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<title>treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword</title>
<updated>2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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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 &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2020-08-12T18:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T18:24:12+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM (memcg, hugetlb, vmscan, proc, compaction,
   mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, cma, util,
   memory-hotplug, cleanups, uaccess, migration, gup, pagemap),

 - various other subsystems (alpha, misc, sparse, bitmap, lib, bitops,
   checkpatch, autofs, minix, nilfs, ufs, fat, signals, kmod, coredump,
   exec, kdump, rapidio, panic, kcov, kgdb, ipc).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (164 commits)
  mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code
  mm: clean up the last pieces of page fault accountings
  mm/xtensa: use general page fault accounting
  mm/x86: use general page fault accounting
  mm/sparc64: use general page fault accounting
  mm/sparc32: use general page fault accounting
  mm/sh: use general page fault accounting
  mm/s390: use general page fault accounting
  mm/riscv: use general page fault accounting
  mm/powerpc: use general page fault accounting
  mm/parisc: use general page fault accounting
  mm/openrisc: use general page fault accounting
  mm/nios2: use general page fault accounting
  mm/nds32: use general page fault accounting
  mm/mips: use general page fault accounting
  mm/microblaze: use general page fault accounting
  mm/m68k: use general page fault accounting
  mm/ia64: use general page fault accounting
  mm/hexagon: use general page fault accounting
  mm/csky: use general page fault accounting
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM (memcg, hugetlb, vmscan, proc, compaction,
   mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, cma, util,
   memory-hotplug, cleanups, uaccess, migration, gup, pagemap),

 - various other subsystems (alpha, misc, sparse, bitmap, lib, bitops,
   checkpatch, autofs, minix, nilfs, ufs, fat, signals, kmod, coredump,
   exec, kdump, rapidio, panic, kcov, kgdb, ipc).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (164 commits)
  mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code
  mm: clean up the last pieces of page fault accountings
  mm/xtensa: use general page fault accounting
  mm/x86: use general page fault accounting
  mm/sparc64: use general page fault accounting
  mm/sparc32: use general page fault accounting
  mm/sh: use general page fault accounting
  mm/s390: use general page fault accounting
  mm/riscv: use general page fault accounting
  mm/powerpc: use general page fault accounting
  mm/parisc: use general page fault accounting
  mm/openrisc: use general page fault accounting
  mm/nios2: use general page fault accounting
  mm/nds32: use general page fault accounting
  mm/mips: use general page fault accounting
  mm/microblaze: use general page fault accounting
  mm/m68k: use general page fault accounting
  mm/ia64: use general page fault accounting
  mm/hexagon: use general page fault accounting
  mm/csky: use general page fault accounting
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code</title>
<updated>2020-08-12T17:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:39:01+00:00</published>
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After the cleanup of page fault accounting, gup does not need to pass
task_struct around any more.  Remove that parameter in the whole gup
stack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-26-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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After the cleanup of page fault accounting, gup does not need to pass
task_struct around any more.  Remove that parameter in the whole gup
stack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-26-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2020-08-11T21:30:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-11T21:30:36+00:00</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "A couple of minor documentation updates only for this release"

* tag 'for-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  LSM: drop duplicated words in header file comments
  Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "A couple of minor documentation updates only for this release"

* tag 'for-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  LSM: drop duplicated words in header file comments
  Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T18:33:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-07T06:18:13+00:00</published>
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As said by Linus:

  A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
  Otherwise it's actively misleading.

  In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
  caller wants.

  In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
  future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or
  something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_.

The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information
that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
objects.

Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently
added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit.
In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure
that it won't get optimized away by the compiler.

The renaming is done by using the command sequence:

  git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\
  xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/'

followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding
a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more]

Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As said by Linus:

  A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
  Otherwise it's actively misleading.

  In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
  caller wants.

  In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
  future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or
  something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_.

The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information
that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory
objects.

Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently
added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit.
In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure
that it won't get optimized away by the compiler.

The renaming is done by using the command sequence:

  git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\
  xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/'

followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding
a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more]

Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T19:00:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander A. Klimov</name>
<email>grandmaster@al2klimov.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-05T21:45:12+00:00</published>
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
          If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
          return 200 OK and serve the same content:
            Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov &lt;grandmaster@al2klimov.de&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  If not .svg:
    For each line:
      If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
        For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
          If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
          return 200 OK and serve the same content:
            Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov &lt;grandmaster@al2klimov.de&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'integrity-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T18:35:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T18:35:57+00:00</published>
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Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
 "The nicest change is the IMA policy rule checking. The other changes
  include allowing the kexec boot cmdline line measure policy rules to
  be defined in terms of the inode associated with the kexec kernel
  image, making the IMA_APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM, which governs the IMA
  appraise mode (log, fix, enforce), a runtime decision based on the
  secure boot mode of the system, and including errno in the audit log"

* tag 'integrity-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
  integrity: remove redundant initialization of variable ret
  ima: move APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM dependency on ARCH_POLICY to runtime
  ima: AppArmor satisfies the audit rule requirements
  ima: Rename internal filter rule functions
  ima: Support additional conditionals in the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook function
  ima: Use the common function to detect LSM conditionals in a rule
  ima: Move comprehensive rule validation checks out of the token parser
  ima: Use correct type for the args_p member of ima_rule_entry.lsm elements
  ima: Shallow copy the args_p member of ima_rule_entry.lsm elements
  ima: Fail rule parsing when appraise_flag=blacklist is unsupportable
  ima: Fail rule parsing when the KEY_CHECK hook is combined with an invalid cond
  ima: Fail rule parsing when the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook is combined with an invalid cond
  ima: Fail rule parsing when buffer hook functions have an invalid action
  ima: Free the entire rule if it fails to parse
  ima: Free the entire rule when deleting a list of rules
  ima: Have the LSM free its audit rule
  IMA: Add audit log for failure conditions
  integrity: Add errno field in audit message
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Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
 "The nicest change is the IMA policy rule checking. The other changes
  include allowing the kexec boot cmdline line measure policy rules to
  be defined in terms of the inode associated with the kexec kernel
  image, making the IMA_APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM, which governs the IMA
  appraise mode (log, fix, enforce), a runtime decision based on the
  secure boot mode of the system, and including errno in the audit log"

* tag 'integrity-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
  integrity: remove redundant initialization of variable ret
  ima: move APPRAISE_BOOTPARAM dependency on ARCH_POLICY to runtime
  ima: AppArmor satisfies the audit rule requirements
  ima: Rename internal filter rule functions
  ima: Support additional conditionals in the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook function
  ima: Use the common function to detect LSM conditionals in a rule
  ima: Move comprehensive rule validation checks out of the token parser
  ima: Use correct type for the args_p member of ima_rule_entry.lsm elements
  ima: Shallow copy the args_p member of ima_rule_entry.lsm elements
  ima: Fail rule parsing when appraise_flag=blacklist is unsupportable
  ima: Fail rule parsing when the KEY_CHECK hook is combined with an invalid cond
  ima: Fail rule parsing when the KEXEC_CMDLINE hook is combined with an invalid cond
  ima: Fail rule parsing when buffer hook functions have an invalid action
  ima: Free the entire rule if it fails to parse
  ima: Free the entire rule when deleting a list of rules
  ima: Have the LSM free its audit rule
  IMA: Add audit log for failure conditions
  integrity: Add errno field in audit message
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'Smack-for-5.9' of git://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T18:02:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T18:02:23+00:00</published>
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Pull smack updates from Casey Schaufler:
 "Minor fixes to Smack for the v5.9 release.

  All were found by automated checkers and have straightforward
  resolution"

* tag 'Smack-for-5.9' of git://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next:
  Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso()
  Smack: fix another vsscanf out of bounds
  Smack: fix use-after-free in smk_write_relabel_self()
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Pull smack updates from Casey Schaufler:
 "Minor fixes to Smack for the v5.9 release.

  All were found by automated checkers and have straightforward
  resolution"

* tag 'Smack-for-5.9' of git://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next:
  Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso()
  Smack: fix another vsscanf out of bounds
  Smack: fix use-after-free in smk_write_relabel_self()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-04T22:02:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T22:02:07+00:00</published>
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Pull checkpoint-restore updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This enables unprivileged checkpoint/restore of processes.

  Given that this work has been going on for quite some time the first
  sentence in this summary is hopefully more exciting than the actual
  final code changes required. Unprivileged checkpoint/restore has seen
  a frequent increase in interest over the last two years and has thus
  been one of the main topics for the combined containers &amp;
  checkpoint/restore microconference since at least 2018 (cf. [1]).

  Here are just the three most frequent use-cases that were brought forward:

   - The JVM developers are integrating checkpoint/restore into a Java
     VM to significantly decrease the startup time.

   - In high-performance computing environment a resource manager will
     typically be distributing jobs where users are always running as
     non-root. Long-running and "large" processes with significant
     startup times are supposed to be checkpointed and restored with
     CRIU.

   - Container migration as a non-root user.

  In all of these scenarios it is either desirable or required to run
  without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The userspace implementation of
  checkpoint/restore CRIU already has the pull request for supporting
  unprivileged checkpoint/restore up (cf. [2]).

  To enable unprivileged checkpoint/restore a new dedicated capability
  CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is introduced. This solution has last been
  discussed in 2019 in a talk by Google at Linux Plumbers (cf. [1]
  "Update on Task Migration at Google Using CRIU") with Adrian and
  Nicolas providing the implementation now over the last months. In
  essence, this allows the CRIU binary to be installed with the
  CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE vfs capability set thereby enabling
  unprivileged users to restore processes.

  To make this possible the following permissions are altered:

   - Selecting a specific PID via clone3() set_tid relaxed from userns
     CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Selecting a specific PID via /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid relaxed
     from userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Accessing /proc/pid/map_files relaxed from init userns
     CAP_SYS_ADMIN to init userns CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Changing /proc/self/exe from userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to userns
     CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

  Of these four changes the /proc/self/exe change deserves a few words
  because the reasoning behind even restricting /proc/self/exe changes
  in the first place is just full of historical quirks and tracking this
  down was a questionable version of fun that I'd like to spare others.

  In short, it is trivial to change /proc/self/exe as an unprivileged
  user, i.e. without userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN right now. Either via ptrace()
  or by simply intercepting the elf loader in userspace during exec.
  Nicolas was nice enough to even provide a POC for the latter (cf. [3])
  to illustrate this fact.

  The original patchset which introduced PR_SET_MM_MAP had no
  permissions around changing the exe link. They too argued that it is
  trivial to spoof the exe link already which is true. The argument
  brought up against this was that the Tomoyo LSM uses the exe link in
  tomoyo_manager() to detect whether the calling process is a policy
  manager. This caused changing the exe links to be guarded by userns
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

  All in all this rather seems like a "better guard it with something
  rather than nothing" argument which imho doesn't qualify as a great
  security policy. Again, because spoofing the exe link is possible for
  the calling process so even if this were security relevant it was
  broken back then and would be broken today. So technically, dropping
  all permissions around changing the exe link would probably be
  possible and would send a clearer message to any userspace that relies
  on /proc/self/exe for security reasons that they should stop doing
  this but for now we're only relaxing the exe link permissions from
  userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to userns CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

  There's a final uapi change in here. Changing the exe link used to
  accidently return EINVAL when the caller lacked the necessary
  permissions instead of the more correct EPERM. This pr contains a
  commit fixing this. I assume that userspace won't notice or care and
  if they do I will revert this commit. But since we are changing the
  permissions anyway it seems like a good opportunity to try this fix.

  With these changes merged unprivileged checkpoint/restore will be
  possible and has already been tested by various users"

[1] LPC 2018
     1. "Task Migration at Google Using CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_1cuhoDgA&amp;t=12095
     2. "Securely Migrating Untrusted Workloads with CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_1cuhoDgA&amp;t=14400
     LPC 2019
     1. "CRIU and the PID dance"
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2CUgp8deo&amp;list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN30ZA3Pc9MZMFzdjwyz26dO&amp;index=9&amp;t=2m48s
     2. "Update on Task Migration at Google Using CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2CUgp8deo&amp;list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN30ZA3Pc9MZMFzdjwyz26dO&amp;index=9&amp;t=1h2m8s

[2] https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/pull/1155

[3] https://github.com/nviennot/run_as_exe

* tag 'cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  selftests: add clone3() CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE test
  prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERM
  prctl: Allow local CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to change /proc/self/exe
  proc: allow access in init userns for map_files with CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  pid_namespace: use checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() for ns_last_pid
  pid: use checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() for set_tid
  capabilities: Introduce CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
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Pull checkpoint-restore updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This enables unprivileged checkpoint/restore of processes.

  Given that this work has been going on for quite some time the first
  sentence in this summary is hopefully more exciting than the actual
  final code changes required. Unprivileged checkpoint/restore has seen
  a frequent increase in interest over the last two years and has thus
  been one of the main topics for the combined containers &amp;
  checkpoint/restore microconference since at least 2018 (cf. [1]).

  Here are just the three most frequent use-cases that were brought forward:

   - The JVM developers are integrating checkpoint/restore into a Java
     VM to significantly decrease the startup time.

   - In high-performance computing environment a resource manager will
     typically be distributing jobs where users are always running as
     non-root. Long-running and "large" processes with significant
     startup times are supposed to be checkpointed and restored with
     CRIU.

   - Container migration as a non-root user.

  In all of these scenarios it is either desirable or required to run
  without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The userspace implementation of
  checkpoint/restore CRIU already has the pull request for supporting
  unprivileged checkpoint/restore up (cf. [2]).

  To enable unprivileged checkpoint/restore a new dedicated capability
  CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is introduced. This solution has last been
  discussed in 2019 in a talk by Google at Linux Plumbers (cf. [1]
  "Update on Task Migration at Google Using CRIU") with Adrian and
  Nicolas providing the implementation now over the last months. In
  essence, this allows the CRIU binary to be installed with the
  CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE vfs capability set thereby enabling
  unprivileged users to restore processes.

  To make this possible the following permissions are altered:

   - Selecting a specific PID via clone3() set_tid relaxed from userns
     CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Selecting a specific PID via /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid relaxed
     from userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Accessing /proc/pid/map_files relaxed from init userns
     CAP_SYS_ADMIN to init userns CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Changing /proc/self/exe from userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to userns
     CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

  Of these four changes the /proc/self/exe change deserves a few words
  because the reasoning behind even restricting /proc/self/exe changes
  in the first place is just full of historical quirks and tracking this
  down was a questionable version of fun that I'd like to spare others.

  In short, it is trivial to change /proc/self/exe as an unprivileged
  user, i.e. without userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN right now. Either via ptrace()
  or by simply intercepting the elf loader in userspace during exec.
  Nicolas was nice enough to even provide a POC for the latter (cf. [3])
  to illustrate this fact.

  The original patchset which introduced PR_SET_MM_MAP had no
  permissions around changing the exe link. They too argued that it is
  trivial to spoof the exe link already which is true. The argument
  brought up against this was that the Tomoyo LSM uses the exe link in
  tomoyo_manager() to detect whether the calling process is a policy
  manager. This caused changing the exe links to be guarded by userns
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

  All in all this rather seems like a "better guard it with something
  rather than nothing" argument which imho doesn't qualify as a great
  security policy. Again, because spoofing the exe link is possible for
  the calling process so even if this were security relevant it was
  broken back then and would be broken today. So technically, dropping
  all permissions around changing the exe link would probably be
  possible and would send a clearer message to any userspace that relies
  on /proc/self/exe for security reasons that they should stop doing
  this but for now we're only relaxing the exe link permissions from
  userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to userns CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

  There's a final uapi change in here. Changing the exe link used to
  accidently return EINVAL when the caller lacked the necessary
  permissions instead of the more correct EPERM. This pr contains a
  commit fixing this. I assume that userspace won't notice or care and
  if they do I will revert this commit. But since we are changing the
  permissions anyway it seems like a good opportunity to try this fix.

  With these changes merged unprivileged checkpoint/restore will be
  possible and has already been tested by various users"

[1] LPC 2018
     1. "Task Migration at Google Using CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_1cuhoDgA&amp;t=12095
     2. "Securely Migrating Untrusted Workloads with CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_1cuhoDgA&amp;t=14400
     LPC 2019
     1. "CRIU and the PID dance"
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2CUgp8deo&amp;list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN30ZA3Pc9MZMFzdjwyz26dO&amp;index=9&amp;t=2m48s
     2. "Update on Task Migration at Google Using CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2CUgp8deo&amp;list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN30ZA3Pc9MZMFzdjwyz26dO&amp;index=9&amp;t=1h2m8s

[2] https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/pull/1155

[3] https://github.com/nviennot/run_as_exe

* tag 'cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  selftests: add clone3() CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE test
  prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERM
  prctl: Allow local CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to change /proc/self/exe
  proc: allow access in init userns for map_files with CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  pid_namespace: use checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() for ns_last_pid
  pid: use checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() for set_tid
  capabilities: Introduce CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
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<title>Merge branch 'exec-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2020-08-04T21:27:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T21:27:25+00:00</published>
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Pull execve updates from Eric Biederman:
 "During the development of v5.7 I ran into bugs and quality of
  implementation issues related to exec that could not be easily fixed
  because of the way exec is implemented. So I have been diggin into
  exec and cleaning up what I can.

  This cycle I have been looking at different ideas and different
  implementations to see what is possible to improve exec, and cleaning
  the way exec interfaces with in kernel users. Only cleaning up the
  interfaces of exec with rest of the kernel has managed to stabalize
  and make it through review in time for v5.9-rc1 resulting in 2 sets of
  changes this cycle.

   - Implement kernel_execve

   - Make the user mode driver code a better citizen

  With kernel_execve the code size got a little larger as the copying of
  parameters from userspace and copying of parameters from userspace is
  now separate. The good news is kernel threads no longer need to play
  games with set_fs to use exec. Which when combined with the rest of
  Christophs set_fs changes should security bugs with set_fs much more
  difficult"

* 'exec-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (23 commits)
  exec: Implement kernel_execve
  exec: Factor bprm_stack_limits out of prepare_arg_pages
  exec: Factor bprm_execve out of do_execve_common
  exec: Move bprm_mm_init into alloc_bprm
  exec: Move initialization of bprm-&gt;filename into alloc_bprm
  exec: Factor out alloc_bprm
  exec: Remove unnecessary spaces from binfmts.h
  umd: Stop using split_argv
  umd: Remove exit_umh
  bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of struct pid
  exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll
  umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid
  bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data
  exec: Remove do_execve_file
  umh: Stop calling do_execve_file
  umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver
  umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name
  umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info
  umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support
  umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file.
  ...
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Pull execve updates from Eric Biederman:
 "During the development of v5.7 I ran into bugs and quality of
  implementation issues related to exec that could not be easily fixed
  because of the way exec is implemented. So I have been diggin into
  exec and cleaning up what I can.

  This cycle I have been looking at different ideas and different
  implementations to see what is possible to improve exec, and cleaning
  the way exec interfaces with in kernel users. Only cleaning up the
  interfaces of exec with rest of the kernel has managed to stabalize
  and make it through review in time for v5.9-rc1 resulting in 2 sets of
  changes this cycle.

   - Implement kernel_execve

   - Make the user mode driver code a better citizen

  With kernel_execve the code size got a little larger as the copying of
  parameters from userspace and copying of parameters from userspace is
  now separate. The good news is kernel threads no longer need to play
  games with set_fs to use exec. Which when combined with the rest of
  Christophs set_fs changes should security bugs with set_fs much more
  difficult"

* 'exec-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (23 commits)
  exec: Implement kernel_execve
  exec: Factor bprm_stack_limits out of prepare_arg_pages
  exec: Factor bprm_execve out of do_execve_common
  exec: Move bprm_mm_init into alloc_bprm
  exec: Move initialization of bprm-&gt;filename into alloc_bprm
  exec: Factor out alloc_bprm
  exec: Remove unnecessary spaces from binfmts.h
  umd: Stop using split_argv
  umd: Remove exit_umh
  bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of struct pid
  exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll
  umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid
  bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data
  exec: Remove do_execve_file
  umh: Stop calling do_execve_file
  umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver
  umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name
  umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info
  umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support
  umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file.
  ...
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