15 Aug, 2018
2 commits
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Currently, the addresses of PTI entry trampolines are not exported to
user space. Kernel profiling tools need these addresses to identify the
kernel code, so add a symbol and address for each CPU's PTI entry
trampoline.Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin
Acked-by: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Joerg Roedel
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528289651-4113-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
The logic in update_iter_mod() is overcomplicated and gets worse every
time another get_ksymbol_* function is added.In preparation for adding another get_ksymbol_* function, simplify logic
in update_iter_mod().Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter
Tested-by: (ftrace changes only) Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Acked-by: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Alexander Shishkin
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Joerg Roedel
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528289651-4113-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
02 Feb, 2018
1 commit
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Add a console_msg_format command line option:
The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "[timestamp] text" format.This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
at hands.- Reduce the risk of softlockup:
Pass the console owner in a busy loop.
This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
waiter.The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
much to flush.There is increasing number of people having problems with
printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
direction.- Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():
This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.- Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:
It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
a special elf section and could be easily detected.- Remove printk_symbol() API:
It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.- Remove redundant memsets:
Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
command line option.* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
lib: do not use print_symbol()
irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
drivers: do not use print_symbol()
x86: do not use print_symbol()
unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
sh: do not use print_symbol()
mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
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22 Jan, 2018
1 commit
16 Jan, 2018
1 commit
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No more print_symbol()/__print_symbol() users left, remove these
symbols.It was a very old API that encouraged people use continuous lines.
It had been obsoleted by %pS format specifier in a normal printk()
call.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105102538.GC471@jagdpanzerIV
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Mark Salter
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Guan Xuetao
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Vineet Gupta
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: LKML
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky
Suggested-by: Joe Perches
[pmladek@suse.com: updated commit message]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek
09 Jan, 2018
1 commit
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dereference_symbol_descriptor() invokes appropriate ARCH specific
function descriptor dereference callbacks:
- dereference_kernel_function_descriptor() if the pointer is a
kernel symbol;- dereference_module_function_descriptor() if the pointer is a
module symbol.This is the last step needed to make '%pS/%ps' smart enough to
handle function descriptor dereference on affected ARCHs and
to retire '%pF/%pf'.To refresh it:
Some architectures (ia64, ppc64, parisc64) use an indirect pointer
for C function pointers - the function pointer points to a function
descriptor and we need to dereference it to get the actual function
pointer.Function descriptors live in .opd elf section and all affected
ARCHs (ia64, ppc64, parisc64) handle it properly for kernel and
modules. So we, technically, can decide if the dereference is
needed by simply looking at the pointer: if it belongs to .opd
section then we need to dereference it.The kernel and modules have their own .opd sections, obviously,
that's why we need to split dereference_function_descriptor()
and use separate kernel and module dereference arch callbacks.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206043649.GB15885@jagdpanzerIV
Cc: Fenghua Yu
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jessica Yu
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky
Tested-by: Tony Luck #ia64
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj #powerpc
Tested-by: Helge Deller #parisc64
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek
30 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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The conditional kallsym hex printing used a special fixed-width '%lx'
output (KALLSYM_FMT) in preparation for the hashing of %p, but that
series ended up adding a %px specifier to help with the conversions.Use it, and avoid the "print pointer as an unsigned long" code.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Pull tracing updates from
- allow module init functions to be traced
- clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)
- clean up of trace histogram code
- add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events
- other various clean ups
* tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use
tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use
ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU
perf/ftrace: Small cleanup
perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events
perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")
tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on
tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined
tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused
printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe
ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory
tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions
ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps
ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing
ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced
ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use
tracing: Reimplement log2
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13 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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The (alleged) users of the module addresses are the same: kernel
profiling.So just expose the same helper and format macros, and unify the logic.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Not only is it annoying to have one single flag for all pointers, as if
that was a global choice and all kernel pointers are the same, but %pK
can't get the 'access' vs 'open' time check right anyway.So make the /proc/kallsyms pointer value code use logic specific to that
particular file. We do continue to honor kptr_restrict, but the default
(which is unrestricted) is changed to instead take expected users into
account, and restrict access by default.Right now the only actual expected user is kernel profiling, which has a
separate sysctl flag for kernel profile access. There may be others.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Oct, 2017
2 commits
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If a module is loaded while tracing is enabled, then there's a possibility
that the module init functions were traced. These functions have their name
and address stored by ftrace such that it can translate the function address
that is written into the buffer into a human readable function name.As userspace tools may be doing the same, they need a way to map function
names to their address as well. This is done through reading /proc/kallsyms.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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If function tracing is active when the module init functions are freed, then
store them to be referenced by kallsyms. As module init functions can now be
traced on module load, they were useless:># echo ':mod:snd_seq' > set_ftrace_filter
># echo function > current_tracer
># modprobe snd_seq
># cat trace
# tracer: function
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
modprobe-2786 [000] .... 3189.037874: 0xffffffffa0860000 irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
modprobe-2463 [002] .... 174.243237: alsa_seq_init
11 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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'all_var' looks like a variable, but is actually a macro. Use
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL) for clarification.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497577591-3434-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov
Cc: Daniel Borkmann
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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Long standing issue with JITed programs is that stack traces from
function tracing check whether a given address is kernel code
through {__,}kernel_text_address(), which checks for code in core
kernel, modules and dynamically allocated ftrace trampolines. But
what is still missing is BPF JITed programs (interpreted programs
are not an issue as __bpf_prog_run() will be attributed to them),
thus when a stack trace is triggered, the code walking the stack
won't see any of the JITed ones. The same for address correlation
done from user space via reading /proc/kallsyms. This is read by
tools like perf, but the latter is also useful for permanent live
tracing with eBPF itself in combination with stack maps when other
eBPF types are part of the callchain. See offwaketime example on
dumping stack from a map.This work tries to tackle that issue by making the addresses and
symbols known to the kernel. The lookup from *kernel_text_address()
is implemented through a latched RB tree that can be read under
RCU in fast-path that is also shared for symbol/size/offset lookup
for a specific given address in kallsyms. The slow-path iteration
through all symbols in the seq file done via RCU list, which holds
a tiny fraction of all exported ksyms, usually below 0.1 percent.
Function symbols are exported as bpf_prog_, in order to aide
debugging and attribution. This facility is currently enabled for
root-only when bpf_jit_kallsyms is set to 1, and disabled if hardening
is active in any mode. The rationale behind this is that still a lot
of systems ship with world read permissions on kallsyms thus addresses
should not get suddenly exposed for them. If that situation gets
much better in future, we always have the option to change the
default on this. Likewise, unprivileged programs are not allowed
to add entries there either, but that is less of a concern as most
such programs types relevant in this context are for root-only anyway.
If enabled, call graphs and stack traces will then show a correct
attribution; one example is illustrated below, where the trace is
now visible in tooling such as perf script --kallsyms=/proc/kallsyms
and friends.Before:
7fff8166889d bpf_clone_redirect+0x80007f0020ed (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
f5d80 __sendmsg_nocancel+0xffff006451f1a007 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.18.so)After:
7fff816688b7 bpf_clone_redirect+0x80007f002107 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fffa0575728 bpf_prog_33c45a467c9e061a+0x8000600020fb (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fffa07ef1fc cls_bpf_classify+0x8000600020dc (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff81678b68 tc_classify+0x80007f002078 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8164d40b __netif_receive_skb_core+0x80007f0025fb (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8164d718 __netif_receive_skb+0x80007f002018 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8164e565 process_backlog+0x80007f002095 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8164dc71 net_rx_action+0x80007f002231 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff81767461 __softirqentry_text_start+0x80007f0020d1 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff817658ac do_softirq_own_stack+0x80007f00201c (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff810a2c20 do_softirq+0x80007f002050 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff810a2cb5 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x80007f002085 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8168d452 ip_finish_output2+0x80007f002152 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8168ea3d ip_finish_output+0x80007f00217d (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff8168f2af ip_output+0x80007f00203f (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
[...]
7fff81005854 do_syscall_64+0x80007f002054 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
7fff817649eb return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x80007f002000 (/lib/modules/4.9.0-rc8+/build/vmlinux)
f5d80 __sendmsg_nocancel+0xffff01c484812007 (/usr/lib64/libc-2.18.so)Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
16 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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Similar to how relative extables are implemented, it is possible to emit
the kallsyms table in such a way that it contains offsets relative to
some anchor point in the kernel image rather than absolute addresses.On 64-bit architectures, it cuts the size of the kallsyms address table
in half, since offsets between kernel symbols can typically be expressed
in 32 bits. This saves several hundreds of kilobytes of permanent
.rodata on average. In addition, the kallsyms address table is no
longer subject to dynamic relocation when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is in
effect, so the relocation work done after decompression now doesn't have
to do relocation updates for all these values. This saves up to 24
bytes (i.e., the size of a ELF64 RELA relocation table entry) per value,
which easily adds up to a couple of megabytes of uncompressed __init
data on ppc64 or arm64. Even if these relocation entries typically
compress well, the combined size reduction of 2.8 MB uncompressed for a
ppc64_defconfig build (of which 2.4 MB is __init data) results in a ~500
KB space saving in the compressed image.Since it is useful for some architectures (like x86) to retain the
ability to emit absolute values as well, this patch also adds support
for capturing both absolute and relative values when
KALLSYMS_ABSOLUTE_PERCPU is in effect, by emitting absolute per-cpu
addresses as positive 32-bit values, and addresses relative to the
lowest encountered relative symbol as negative values, which are
subtracted from the runtime address of this base symbol to produce the
actual address.Support for the above is enabled by default for all architectures except
IA-64 and Tile-GX, whose symbols are too far apart to capture in this
manner.Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Tested-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Oct, 2014
1 commit
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Reduce boilerplate code by using __seq_open_private() instead of
seq_open() in kallsyms_open().Signed-off-by: Rob Jones
Cc: Gideon Israel Dsouza
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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__sprint_symbol() should restore original address when kallsyms_lookup()
failed to find a symbol. It's reported when dumpstack shows an address in
a dynamically allocated trampoline for ftrace.[ 1314.612287] [] dump_stack+0x45/0x56
[ 1314.612290] [] ? meminfo_proc_open+0x30/0x30
[ 1314.612293] [] kpatch_ftrace_handler+0x14/0xf0 [kpatch]
[ 1314.612306] [] 0xffffffffa00160c3You can see a difference in the hex address - c4 and c3. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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To increase compiler portability there is which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __weak for
__attribute__((weak)). I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes
with the right macro in the kernel subsystem.Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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We don't export any symbols > 128 characters, but if we did then
kallsyms_expand_symbol() would overflow the buffer handed to it.
So we need check destination buffer length when copying.the related test:
if we define an EXPORT function which name more than 128.
will panic when call kallsyms_lookup_name by init_kprobes on booting.
after check the length (provide this patch), it is ok.Implementaion:
add additional destination buffer length parameter (maxlen)
if uncompressed string is too long (>= maxlen), it will be truncated.
not check the parameters whether valid, since it is a static function.Signed-off-by: Chen Gang
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
30 May, 2012
1 commit
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Using %ps in a printk format will sometimes fail silently and print the
empty string if the address passed in does not match a symbol that
kallsyms knows about. But using %pS will fall back to printing the full
address if kallsyms can't find the symbol. Make %ps act the same as %pS
by falling back to printing the address.While we're here also make %ps print the module that a symbol comes from
so that it matches what %pS already does. Take this simple function for
example (in a module):static void test_printk(void)
{
int test;
pr_info("with pS: %pS\n", &test);
pr_info("with ps: %ps\n", &test);
}Before this patch:
with pS: 0xdff7df44
with ps:After this patch:
with pS: 0xdff7df44
with ps: 0xdff7df44Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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…/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Fix WARN_ON() test for UP
WARN_ON_SMP(): Allow use in if() statements on UP
x86, dumpstack: Use %pB format specifier for stack trace
vsprintf: Introduce %pB format specifier
lockdep: Remove unused 'factor' variable from lockdep_stats_show()
24 Mar, 2011
3 commits
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The %pB format specifier is for stack backtrace. Its handler
sprint_backtrace() does symbol lookup using (address-1) to
ensure the address will not point outside of the function.If there is a tail-call to the function marked "noreturn",
gcc optimized out the code after the call then causes saved
return address points outside of the function (i.e. the start
of the next function), so pollutes call trace somewhat.This patch adds the %pB printk mechanism that allows architecture
call-trace printout functions to improve backtrace printouts.Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
deal with races in /proc/*/{syscall,stack,personality}
proc: enable writing to /proc/pid/mem
proc: make check_mem_permission() return an mm_struct on success
proc: hold cred_guard_mutex in check_mem_permission()
proc: disable mem_write after exec
mm: implement access_remote_vm
mm: factor out main logic of access_process_vm
mm: use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in __get_user_pages
mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm
mm: arch: make in_gate_area take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode
x86: add context tag to mark mm when running a task in 32-bit compatibility mode
auxv: require the target to be tracable (or yourself)
close race in /proc/*/environ
report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely
pagemap: close races with suid execve
make sessionid permissions in /proc/*/task/* match those in /proc/*
fix leaks in path_lookupat()Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/proc/base.c
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Now that gate vma's are referenced with respect to a particular mm and not a
particular task it only makes sense to propagate the change to this predicate as
well.Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
23 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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In an effort to reduce kernel address leaks that might be used to help
target kernel privilege escalation exploits, this patch uses %pK when
displaying addresses in /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, and
/sys/module/*/sections/*.Note that this changes %x to %p, so some legitimately 0 values in
/proc/kallsyms would have changed from 00000000 to "(null)". To avoid
this, "(null)" is not used when using the "K" format. Anything that was
already successfully parsing "(null)" in addition to full hex digits
should have no problem with this change. (Thanks to Joe Perches for the
suggestion.) Due to the %x to %p, "void *" casts are needed since these
addresses are already "unsigned long" everywhere internally, due to their
starting life as ELF section offsets.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Eugene Teo
Cc: Dan Rosenberg
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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This reverts commit 59365d136d205cc20fe666ca7f89b1c5001b0d5a.
It turns out that this can break certain existing user land setups.
Quoth Sarah Sharp:"On Wednesday, I updated my branch to commit 460781b from linus' tree,
and my box would not boot. klogd segfaulted, which stalled the whole
system.At first I thought it actually hung the box, but it continued booting
after 5 minutes, and I was able to log in. It dropped back to the
text console instead of the graphical bootup display for that period
of time. dmesg surprisingly still works. I've bisected the problem
down to this commit (commit 59365d136d205cc20fe666ca7f89b1c5001b0d5a)The box is running klogd 1.5.5ubuntu3 (from Jaunty). Yes, I know
that's old. I read the bit in the commit about changing the
permissions of kallsyms after boot, but if I can't boot that doesn't
help."So let's just keep the old default, and encourage distributions to do
the "chmod -r /proc/kallsyms" in their bootup scripts. This is not
worth a kernel option to change default behavior, since it's so easily
done in user space.Reported-and-bisected-by: Sarah Sharp
Cc: Marcus Meissner
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Eugene Teo
Cc: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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Making /proc/kallsyms readable only for root by default makes it
slightly harder for attackers to write generic kernel exploits by
removing one source of knowledge where things are in the kernel.This is the second submit, discussion happened on this on first submit
and mostly concerned that this is just one hole of the sieve ... but
one of the bigger ones.Changing the permissions of at least System.map and vmlinux is also
required to fix the same set, but a packaging issue.Target of this starter patch and follow ups is removing any kind of
kernel space address information leak from the kernel.[ Side note: the default of root-only reading is the "safe" value, and
it's easy enough to then override at any time after boot. The /proc
filesystem allows root to change the permissions with a regular
chmod, so you can "revert" this at run-time by simply doingchmod og+r /proc/kallsyms
as root if you really want regular users to see the kernel symbols.
It does help some tools like "perf" figure them out without any
setup, so it may well make sense in some situations. - Linus ]Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Eugene Teo
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 May, 2010
1 commit
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This patch contains the hooks and instrumentation into kernel which
live outside the kernel/debug directory, which the kdb core
will call to run commands like lsmod, dmesg, bt etc...CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks
30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
10 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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The hw-breakpoint sample module has been broken during the
hw-breakpoint internals refactoring. Propagate the changes
to it.Reported-by: "K. Prasad"
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
23 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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This allows kallsyms to locate symbols that are in arch-specific text
sections (such as text in Blackfin on-chip SRAM regions).Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Robin Getz
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Fix coding style whitespace issues and replace __initcall with
device_initcall. Fixed multi-line comments as per coding style.Errors as reported by checkpatch.pl :-
Before:
total: 14 errors, 14 warnings, 487 lines checked
After :
total: 0 errors, 8 warnings, 507 lines checkedCompile tested binary verified as :-
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
2405 4 0 2409 969 kernel/kallsyms.o
After :
text data bss dec hex filename
2405 4 0 2409 969 kernel/kallsyms.oSigned-off-by: Manish Katiyar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
31 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: New API
kallsyms_lookup_name only returns the first match that it finds. Ksplice
needs information about all symbols with a given name in order to correctly
resolve local symbols.kallsyms_on_each_symbol provides a generic mechanism for iterating over the
kallsyms table.Cc: Jeff Arnold
Cc: Tim Abbott
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
15 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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This reverts commit ad7a953c522ceb496611d127e51e278bfe0ff483.
And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
9bb482476c6c9d1ae033306440c51ceac93ea80cThese stripping patches has caused a set of issues:
1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to
lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2
Reported by: Wenji
2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced
Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others
3) The installed modules increased a lot in size
Reported by: Ted, Davej + othersReported-by: Wenji Huang
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
Reported-by: Dave Jones
Reported-by: Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
20 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch
introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y.
Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64)
kernels I tested with.The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms-
internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking
stage.While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure
here is.Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
20 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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sprint_symbol(), itself used when dumping stacks, has been wasting 128
bytes of stack: lookup the symbol directly into the buffer supplied by the
caller, instead of using a locally declared namebuf.I believe the name != buffer strcpy() is obsolete: the design here dates
from when module symbol lookup pointed into a supposedly const but sadly
volatile table; nowadays it copies, but an uncalled strcpy() looks better
here than the risk of a recursive BUG_ON().Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Commit 6dd06c9fbe025f542bce4cdb91790c0f91962722 ("module: make
module_address_lookup safe") introduced double returns in the function
kallsyms_lookup(), it's weird. The second one should be removed.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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This will probably never trigger... but it won't hurt to be careful.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum
Cc: Joshua Bloch
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was
a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr()
called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on
many archs (which default as zero). Since PPC was the only kernel which
defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes
_extra_text support.For some history (provided by Jon):
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Jon Loeliger
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
