linux-toradex.git/kernel/sys.c, branch v5.9-rc6

treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00

Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva

prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERM

2020-07-19T18:14:42+00:00

This brings consistency with the rest of the prctl() syscall where
-EPERM is returned when failing a capability check.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Viennot 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber 
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200719100418.2112740-7-areber@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

prctl: Allow local CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to change /proc/self/exe

2020-07-19T18:14:42+00:00

Originally, only a local CAP_SYS_ADMIN could change the exe link,
making it difficult for doing checkpoint/restore without CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
This commit adds CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE in addition to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
for permitting changing the exe link.

The following describes the history of the /proc/self/exe permission
checks as it may be difficult to understand what decisions lead to this
point.

* [1] May 2012: This commit introduces the ability of changing
  /proc/self/exe if the user is CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capable.
  In the related discussion [2], no clear thread model is presented for
  what could happen if the /proc/self/exe changes multiple times, or why
  would the admin be at the mercy of userspace.

* [3] Oct 2014: This commit introduces a new API to change
  /proc/self/exe. The permission no longer checks for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE,
  but instead checks if the current user is root (uid=0) in its local
  namespace. In the related discussion [4] it is said that "Controlling
  exe_fd without privileges may turn out to be dangerous. At least
  things like tomoyo examine it for making policy decisions (see
  tomoyo_manager())."

* [5] Dec 2016: This commit removes the restriction to change
  /proc/self/exe at most once. The related discussion [6] informs that
  the audit subsystem relies on the exe symlink, presumably
  audit_log_d_path_exe() in kernel/audit.c.

* [7] May 2017: This commit changed the check from uid==0 to local
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN. No discussion.

* [8] July 2020: A PoC to spoof any program's /proc/self/exe via ptrace
  is demonstrated

Overall, the concrete points that were made to retain capability checks
around changing the exe symlink is that tomoyo_manager() and
audit_log_d_path_exe() uses the exe_file path.

Christian Brauner said that relying on /proc//exe being immutable (or
guarded by caps) in a sake of security is a bit misleading. It can only
be used as a hint without any guarantees of what code is being executed
once execve() returns to userspace. Christian suggested that in the
future, we could call audit_log() or similar to inform the admin of all
exe link changes, instead of attempting to provide security guarantees
via permission checks. However, this proposed change requires the
understanding of the security implications in the tomoyo/audit subsystems.

[1] b32dfe377102 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file")
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/292515/
[3] f606b77f1a9e ("prctl: PR_SET_MM -- introduce PR_SET_MM_MAP operation")
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/479359/
[5] 3fb4afd9a504 ("prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link")
[6] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/697304/
[7] 4d28df6152aa ("prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file")
[8] https://github.com/nviennot/run_as_exe

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Viennot 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200719100418.2112740-6-areber@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'LSM-add-setgid-hook-5.8-author-fix' of git://github.com/micah-morton/linux

2020-06-14T18:39:31+00:00

Pull SafeSetID update from Micah Morton:
 "Add additional LSM hooks for SafeSetID

  SafeSetID is capable of making allow/deny decisions for set*uid calls
  on a system, and we want to add similar functionality for set*gid
  calls.

  The work to do that is not yet complete, so probably won't make it in
  for v5.8, but we are looking to get this simple patch in for v5.8
  since we have it ready.

  We are planning on the rest of the work for extending the SafeSetID
  LSM being merged during the v5.9 merge window"

* tag 'LSM-add-setgid-hook-5.8-author-fix' of git://github.com/micah-morton/linux:
  security: Add LSM hooks to set*gid syscalls

security: Add LSM hooks to set*gid syscalls

2020-06-14T17:52:02+00:00

The SafeSetID LSM uses the security_task_fix_setuid hook to filter
set*uid() syscalls according to its configured security policy. In
preparation for adding analagous support in the LSM for set*gid()
syscalls, we add the requisite hook here. Tested by putting print
statements in the security_task_fix_setgid hook and seeing them get hit
during kernel boot.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Cedeno 
Signed-off-by: Micah Morton

mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments

2020-06-09T16:39:14+00:00

Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel]

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Laurent Dufour 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ying Han 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites

2020-06-09T16:39:14+00:00

This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
locking API instead.

The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule:

// spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir .

@@
expression mm;
@@
(
-init_rwsem
+mmap_init_lock
|
-down_write
+mmap_write_lock
|
-down_write_killable
+mmap_write_lock_killable
|
-down_write_trylock
+mmap_write_trylock
|
-up_write
+mmap_write_unlock
|
-downgrade_write
+mmap_write_downgrade
|
-down_read
+mmap_read_lock
|
-down_read_killable
+mmap_read_lock_killable
|
-down_read_trylock
+mmap_read_trylock
|
-up_read
+mmap_read_unlock
)
-(&mm->mmap_sem)
+(mm)

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour 
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ying Han 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-06-02T19:21:36+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
 "A few little subsystems and a start of a lot of MM patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: squashfs, ocfs2, parisc,
  vfs. With mm subsystems: slab-generic, slub, debug, pagecache, gup,
  swap, memcg, pagemap, memory-failure, vmalloc, kasan"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (128 commits)
  kasan: move kasan_report() into report.c
  mm/mm_init.c: report kasan-tag information stored in page->flags
  ubsan: entirely disable alignment checks under UBSAN_TRAP
  kasan: fix clang compilation warning due to stack protector
  x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting
  mm: remove vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings()
  x86/mm/32: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings()
  x86/mm/64: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings()
  mm/ioremap: track which page-table levels were modified
  mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified
  mm: add functions to track page directory modifications
  s390: use __vmalloc_node in stack_alloc
  powerpc: use __vmalloc_node in alloc_vm_stack
  arm64: use __vmalloc_node in arch_alloc_vmap_stack
  mm: remove vmalloc_user_node_flags
  mm: switch the test_vmalloc module to use __vmalloc_node
  mm: remove __vmalloc_node_flags_caller
  mm: remove both instances of __vmalloc_node_flags
  mm: remove the prot argument to __vmalloc_node
  mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc
  ...

mm/writeback: replace PF_LESS_THROTTLE with PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE

2020-06-02T17:59:08+00:00

PF_LESS_THROTTLE exists for loop-back nfsd (and a similar need in the
loop block driver and callers of prctl(PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER)), where a
daemon needs to write to one bdi (the final bdi) in order to free up
writes queued to another bdi (the client bdi).

The daemon sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE and gets a larger allowance of dirty
pages, so that it can still dirty pages after other processses have been
throttled.  The purpose of this is to avoid deadlock that happen when
the PF_LESS_THROTTLE process must write for any dirty pages to be freed,
but it is being thottled and cannot write.

This approach was designed when all threads were blocked equally,
independently on which device they were writing to, or how fast it was.
Since that time the writeback algorithm has changed substantially with
different threads getting different allowances based on non-trivial
heuristics.  This means the simple "add 25%" heuristic is no longer
reliable.

The important issue is not that the daemon needs a *larger* dirty page
allowance, but that it needs a *private* dirty page allowance, so that
dirty pages for the "client" bdi that it is helping to clear (the bdi
for an NFS filesystem or loop block device etc) do not affect the
throttling of the daemon writing to the "final" bdi.

This patch changes the heuristic so that the task is not throttled when
the bdi it is writing to has a dirty page count below below (or equal
to) the free-run threshold for that bdi.  This ensures it will always be
able to have some pages in flight, and so will not deadlock.

In a steady-state, it is expected that PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks might
still be throttled by global threshold, but that is acceptable as it is
only the deadlock state that is interesting for this flag.

This approach of "only throttle when target bdi is busy" is consistent
with the other use of PF_LESS_THROTTLE in current_may_throttle(), were
it causes attention to be focussed only on the target bdi.

So this patch
 - renames PF_LESS_THROTTLE to PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE,
 - removes the 25% bonus that that flag gives, and
 - If PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE is set, don't delay at all unless the
   global and the local free-run thresholds are exceeded.

Note that previously realtime threads were treated the same as
PF_LESS_THROTTLE threads.  This patch does *not* change the behvaiour
for real-time threads, so it is now different from the behaviour of nfsd
and loop tasks.  I don't know what is wanted for realtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Chuck Lever 	[nfsd]
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbf7gs3.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

compat sysinfo(2): don't bother with field-by-field copyout

2020-04-25T22:06:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro