linux-toradex.git/ipc/sem.c, branch v7.0-rc6 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00 bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43 This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' | xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/' to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL argument to just drop that argument. Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered: they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically. For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate conversion. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00 Kees Cook kees@kernel.org 2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00 69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> 
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree 2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00 Simon Schuster schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com 2025-09-01T13:09:51+00:00 edd3cb05c00a040dc72bed20b14b5ba865188bce With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags. However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not changed from the previous type of unsigned long. While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits (CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise. Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> 
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to
sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific
copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that
no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
ipc/sem: use flexible array in 'struct sem_undo' 2023-08-18T17:18:51+00:00 Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr 2023-07-09T16:12:55+00:00 b46fae06153da31a80ab0f3e98819416fc134725 Turn 'semadj' in 'struct sem_undo' into a flexible array. The advantages are: - save the size of a pointer when the new undo structure is allocated - avoid some always ugly pointer arithmetic to get the address of semadj - avoid an indirection when the array is accessed While at it, use struct_size() to compute the size of the new undo structure. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ba993d443ad7e16ac2b1902adab1f05ebdfa454.1688918791.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Reviewed-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Turn 'semadj' in 'struct sem_undo' into a flexible array.

The advantages are:
   - save the size of a pointer when the new undo structure is allocated
   - avoid some always ugly pointer arithmetic to get the address of semadj
   - avoid an indirection when the array is accessed

While at it, use struct_size() to compute the size of the new undo
structure.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ba993d443ad7e16ac2b1902adab1f05ebdfa454.1688918791.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race 2022-12-05T18:54:44+00:00 Jann Horn jannh@google.com 2022-12-05T16:59:27+00:00 b52be557e24c47286738276121177a41f54e3b83 When __do_semtimedop() goes to sleep because it has to wait for a semaphore value becoming zero or becoming bigger than some threshold, it links the on-stack sem_queue to the sem_array, then goes to sleep without holding a reference on the sem_array. When __do_semtimedop() comes back out of sleep, one of two things must happen: a) We prove that the on-stack sem_queue has been disconnected from the (possibly freed) sem_array, making it safe to return from the stack frame that the sem_queue exists in. b) We stabilize our reference to the sem_array, lock the sem_array, and detach the sem_queue from the sem_array ourselves. sem_array has RCU lifetime, so for case (b), the reference can be stabilized inside an RCU read-side critical section by locklessly checking whether the sem_queue is still connected to the sem_array. However, the current code does the lockless check on sem_queue before starting an RCU read-side critical section, so the result of the lockless check immediately becomes useless. Fix it by doing rcu_read_lock() before the lockless check. Now RCU ensures that if we observe the object being on our queue, the object can't be freed until rcu_read_unlock(). This bug is only hittable on kernel builds with full preemption support (either CONFIG_PREEMPT or PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with preempt=full). Fixes: 370b262c896e ("ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
When __do_semtimedop() goes to sleep because it has to wait for a
semaphore value becoming zero or becoming bigger than some threshold, it
links the on-stack sem_queue to the sem_array, then goes to sleep
without holding a reference on the sem_array.

When __do_semtimedop() comes back out of sleep, one of two things must
happen:

 a) We prove that the on-stack sem_queue has been disconnected from the
    (possibly freed) sem_array, making it safe to return from the stack
    frame that the sem_queue exists in.

 b) We stabilize our reference to the sem_array, lock the sem_array, and
    detach the sem_queue from the sem_array ourselves.

sem_array has RCU lifetime, so for case (b), the reference can be
stabilized inside an RCU read-side critical section by locklessly
checking whether the sem_queue is still connected to the sem_array.

However, the current code does the lockless check on sem_queue before
starting an RCU read-side critical section, so the result of the
lockless check immediately becomes useless.

Fix it by doing rcu_read_lock() before the lockless check.  Now RCU
ensures that if we observe the object being on our queue, the object
can't be freed until rcu_read_unlock().

This bug is only hittable on kernel builds with full preemption support
(either CONFIG_PREEMPT or PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with preempt=full).

Fixes: 370b262c896e ("ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc: update semtimedop() to use hrtimer 2022-05-10T01:29:20+00:00 Prakash Sangappa prakash.sangappa@oracle.com 2022-05-10T01:29:20+00:00 49c9dd0df65d547a58642d2f717eeb560e1db140 semtimedop() should be converted to use hrtimer like it has been done for most of the system calls with timeouts. This system call already takes a struct timespec as an argument and can therefore provide finer granularity timed wait. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1651187881-2858-1-git-send-email-prakash.sangappa@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
semtimedop() should be converted to use hrtimer like it has been done for
most of the system calls with timeouts.  This system call already takes a
struct timespec as an argument and can therefore provide finer granularity
timed wait.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1651187881-2858-1-git-send-email-prakash.sangappa@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/sem: remove redundant assignments 2022-05-10T01:29:20+00:00 Michal Orzel michalorzel.eng@gmail.com 2022-05-10T01:29:20+00:00 0e900029655327bb5326ced02eff97667a079039 Get rid of redundant assignments which end up in values not being read either because they are overwritten or the function ends. Reported by clang-tidy [deadcode.DeadStores] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220409101933.207157-1-michalorzel.eng@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Get rid of redundant assignments which end up in values not being
read either because they are overwritten or the function ends.

Reported by clang-tidy [deadcode.DeadStores]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220409101933.207157-1-michalorzel.eng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michalorzel.eng@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/sem: do not sleep with a spin lock held 2022-02-04T17:25:05+00:00 Minghao Chi chi.minghao@zte.com.cn 2022-02-04T04:49:33+00:00 520ba724061cef59763e2b6f5b26e8387c2e5822 We can't call kvfree() with a spin lock held, so defer it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211223031207.556189-1-chi.minghao@zte.com.cn Fixes: fc37a3b8b438 ("[PATCH] ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation") Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Yang Guang <cgel.zte@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
We can't call kvfree() with a spin lock held, so defer it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211223031207.556189-1-chi.minghao@zte.com.cn
Fixes: fc37a3b8b438 ("[PATCH] ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation")
Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Yang Guang <cgel.zte@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14T17:22:11+00:00 Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com 2021-09-11T07:40:08+00:00 6a4746ba06191e23d30230738e94334b26590a8a Linus proposes to revert an accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() because it's really just a temporary buffer for a single semtimedop() system call. This object can consume up to 2 pages, syscall is sleeping one, size and duration can be controlled by user, and this allocation can be repeated by many thread at the same time. However Shakeel Butt pointed that there are much more popular objects with the same life time and similar memory consumption, the accounting of which was decided to be rejected for performance reasons. Considering at least 2 pages for task_struct and 2 pages for the kernel stack, a back of the envelope calculation gives a footprint amplification of <1.5 so this temporal buffer can be safely ignored. The factor would IMO be interesting if it was >> 2 (from the PoV of excessive (ab)use, fine-grained accounting seems to be currently unfeasible due to performance impact). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/90e254df-0dfe-f080-011e-b7c53ee7fd20@virtuozzo.com/ Fixes: 18319498fdd4 ("memcg: enable accounting of ipc resources") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Linus proposes to revert an accounting for sops objects in
do_semtimedop() because it's really just a temporary buffer
for a single semtimedop() system call.

This object can consume up to 2 pages, syscall is sleeping
one, size and duration can be controlled by user, and this
allocation can be repeated by many thread at the same time.

However Shakeel Butt pointed that there are much more popular
objects with the same life time and similar memory
consumption, the accounting of which was decided to be
rejected for performance reasons.

Considering at least 2 pages for task_struct and 2 pages for
the kernel stack, a back of the envelope calculation gives a
footprint amplification of <1.5 so this temporal buffer can be
safely ignored.

The factor would IMO be interesting if it was >> 2 (from the
PoV of excessive (ab)use, fine-grained accounting seems to be
currently unfeasible due to performance impact).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/90e254df-0dfe-f080-011e-b7c53ee7fd20@virtuozzo.com/
Fixes: 18319498fdd4 ("memcg: enable accounting of ipc resources")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2021-09-09T20:25:49+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-09-09T20:25:49+00:00 35776f10513c0d523c5dd2f1b415f642497779e2 Pull ARM development updates from Russell King: - Rename "mod_init" and "mod_exit" so that initcall debug output is actually useful (Randy Dunlap) - Update maintainers entries for linux-arm-kernel to indicate it is moderated for non-subscribers (Randy Dunlap) - Move install rules to arch/arm/Makefile (Masahiro Yamada) - Drop unnecessary ARCH_NR_GPIOS definition (Linus Walleij) - Don't warn about atags_to_fdt() stack size (David Heidelberg) - Speed up unaligned copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault (Arnd Bergmann) - Get rid of set_fs() usage (Arnd Bergmann) - Remove checks for GCC prior to v4.6 (Geert Uytterhoeven) * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: ARM: 9118/1: div64: Remove always-true __div64_const32_is_OK() duplicate ARM: 9117/1: asm-generic: div64: Remove always-true __div64_const32_is_OK() ARM: 9116/1: unified: Remove check for gcc < 4 ARM: 9110/1: oabi-compat: fix oabi epoll sparse warning ARM: 9113/1: uaccess: remove set_fs() implementation ARM: 9112/1: uaccess: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault ARM: 9111/1: oabi-compat: rework fcntl64() emulation ARM: 9114/1: oabi-compat: rework sys_semtimedop emulation ARM: 9108/1: oabi-compat: rework epoll_wait/epoll_pwait emulation ARM: 9107/1: syscall: always store thread_info->abi_syscall ARM: 9109/1: oabi-compat: add epoll_pwait handler ARM: 9106/1: traps: use get_kernel_nofault instead of set_fs() ARM: 9115/1: mm/maccess: fix unaligned copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault ARM: 9105/1: atags_to_fdt: don't warn about stack size ARM: 9103/1: Drop ARCH_NR_GPIOS definition ARM: 9102/1: move theinstall rules to arch/arm/Makefile ARM: 9100/1: MAINTAINERS: mark all linux-arm-kernel@infradead list as moderated ARM: 9099/1: crypto: rename 'mod_init' & 'mod_exit' functions to be module-specific 
Pull ARM development updates from Russell King:

 - Rename "mod_init" and "mod_exit" so that initcall debug output is
   actually useful (Randy Dunlap)

 - Update maintainers entries for linux-arm-kernel to indicate it is
   moderated for non-subscribers (Randy Dunlap)

 - Move install rules to arch/arm/Makefile (Masahiro Yamada)

 - Drop unnecessary ARCH_NR_GPIOS definition (Linus Walleij)

 - Don't warn about atags_to_fdt() stack size (David Heidelberg)

 - Speed up unaligned copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault (Arnd Bergmann)

 - Get rid of set_fs() usage (Arnd Bergmann)

 - Remove checks for GCC prior to v4.6 (Geert Uytterhoeven)

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 9118/1: div64: Remove always-true __div64_const32_is_OK() duplicate
  ARM: 9117/1: asm-generic: div64: Remove always-true __div64_const32_is_OK()
  ARM: 9116/1: unified: Remove check for gcc < 4
  ARM: 9110/1: oabi-compat: fix oabi epoll sparse warning
  ARM: 9113/1: uaccess: remove set_fs() implementation
  ARM: 9112/1: uaccess: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault
  ARM: 9111/1: oabi-compat: rework fcntl64() emulation
  ARM: 9114/1: oabi-compat: rework sys_semtimedop emulation
  ARM: 9108/1: oabi-compat: rework epoll_wait/epoll_pwait emulation
  ARM: 9107/1: syscall: always store thread_info->abi_syscall
  ARM: 9109/1: oabi-compat: add epoll_pwait handler
  ARM: 9106/1: traps: use get_kernel_nofault instead of set_fs()
  ARM: 9115/1: mm/maccess: fix unaligned copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault
  ARM: 9105/1: atags_to_fdt: don't warn about stack size
  ARM: 9103/1: Drop ARCH_NR_GPIOS definition
  ARM: 9102/1: move theinstall rules to arch/arm/Makefile
  ARM: 9100/1: MAINTAINERS: mark all linux-arm-kernel@infradead list as moderated
  ARM: 9099/1: crypto: rename 'mod_init' & 'mod_exit' functions to be module-specific