linux-toradex.git/Documentation/sysctl, branch v4.19-rc5

namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files

2018-08-24T01:48:43+00:00

Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world
writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the
directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag.  The purpose
is to make data spoofing attacks harder.  This protection can be turned
on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like
the symlinks/hardlinks protection.  This patch is based on Openwall's
"HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer.

This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented
by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation:

CVE-2000-1134
CVE-2007-3852
CVE-2008-0525
CVE-2009-0416
CVE-2011-4834
CVE-2015-1838
CVE-2015-7442
CVE-2016-7489

This list is not meant to be complete.  It's difficult to track down all
vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any
mention of this particular attack vector.  In fact, before
hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite
vehicle to exploit them.

[s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com
[keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future]
[keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Suggested-by: Solar Designer 
Suggested-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: reorganize initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq

2018-08-22T17:52:51+00:00

ipc_addid() initializes kern_ipc_perm.seq after having called idr_alloc()
(within ipc_idr_alloc()).

Thus a parallel semop() or msgrcv() that uses ipc_obtain_object_check()
may see an uninitialized value.

The patch moves the initialization of kern_ipc_perm.seq before the calls
of idr_alloc().

Notes:
1) This patch has a user space visible side effect:
If /proc/sys/kernel/*_next_id is used (i.e.: checkpoint/restore) and
if semget()/msgget()/shmget() fails in the final step of adding the id
to the rhash tree, then .._next_id is cleared. Before the patch, is
remained unmodified.

There is no change of the behavior after a successful ..get() call: It
always clears .._next_id, there is no impact to non checkpoint/restore
code as that code does not use .._next_id.

2) The patch correctly documents that after a call to ipc_idr_alloc(),
the full tear-down sequence must be used. The callers of ipc_addid()
do not fullfill that, i.e. more bugfixes are required.

The patch is a squash of a patch from Dmitry and my own changes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180712185241.4017-3-manfred@colorfullife.com
Reported-by: syzbot+2827ef6b3385deb07eaf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout

2018-08-22T17:52:47+00:00

Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result
hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout.  This is fine for
most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups
(syzbot).  In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup <
RCU stall < workqueue lockup < task hung < silent loss, so that RCU stall
is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent
machine loss.  The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires
setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g.  if task
hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins).  The
additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because
usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug
localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests.

Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout.  This allows to
set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs.

The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl,
similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl.  The default value
of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to
timeout.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: update __vm_enough_memory()'s path

2018-08-22T17:52:44+00:00

__vm_enough_memory has moved to mm/util.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E18EDF4A4FA4A04BBFA824B6D7699E532A7E5913@EXMBX-SZMAIL013.tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Juvi Liu 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2018-08-18T18:04:51+00:00

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the bit set of char/misc drivers for 4.19-rc1

  There is a lot here, much more than normal, seems like everyone is
  writing new driver subsystems these days... Anyway, major things here
  are:

   - new FSI driver subsystem, yet-another-powerpc low-level hardware
     bus

   - gnss, finally an in-kernel GPS subsystem to try to tame all of the
     crazy out-of-tree drivers that have been floating around for years,
     combined with some really hacky userspace implementations. This is
     only for GNSS receivers, but you have to start somewhere, and this
     is great to see.

  Other than that, there are new slimbus drivers, new coresight drivers,
  new fpga drivers, and loads of DT bindings for all of these and
  existing drivers.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (255 commits)
  android: binder: Rate-limit debug and userspace triggered err msgs
  fsi: sbefifo: Bump max command length
  fsi: scom: Fix NULL dereference
  misc: mic: SCIF Fix scif_get_new_port() error handling
  misc: cxl: changed asterisk position
  genwqe: card_base: Use true and false for boolean values
  misc: eeprom: assignment outside the if statement
  uio: potential double frees if __uio_register_device() fails
  eeprom: idt_89hpesx: clean up an error pointer vs NULL inconsistency
  misc: ti-st: Fix memory leak in the error path of probe()
  android: binder: Show extra_buffers_size in trace
  firmware: vpd: Fix section enabled flag on vpd_section_destroy
  platform: goldfish: Retire pdev_bus
  goldfish: Use dedicated macros instead of manual bit shifting
  goldfish: Add missing includes to goldfish.h
  mux: adgs1408: new driver for Analog Devices ADGS1408/1409 mux
  dt-bindings: mux: add adi,adgs1408
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Cleanup synic memory free path
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove use of slow_virt_to_phys()
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Reset the channel callback in vmbus_onoffer_rescind()
  ...

Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.

2018-07-26T22:24:16+00:00

This patch adds 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter which is currently missing
in 'vm.txt' file. It also contains a short description of 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy'
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Dhamdhere 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Drivers: HV: Send one page worth of kmsg dump over Hyper-V during panic

2018-07-08T13:54:31+00:00

In the VM mode on Hyper-V, currently, when the kernel panics, an error
code and few register values are populated in an MSR and the Hypervisor
notified. This information is collected on the host. The amount of
information currently collected is found to be limited and not very
actionable. To gather more actionable data, such as stack trace, the
proposal is to write one page worth of kmsg data on an allocated page
and the Hypervisor notified of the page address through the MSR.

- Sysctl option to control the behavior, with ON by default.

Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Sunil Muthuswamy 
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

doc: add description to dirtytime_expire_seconds

2018-06-26T15:01:35+00:00

commit 1efff914afac8a965ad63817ecf8861a927c2ace ("fs: add
dirtytime_expire_seconds sysctl") introduced dirtytime_expire_seconds
knob, but there is not description about it in
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.

Add the description for it.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2018-06-07T01:39:49+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Add Maglev hashing scheduler to IPVS, from Inju Song.

 2) Lots of new TC subsystem tests from Roman Mashak.

 3) Add TCP zero copy receive and fix delayed acks and autotuning with
    SO_RCVLOWAT, from Eric Dumazet.

 4) Add XDP_REDIRECT support to mlx5 driver, from Jesper Dangaard
    Brouer.

 5) Add ttl inherit support to vxlan, from Hangbin Liu.

 6) Properly separate ipv6 routes into their logically independant
    components. fib6_info for the routing table, and fib6_nh for sets of
    nexthops, which thus can be shared. From David Ahern.

 7) Add bpf_xdp_adjust_tail helper, which can be used to generate ICMP
    messages from XDP programs. From Nikita V. Shirokov.

 8) Lots of long overdue cleanups to the r8169 driver, from Heiner
    Kallweit.

 9) Add BTF ("BPF Type Format"), from Martin KaFai Lau.

10) Add traffic condition monitoring to iwlwifi, from Luca Coelho.

11) Plumb extack down into fib_rules, from Roopa Prabhu.

12) Add Flower classifier offload support to igb, from Vinicius Costa
    Gomes.

13) Add UDP GSO support, from Willem de Bruijn.

14) Add documentation for eBPF helpers, from Quentin Monnet.

15) Add TLS tx offload to mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin.

16) Allow applications to be given the number of bytes available to read
    on a socket via a control message returned from recvmsg(), from
    Soheil Hassas Yeganeh.

17) Add x86_32 eBPF JIT compiler, from Wang YanQing.

18) Add AF_XDP sockets, with zerocopy support infrastructure as well.
    From Björn Töpel.

19) Remove indirect load support from all of the BPF JITs and handle
    these operations in the verifier by translating them into native BPF
    instead. From Daniel Borkmann.

20) Add GRO support to ipv6 gre tunnels, from Eran Ben Elisha.

21) Allow XDP programs to do lookups in the main kernel routing tables
    for forwarding. From David Ahern.

22) Allow drivers to store hardware state into an ELF section of kernel
    dump vmcore files, and use it in cxgb4. From Rahul Lakkireddy.

23) Various RACK and loss detection improvements in TCP, from Yuchung
    Cheng.

24) Add TCP SACK compression, from Eric Dumazet.

25) Add User Mode Helper support and basic bpfilter infrastructure, from
    Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support ports and protocol values in RTM_GETROUTE, from Roopa
    Prabhu.

27) Support bulking in ->ndo_xdp_xmit() API, from Jesper Dangaard
    Brouer.

28) Add lots of forwarding selftests, from Petr Machata.

29) Add generic network device failover driver, from Sridhar Samudrala.

* ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1959 commits)
  strparser: Add __strp_unpause and use it in ktls.
  rxrpc: Fix terminal retransmission connection ID to include the channel
  net: hns3: Optimize PF CMDQ interrupt switching process
  net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox receiving unknown message
  net: hns3: Fix for VF mailbox cannot receiving PF response
  bnx2x: use the right constant
  Revert "net: sched: cls: Fix offloading when ingress dev is vxlan"
  net: dsa: b53: Fix for brcm tag issue in Cygnus SoC
  enic: fix UDP rss bits
  netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports
  rtnetlink: validate attributes in do_setlink()
  mlxsw: Add extack messages for port_{un, }split failures
  netdevsim: Add extack error message for devlink reload
  devlink: Add extack to reload and port_{un, }split operations
  net: metrics: add proper netlink validation
  ipmr: fix error path when ipmr_new_table fails
  ip6mr: only set ip6mr_table from setsockopt when ip6mr_new_table succeeds
  net: hns3: remove unused hclgevf_cfg_func_mta_filter
  netfilter: provide udp*_lib_lookup for nf_tproxy
  qed*: Utilize FW 8.37.2.0
  ...

bpf, x86_32: add eBPF JIT compiler for ia32

2018-05-03T16:15:25+00:00

The JIT compiler emits ia32 bit instructions. Currently, It supports eBPF
only. Classic BPF is supported because of the conversion by BPF core.

Almost all instructions from eBPF ISA supported except the following:
BPF_ALU64 | BPF_DIV | BPF_K
BPF_ALU64 | BPF_DIV | BPF_X
BPF_ALU64 | BPF_MOD | BPF_K
BPF_ALU64 | BPF_MOD | BPF_X
BPF_STX | BPF_XADD | BPF_W
BPF_STX | BPF_XADD | BPF_DW

It doesn't support BPF_JMP|BPF_CALL with BPF_PSEUDO_CALL at the moment.

IA32 has few general purpose registers, EAX|EDX|ECX|EBX|ESI|EDI. I use
EAX|EDX|ECX|EBX as temporary registers to simulate instructions in eBPF
ISA, and allocate ESI|EDI to BPF_REG_AX for constant blinding, all others
eBPF registers, R0-R10, are simulated through scratch space on stack.

The reasons behind the hardware registers allocation policy are:
1:MUL need EAX:EDX, shift operation need ECX, so they aren't fit
  for general eBPF 64bit register simulation.
2:We need at least 4 registers to simulate most eBPF ISA operations
  on registers operands instead of on register&memory operands.
3:We need to put BPF_REG_AX on hardware registers, or constant blinding
  will degrade jit performance heavily.

Tested on PC (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU).
Testing results on i5-5200U:
1) test_bpf: Summary: 349 PASSED, 0 FAILED, [319/341 JIT'ed]
2) test_progs: Summary: 83 PASSED, 0 FAILED.
3) test_lpm: OK
4) test_lru_map: OK
5) test_verifier: Summary: 828 PASSED, 0 FAILED.

Above tests are all done in following two conditions separately:
1:bpf_jit_enable=1 and bpf_jit_harden=0
2:bpf_jit_enable=1 and bpf_jit_harden=2

Below are some numbers for this jit implementation:
Note:
  I run test_progs in kselftest 100 times continuously for every condition,
  the numbers are in format: total/times=avg.
  The numbers that test_bpf reports show almost the same relation.

a:jit_enable=0 and jit_harden=0            b:jit_enable=1 and jit_harden=0
  test_pkt_access:PASS:ipv4:15622/100=156    test_pkt_access:PASS:ipv4:10674/100=106
  test_pkt_access:PASS:ipv6:9130/100=91      test_pkt_access:PASS:ipv6:4855/100=48
  test_xdp:PASS:ipv4:240198/100=2401         test_xdp:PASS:ipv4:138912/100=1389
  test_xdp:PASS:ipv6:137326/100=1373         test_xdp:PASS:ipv6:68542/100=685
  test_l4lb:PASS:ipv4:61100/100=611          test_l4lb:PASS:ipv4:37302/100=373
  test_l4lb:PASS:ipv6:101000/100=1010        test_l4lb:PASS:ipv6:55030/100=550

c:jit_enable=1 and jit_harden=2
  test_pkt_access:PASS:ipv4:10558/100=105
  test_pkt_access:PASS:ipv6:5092/100=50
  test_xdp:PASS:ipv4:131902/100=1319
  test_xdp:PASS:ipv6:77932/100=779
  test_l4lb:PASS:ipv4:38924/100=389
  test_l4lb:PASS:ipv6:57520/100=575

The numbers show we get 30%~50% improvement.

See Documentation/networking/filter.txt for more information.

Changelog:

 Changes v5-v6:
 1:Add do {} while (0) to RETPOLINE_RAX_BPF_JIT for
   consistence reason.
 2:Clean up non-standard comments, reported by Daniel Borkmann.
 3:Fix a memory leak issue, repoted by Daniel Borkmann.

 Changes v4-v5:
 1:Delete is_on_stack, BPF_REG_AX is the only one
   on real hardware registers, so just check with
   it.
 2:Apply commit 1612a981b766 ("bpf, x64: fix JIT emission
   for dead code"), suggested by Daniel Borkmann.

 Changes v3-v4:
 1:Fix changelog in commit.
   I install llvm-6.0, then test_progs willn't report errors.
   I submit another patch:
   "bpf: fix misaligned access for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type on x86_32 platform"
   to fix another problem, after that patch, test_verifier willn't report errors too.
 2:Fix clear r0[1] twice unnecessarily in *BPF_IND|BPF_ABS* simulation.

 Changes v2-v3:
 1:Move BPF_REG_AX to real hardware registers for performance reason.
 3:Using bpf_load_pointer instead of bpf_jit32.S, suggested by Daniel Borkmann.
 4:Delete partial codes in 1c2a088a6626, suggested by Daniel Borkmann.
 5:Some bug fixes and comments improvement.

 Changes v1-v2:
 1:Fix bug in emit_ia32_neg64.
 2:Fix bug in emit_ia32_arsh_r64.
 3:Delete filename in top level comment, suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
 4:Delete unnecessary boiler plate text, suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
 5:Rewrite some words in changelog.
 6:CodingSytle improvement and a little more comments.

Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann