core_state from the VM_BUG_ON_MM print to fix
    compile failure when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled.
    Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;

[1] a07279c9a8cd ("binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot")
Fixes: d89f3847def4 ("[PATCH] thread-aware coredumps, 2.5.43-C3")
History-tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y27mvnke.fsf@disp2133
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211007144701.67592574@canb.auug.org.au
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>coredump:  Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T16:28:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-01T16:33:50Z</published>
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Rename coredump_exit_mm to coredump_task_exit and call it from do_exit
before PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, and before any cleanup work for a task
happens.  This ensures that an accurate copy of the process can be
captured in the coredump as no cleanup for the process happens before
the coredump completes.  This also ensures that PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT
will not be visited by any thread until the coredump is complete.

Add a new flag PF_POSTCOREDUMP so that tasks that have passed through
coredump_task_exit can be recognized and ignored in zap_process.

Now that all of the coredumping happens before exit_mm remove code to
test for a coredump in progress from mm_release.

Replace "may_ptrace_stop()" with a simple test of "current-&gt;ptrace".
The other tests in may_ptrace_stop all concern avoiding stopping
during a coredump.  These tests are no longer necessary as it is now
guaranteed that fatal_signal_pending will be set if the code enters
ptrace_stop during a coredump.  The code in ptrace_stop is guaranteed
not to stop if fatal_signal_pending returns true.

Until this change "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)" could call
ptrace_stop without fatal_signal_pending being true, as signals are
dequeued in get_signal before calling do_exit.  This is no longer
an issue as "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)" is no longer reached
until after the coredump completes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/874kaax26c.fsf@disp2133
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>exit: Factor coredump_exit_mm out of exit_mm</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T16:28:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-01T16:23:38Z</published>
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Separate the coredump logic from the ordinary exit_mm logic
by moving the coredump logic out of exit_mm into it's own
function coredump_exit_mm.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6k2x277.fsf@disp2133
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>sched: Move kprobes cleanup out of finish_task_switch()</title>
<updated>2021-10-05T13:52:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-28T12:24:28Z</published>
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Doing cleanups in the tail of schedule() is a latency punishment for the
incoming task. The point of invoking kprobes_task_flush() for a dead task
is that the instances are returned and cannot leak when __schedule() is
kprobed.

Move it into the delayed cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.537994026@linutronix.de
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<entry>
<title>io_uring: remove files pointer in cancellation functions</title>
<updated>2021-08-23T19:10:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hao Xu</name>
<email>haoxu@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-12T04:14:35Z</published>
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When doing cancellation, we use a parameter to indicate where it's from
do_exit or exec. So a boolean value is good enough for this, remove the
struct files* as it is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Hao Xu &lt;haoxu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
[axboe: fixup io_uring_files_cancel for !CONFIG_IO_URING]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2021-06-29T03:39:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-29T03:39:26Z</published>
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Pull user namespace rlimit handling update from Eric Biederman:
 "This is the work mainly by Alexey Gladkov to limit rlimits to the
  rlimits of the user that created a user namespace, and to allow users
  to have stricter limits on the resources created within a user
  namespace."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  cred: add missing return error code when set_cred_ucounts() failed
  ucounts: Silence warning in dec_rlimit_ucounts
  ucounts: Set ucount_max to the largest positive value the type can hold
  kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces
  Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts
  Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts
  Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting
  Add a reference to ucounts for each cred
  Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t
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<entry>
<title>Revert "signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct"</title>
<updated>2021-06-27T20:32:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-27T20:32:54Z</published>
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This reverts commits 4bad58ebc8bc4f20d89cff95417c9b4674769709 (and
399f8dd9a866e107639eabd3c1979cd526ca3a98, which tried to fix it).

I do not believe these are correct, and I'm about to release 5.13, so am
reverting them out of an abundance of caution.

The locking is odd, and appears broken.

On the allocation side (in __sigqueue_alloc()), the locking is somewhat
straightforward: it depends on sighand-&gt;siglock.  Since one caller
doesn't hold that lock, it further then tests 'sigqueue_flags' to avoid
the case with no locks held.

On the freeing side (in sigqueue_cache_or_free()), there is no locking
at all, and the logic instead depends on 'current' being a single
thread, and not able to race with itself.

To make things more exciting, there's also the data race between freeing
a signal and allocating one, which is handled by using WRITE_ONCE() and
READ_ONCE(), and being mutually exclusive wrt the initial state (ie
freeing will only free if the old state was NULL, while allocating will
obviously only use the value if it was non-NULL, so only one or the
other will actually act on the value).

However, while the free-&gt;alloc paths do seem mutually exclusive thanks
to just the data value dependency, it's not clear what the memory
ordering constraints are on it.  Could writes from the previous
allocation possibly be delayed and seen by the new allocation later,
causing logical inconsistencies?

So it's all very exciting and unusual.

And in particular, it seems that the freeing side is incorrect in
depending on "current" being single-threaded.  Yes, 'current' is a
single thread, but in the presense of asynchronous events even a single
thread can have data races.

And such asynchronous events can and do happen, with interrupts causing
signals to be flushed and thus free'd (for example - sending a
SIGCONT/SIGSTOP can happen from interrupt context, and can flush
previously queued process control signals).

So regardless of all the other questions about the memory ordering and
locking for this new cached allocation, the sigqueue_cache_or_free()
assumptions seem to be fundamentally incorrect.

It may be that people will show me the errors of my ways, and tell me
why this is all safe after all.  We can reinstate it if so.  But my
current belief is that the WRITE_ONCE() that sets the cached entry needs
to be a smp_store_release(), and the READ_ONCE() that finds a cached
entry needs to be a smp_load_acquire() to handle memory ordering
correctly.

And the sequence in sigqueue_cache_or_free() would need to either use a
lock or at least be interrupt-safe some way (perhaps by using something
like the percpu 'cmpxchg': it doesn't need to be SMP-safe, but like the
percpu operations it needs to be interrupt-safe).

Fixes: 399f8dd9a866 ("signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released")
Fixes: 4bad58ebc8bc ("signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct")
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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