linux-toradex.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v4.4.28

kernel/fork: fix CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID regression in nscd

2016-10-07T13:23:46+00:00

commit 735f2770a770156100f534646158cb58cb8b2939 upstream.

Commit fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal
exit") has caused a subtle regression in nscd which uses
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID to clear the nscd_certainly_running flag in the
shared databases, so that the clients are notified when nscd is
restarted.  Now, when nscd uses a non-persistent database, clients that
have it mapped keep thinking the database is being updated by nscd, when
in fact nscd has created a new (anonymous) one (for non-persistent
databases it uses an unlinked file as backend).

The original proposal for the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID change claimed
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/233):

: The NPTL library uses the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag on clone() syscalls
: on behalf of pthread_create() library calls.  This feature is used to
: request that the kernel clear the thread-id in user space (at an address
: provided in the syscall) when the thread disassociates itself from the
: address space, which is done in mm_release().
:
: Unfortunately, when a multi-threaded process incurs a core dump (such as
: from a SIGSEGV), the core-dumping thread sends SIGKILL signals to all of
: the other threads, which then proceed to clear their user-space tids
: before synchronizing in exit_mm() with the start of core dumping.  This
: misrepresents the state of process's address space at the time of the
: SIGSEGV and makes it more difficult for someone to debug NPTL and glibc
: problems (misleading him/her to conclude that the threads had gone away
: before the fault).
:
: The fix below is to simply avoid the CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID action if a
: core dump has been initiated.

The resulting patch from Roland (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/26/269)
seems to have a larger scope than the original patch asked for.  It
seems that limitting the scope of the check to core dumping should work
for SIGSEGV issue describe above.

[Changelog partly based on Andreas' description]
Fixes: fec1d0115240 ("[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exit")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471968749-26173-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: William Preston 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Andreas Schwab 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: introduce get_task_exe_file

2016-09-24T08:07:36+00:00

commit cd81a9170e69e018bbaba547c1fd85a585f5697a upstream.

For more convenient access if one has a pointer to the task.

As a minor nit take advantage of the fact that only task lock + rcu are
needed to safely grab ->exe_file. This saves mm refcount dance.

Use the helper in proc_exe_link.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik 
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs 
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup: reduce read locked section of cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem during fork

2016-09-15T06:27:51+00:00

commit 568ac888215c7fb2fabe8ea739b00ec3c1f5d440 upstream.

cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem is acquired in read mode during process exit
and fork.  It is also grabbed in write mode during
__cgroups_proc_write().  I've recently run into a scenario with lots
of memory pressure and OOM and I am beginning to see

systemd

 __switch_to+0x1f8/0x350
 __schedule+0x30c/0x990
 schedule+0x48/0xc0
 percpu_down_write+0x114/0x170
 __cgroup_procs_write.isra.12+0xb8/0x3c0
 cgroup_file_write+0x74/0x1a0
 kernfs_fop_write+0x188/0x200
 __vfs_write+0x6c/0xe0
 vfs_write+0xc0/0x230
 SyS_write+0x6c/0x110
 system_call+0x38/0xb4

This thread is waiting on the reader of cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem to
exit.  The reader itself is under memory pressure and has gone into
reclaim after fork. There are times the reader also ends up waiting on
oom_lock as well.

 __switch_to+0x1f8/0x350
 __schedule+0x30c/0x990
 schedule+0x48/0xc0
 jbd2_log_wait_commit+0xd4/0x180
 ext4_evict_inode+0x88/0x5c0
 evict+0xf8/0x2a0
 dispose_list+0x50/0x80
 prune_icache_sb+0x6c/0x90
 super_cache_scan+0x190/0x210
 shrink_slab.part.15+0x22c/0x4c0
 shrink_zone+0x288/0x3c0
 do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x590
 try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x260
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0xc90
 alloc_pages_current+0xb4/0x1a0
 page_table_alloc+0xc0/0x170
 __pte_alloc+0x58/0x1f0
 copy_page_range+0x4ec/0x950
 copy_process.isra.5+0x15a0/0x1870
 _do_fork+0xa8/0x4b0
 ppc_clone+0x8/0xc

In the meanwhile, all processes exiting/forking are blocked almost
stalling the system.

This patch moves the threadgroup_change_begin from before
cgroup_fork() to just before cgroup_canfork().  There is no nee to
worry about threadgroup changes till the task is actually added to the
threadgroup.  This avoids having to call reclaim with
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem held.

tj: Subject and description edits.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh 
Acked-by: Zefan Li 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/core: Reset task's lockless wake-queues on fork()

2016-01-06T10:01:07+00:00

In the following commit:

  7675104990ed ("sched: Implement lockless wake-queues")

we gained lockless wake-queues.

The -RT kernel managed to lockup itself with those. There could be multiple
attempts for task X to enqueue it for a wakeup _even_ if task X is already
running.

The reason is that task X could be runnable but not yet on CPU. The the
task performing the wakeup did not leave the CPU it could performe
multiple wakeups.

With the proper timming task X could be running and enqueued for a
wakeup. If this happens while X is performing a fork() then its its
child will have a !NULL `wake_q` member copied.

This is not a problem as long as the child task does not participate in
lockless wakeups :)

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 7675104990ed ("sched: Implement lockless wake-queues")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151221171710.GA5499@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

cgroup: pids: fix race between cgroup_post_fork() and cgroup_migrate()

2015-11-30T14:48:18+00:00

If the new child migrates to another cgroup before cgroup_post_fork() calls
subsys->fork(), then both pids_can_attach() and pids_fork() will do the same
pids_uncharge(old_pids) + pids_charge(pids) sequence twice.

Change copy_process() to call threadgroup_change_begin/threadgroup_change_end
unconditionally. percpu_down_read() is cheap and this allows other cleanups,
see the next changes.

Also, this way we can unify cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem and dup_mmap_sem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Zefan Li 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-06T07:10:54+00:00

Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - inotify tweaks

 - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review)

 - various misc bits

 - kernel/watchdog.c updates

 - Some of mm.  I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a
   lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (162 commits)
  selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault
  mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage
  mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT
  mm: mlock: add new mlock system call
  mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code
  kasan: always taint kernel on report
  mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
  kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8()
  kasan: Fix a type conversion error
  lib: test_kasan: add some testcases
  kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo
  kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile
  kasan: various fixes in documentation
  kasan: update log messages
  kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access
  kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses
  kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses
  mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting
  mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions
  mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs
  ...

mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

The cost of faulting in all memory to be locked can be very high when
working with large mappings.  If only portions of the mapping will be used
this can incur a high penalty for locking.

For the example of a large file, this is the usage pattern for a large
statical language model (probably applies to other statical or graphical
models as well).  For the security example, any application transacting in
data that cannot be swapped out (credit card data, medical records, etc).

This patch introduces the ability to request that pages are not
pre-faulted, but are placed on the unevictable LRU when they are finally
faulted in.  The VM_LOCKONFAULT flag will be used together with VM_LOCKED
and has no effect when set without VM_LOCKED.  Setting the VM_LOCKONFAULT
flag for a VMA will cause pages faulted into that VMA to be added to the
unevictable LRU when they are faulted or if they are already present, but
will not cause any missing pages to be faulted in.

Exposing this new lock state means that we cannot overload the meaning of
the FOLL_POPULATE flag any longer.  Prior to this patch it was used to
mean that the VMA for a fault was locked.  This means we need the new
FOLL_MLOCK flag to communicate the locked state of a VMA.  FOLL_POPULATE
will now only control if the VMA should be populated and in the case of
VM_LOCKONFAULT, it will not be set.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Shuah Khan 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2015-11-05T22:51:32+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "The cgroup core saw several significant updates this cycle:

   - percpu_rwsem for threadgroup locking is reinstated.  This was
     temporarily dropped due to down_write latency issues.  Oleg's
     rework of percpu_rwsem which is scheduled to be merged in this
     merge window resolves the issue.

   - On the v2 hierarchy, when controllers are enabled and disabled, all
     operations are atomic and can fail and revert cleanly.  This allows
     ->can_attach() failure which is necessary for cpu RT slices.

   - Tasks now stay associated with the original cgroups after exit
     until released.  This allows tracking resources held by zombies
     (e.g.  pids) and makes it easy to find out where zombies came from
     on the v2 hierarchy.  The pids controller was broken before these
     changes as zombies escaped the limits; unfortunately, updating this
     behavior required too many invasive changes and I don't think it's
     a good idea to backport them, so the pids controller on 4.3, the
     first version which included the pids controller, will stay broken
     at least until I'm sure about the cgroup core changes.

   - Optimization of a couple common tests using static_key"

* 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (38 commits)
  cgroup: fix race condition around termination check in css_task_iter_next()
  blkcg: don't create "io.stat" on the root cgroup
  cgroup: drop cgroup__DEVEL__legacy_files_on_dfl
  cgroup: replace error handling in cgroup_init() with WARN_ON()s
  cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->free() method and use it to fix pids controller
  cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups
  cgroup: make css_set_rwsem a spinlock and rename it to css_set_lock
  cgroup: don't hold css_set_rwsem across css task iteration
  cgroup: reorganize css_task_iter functions
  cgroup: factor out css_set_move_task()
  cgroup: keep css_set and task lists in chronological order
  cgroup: make cgroup_destroy_locked() test cgroup_is_populated()
  cgroup: make css_sets pin the associated cgroups
  cgroup: relocate cgroup_[try]get/put()
  cgroup: move check_for_release() invocation
  cgroup: replace cgroup_has_tasks() with cgroup_is_populated()
  cgroup: make cgroup->nr_populated count the number of populated css_sets
  cgroup: remove an unused parameter from cgroup_task_migrate()
  cgroup: fix too early usage of static_branch_disable()
  cgroup: make cgroup_update_dfl_csses() migrate all target processes atomically
  ...

cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups

2015-10-15T20:41:53+00:00

cgroup_exit() is called when a task exits and disassociates the
exiting task from its cgroups and half-attach it to the root cgroup.
This is unnecessary and undesirable.

No controller actually needs an exiting task to be disassociated with
non-root cgroups.  Both cpu and perf_event controllers update the
association to the root cgroup from their exit callbacks just to keep
consistent with the cgroup core behavior.

Also, this disassociation makes it difficult to track resources held
by zombies or determine where the zombies came from.  Currently, pids
controller is completely broken as it uncharges on exit and zombies
always escape the resource restriction.  With cgroup association being
reset on exit, fixing it is pretty painful.

There's no reason to reset cgroup membership on exit.  The zombie can
be removed from its css_set so that it doesn't show up on
"cgroup.procs" and thus can't be migrated or interfere with cgroup
removal.  It can still pin and point to the css_set so that its cgroup
membership is maintained.  This patch makes cgroup core keep zombies
associated with their cgroups at the time of exit.

* Previous patches decoupled populated_cnt tracking from css_set
  lifetime, so a dying task can be simply unlinked from its css_set
  while pinning and pointing to the css_set.  This keeps css_set
  association from task side alive while hiding it from "cgroup.procs"
  and populated_cnt tracking.  The css_set reference is dropped when
  the task_struct is freed.

* ->exit() callback no longer needs the css arguments as the
  associated css never changes once PF_EXITING is set.  Removed.

* cpu and perf_events controllers no longer need ->exit() callbacks.
  There's no reason to explicitly switch away on exit.  The final
  schedule out is enough.  The callbacks are removed.

* On traditional hierarchies, nothing changes.  "/proc/PID/cgroup"
  still reports "/" for all zombies.  On the default hierarchy,
  "/proc/PID/cgroup" keeps reporting the cgroup that the task belonged
  to at the time of exit.  If the cgroup gets removed before the task
  is reaped, " (deleted)" is appended.

v2: Build brekage due to missing dummy cgroup_free() when
    !CONFIG_CGROUP fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

posix_cpu_timer: Convert cputimer->running to bool

2015-10-15T09:23:41+00:00

In the next patch in this series, a new field 'checking_timer' will
be added to 'struct thread_group_cputimer'. Both this and the
existing 'running' integer field are just used as boolean values. To
save space in the structure, we can make both of these fields booleans.

This is a preparatory patch to convert the existing running integer
field to a boolean.

Suggested-by: George Spelvin 
Signed-off-by: Jason Low 
Reviewed: George Spelvin 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: hideaki.kimura@hpe.com
Cc: terry.rudd@hpe.com
Cc: scott.norton@hpe.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444849677-29330-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner