linux-toradex.git/arch/um/kernel/trap.c, branch v4.2.7

um: Fix kernel mode fault condition

2015-11-09T22:37:39+00:00

commit 56b88a3bf97a39d3f4f010509917b76a865a6dc8 upstream.

We have to exclude memory locations <= PAGE_SIZE from
the condition and let the kernel mode fault path catch it.
Otherwise a kernel NULL pointer exception will be reported
as a kernel user space access.

Fixes: d2313084e2c (um: Catch unprotected user memory access)
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml

2015-06-28T20:55:08+00:00

Pull UML updates from Richard Weinberger:

 - remove hppfs ("HonePot ProcFS")

 - initial support for musl libc

 - uaccess cleanup

 - random cleanups and bug fixes all over the place

* 'for-linus-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (21 commits)
  um: Don't pollute kernel namespace with uapi
  um: Include sys/types.h for makedev(), major(), minor()
  um: Do not use stdin and stdout identifiers for struct members
  um: Do not use __ptr_t type for stack_t's .ss pointer
  um: Fix mconsole dependency
  um: Handle tracehook_report_syscall_entry() result
  um: Remove copy&paste code from init.h
  um: Stop abusing __KERNEL__
  um: Catch unprotected user memory access
  um: Fix warning in setup_signal_stack_si()
  um: Rework uaccess code
  um: Add uaccess.h to ldt.c
  um: Add uaccess.h to syscalls_64.c
  um: Add asm/elf.h to vma.c
  um: Cleanup mem_32/64.c headers
  um: Remove hppfs
  um: Move syscall() declaration into os.h
  um: kernel: ksyms: Export symbol syscall() for fixing modpost issue
  um/os-Linux: Use char[] for syscall_stub declarations
  um: Use char[] for linker script address declarations
  ...

um: Catch unprotected user memory access

2015-05-31T17:21:51+00:00

If the kernel tries to access user memory without copy_from_user()
a trap will happen as kernel and userspace run in different processes
on the host side. Currently this special page fault cannot be resolved
and will happen over and over again. As result UML will lockup.
This patch allows the page fault code to detect that situation and
causes a panic() such that the root cause of the unprotected memory
access can be found and fixed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

mm/fault, um: Fix compile error

2015-05-19T13:42:25+00:00

A missing include file caused build fail.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Fixes: 70ffdb9393a7 ("mm/fault, arch: Use pagefault_disable() to check for disabled pagefaults in the handler")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm/fault, arch: Use pagefault_disable() to check for disabled pagefaults in the handler

2015-05-19T06:39:15+00:00

Introduce faulthandler_disabled() and use it to check for irq context and
disabled pagefaults (via pagefault_disable()) in the pagefault handlers.

Please note that we keep the in_atomic() checks in place - to detect
whether in irq context (in which case preemption is always properly
disabled).

In contrast, preempt_disable() should never be used to disable pagefaults.
With !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT, preempt_disable() doesn't modify the preempt
counter, and therefore the result of in_atomic() differs.
We validate that condition by using might_fault() checks when calling
might_sleep().

Therefore, add a comment to faulthandler_disabled(), describing why this
is needed.

faulthandler_disabled() and pagefault_disable() are defined in
linux/uaccess.h, so let's properly add that include to all relevant files.

This patch is based on a patch from Thomas Gleixner.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-7-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

um: Remove SKAS3/4 support

2015-04-13T19:00:53+00:00

Before we had SKAS0 UML had two modes of operation
TT (tracing thread) and SKAS3/4 (separated kernel address space).
TT was known to be insecure and got removed a long time ago.
SKAS3/4 required a few (3 or 4) patches on the host side which never went
mainline. The last host patch is 10 years old.

With SKAS0 mode (separated kernel address space using 0 host patches),
default since 2005, SKAS3/4 is obsolete and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

um: segv: Save regs only in case of a kernel mode fault

2014-07-20T11:39:27+00:00

...otherwise me lose user mode regs and the resulting
stack trace is useless.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: Make stack trace reliable against kernel mode faults

2013-11-17T10:27:30+00:00

As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

arch: mm: pass userspace fault flag to generic fault handler

2013-09-12T22:38:01+00:00

Unlike global OOM handling, memory cgroup code will invoke the OOM killer
in any OOM situation because it has no way of telling faults occuring in
kernel context - which could be handled more gracefully - from
user-triggered faults.

Pass a flag that identifies faults originating in user space from the
architecture-specific fault handlers to generic code so that memcg OOM
handling can be improved.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: azurIt 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds