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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Prevent proc race against freeing of irq descriptors</title>
<updated>2015-01-27T16:29:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T22:01:41+00:00</published>
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commit c291ee622165cb2c8d4e7af63fffd499354a23be upstream.

Since the rework of the sparse interrupt code to actually free the
unused interrupt descriptors there exists a race between the /proc
interfaces to the irq subsystem and the code which frees the interrupt
descriptor.

CPU0				CPU1
				show_interrupts()
				  desc = irq_to_desc(X);
free_desc(desc)
  remove_from_radix_tree();
  kfree(desc);
				  raw_spinlock_irq(&amp;desc-&gt;lock);

/proc/interrupts is the only interface which can actively corrupt
kernel memory via the lock access. /proc/stat can only read from freed
memory. Extremly hard to trigger, but possible.

The interfaces in /proc/irq/N/ are not affected by this because the
removal of the proc file is serialized in procfs against concurrent
readers/writers. The removal happens before the descriptor is freed.

For architectures which have CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=n this is a non issue
as the descriptor is never freed. It's merely cleared out with the irq
descriptor lock held. So any concurrent proc access will either see
the old correct value or the cleared out ones.

Protect the lookup and access to the irq descriptor in
show_interrupts() with the sparse_irq_lock.

Provide kstat_irqs_usr() which is protecting the lookup and access
with sparse_irq_lock and switch /proc/stat to use it.

Document the existing kstat_irqs interfaces so it's clear that the
caller needs to take care about protection. The users of these
interfaces are either not affected due to SPARSE_IRQ=n or already
protected against removal.

Fixes: 1f5a5b87f78f "genirq: Implement a sane sparse_irq allocator"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c291ee622165cb2c8d4e7af63fffd499354a23be upstream.

Since the rework of the sparse interrupt code to actually free the
unused interrupt descriptors there exists a race between the /proc
interfaces to the irq subsystem and the code which frees the interrupt
descriptor.

CPU0				CPU1
				show_interrupts()
				  desc = irq_to_desc(X);
free_desc(desc)
  remove_from_radix_tree();
  kfree(desc);
				  raw_spinlock_irq(&amp;desc-&gt;lock);

/proc/interrupts is the only interface which can actively corrupt
kernel memory via the lock access. /proc/stat can only read from freed
memory. Extremly hard to trigger, but possible.

The interfaces in /proc/irq/N/ are not affected by this because the
removal of the proc file is serialized in procfs against concurrent
readers/writers. The removal happens before the descriptor is freed.

For architectures which have CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=n this is a non issue
as the descriptor is never freed. It's merely cleared out with the irq
descriptor lock held. So any concurrent proc access will either see
the old correct value or the cleared out ones.

Protect the lookup and access to the irq descriptor in
show_interrupts() with the sparse_irq_lock.

Provide kstat_irqs_usr() which is protecting the lookup and access
with sparse_irq_lock and switch /proc/stat to use it.

Document the existing kstat_irqs interfaces so it's clear that the
caller needs to take care about protection. The users of these
interfaces are either not affected due to SPARSE_IRQ=n or already
protected against removal.

Fixes: 1f5a5b87f78f "genirq: Implement a sane sparse_irq allocator"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userns: Add a knob to disable setgroups on a per user namespace basis</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T18:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T18:27:26+00:00</published>
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commit 9cc46516ddf497ea16e8d7cb986ae03a0f6b92f8 upstream.

- Expose the knob to user space through a proc file /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/setgroups

  A value of "deny" means the setgroups system call is disabled in the
  current processes user namespace and can not be enabled in the
  future in this user namespace.

  A value of "allow" means the segtoups system call is enabled.

- Descendant user namespaces inherit the value of setgroups from
  their parents.

- A proc file is used (instead of a sysctl) as sysctls currently do
  not allow checking the permissions at open time.

- Writing to the proc file is restricted to before the gid_map
  for the user namespace is set.

  This ensures that disabling setgroups at a user namespace
  level will never remove the ability to call setgroups
  from a process that already has that ability.

  A process may opt in to the setgroups disable for itself by
  creating, entering and configuring a user namespace or by calling
  setns on an existing user namespace with setgroups disabled.
  Processes without privileges already can not call setgroups so this
  is a noop.  Prodcess with privilege become processes without
  privilege when entering a user namespace and as with any other path
  to dropping privilege they would not have the ability to call
  setgroups.  So this remains within the bounds of what is possible
  without a knob to disable setgroups permanently in a user namespace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9cc46516ddf497ea16e8d7cb986ae03a0f6b92f8 upstream.

- Expose the knob to user space through a proc file /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/setgroups

  A value of "deny" means the setgroups system call is disabled in the
  current processes user namespace and can not be enabled in the
  future in this user namespace.

  A value of "allow" means the segtoups system call is enabled.

- Descendant user namespaces inherit the value of setgroups from
  their parents.

- A proc file is used (instead of a sysctl) as sysctls currently do
  not allow checking the permissions at open time.

- Writing to the proc file is restricted to before the gid_map
  for the user namespace is set.

  This ensures that disabling setgroups at a user namespace
  level will never remove the ability to call setgroups
  from a process that already has that ability.

  A process may opt in to the setgroups disable for itself by
  creating, entering and configuring a user namespace or by calling
  setns on an existing user namespace with setgroups disabled.
  Processes without privileges already can not call setgroups so this
  is a noop.  Prodcess with privilege become processes without
  privilege when entering a user namespace and as with any other path
  to dropping privilege they would not have the ability to call
  setgroups.  So this remains within the bounds of what is possible
  without a knob to disable setgroups permanently in a user namespace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared</title>
<updated>2014-10-14T00:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Feiner</name>
<email>pfeiner@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T22:55:46+00:00</published>
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For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults
have their write bit set.  If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent
writes.

Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug:

  char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
  system("echo 4 &gt; /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */
  assert(*m == '\0');     /* new PTE allows write access */
  assert(!soft_dirty(x));
  *m = 'x';               /* should dirty the page */
  assert(soft_dirty(x));  /* fails */

With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared.  Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications
are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set.

As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with
care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by
drivers were zapped on mprotect.  An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by
commit c9d0bf241451 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify").

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Liu &lt;jamieliu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults
have their write bit set.  If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent
writes.

Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug:

  char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
  system("echo 4 &gt; /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */
  assert(*m == '\0');     /* new PTE allows write access */
  assert(!soft_dirty(x));
  *m = 'x';               /* should dirty the page */
  assert(soft_dirty(x));  /* fails */

With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared.  Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications
are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set.

As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with
care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by
drivers were zapped on mprotect.  An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by
commit c9d0bf241451 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify").

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Liu &lt;jamieliu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T09:28:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T09:28:42+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The big thing in this pile is Eric's unmount-on-rmdir series; we
  finally have everything we need for that.  The final piece of prereqs
  is delayed mntput() - now filesystem shutdown always happens on
  shallow stack.

  Other than that, we have several new primitives for iov_iter (Matt
  Wilcox, culled from his XIP-related series) pushing the conversion to
  -&gt;read_iter()/ -&gt;write_iter() a bit more, a bunch of fs/dcache.c
  cleanups and fixes (including the external name refcounting, which
  gives consistent behaviour of d_move() wrt procfs symlinks for long
  and short names alike) and assorted cleanups and fixes all over the
  place.

  This is just the first pile; there's a lot of stuff from various
  people that ought to go in this window.  Starting with
  unionmount/overlayfs mess...  ;-/"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (60 commits)
  fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
  vfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths
  reiserfs: remove pointless forward declaration of struct nameidata
  don't need that forward declaration of struct nameidata in dcache.h anymore
  take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c
  let path_init() failures treated the same way as subsequent link_path_walk()
  fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
  ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk
  vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()
  gfs2_atomic_open(): skip lookups on hashed dentry
  [infiniband] remove pointless assignments
  gadgetfs: saner API for gadgetfs_create_file()
  f_fs: saner API for ffs_sb_create_file()
  jfs: don't hash direct inode
  [s390] remove pointless assignment of -&gt;f_op in vmlogrdr -&gt;open()
  ecryptfs: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  android: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  nouveau: __iomem misannotations
  missing annotation in fs/file.c
  fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
  ...
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The big thing in this pile is Eric's unmount-on-rmdir series; we
  finally have everything we need for that.  The final piece of prereqs
  is delayed mntput() - now filesystem shutdown always happens on
  shallow stack.

  Other than that, we have several new primitives for iov_iter (Matt
  Wilcox, culled from his XIP-related series) pushing the conversion to
  -&gt;read_iter()/ -&gt;write_iter() a bit more, a bunch of fs/dcache.c
  cleanups and fixes (including the external name refcounting, which
  gives consistent behaviour of d_move() wrt procfs symlinks for long
  and short names alike) and assorted cleanups and fixes all over the
  place.

  This is just the first pile; there's a lot of stuff from various
  people that ought to go in this window.  Starting with
  unionmount/overlayfs mess...  ;-/"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (60 commits)
  fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
  vfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths
  reiserfs: remove pointless forward declaration of struct nameidata
  don't need that forward declaration of struct nameidata in dcache.h anymore
  take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c
  let path_init() failures treated the same way as subsequent link_path_walk()
  fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
  ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk
  vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()
  gfs2_atomic_open(): skip lookups on hashed dentry
  [infiniband] remove pointless assignments
  gadgetfs: saner API for gadgetfs_create_file()
  f_fs: saner API for ffs_sb_create_file()
  jfs: don't hash direct inode
  [s390] remove pointless assignment of -&gt;f_op in vmlogrdr -&gt;open()
  ecryptfs: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  android: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  nouveau: __iomem misannotations
  missing annotation in fs/file.c
  fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T11:24:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T11:24:40+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting.  Just a handful of cleanup patches"

* 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  Revert "cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount()"
  cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount()
  cgroup: fix missing unlock in cgroup_release_agent()
  cgroup: remove CGRP_RELEASABLE flag
  perf/cgroup: Remove perf_put_cgroup()
  cgroup: remove redundant check in cgroup_ino()
  cpuset: simplify proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: simplify proc_cgroup_show()
  cgroup: use a per-cgroup work for release agent
  cgroup: remove bogus comments
  cgroup: remove redundant code in cgroup_rmdir()
  cgroup: remove some useless forward declarations
  cgroup: fix a typo in comment.
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting.  Just a handful of cleanup patches"

* 'for-3.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  Revert "cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount()"
  cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount()
  cgroup: fix missing unlock in cgroup_release_agent()
  cgroup: remove CGRP_RELEASABLE flag
  perf/cgroup: Remove perf_put_cgroup()
  cgroup: remove redundant check in cgroup_ino()
  cpuset: simplify proc_cpuset_show()
  cgroup: simplify proc_cgroup_show()
  cgroup: use a per-cgroup work for release agent
  cgroup: remove bogus comments
  cgroup: remove redundant code in cgroup_rmdir()
  cgroup: remove some useless forward declarations
  cgroup: fix a typo in comment.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bit</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>k.khlebnikov@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:29:32+00:00</published>
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Always mark pages with PageBalloon even if balloon compaction is disabled
and expose this mark in /proc/kpageflags as KPF_BALLOON.

Also this patch adds three counters into /proc/vmstat: "balloon_inflate",
"balloon_deflate" and "balloon_migrate".  They accumulate balloon
activity.  Current size of balloon is (balloon_inflate - balloon_deflate)
pages.

All generic balloon code now gathered under option CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON.
It should be selected by ballooning driver which wants use this feature.
Currently virtio-balloon is the only user.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;k.khlebnikov@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Always mark pages with PageBalloon even if balloon compaction is disabled
and expose this mark in /proc/kpageflags as KPF_BALLOON.

Also this patch adds three counters into /proc/vmstat: "balloon_inflate",
"balloon_deflate" and "balloon_migrate".  They accumulate balloon
activity.  Current size of balloon is (balloon_inflate - balloon_deflate)
pages.

All generic balloon code now gathered under option CONFIG_MEMORY_BALLOON.
It should be selected by ballooning driver which wants use this feature.
Currently virtio-balloon is the only user.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;k.khlebnikov@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: softdirty: unmapped addresses between VMAs are clean</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:25:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Feiner</name>
<email>pfeiner@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:28:32+00:00</published>
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If a /proc/pid/pagemap read spans a [VMA, an unmapped region, then a
VM_SOFTDIRTY VMA], the virtual pages in the unmapped region are reported
as softdirty.  Here's a program to demonstrate the bug:

int main() {
	const uint64_t PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY = 1ul &lt;&lt; 55;
	uint64_t pme[3];
	int fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);;
	char *m = mmap(NULL, 3 * getpagesize(), PROT_READ,
	               MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
	munmap(m + getpagesize(), getpagesize());
	pread(fd, pme, 24, (unsigned long) m / getpagesize() * 8);
	assert(pme[0] &amp; PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY);    /* passes */
	assert(!(pme[1] &amp; PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY)); /* fails */
	assert(pme[2] &amp; PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY);    /* passes */
	return 0;
}

(Note that all pages in new VMAs are softdirty until cleared).

Tested:
	Used the program given above. I'm going to include this code in
	a selftest in the future.

[n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com: prevent pagemap_pte_range() from overrunning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Liu &lt;jamieliu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If a /proc/pid/pagemap read spans a [VMA, an unmapped region, then a
VM_SOFTDIRTY VMA], the virtual pages in the unmapped region are reported
as softdirty.  Here's a program to demonstrate the bug:

int main() {
	const uint64_t PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY = 1ul &lt;&lt; 55;
	uint64_t pme[3];
	int fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);;
	char *m = mmap(NULL, 3 * getpagesize(), PROT_READ,
	               MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
	munmap(m + getpagesize(), getpagesize());
	pread(fd, pme, 24, (unsigned long) m / getpagesize() * 8);
	assert(pme[0] &amp; PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY);    /* passes */
	assert(!(pme[1] &amp; PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY)); /* fails */
	assert(pme[2] &amp; PAGEMAP_SOFTDIRTY);    /* passes */
	return 0;
}

(Note that all pages in new VMAs are softdirty until cleared).

Tested:
	Used the program given above. I'm going to include this code in
	a selftest in the future.

[n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com: prevent pagemap_pte_range() from overrunning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Jamie Liu &lt;jamieliu@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mempolicy: fix show_numa_map() vs exec() + do_set_mempolicy() race</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:27:52+00:00</published>
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9e7814404b77 "hold task-&gt;mempolicy while numa_maps scans." fixed the
race with the exiting task but this is not enough.

The current code assumes that get_vma_policy(task) should either see
task-&gt;mempolicy == NULL or it should be equal to -&gt;task_mempolicy saved
by hold_task_mempolicy(), so we can never race with __mpol_put(). But
this can only work if we can't race with do_set_mempolicy(), and thus
we can't race with another do_set_mempolicy() or do_exit() after that.

However, do_set_mempolicy()-&gt;down_write(mmap_sem) can not prevent this
race. This task can exec, change it's -&gt;mm, and call do_set_mempolicy()
after that; in this case they take 2 different locks.

Change hold_task_mempolicy() to use get_task_policy(), it never returns
NULL, and change show_numa_map() to use __get_vma_policy() or fall back
to proc_priv-&gt;task_mempolicy.

Note: this is the minimal fix, we will cleanup this code later. I think
hold_task_mempolicy() and release_task_mempolicy() should die, we can
move this logic into show_numa_map(). Or we can move get_task_policy()
outside of -&gt;mmap_sem and !CONFIG_NUMA code at least.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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9e7814404b77 "hold task-&gt;mempolicy while numa_maps scans." fixed the
race with the exiting task but this is not enough.

The current code assumes that get_vma_policy(task) should either see
task-&gt;mempolicy == NULL or it should be equal to -&gt;task_mempolicy saved
by hold_task_mempolicy(), so we can never race with __mpol_put(). But
this can only work if we can't race with do_set_mempolicy(), and thus
we can't race with another do_set_mempolicy() or do_exit() after that.

However, do_set_mempolicy()-&gt;down_write(mmap_sem) can not prevent this
race. This task can exec, change it's -&gt;mm, and call do_set_mempolicy()
after that; in this case they take 2 different locks.

Change hold_task_mempolicy() to use get_task_policy(), it never returns
NULL, and change show_numa_map() to use __get_vma_policy() or fall back
to proc_priv-&gt;task_mempolicy.

Note: this is the minimal fix, we will cleanup this code later. I think
hold_task_mempolicy() and release_task_mempolicy() should die, we can
move this logic into show_numa_map(). Or we can move get_task_policy()
outside of -&gt;mmap_sem and !CONFIG_NUMA code at least.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/kcore.c: don't add modules range to kcore if it's equal to vmcore range</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:25:56+00:00</published>
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On some ARCHs modules range is eauql to vmalloc range. E.g on i686

	"#define MODULES_VADDR   VMALLOC_START"
	"#define MODULES_END     VMALLOC_END"

This will cause 2 duplicate program segments in /proc/kcore, and no flag
to indicate they are different.  This is confusing.  And usually people
who need check the elf header or read the content of kcore will check
memory ranges.  Two program segments which are the same are unnecessary.

So check if the modules range is equal to vmalloc range.  If so, just skip
adding the modules range.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On some ARCHs modules range is eauql to vmalloc range. E.g on i686

	"#define MODULES_VADDR   VMALLOC_START"
	"#define MODULES_END     VMALLOC_END"

This will cause 2 duplicate program segments in /proc/kcore, and no flag
to indicate they are different.  This is confusing.  And usually people
who need check the elf header or read the content of kcore will check
memory ranges.  Two program segments which are the same are unnecessary.

So check if the modules range is equal to vmalloc range.  If so, just skip
adding the modules range.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:25:54+00:00</published>
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- Rename vm_is_stack() to task_of_stack() and change it to return
  "struct task_struct *" rather than the global (and thus wrong in
  general) pid_t.

- Add the new pid_of_stack() helper which calls task_of_stack() and
  uses the right namespace to report the correct pid_t.

  Unfortunately we need to define this helper twice, in task_mmu.c
  and in task_nommu.c. perhaps it makes sense to add fs/proc/util.c
  and move at least pid_of_stack/task_of_stack there to avoid the
  code duplication.

- Change show_map_vma() and show_numa_map() to use the new helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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- Rename vm_is_stack() to task_of_stack() and change it to return
  "struct task_struct *" rather than the global (and thus wrong in
  general) pid_t.

- Add the new pid_of_stack() helper which calls task_of_stack() and
  uses the right namespace to report the correct pid_t.

  Unfortunately we need to define this helper twice, in task_mmu.c
  and in task_nommu.c. perhaps it makes sense to add fs/proc/util.c
  and move at least pid_of_stack/task_of_stack there to avoid the
  code duplication.

- Change show_map_vma() and show_numa_map() to use the new helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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