Provide a new syscall which has the only purpose to yield the CPU after the kernel granted a time slice extension. sched_yield() is not suitable for that because it unconditionally schedules, but the end of the time slice extension is not required to schedule when the task was already preempted. This also allows to have a strict check for termination to catch user space invoking random syscalls including sched_yield() from a time slice extension region. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.929634896@linutronix.de
Add the listns() system call to all architectures. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-20-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Adding new uprobe syscall that calls uprobe handlers for given 'breakpoint' address. The idea is that the 'breakpoint' address calls the user space trampoline which executes the uprobe syscall. The syscall handler reads the return address of the initial call to retrieve the original 'breakpoint' address. With this address we find the related uprobe object and call its consumers. Adding the arch_uprobe_trampoline_mapping function that provides uprobe trampoline mapping. This mapping is backed with one global page initialized at __init time and shared by the all the mapping instances. We do not allow to execute uprobe syscall if the caller is not from uprobe trampoline mapping. The uprobe syscall ensures the consumer (bpf program) sees registers values in the state before the trampoline was called. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250720112133.244369-10-jolsa@kernel.org
Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat() semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended attributes. This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd. This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory and a path - *at() like syscall. CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
"x86 CPU features support:
- Generate the <asm/cpufeaturemasks.h> header based on build config
(H. Peter Anvin, Xin Li)
- x86 CPUID parsing updates and fixes (Ahmed S. Darwish)
- Introduce the 'setcpuid=' boot parameter (Brendan Jackman)
- Enable modifying CPU bug flags with '{clear,set}puid=' (Brendan
Jackman)
- Utilize CPU-type for CPU matching (Pawan Gupta)
- Warn about unmet CPU feature dependencies (Sohil Mehta)
- Prepare for new Intel Family numbers (Sohil Mehta)
Percpu code:
- Standardize & reorganize the x86 percpu layout and related cleanups
(Brian Gerst)
- Convert the stackprotector canary to a regular percpu variable
(Brian Gerst)
- Add a percpu subsection for cache hot data (Brian Gerst)
- Unify __pcpu_op{1,2}_N() macros to __pcpu_op_N() (Uros Bizjak)
- Construct __percpu_seg_override from __percpu_seg (Uros Bizjak)
MM:
- Add support for broadcast TLB invalidation using AMD's INVLPGB
instruction (Rik van Riel)
- Rework ROX cache to avoid writable copy (Mike Rapoport)
- PAT: restore large ROX pages after fragmentation (Kirill A.
Shutemov, Mike Rapoport)
- Make memremap(MEMREMAP_WB) map memory as encrypted by default
(Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Robustify page table initialization (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs (Jann Horn)
- Clear _PAGE_DIRTY for kernel mappings when we clear _PAGE_RW
(Matthew Wilcox)
KASLR:
- x86/kaslr: Reduce KASLR entropy on most x86 systems, to support PCI
BAR space beyond the 10TiB region (CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA=y) (Balbir
Singh)
CPU bugs:
- Implement FineIBT-BHI mitigation (Peter Zijlstra)
- speculation: Simplify and make CALL_NOSPEC consistent (Pawan Gupta)
- speculation: Add a conditional CS prefix to CALL_NOSPEC (Pawan
Gupta)
- RFDS: Exclude P-only parts from the RFDS affected list (Pawan
Gupta)
System calls:
- Break up entry/common.c (Brian Gerst)
- Move sysctls into arch/x86 (Joel Granados)
Intel LAM support updates: (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
- selftests/lam: Move cpu_has_la57() to use cpuinfo flag
- selftests/lam: Skip test if LAM is disabled
- selftests/lam: Test get_user() LAM pointer handling
AMD SMN access updates:
- Add SMN offsets to exclusive region access (Mario Limonciello)
- Add support for debugfs access to SMN registers (Mario Limonciello)
- Have HSMP use SMN through AMD_NODE (Yazen Ghannam)
Power management updates: (Patryk Wlazlyn)
- Allow calling mwait_play_dead with an arbitrary hint
- ACPI/processor_idle: Add FFH state handling
- intel_idle: Provide the default enter_dead() handler
- Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()
Build system:
- Raise the minimum GCC version to 8.1 (Brian Gerst)
- Raise the minimum LLVM version to 15.0.0 (Nathan Chancellor)
Kconfig: (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add cmpxchg8b support back to Geode CPUs
- Drop 32-bit "bigsmp" machine support
- Rework CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU compiler flags
- Drop configuration options for early 64-bit CPUs
- Remove CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G support
- Drop CONFIG_SWIOTLB for PAE
- Drop support for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
- Document CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MID as 64-bit-only
- Remove old STA2x11 support
- Only allow CONFIG_EISA for 32-bit
Headers:
- Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI and non-UAPI
headers (Thomas Huth)
Assembly code & machine code patching:
- x86/alternatives: Simplify alternative_call() interface (Josh
Poimboeuf)
- x86/alternatives: Simplify callthunk patching (Peter Zijlstra)
- KVM: VMX: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/hyperv: Use named operands in inline asm (Josh Poimboeuf)
- x86/traps: Cleanup and robustify decode_bug() (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from
<asm/asm.h> (Uros Bizjak)
- Use named operands in inline asm (Uros Bizjak)
- Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking
instructions (Uros Bizjak)
Earlyprintk:
- Harden early_serial (Peter Zijlstra)
NMI handler:
- Add an emergency handler in nmi_desc & use it in
nmi_shootdown_cpus() (Waiman Long)
Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups:
- by Ahmed S. Darwish, Andy Shevchenko, Ard Biesheuvel, Artem
Bityutskiy, Borislav Petkov, Brendan Jackman, Brian Gerst, Dan
Carpenter, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, H. Peter Anvin, Ingo Molnar,
Josh Poimboeuf, Kevin Brodsky, Mike Rapoport, Lukas Bulwahn, Maciej
Wieczor-Retman, Max Grobecker, Patryk Wlazlyn, Pawan Gupta, Peter
Zijlstra, Philip Redkin, Qasim Ijaz, Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner,
Thorsten Blum, Tom Lendacky, Tony Luck, Uros Bizjak, Vitaly
Kuznetsov, Xin Li, liuye"
* tag 'x86-core-2025-03-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (211 commits)
zstd: Increase DYNAMIC_BMI2 GCC version cutoff from 4.8 to 11.0 to work around compiler segfault
x86/asm: Make asm export of __ref_stack_chk_guard unconditional
x86/mm: Only do broadcast flush from reclaim if pages were unmapped
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Replace Pentium 4 model checks with VFM ones
perf/x86/intel, x86/cpu: Simplify Intel PMU initialization
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in non-UAPI headers
x86/headers: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in UAPI headers
x86/locking/atomic: Improve performance by using asm_inline() for atomic locking instructions
x86/asm: Use asm_inline() instead of asm() in clwb()
x86/asm: Use CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB mnemonics in <asm/special_insns.h>
x86/hweight: Use asm_inline() instead of asm()
x86/hweight: Use ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT in inline asm()
x86/hweight: Use named operands in inline asm()
x86/stackprotector/64: Only export __ref_stack_chk_guard on CONFIG_SMP
x86/head/64: Avoid Clang < 17 stack protector in startup code
x86/kexec: Merge x86_32 and x86_64 code using macros from <asm/asm.h>
x86/runtime-const: Add the RUNTIME_CONST_PTR assembly macro
x86/cpu/intel: Limit the non-architectural constant_tsc model checks
x86/mm/pat: Replace Intel x86_model checks with VFM ones
x86/cpu/intel: Fix fast string initialization for extended Families
...
Use in_ia32_syscall() instead of a compat syscall entry. No change in functionality intended. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250202202323.422113-2-brgerst@gmail.com
Add open_tree_attr() which allow to atomically create a detached mount tree and set mount options on it. If OPEN_TREE_CLONE is used this will allow the creation of a detached mount with a new set of mount options without it ever being exposed to userspace without that set of mount options applied. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128-work-mnt_idmap-update-v2-v1-3-c25feb0d2eb3@kernel.org Reviewed-by: "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Add the four syscalls setxattrat(), getxattrat(), listxattrat() and
removexattrat(). Those can be used to operate on extended attributes,
especially security related ones, either relative to a pinned directory
or on a file descriptor without read access, avoiding a
/proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> detour, requiring a mounted procfs.
One use case will be setfiles(8) setting SELinux file contexts
("security.selinux") without race conditions and without a file
descriptor opened with read access requiring SELinux read permission.
Use the do_{name}at() pattern from fs/open.c.
Pass the value of the extended attribute, its length, and for
setxattrat(2) the command (XATTR_CREATE or XATTR_REPLACE) via an added
struct xattr_args to not exceed six syscall arguments and not
merging the AT_* and XATTR_* flags.
[AV: fixes by Christian Brauner folded in, the entire thing rebased on
top of {filename,file}_...xattr() primitives, treatment of empty
pathnames regularized. As the result, AT_EMPTY_PATH+NULL handling
is cheap, so f...(2) can use it]
Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240426162042.191916-1-cgoettsche@seltendoof.de
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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[brauner: slight tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Despite multiple attempts to get the syscall number assignment right
for the newly added uretprobe syscall, we ended up with a bit of a mess:
- The number is defined as 467 based on the assumption that the
xattrat family of syscalls would use 463 through 466, but those
did not make it into 6.11.
- The include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h file still lists the number
463, but the new scripts/syscall.tbl that was supposed to have the
same data lists 467 instead as the number for arc, arm64, csky,
hexagon, loongarch, nios2, openrisc and riscv. None of these
architectures actually provide a uretprobe syscall.
- All the other architectures (powerpc, arm, mips, ...) don't list
this syscall at all.
There are two ways to make it consistent again: either list it with
the same syscall number on all architectures, or only list it on x86
but not in scripts/syscall.tbl and asm-generic/unistd.h.
Based on the most recent discussion, it seems like we won't need it
anywhere else, so just remove the inconsistent assignment and instead
move the x86 number to the next available one in the architecture
specific range, which is 335.
Fixes: 5c28424e9a34 ("syscalls: Fix to add sys_uretprobe to syscall.tbl")
Fixes: 190fec72df4a ("uprobe: Wire up uretprobe system call")
Fixes: 63ded110979b ("uprobe: Change uretprobe syscall scope and number")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
"Uprobes:
- x86/shstk: Make return uprobe work with shadow stack
- Add uretprobe syscall which speeds up the uretprobe 10-30% faster.
This syscall is automatically used from user-space trampolines
which are generated by the uretprobe. If this syscall is used by
normal user program, it will cause SIGILL. Note that this is
currently only implemented on x86_64.
(This also has two fixes for adjusting the syscall number to avoid
conflict with new *attrat syscalls.)
- uprobes/perf: fix user stack traces in the presence of pending
uretprobe. This corrects the uretprobe's trampoline address in the
stacktrace with correct return address
- selftests/x86: Add a return uprobe with shadow stack test
- selftests/bpf: Add uretprobe syscall related tests.
- test case for register integrity check
- test case with register changing case
- test case for uretprobe syscall without uprobes (expected to fail)
- test case for uretprobe with shadow stack
- selftests/bpf: add test validating uprobe/uretprobe stack traces
- MAINTAINERS: Add uprobes entry. This does not specify the tree but
to clarify who maintains and reviews the uprobes
Kprobes:
- tracing/kprobes: Test case cleanups.
Replace redundant WARN_ON_ONCE() + pr_warn() with WARN_ONCE() and
remove unnecessary code from selftest
- tracing/kprobes: Add symbol counting check when module loads.
This checks the uniqueness of the probed symbol on modules. The
same check has already done for kernel symbols
(This also has a fix for build error with CONFIG_MODULES=n)
Cleanup:
- Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros for fprobe and kprobe examples"
* tag 'probes-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
MAINTAINERS: Add uprobes entry
selftests/bpf: Change uretprobe syscall number in uprobe_syscall test
uprobe: Change uretprobe syscall scope and number
tracing/kprobes: Fix build error when find_module() is not available
tracing/kprobes: Add symbol counting check when module loads
selftests/bpf: add test validating uprobe/uretprobe stack traces
perf,uprobes: fix user stack traces in the presence of pending uretprobes
tracing/kprobe: Remove cleanup code unrelated to selftest
tracing/kprobe: Integrate test warnings into WARN_ONCE
selftests/bpf: Add uretprobe shadow stack test
selftests/bpf: Add uretprobe syscall call from user space test
selftests/bpf: Add uretprobe syscall test for regs changes
selftests/bpf: Add uretprobe syscall test for regs integrity
selftests/x86: Add return uprobe shadow stack test
uprobe: Add uretprobe syscall to speed up return probe
uprobe: Wire up uretprobe system call
x86/shstk: Make return uprobe work with shadow stack
samples: kprobes: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros
fprobe: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro