03 Aug, 2016
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Add a "printk.devkmsg" kernel command line parameter which controls how
userspace writes into /dev/kmsg. It has three options:* ratelimit - ratelimit logging from userspace.
* on - unlimited logging from userspace
* off - logging from userspace gets ignoredThe default setting is to ratelimit the messages written to it.
This changes the kernel default setting of "on" to "ratelimit" and we do
that because we want to keep userspace spamming /dev/kmsg to sane
levels. This is especially moot when a small kernel log buffer wraps
around and messages get lost. So the ratelimiting setting should be a
sane setting where kernel messages should have a bit higher chance of
survival from all the spamming.It additionally does not limit logging to /dev/kmsg while the system is
booting if we haven't disabled it on the command line.Furthermore, we can control the logging from a lower priority sysctl
interface - kernel.printk_devkmsg.That interface will succeed only if printk.devkmsg *hasn't* been
supplied on the command line. If it has, then printk.devkmsg is a
one-time setting which remains for the duration of the system lifetime.
This "locking" of the setting is to prevent userspace from changing the
logging on us through sysctl(2).This patch is based on previous patches from Linus and Steven.
[bp@suse.de: fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160719072344.GC25563@nazgul.tnic
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160716061745.15795-3-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Dave Young
Cc: Franck Bui
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Some big changes this month, headlined by the addition of a new
formatted documentation mechanism based on the Sphinx system.The objectives here are to make it easier to create better-integrated
(and more attractive) documents while (eventually) dumping our
one-of-a-kind, cobbled-together system for something that is widely
used and maintained by others. There's a fair amount of information
what's being done, why, and how to use it in:https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/
https://lwn.net/Articles/692705/Closer to home, Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst describes how
it works.For now, the new system exists alongside the old one; you should soon
see the GPU documentation converted over in the DRM pull and some
significant media conversion work as well. Once all the docs have
been moved over and we're convinced that the rough edges (of which are
are a few) have been smoothed over, the DocBook-based stuff should go
away.Primary credit is to Jani Nikula for doing the heavy lifting to make
this stuff actually work; there has also been notable effort from
Markus Heiser, Daniel Vetter, and Mauro Carvalho Chehab.Expect a couple of conflicts on the new index.rst file over the course
of the merge window; they are trivially resolvable. That file may be
a bit of a conflict magnet in the short term, but I don't expect that
situation to last for any real length of time.Beyond that, of course, we have the usual collection of tweaks,
updates, and typo fixes"* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (77 commits)
doc-rst: kernel-doc: fix handling of address_space tags
Revert "doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings"
doc-rst: kernel-doc directive, fix state machine reporter
docs: deprecate kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings
Documentation: add watermark_scale_factor to the list of vm systcl file
kernel-doc: Fix up warning output
docs: Get rid of some kernel-documentation warnings
doc-rst: add an option to ignore DocBooks when generating docs
workqueue: Fix a typo in workqueue.txt
Doc: ocfs: Fix typo in filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
Documentation/sphinx: skip build if user requested specific DOCBOOKS
Documentation: add cleanmediadocs to the documentation targets
Add .pyc files to .gitignore
Doc: PM: Fix a typo in intel_powerclamp.txt
doc-rst: flat-table directive - initial implementation
Documentation: add meta-documentation for Sphinx and kernel-doc
Documentation: tiny typo fix in usb/gadget_multi.txt
Documentation: fix wrong value in md.txt
bcache: documentation formatting, edited for clarity, stripe alignment notes
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18 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Commit 795ae7a0de6b ("mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to
memory") properly added the description of the new knob to
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt, but forgot to add it to the list of files
in /proc/sys/vm. Let's fix that.Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
16 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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It is not always easy to determine the cause of an RCU stall just by
analysing the RCU stall messages, mainly when the problem is caused
by the indirect starvation of rcu threads. For example, when preempt_rcu
is not awakened due to the starvation of a timer softirq.We have been hard coding panic() in the RCU stall functions for
some time while testing the kernel-rt. But this is not possible in
some scenarios, like when supporting customers.This patch implements the sysctl kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall. If
set to 1, the system will panic() when an RCU stall takes place,
enabling the capture of a vmcore. The vmcore provides a way to analyze
all kernel/tasks states, helping out to point to the culprit and the
solution for the stall.The kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall sysctl is disabled by default.
Changes from v1:
- Fixed a typo in the git log
- The if(sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall) panic() is in a static function
- Fixed the CONFIG_TINY_RCU compilation issue
- The var sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall is now __read_mostlyCc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Josh Triplett
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Tested-by: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves"
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
26 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates
such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make
call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the
new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer"* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
perf record: Read from backward ring buffer
perf record: Rename variable to make code clear
perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read
perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume
perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args
perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args
perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys
perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap
perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward
perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided
perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced
perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions
perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions
perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl
perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl
perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting
perf top: Use machine->kptr_restrict_warned
perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1
perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol
perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space
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20 May, 2016
1 commit
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Provide /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force an immediate update of
per-cpu into global vmstats: useful to avoid a sleep(2) or whatever
before checking counts when testing. Originally added to work around a
bug which left counts stranded indefinitely on a cpu going idle (an
inaccuracy magnified when small below-batch numbers represent "huge"
amounts of memory), but I believe that bug is now fixed: nonetheless,
this is still a useful knob.Its schedule_on_each_cpu() is probably too expensive just to fold into
reading /proc/meminfo itself: give this mode 0600 to prevent abuse.
Allow a write or a read to do the same: nothing to read, but "grep -h
Shmem /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo" is convenient. Oh, and
since global_page_state() itself is careful to disguise any underflow as
0, hack in an "Invalid argument" and pr_warn() if a counter is negative
after the refresh - this helped to fix a misaccounting of
NR_ISOLATED_FILE in my migration code.But on recent kernels, I find that NR_ALLOC_BATCH and NR_PAGES_SCANNED
often go negative some of the time. I have not yet worked out why, but
have no evidence that it's actually harmful. Punt for the moment by
just ignoring the anomaly on those.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Cc: Yang Shi
Cc: Ning Qu
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Highlights:1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.
2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.
3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.
4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.
5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.
6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous. From Eric
Dumazet.7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.
8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
driver, from Gal Pressman.9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.
10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.
12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.
13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
Leitner.14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
socket timestamp sampling. From Martin KaFai Lau.15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
Nicolas Dichtel.16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.
17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
Reynes.18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.
19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
Vivien Didelot20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
qed: add support for dcbx.
ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
qed: Remove a stray tab
net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
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17 May, 2016
2 commits
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The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the
ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc},
while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack
sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be
honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace.So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting
via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members.A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also
introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain
implementation by some arch.Cc: Adrian Hunter
Cc: Alexander Shishkin
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov
Cc: Brendan Gregg
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: He Kuang
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Milian Wolff
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Vince Weaver
Cc: Wang Nan
Cc: Zefan Li
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3b4wnqk340c4sg4gwkfdi9yk@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
This work adds a generic facility for use from eBPF JIT compilers
that allows for further hardening of JIT generated images through
blinding constants. In response to the original work on BPF JIT
spraying published by Keegan McAllister [1], most BPF JITs were
changed to make images read-only and start at a randomized offset
in the page, where the rest was filled with trap instructions. We
have this nowadays in x86, arm, arm64 and s390 JIT compilers.
Additionally, later work also made eBPF interpreter images read
only for kernels supporting DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX, that is, x86,
arm, arm64 and s390 archs as well currently. This is done by
default for mentioned JITs when JITing is enabled. Furthermore,
we had a generic and configurable constant blinding facility on our
todo for quite some time now to further make spraying harder, and
first implementation since around netconf 2016.We found that for systems where untrusted users can load cBPF/eBPF
code where JIT is enabled, start offset randomization helps a bit
to make jumps into crafted payload harder, but in case where larger
programs that cross page boundary are injected, we again have some
part of the program opcodes at a page start offset. With improved
guessing and more reliable payload injection, chances can increase
to jump into such payload. Elena Reshetova recently wrote a test
case for it [2, 3]. Moreover, eBPF comes with 64 bit constants, which
can leave some more room for payloads. Note that for all this,
additional bugs in the kernel are still required to make the jump
(and of course to guess right, to not jump into a trap) and naturally
the JIT must be enabled, which is disabled by default.For helping mitigation, the general idea is to provide an option
bpf_jit_harden that admins can tweak along with bpf_jit_enable, so
that for cases where JIT should be enabled for performance reasons,
the generated image can be further hardened with blinding constants
for unpriviledged users (bpf_jit_harden == 1), with trading off
performance for these, but not for privileged ones. We also added
the option of blinding for all users (bpf_jit_harden == 2), which
is quite helpful for testing f.e. with test_bpf.ko. There are no
further e.g. hardening levels of bpf_jit_harden switch intended,
rationale is to have it dead simple to use as on/off. Since this
functionality would need to be duplicated over and over for JIT
compilers to use, which are already complex enough, we provide a
generic eBPF byte-code level based blinding implementation, which is
then just transparently JITed. JIT compilers need to make only a few
changes to integrate this facility and can be migrated one by one.This option is for eBPF JITs and will be used in x86, arm64, s390
without too much effort, and soon ppc64 JITs, thus that native eBPF
can be blinded as well as cBPF to eBPF migrations, so that both can
be covered with a single implementation. The rule for JITs is that
bpf_jit_blind_constants() must be called from bpf_int_jit_compile(),
and in case blinding is disabled, we follow normally with JITing the
passed program. In case blinding is enabled and we fail during the
process of blinding itself, we must return with the interpreter.
Similarly, in case the JITing process after the blinding failed, we
return normally to the interpreter with the non-blinded code. Meaning,
interpreter doesn't change in any way and operates on eBPF code as
usual. For doing this pre-JIT blinding step, we need to make use of
a helper/auxiliary register, here BPF_REG_AX. This is strictly internal
to the JIT and not in any way part of the eBPF architecture. Just like
in the same way as JITs internally make use of some helper registers
when emitting code, only that here the helper register is one
abstraction level higher in eBPF bytecode, but nevertheless in JIT
phase. That helper register is needed since f.e. manually written
program can issue loads to all registers of eBPF architecture.The core concept with the additional register is: blind out all 32
and 64 bit constants by converting BPF_K based instructions into a
small sequence from K_VAL into ((RND ^ K_VAL) ^ RND). Therefore, this
is transformed into: BPF_REG_AX := (RND ^ K_VAL), BPF_REG_AX ^= RND,
and REG BPF_REG_AX, so actual operation on the target register
is translated from BPF_K into BPF_X one that is operating on
BPF_REG_AX's content. During rewriting phase when blinding, RND is
newly generated via prandom_u32() for each processed instruction.
64 bit loads are split into two 32 bit loads to make translation and
patching not too complex. Only basic thing required by JITs is to
call the helper bpf_jit_blind_constants()/bpf_jit_prog_release_other()
pair, and to map BPF_REG_AX into an unused register.Small bpf_jit_disasm extract from [2] when applied to x86 JIT:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden
ffffffffa034f5e9 + :
[...]
39: mov $0xa8909090,%eax
3e: mov $0xa8909090,%eax
43: mov $0xa8ff3148,%eax
48: mov $0xa89081b4,%eax
4d: mov $0xa8900bb0,%eax
52: mov $0xa810e0c1,%eax
57: mov $0xa8908eb4,%eax
5c: mov $0xa89020b0,%eax
[...]echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden
ffffffffa034f1e5 + :
[...]
39: mov $0xe1192563,%r10d
3f: xor $0x4989b5f3,%r10d
46: mov %r10d,%eax
49: mov $0xb8296d93,%r10d
4f: xor $0x10b9fd03,%r10d
56: mov %r10d,%eax
59: mov $0x8c381146,%r10d
5f: xor $0x24c7200e,%r10d
66: mov %r10d,%eax
69: mov $0xeb2a830e,%r10d
6f: xor $0x43ba02ba,%r10d
76: mov %r10d,%eax
79: mov $0xd9730af,%r10d
7f: xor $0xa5073b1f,%r10d
86: mov %r10d,%eax
89: mov $0x9a45662b,%r10d
8f: xor $0x325586ea,%r10d
96: mov %r10d,%eax
[...]As can be seen, original constants that carry payload are hidden
when enabled, actual operations are transformed from constant-based
to register-based ones, making jumps into constants ineffective.
Above extract/example uses single BPF load instruction over and
over, but of course all instructions with constants are blinded.Performance wise, JIT with blinding performs a bit slower than just
JIT and faster than interpreter case. This is expected, since we
still get all the performance benefits from JITing and in normal
use-cases not every single instruction needs to be blinded. Summing
up all 296 test cases averaged over multiple runs from test_bpf.ko
suite, interpreter was 55% slower than JIT only and JIT with blinding
was 8% slower than JIT only. Since there are also some extremes in
the test suite, I expect for ordinary workloads that the performance
for the JIT with blinding case is even closer to JIT only case,
f.e. nmap test case from suite has averaged timings in ns 29 (JIT),
35 (+ blinding), and 151 (interpreter).BPF test suite, seccomp test suite, eBPF sample code and various
bigger networking eBPF programs have been tested with this and were
running fine. For testing purposes, I also adapted interpreter and
redirected blinded eBPF image to interpreter and also here all tests
pass.[1] http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2012/11/attacking-hardened-linux-systems-with.html
[2] https://github.com/01org/jit-spray-poc-for-ksp/
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2016/05/03/5Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann
Reviewed-by: Elena Reshetova
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
11 May, 2016
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
10 May, 2016
1 commit
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Allowing unprivileged kernel profiling lets any user dump follow kernel
control flow and dump kernel registers. This most likely allows trivial
kASLR bypassing, and it may allow other mischief as well. (Off the top
of my head, the PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR output during /dev/urandom reads
could be quite interesting.)Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 May, 2016
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
29 Apr, 2016
1 commit
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Commit 3193913ce62c ("mm: page_alloc: default node-ordering on 64-bit
NUMA, zone-ordering on 32-bit") changes the default value of
numa_zonelist_order. Update the document.Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Apr, 2016
1 commit
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The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit
most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+
deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby.And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One
that is per event still needs to be put in place tho.The new file is:
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
127Chaging it:
# echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
256But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get:
# echo 512 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
-bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
#Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there
is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter
of having no callchain users at that point.Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov
Acked-by: David Ahern
Cc: Adrian Hunter
Cc: Alexander Shishkin
Cc: He Kuang
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Milian Wolff
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephane Eranian
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Vince Weaver
Cc: Wang Nan
Cc: Zefan Li
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
19 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a couple of hotfixes
- the rest of MM
- a new timer slack control in procfs
- a couple of procfs fixes
- a few misc things
- some printk tweaks
- lib/ updates, notably to radix-tree.
- add my and Nick Piggin's old userspace radix-tree test harness to
tools/testing/radix-tree/. Matthew said it was a godsend during the
radix-tree work he did.- a few code-size improvements, switching to __always_inline where gcc
screwed up.- partially implement character sets in sscanf
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (118 commits)
sscanf: implement basic character sets
lib/bug.c: use common WARN helper
param: convert some "on"/"off" users to strtobool
lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool
lib: update single-char callers of strtobool()
lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool()
include/linux/unaligned: force inlining of byteswap operations
include/uapi/linux/byteorder, swab: force inlining of some byteswap operations
include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h: force inlining of some atomic_long operations
usb: common: convert to use match_string() helper
ide: hpt366: convert to use match_string() helper
ata: hpt366: convert to use match_string() helper
power: ab8500: convert to use match_string() helper
power: charger_manager: convert to use match_string() helper
drm/edid: convert to use match_string() helper
pinctrl: convert to use match_string() helper
device property: convert to use match_string() helper
lib/string: introduce match_string() helper
radix-tree tests: add test for radix_tree_iter_next
radix-tree tests: add regression3 test
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18 Mar, 2016
2 commits
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In machines with 140G of memory and enterprise flash storage, we have
seen read and write bursts routinely exceed the kswapd watermarks and
cause thundering herds in direct reclaim. Unfortunately, the only way
to tune kswapd aggressiveness is through adjusting min_free_kbytes - the
system's emergency reserves - which is entirely unrelated to the
system's latency requirements. In order to get kswapd to maintain a
250M buffer of free memory, the emergency reserves need to be set to 1G.
That is a lot of memory wasted for no good reason.On the other hand, it's reasonable to assume that allocation bursts and
overall allocation concurrency scale with memory capacity, so it makes
sense to make kswapd aggressiveness a function of that as well.Change the kswapd watermark scale factor from the currently fixed 25% of
the tunable emergency reserve to a tunable 0.1% of memory.Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than the
current formula in default settings. Ensure that the new formula never
chooses steps smaller than that, i.e. 25% of the emergency reserve.On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the
distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver pull request for 4.6-rc1.Lots of changes in here, Peter has been on a tear again, with lots of
refactoring and bugs fixes, many thanks to the great work he has been
doing. Lots of driver updates and fixes as well, full details in the
shortlog.All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'tty-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (220 commits)
serial: 8250: describe CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA
serial: samsung: optimize UART rx fifo access routine
serial: pl011: add mark/space parity support
serial: sa1100: make sa1100_register_uart_fns a function
tty: serial: 8250: add MOXA Smartio MUE boards support
serial: 8250: convert drivers to use up_to_u8250p()
serial: 8250/mediatek: fix building with SERIAL_8250=m
serial: 8250/ingenic: fix building with SERIAL_8250=m
serial: 8250/uniphier: fix modular build
Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_ingenic.c explicitly non-modular"
Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_mtk.c explicitly non-modular"
serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port
serial: mctrl_gpio: Add missing module license
serial: ifx6x60: avoid uninitialized variable use
tty/serial: at91: fix bad offset for UART timeout register
tty/serial: at91: restore dynamic driver binding
serial: 8250: Add hardware dependency to RT288X option
TTY, devpts: document pty count limiting
tty: goldfish: support platform_device with id -1
drivers: tty: goldfish: Add device tree bindings
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15 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:- Make schedstats a runtime tunable (disabled by default) and
optimize it via static keys.As most distributions enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y due to its
instrumentation value, this is a nice performance enhancement.
(Mel Gorman)- Implement 'simple waitqueues' (swait): these are just pure
waitqueues without any of the more complex features of full-blown
waitqueues (callbacks, wake flags, wake keys, etc.). Simple
waitqueues have less memory overhead and are faster.Use simple waitqueues in the RCU code (in 4 different places) and
for handling KVM vCPU wakeups.(Peter Zijlstra, Daniel Wagner, Thomas Gleixner, Paul Gortmaker,
Marcelo Tosatti)- sched/numa enhancements (Rik van Riel)
- NOHZ performance enhancements (Rik van Riel)
- Various sched/deadline enhancements (Steven Rostedt)
- Various fixes (Peter Zijlstra)
- ... and a number of other fixes, cleanups and smaller enhancements"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits)
sched/cputime: Fix steal_account_process_tick() to always return jiffies
sched/deadline: Remove dl_new from struct sched_dl_entity
Revert "kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error"
sched/deadline: Remove superfluous call to switched_to_dl()
sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()
sched, time: Switch VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN to jiffy granularity
time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()
acct, time: Change indentation in __acct_update_integrals()
sched, time: Remove non-power-of-two divides from __acct_update_integrals()
sched/rt: Kick RT bandwidth timer immediately on start up
sched/debug: Add deadline scheduler bandwidth ratio to /proc/sched_debug
sched/debug: Move sched_domain_sysctl to debug.c
sched/debug: Move the /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features file setup into debug.c
sched/rt: Fix PI handling vs. sched_setscheduler()
sched/core: Remove duplicated sched_group_set_shares() prototype
sched/fair: Consolidate nohz CPU load update code
sched/fair: Avoid using decay_load_missed() with a negative value
sched/deadline: Always calculate end of period on sched_yield()
sched/cgroup: Fix cgroup entity load tracking tear-down
rcu: Use simple wait queues where possible in rcutree
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08 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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Logic has been changed in kernel 3.4 by commit e9aba5158a80
("tty: rework pty count limiting") but still not documented.Sysctl kernel.pty.max works as global limit, kernel.pty.reserve ptys
are reserved for initial devpts instance (mounted without "newinstance").
Per-instance limit also could be set by mount option "max=%d".Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
09 Feb, 2016
1 commit
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schedstats is very useful during debugging and performance tuning but it
incurs overhead to calculate the stats. As such, even though it can be
disabled at build time, it is often enabled as the information is useful.This patch adds a kernel command-line and sysctl tunable to enable or
disable schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled
by default as someone who knows they need it can also learn to enable
it when necessary.The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is.
If it is then the patch reduces the number of cycles spent calculating
the stats with a small benefit from reducing the cache footprint of the
scheduler.These measurements were taken from a 48-core 2-socket
machine with Xeon(R) E5-2670 v3 cpus although they were also tested on a
single socket machine 8-core machine with Intel i7-3770 processors.netperf-tcp
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v3r1
Hmean 64 560.45 ( 0.00%) 575.98 ( 2.77%)
Hmean 128 766.66 ( 0.00%) 795.79 ( 3.80%)
Hmean 256 950.51 ( 0.00%) 981.50 ( 3.26%)
Hmean 1024 1433.25 ( 0.00%) 1466.51 ( 2.32%)
Hmean 2048 2810.54 ( 0.00%) 2879.75 ( 2.46%)
Hmean 3312 4618.18 ( 0.00%) 4682.09 ( 1.38%)
Hmean 4096 5306.42 ( 0.00%) 5346.39 ( 0.75%)
Hmean 8192 10581.44 ( 0.00%) 10698.15 ( 1.10%)
Hmean 16384 18857.70 ( 0.00%) 18937.61 ( 0.42%)Small gains here, UDP_STREAM showed nothing intresting and neither did
the TCP_RR tests. The gains on the 8-core machine were very similar.tbench4
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v3r1
Hmean mb/sec-1 500.85 ( 0.00%) 522.43 ( 4.31%)
Hmean mb/sec-2 984.66 ( 0.00%) 1018.19 ( 3.41%)
Hmean mb/sec-4 1827.91 ( 0.00%) 1847.78 ( 1.09%)
Hmean mb/sec-8 3561.36 ( 0.00%) 3611.28 ( 1.40%)
Hmean mb/sec-16 5824.52 ( 0.00%) 5929.03 ( 1.79%)
Hmean mb/sec-32 10943.10 ( 0.00%) 10802.83 ( -1.28%)
Hmean mb/sec-64 15950.81 ( 0.00%) 16211.31 ( 1.63%)
Hmean mb/sec-128 15302.17 ( 0.00%) 15445.11 ( 0.93%)
Hmean mb/sec-256 14866.18 ( 0.00%) 15088.73 ( 1.50%)
Hmean mb/sec-512 15223.31 ( 0.00%) 15373.69 ( 0.99%)
Hmean mb/sec-1024 14574.25 ( 0.00%) 14598.02 ( 0.16%)
Hmean mb/sec-2048 13569.02 ( 0.00%) 13733.86 ( 1.21%)
Hmean mb/sec-3072 12865.98 ( 0.00%) 13209.23 ( 2.67%)Small gains of 2-4% at low thread counts and otherwise flat. The
gains on the 8-core machine were slightly differenttbench4 on 8-core i7-3770 single socket machine
Hmean mb/sec-1 442.59 ( 0.00%) 448.73 ( 1.39%)
Hmean mb/sec-2 796.68 ( 0.00%) 794.39 ( -0.29%)
Hmean mb/sec-4 1322.52 ( 0.00%) 1343.66 ( 1.60%)
Hmean mb/sec-8 2611.65 ( 0.00%) 2694.86 ( 3.19%)
Hmean mb/sec-16 2537.07 ( 0.00%) 2609.34 ( 2.85%)
Hmean mb/sec-32 2506.02 ( 0.00%) 2578.18 ( 2.88%)
Hmean mb/sec-64 2511.06 ( 0.00%) 2569.16 ( 2.31%)
Hmean mb/sec-128 2313.38 ( 0.00%) 2395.50 ( 3.55%)
Hmean mb/sec-256 2110.04 ( 0.00%) 2177.45 ( 3.19%)
Hmean mb/sec-512 2072.51 ( 0.00%) 2053.97 ( -0.89%)In constract, this shows a relatively steady 2-3% gain at higher thread
counts. Due to the nature of the patch and the type of workload, it's
not a surprise that the result will depend on the CPU used.hackbench-pipes
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v3r1
Amean 1 0.0637 ( 0.00%) 0.0660 ( -3.59%)
Amean 4 0.1229 ( 0.00%) 0.1181 ( 3.84%)
Amean 7 0.1921 ( 0.00%) 0.1911 ( 0.52%)
Amean 12 0.3117 ( 0.00%) 0.2923 ( 6.23%)
Amean 21 0.4050 ( 0.00%) 0.3899 ( 3.74%)
Amean 30 0.4586 ( 0.00%) 0.4433 ( 3.33%)
Amean 48 0.5910 ( 0.00%) 0.5694 ( 3.65%)
Amean 79 0.8663 ( 0.00%) 0.8626 ( 0.43%)
Amean 110 1.1543 ( 0.00%) 1.1517 ( 0.22%)
Amean 141 1.4457 ( 0.00%) 1.4290 ( 1.16%)
Amean 172 1.7090 ( 0.00%) 1.6924 ( 0.97%)
Amean 192 1.9126 ( 0.00%) 1.9089 ( 0.19%)Some small gains and losses and while the variance data is not included,
it's close to the noise. The UMA machine did not show anything particularly
differentpipetest
4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1
vanilla nostats-v2r2
Min Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 3.99 ( 3.39%)
1st-qrtle Time 4.38 ( 0.00%) 4.27 ( 2.51%)
2nd-qrtle Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.57%)
3rd-qrtle Time 4.56 ( 0.00%) 4.51 ( 1.10%)
Max-90% Time 4.67 ( 0.00%) 4.60 ( 1.50%)
Max-93% Time 4.71 ( 0.00%) 4.65 ( 1.27%)
Max-95% Time 4.74 ( 0.00%) 4.71 ( 0.63%)
Max-99% Time 4.88 ( 0.00%) 4.79 ( 1.84%)
Max Time 4.93 ( 0.00%) 4.83 ( 2.03%)
Mean Time 4.48 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%)
Best99%Mean Time 4.47 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%)
Best95%Mean Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.38 ( 1.93%)
Best90%Mean Time 4.45 ( 0.00%) 4.36 ( 1.98%)
Best50%Mean Time 4.36 ( 0.00%) 4.25 ( 2.49%)
Best10%Mean Time 4.23 ( 0.00%) 4.10 ( 3.13%)
Best5%Mean Time 4.19 ( 0.00%) 4.06 ( 3.20%)
Best1%Mean Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 4.00 ( 3.39%)Small improvement and similar gains were seen on the UMA machine.
The gain is small but it stands to reason that doing less work in the
scheduler is a good thing. The downside is that the lack of schedstats and
tracepoints may be surprising to experts doing performance analysis until
they find the existence of the schedstats= parameter or schedstats sysctl.
It will be automatically activated for latencytop and sleep profiling to
alleviate the problem. For tracepoints, there is a simple warning as it's
not safe to activate schedstats in the context when it's known the tracepoint
may be wanted but is unavailable.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454663316-22048-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
03 Feb, 2016
1 commit
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…/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible changes:
- Rename the "colors.code" ~/.perfconfig variable to "colors.jump_arrows",
as it controls just the that UI element in the annotate browser (Taeung Song)- Avoid trying to read ELF symtabs from device files, noticed while doing
memory profiling work (Jiri Olsa)- Improve context detection when offering options in the hists browser,
i.e. some options don't make sense when the browser is not working with
a perf.data file ('perf top' mode), only in 'perf report' mode, like
scripting (Namhyung Kim)Infrastructure changes:
- Elliminate duplication in the hists browser filter functions, getting the
common part into a function that receives callbacks for filtering by
DSO, thread, etc. (Namhyung Kim)- Fix misleadingly indented assignment, found using
gcc6 -Wmisleading-indentation (Markus Trippelsdorf)- Handle LLVM relocation oddities in libbpf, introducing a 'perf test' that
detects such problems and then fixing the problem, so that the test now
passes (Wang Nan)- More improvements to the build infrastructure to allow reusing the
feature detection facilities (Wang Nan)- Auto initialize the globals needed by cpu__max_{cpu,node}() routines
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)Documentation changes:
- Document the perf sysctls in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt (Ben Hutchings)
- Document a bunch more ~/.perfconfig knobs (Taeung Song)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
26 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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perf_event_paranoid was only documented in source code and a perf error
message. Copy the documentation from the error message to
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt.perf_cpu_time_max_percent was already documented but missing from the
list at the top, so add it there.Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160119213515.GG2637@decadent.org.uk
[ Remove reference to external Documentation file, provide info inline, as before ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
23 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Embarrassing braino fix + pipe page accounting + fixing an eyesore in
find_filesystem() (checking that s1 is equal to prefix of s2 of given
length can be done in many ways, but "compare strlen(s1) with length
and then do strncmp()" is not a good one...)"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
[regression] fix braino in fs/dlm/user.c
pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes
find_filesystem(): simplify comparison
21 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for
strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of
2014. Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset
writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2]. As such, it
appears safe to flip this to the strict state now.[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200"
[2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.htmlSigned-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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On no-so-small systems, it is possible for a single process to cause an
OOM condition by filling large pipes with data that are never read. A
typical process filling 4000 pipes with 1 MB of data will use 4 GB of
memory. On small systems it may be tricky to set the pipe max size to
prevent this from happening.This patch makes it possible to enforce a per-user soft limit above
which new pipes will be limited to a single page, effectively limiting
them to 4 kB each, as well as a hard limit above which no new pipes may
be created for this user. This has the effect of protecting the system
against memory abuse without hurting other users, and still allowing
pipes to work correctly though with less data at once.The limit are controlled by two new sysctls : pipe-user-pages-soft, and
pipe-user-pages-hard. Both may be disabled by setting them to zero. The
default soft limit allows the default number of FDs per process (1024)
to create pipes of the default size (64kB), thus reaching a limit of 64MB
before starting to create only smaller pipes. With 256 processes limited
to 1024 FDs each, this results in 1024*64kB + (256*1024 - 1024) * 4kB =
1084 MB of memory allocated for a user. The hard limit is disabled by
default to avoid breaking existing applications that make intensive use
of pipes (eg: for splicing).Reported-by: socketpair@gmail.com
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa
Mitigates: CVE-2013-4312 (Linux 2.0+)
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
16 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- A few hotfixes which missed 4.4 becasue I was asleep. cc'ed to
-stable- A few misc fixes
- OCFS2 updates
- Part of MM. Including pretty large changes to page-flags handling
and to thp management which have been buffered up for 2-3 cycles now.I have a lot of MM material this time.
[ It turns out the THP part wasn't quite ready, so that got dropped from
this series - Linus ]* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (117 commits)
zsmalloc: reorganize struct size_class to pack 4 bytes hole
mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry()
zram/zcomp: do not zero out zcomp private pages
zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend
zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc()
zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams
mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages
drivers/base/memory.c: fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64
mm/page_isolation: use macro to judge the alignment
mm: fix noisy sparse warning in LIBCFS_ALLOC_PRE()
mm: rework virtual memory accounting
include/linux/memblock.h: fix ordering of 'flags' argument in comments
mm: move lru_to_page to mm_inline.h
Documentation/filesystems: describe the shared memory usage/accounting
memory-hotplug: don't BUG() in register_memory_resource()
hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular
mm/swapfile.c: use list_for_each_entry_safe in free_swap_count_continuations
mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: no need to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY in clear_soft_dirty_pmd()
mm: make sure isolate_lru_page() is never called for tail page
vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle
...
15 Jan, 2016
2 commits
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
floppy: make local variable non-static
exynos: fixes an incorrect header guard
dt-bindings: fixes some incorrect header guards
cpufreq-dt: correct dead link in documentation
cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: correct dead link in documentation
treewide: Fix typos in printk
Documentation: filesystem: Fix typo in fs/eventfd.c
fs/super.c: use && instead of & for warn_on condition
Documentation: fix sysfs-ptp
lib: scatterlist: fix Kconfig description -
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) provides a barrier to
exploitation of user-space processes in the presence of security
vulnerabilities by making it more difficult to find desired code/data
which could help an attack. This is done by adding a random offset to
the location of regions in the process address space, with a greater
range of potential offset values corresponding to better protection/a
larger search-space for brute force, but also to greater potential for
fragmentation.The offset added to the mmap_base address, which provides the basis for
the majority of the mappings for a process, is set once on process exec
in arch_pick_mmap_layout() and is done via hard-coded per-arch values,
which reflect, hopefully, the best compromise for all systems. The
trade-off between increased entropy in the offset value generation and
the corresponding increased variability in address space fragmentation
is not absolute, however, and some platforms may tolerate higher amounts
of entropy. This patch introduces both new Kconfig values and a sysctl
interface which may be used to change the amount of entropy used for
offset generation on a system.The direct motivation for this change was in response to the
libstagefright vulnerabilities that affected Android, specifically to
information provided by Google's project zero at:http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/09/stagefrightened.html
The attack presented therein, by Google's project zero, specifically
targeted the limited randomness used to generate the offset added to the
mmap_base address in order to craft a brute-force-based attack.
Concretely, the attack was against the mediaserver process, which was
limited to respawning every 5 seconds, on an arm device. The hard-coded
8 bits used resulted in an average expected success rate of defeating
the mmap ASLR after just over 10 minutes (128 tries at 5 seconds a
piece). With this patch, and an accompanying increase in the entropy
value to 16 bits, the same attack would take an average expected time of
over 45 hours (32768 tries), which makes it both less feasible and more
likely to be noticed.The introduced Kconfig and sysctl options are limited by per-arch
minimum and maximum values, the minimum of which was chosen to match the
current hard-coded value and the maximum of which was chosen so as to
give the greatest flexibility without generating an invalid mmap_base
address, generally a 3-4 bits less than the number of bits in the
user-space accessible virtual address space.When decided whether or not to change the default value, a system
developer should consider that mmap_base address could be placed
anywhere up to 2^(value) bits away from the non-randomized location,
which would introduce variable-sized areas above and below the mmap_base
address such that the maximum vm_area_struct size may be reduced,
preventing very large allocations.This patch (of 4):
ASLR only uses as few as 8 bits to generate the random offset for the
mmap base address on 32 bit architectures. This value was chosen to
prevent a poorly chosen value from dividing the address space in such a
way as to prevent large allocations. This may not be an issue on all
platforms. Allow the specification of a minimum number of bits so that
platforms desiring greater ASLR protection may determine where to place
the trade-off.Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman
Cc: Russell King
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Don Zickus
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Mark Salyzyn
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep
Cc: Nick Kralevich
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Will Deacon
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Hector Marco-Gisbert
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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kernel.panic_on_io_nmi sysctl was introduced by commit
5211a242d0cb ("x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error")
but its documentation is missing. So, add it.
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai
Requested-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Baoquan He
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Don Zickus
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Manfred Spraul
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Nicolas Iooss
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Seth Jennings
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell
Cc: Vivek Goyal
Cc: x86-ml
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210014637.25437.71903.stgit@softrs
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
08 Dec, 2015
1 commit
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s/avaiable/available/g
This fixup is already in scripts/spelling.txt.
The fix in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ptp affects documentation of
a /sys entry: the /sys entry itself is correct.Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
10 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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The origin document references to cap_vm_enough_memory is because
cap_vm_enough_memory invoked __vm_enough_memory before and it no longer
does now.Signed-off-by: Chun Chen
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Nov, 2015
1 commit
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In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know
why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a
resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding.IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the
actual offender.Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have
hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace.Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell
Acked-by: Don Zickus
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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Aside from some lingual cleanup, point out which interfaces are not or
partly covered by this setting.Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter
Acked-by: Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
09 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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The comment says that the per-cpu batchsize and zone watermarks are
determined by present_pages which is definitely wrong, they are both
calculated from managed_pages. Fix it.Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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/proc/extfrag_index does not exist. This file is in debugfs. Fix the
description of extfrag_threshold to reflect this.Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
26 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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When adding __printf attribute to cn_printf, gcc reports some issues:
fs/coredump.c:213:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type
'int', but argument 3 has type 'kuid_t' [-Wformat=]
err = cn_printf(cn, "%d", cred->uid);
^
fs/coredump.c:217:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type
'int', but argument 3 has type 'kgid_t' [-Wformat=]
err = cn_printf(cn, "%d", cred->gid);
^These warnings come from the fact that the value of uid/gid needs to be
extracted from the kuid_t/kgid_t structure before being used as an
integer. More precisely, cred->uid and cred->gid need to be converted to
either user-namespace uid/gid or to init_user_ns uid/gid.Use init_user_ns in order not to break existing ABI, and document this in
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt.While at it, format uid and gid values with %u instead of %d because
uid_t/__kernel_uid32_t and gid_t/__kernel_gid32_t are unsigned int.Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jun, 2015
1 commit
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Change the default behavior of watchdog so it only runs on the
housekeeping cores when nohz_full is enabled at build and boot time.
Allow modifying the set of cores the watchdog is currently running on
with a new kernel.watchdog_cpumask sysctl.In the current system, the watchdog subsystem runs a periodic timer that
schedules the watchdog kthread to run. However, nohz_full cores are
designed to allow userspace application code running on those cores to
have 100% access to the CPU. So the watchdog system prevents the
nohz_full application code from being able to run the way it wants to,
thus the motivation to suppress the watchdog on nohz_full cores, which
this patchset provides by default.However, if we disable the watchdog globally, then the housekeeping
cores can't benefit from the watchdog functionality. So we allow
disabling it only on some cores. See Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt
for more information.[jhubbard@nvidia.com: fix a watchdog crash in some configurations]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf
Acked-by: Don Zickus
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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File /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max controls the maximum number of threads
that can be created using fork().[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Guenter]
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Guenter Roeck
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Currently, pages which are marked as unevictable are protected from
compaction, but not from other types of migration. The POSIX real time
extension explicitly states that mlock() will prevent a major page
fault, but the spirit of this is that mlock() should give a process the
ability to control sources of latency, including minor page faults.
However, the mlock manpage only explicitly says that a locked page will
not be written to swap and this can cause some confusion. The
compaction code today does not give a developer who wants to avoid swap
but wants to have large contiguous areas available any method to achieve
this state. This patch introduces a sysctl for controlling compaction
behavior with respect to the unevictable lru. Users who demand no page
faults after a page is present can set compact_unevictable_allowed to 0
and users who need the large contiguous areas can enable compaction on
locked memory by leaving the default value of 1.To illustrate this problem I wrote a quick test program that mmaps a
large number of 1MB files filled with random data. These maps are
created locked and read only. Then every other mmap is unmapped and I
attempt to allocate huge pages to the static huge page pool. When the
compact_unevictable_allowed sysctl is 0, I cannot allocate hugepages
after fragmenting memory. When the value is set to 1, allocations
succeed.Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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With the current user interface of the watchdog mechanism it is only
possible to disable or enable both lockup detectors at the same time.
This series introduces new kernel parameters and changes the semantics of
some existing kernel parameters, so that the hard lockup detector and the
soft lockup detector can be disabled or enabled individually. With this
series applied, the user interface is as follows.- parameters in /proc/sys/kernel
. soft_watchdog
This is a new parameter to control and examine the run state of
the soft lockup detector.. nmi_watchdog
The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used
to control and examine the run state of the hard lockup detector.. watchdog
This parameter is still available to control the run state of both
lockup detectors at the same time. If this parameter is examined,
it shows the logical OR of soft_watchdog and nmi_watchdog.. watchdog_thresh
The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch.- kernel command line parameters
. nosoftlockup
The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used
to disable the soft lockup detector at boot time.. nmi_watchdog=0 or nmi_watchdog=1
Disable or enable the hard lockup detector at boot time. The patch
introduces '=1' as a new option.. nowatchdog
The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. It
is still available to disable both lockup detectors at boot time.Also, remove the proc_dowatchdog() function which is no longer needed.
[dzickus@redhat.com: wrote changelog]
[dzickus@redhat.com: update documentation for kernel params and sysctl]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
