linux-toradex.git/kernel/sys.c, branch v4.6-rc3

timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

This patchset introduces a /proc//timerslack_ns interface which
would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value
on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something
Android currently does via out-of-tree patches).

The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was
defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit
systems.  It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically
unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines.

The second patch introduces the /proc//timerslack_ns interface
which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on
both 32bit and 64bit machines.

With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on
bash to 10 seconds:

$ time sleep 1

real    0m10.747s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.005s

The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta
arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s.  Let me
know if it makes sense to break that up more or not.

Other than that things are fairly straightforward.

This patch (of 2):

The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned
long.  This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just
over 4 seconds.  However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500
years).

This disparity could make application development a little (as well as
the default_slack) to a u64.  This means both 32bit and 64bit systems
have the same effective internal slack range.

Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify
the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on
32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned
long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is
actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long.

This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack
delta as a unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Oren Laadan 
Cc: Ruchi Kandoi 
Cc: Rom Lemarchand 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Android Kernel Team 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

prctl: take mmap sem for writing to protect against others

2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00

An unprivileged user can trigger an oops on a kernel with
CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

proc_pid_cmdline_read takes mmap_sem for reading and obtains args + env
start/end values. These get sanity checked as follows:
        BUG_ON(arg_start > arg_end);
        BUG_ON(env_start > env_end);

These can be changed by prctl_set_mm. Turns out also takes the semaphore for
reading, effectively rendering it useless. This results in:

  kernel BUG at fs/proc/base.c:240!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: virtio_net
  CPU: 0 PID: 925 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.4.0-rc8-next-20160105dupa+ #71
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  task: ffff880077a68000 ti: ffff8800784d0000 task.ti: ffff8800784d0000
  RIP: proc_pid_cmdline_read+0x520/0x530
  RSP: 0018:ffff8800784d3db8  EFLAGS: 00010206
  RAX: ffff880077c5b6b0 RBX: ffff8800784d3f18 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f78e8857000 RDI: 0000000000000246
  RBP: ffff8800784d3e40 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000001
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000050
  R13: 00007f78e8857800 R14: ffff88006fcef000 R15: ffff880077c5b600
  FS:  00007f78e884a740(0000) GS:ffff88007b200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00007f78e8361770 CR3: 00000000790a5000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
    __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
    vfs_read+0x82/0x130
    SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
  Code: 4c 8b 7d a8 eb e9 48 8b 9d 78 ff ff ff 4c 8b 7d 90 48 8b 03 48 39 45 a8 0f 87 f0 fe ff ff e9 d1 fe ff ff 4c 8b 7d 90 eb c6 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00
  RIP   proc_pid_cmdline_read+0x520/0x530
  ---[ end trace 97882617ae9c6818 ]---

Turns out there are instances where the code just reads aformentioned
values without locking whatsoever - namely environ_read and get_cmdline.

Interestingly these functions look quite resilient against bogus values,
but I don't believe this should be relied upon.

The first patch gets rid of the oops bug by grabbing mmap_sem for
writing.

The second patch is optional and puts locking around aformentioned
consumers for safety.  Consumers of other fields don't seem to benefit
from similar treatment and are left untouched.

This patch (of 2):

The code was taking the semaphore for reading, which does not protect
against readers nor concurrent modifications.

The problem could cause a sanity checks to fail in procfs's cmdline
reader, resulting in an OOPS.

Note that some functions perform an unlocked read of various mm fields,
but they seem to be fine despite possible modificaton.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Jarod Wilson 
Cc: Jan Stancek 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

setpriority(PRIO_USER, 0, x) will change the priority of tasks outside of
the current pid namespace.  This is in contrast to both the other modes of
setpriority and the example of kill(-1).  Fix this.  getpriority and
ioprio have the same failure mode, fix them too.

Eric said:

: After some more thinking about it this patch sounds justifiable.
:
: My goal with namespaces is not to build perfect isolation mechanisms
: as that can get into ill defined territory, but to build well defined
: mechanisms.  And to handle the corner cases so you can use only
: a single namespace with well defined results.
:
: In this case you have found the two interfaces I am aware of that
: identify processes by uid instead of by pid.  Which quite frankly is
: weird.  Unfortunately the weird unexpected cases are hard to handle
: in the usual way.
:
: I was hoping for a little more information.  Changes like this one we
: have to be careful of because someone might be depending on the current
: behavior.  I don't think they are and I do think this make sense as part
: of the pid namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Ambrose Feinstein 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs.

2015-07-10T15:39:25+00:00

Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

prctl: more prctl(PR_SET_MM_*) checks

2015-06-26T00:00:37+00:00

Individual prctl(PR_SET_MM_*) calls do some checking to maintain a
consistent view of mm->arg_start et al fields, but not enough.  In
particular PR_SET_MM_ARG_START/PR_SET_MM_ARG_END/ R_SET_MM_ENV_START/
PR_SET_MM_ENV_END only check that the address lies in an existing VMA,
but don't check that the start address is lower than the end address _at
all_.

Consolidate all consistency checks, so there will be no difference in
the future between PR_SET_MM_MAP and individual PR_SET_MM_* calls.

The program below makes both ARGV and ENVP areas be reversed.  It makes
/proc/$PID/cmdline show garbage (it doesn't oops by luck).

#include 
#include 
#include 

enum {PAGE_SIZE=4096};

int main(void)
{
	void *p;

	p = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);

#define PR_SET_MM               35
#define PR_SET_MM_ARG_START     8
#define PR_SET_MM_ARG_END       9
#define PR_SET_MM_ENV_START     10
#define PR_SET_MM_ENV_END       11
	prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ARG_START, (unsigned long)p + PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 0);
	prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ARG_END,   (unsigned long)p, 0, 0);
	prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ENV_START, (unsigned long)p + PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 0);
	prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_ENV_END,   (unsigned long)p, 0, 0);

	pause();
	return 0;
}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy code, tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Jarod Wilson 
Cc: Jan Stancek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary

2015-06-09T10:24:30+00:00

The MPX code can only work on the current task.  You can not,
for instance, enable MPX management in another process or
thread. You can also not handle a fault for another process or
thread.

Despite this, we pass a task_struct around prolifically.  This
patch removes all of the task struct passing for code paths
where the code can not deal with another task (which turns out
to be all of them).

This has no functional changes.  It's just a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150607183702.6A81DA2C@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

prctl: avoid using mmap_sem for exe_file serialization

2015-04-17T13:04:07+00:00

Oleg cleverly suggested using xchg() to set the new mm->exe_file instead
of calling set_mm_exe_file() which requires some form of serialization --
mmap_sem in this case.  For archs that do not have atomic rmw instructions
we still fallback to a spinlock alternative, so this should always be
safe.  As such, we only need the mmap_sem for looking up the backing
vm_file, which can be done sharing the lock.  Naturally, this means we
need to manually deal with both the new and old file reference counting,
and we need not worry about the MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED bits, which can
probably be deleted in the future anyway.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities

2015-04-15T23:35:22+00:00

There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
functionality in init, running as root:root.  For these systems,
supporting multiple users is not necessary.

This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional.  It is enabled
under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.

When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
and processes always have all capabilities.

The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.

Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.

In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
adding two ifdef blocks.

This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build.  The most minimal
kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
low MB.  (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.

The kernel was booted in Qemu.  All the common functionalities work.
Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.

Bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/sys.c: fix UNAME26 for 4.0

2015-02-28T17:57:51+00:00

There's a uname workaround for broken userspace which can't handle kernel
versions of 3.x.  Update it for 4.x.

Signed-off-by: Jon DeVree 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

2015-02-22T03:41:38+00:00

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS:

   - a number of fixes that didn't make the 3.19 release.

   - a number of cleanups.

   - preliminary support for Cavium's Octeon 3 SOCs which feature up to
     48 MIPS64 R3 cores with FPU and hardware virtualization.

   - support for MIPS R6 processors.

     Revision 6 of the MIPS architecture is a major revision of the MIPS
     architecture which does away with many of original sins of the
     architecture such as branch delay slots.  This and other changes in
     R6 require major changes throughout the entire MIPS core
     architecture code and make up for the lion share of this pull
     request.

   - finally some preparatory work for eXtendend Physical Address
     support, which allows support of up to 40 bit of physical address
     space on 32 bit processors"

     [ Ahh, MIPS can't leave the PAE brain damage alone.  It's like
       every CPU architect has to make that mistake, but pee in the snow
       by changing the TLA.  But whether it's called PAE, LPAE or XPA,
       it's horrid crud   - Linus ]

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (114 commits)
  MIPS: sead3: Corrected get_c0_perfcount_int
  MIPS: mm: Remove dead macro definitions
  MIPS: OCTEON: irq: add CIB and other fixes
  MIPS: OCTEON: Don't do acknowledge operations for level triggered irqs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: More OCTEONIII support
  MIPS: OCTEON: Remove setting of processor specific CVMCTL icache bits.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Core-15169 Workaround and general CVMSEG cleanup.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Update octeon-model.h code for new SoCs.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement DCache errata workaround for all CN6XXX
  MIPS: OCTEON: Add little-endian support to asm/octeon/octeon.h
  MIPS: OCTEON: Implement the core-16057 workaround
  MIPS: OCTEON: Delete unused COP2 saving code
  MIPS: OCTEON: Use correct instruction to read 64-bit COP0 register
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save and restore CP2 SHA3 state
  MIPS: OCTEON: Fix FP context save.
  MIPS: OCTEON: Save/Restore wider multiply registers in OCTEON III CPUs
  MIPS: boot: Provide more uImage options
  MIPS: Remove unneeded #ifdef __KERNEL__ from asm/processor.h
  MIPS: ip22-gio: Remove legacy suspend/resume support
  mips: pci: Add ifdef around pci_proc_domain
  ...