Now that ignored posix timer signals are requeued and the timers are
rearmed on signal delivery the workaround to keep such timers alive and
self rearm them is not longer required.
Remove the relevant hacks and the not longer required return values from
the related functions. The alarm timer workarounds will be cleaned up in a
separate step.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.187239060@linutronix.de
Queue posixtimers which have their signal ignored on the ignored list:
1) When the timer fires and the signal has SIG_IGN set
2) When SIG_IGN is installed via sigaction() and a timer signal
is already queued
This only happens when the signal is for a valid timer, which delivered the
signal in periodic mode. One-shot timer signals are correctly dropped.
Due to the lock order constraints (sighand::siglock nests inside
timer::lock) the signal code cannot access any of the timer fields which
are relevant to make this decision, e.g. timer::it_status.
This is addressed by establishing a protection scheme which requires to
lock both locks on the timer side for modifying decision fields in the
timer struct and therefore makes it possible for the signal delivery to
evaluate with only sighand:siglock being held:
1) Move the NULLification of timer->it_signal into the sighand::siglock
protected section of timer_delete() and check timer::it_signal in the
code path which determines whether the signal is dropped or queued on
the ignore list.
This ensures that a deleted timer cannot be moved onto the ignore
list, which would prevent it from being freed on exit() as it is not
longer in the process' posix timer list.
If the timer got moved to the ignored list before deletion then it is
removed from the ignored list under sighand lock in timer_delete().
2) Provide a new timer::it_sig_periodic flag, which gets set in the
signal queue path with both timer and sighand locks held if the timer
is actually in periodic mode at expiry time.
The ignore list code checks this flag under sighand::siglock and drops
the signal when it is not set.
If it is set, then the signal is moved to the ignored list independent
of the actual state of the timer.
When the signal is un-ignored later then the signal is moved back to
the signal queue. On signal delivery the posix timer side decides
about dropping the signal if the timer was re-armed, dis-armed or
deleted based on the signal sequence counter check.
If the thread/process exits then not yet delivered signals are
discarded which means the reference of the timer containing the
sigqueue is dropped and frees the timer.
This is way cheaper than requiring all code paths to lock
sighand::siglock of the target thread/process on any modification of
timer::it_status or going all the way and removing pending signals
from the signal queues on every rearm, disarm or delete operation.
So the protection scheme here is that on the timer side both timer::lock
and sighand::siglock have to be held for modifying
timer::it_signal
timer::it_sig_periodic
which means that on the signal side holding sighand::siglock is enough to
evaluate these fields.
In posixtimer_deliver_signal() holding timer::lock is sufficient to do the
sequence validation against timer::it_signal_seq because a concurrent
expiry is waiting on timer::lock to be released.
This completes the SIG_IGN handling and such timers are not longer self
rearmed which avoids pointless wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.120756416@linutronix.de
When a real handler (including SIG_DFL) is installed for a signal, which
had previously SIG_IGN set, then the list of ignored posix timers has to be
checked for timers which are affected by this change.
Add a list walk function which checks for the matching signal number and if
found requeues the timers signal, so the timer is rearmed on signal
delivery.
Rearming the timer right away is not possible because that requires to drop
sighand lock.
No functional change as the counter part which queues the timers on the
ignored list is still missing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064214.054091076@linutronix.de
The posix timer signal handling uses siginfo::si_sys_private for handling
the sequence counter check. That indirection is not longer required and the
sequence count value at signal queueing time can be stored in struct
k_itimer itself.
This removes the requirement of treating siginfo::si_sys_private special as
it's now always zero as the kernel does not touch it anymore.
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.852619866@linutronix.de
Remove the leftovers of sigqueue preallocation as it's not longer used.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.786506636@linutronix.de
To cure the SIG_IGN handling for posix interval timers, the preallocated
sigqueue needs to be embedded into struct k_itimer to prevent life time
races of all sorts.
Now that the prerequisites are in place, embed the sigqueue into struct
k_itimer and fixup the relevant usage sites.
Aside of preparing for proper SIG_IGN handling, this spares an extra
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.719695194@linutronix.de
In preparation for handling ignored posix timer signals correctly and
embedding the sigqueue struct into struct k_itimer, hand down a pointer to
the sigqueue struct into posix_timer_deliver_signal() instead of just
having a boolean flag.
No functional change.
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.652658158@linutronix.de
To handle posix timers which have their signal ignored via SIG_IGN properly
it is required to requeue a ignored signal for delivery when SIG_IGN is
lifted so the timer gets rearmed.
Split the required code out of send_sigqueue() so it can be reused in
context of sigaction().
While at it rename send_sigqueue() to posixtimer_send_sigqueue() so its
clear what this is about.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.586453412@linutronix.de
To cure the SIG_IGN handling for posix interval timers, the preallocated
sigqueue needs to be embedded into struct k_itimer to prevent life time
races of all sorts.
Provide a new function to initialize the embedded sigqueue to prepare for
that.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.450427515@linutronix.de
To cure the SIG_IGN handling for posix interval timers, the preallocated
sigqueue needs to be embedded into struct k_itimer to prevent life time
races of all sorts.
Reorganize __sigqueue_alloc() so the ucounts retrieval and the
initialization can be used independently.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.371410037@linutronix.de
The handling of the timer overrun in the signal code is inconsistent as it
takes previous overruns into account. This is just wrong as after the
reprogramming of a timer the overrun count starts over from a clean state,
i.e. 0.
Don't touch info::si_overrun in send_sigqueue() and only store the overrun
value at signal delivery time, which is computed from the timer itself
relative to the expiry time.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.106738193@linutronix.de
Signals of timers which are reprogammed, disarmed or deleted can deliver
signals related to the past. The POSIX spec is blury about this:
- "The effect of disarming or resetting a timer with pending expiration
notifications is unspecified."
- "The disposition of pending signals for the deleted timer is
unspecified."
In both cases it is reasonable to expect that pending signals are
discarded. Especially in the reprogramming case it does not make sense to
account for previous overruns or to deliver a signal for a timer which has
been disarmed. This makes the behaviour consistent and understandable.
Remove the si_sys_private check from the signal delivery code and invoke
posix_timer_deliver_signal() unconditionally for posix timer related
signals.
Change posix_timer_deliver_signal() so it controls the actual signal
delivery via the return value. It now instructs the signal code to drop the
signal when:
1) The timer does not longer exist in the hash table
2) The timer signal_seq value is not the same as the si_sys_private value
which was set when the signal was queued.
This is also a preparatory change to embed the sigqueue into the k_itimer
structure, which in turn allows to remove the si_sys_private magic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.040348644@linutronix.de
In case that a timer was reprogrammed or deleted an already pending signal
is obsolete. Right now such signals are kept around and eventually
delivered. While POSIX is blury about this:
- "The effect of disarming or resetting a timer with pending expiration
notifications is unspecified."
- "The disposition of pending signals for the deleted timer is
unspecified."
it is reasonable in both cases to expect that pending signals are discarded
as they have no meaning anymore.
Prepare the signal code to allow dropping posix timer signals.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.494416923@linutronix.de
The si_sys_private member of the siginfo which is embedded in the
preallocated sigqueue is used by the posix timer code to decide whether a
timer must be reprogrammed on signal delivery.
The handling of this is racy as a long standing comment in that code
documents. It is modified with the timer lock held, but without sighand
lock being held. The actual signal delivery code checks for it under
sighand lock without holding the timer lock.
Hand the new value to send_sigqueue() as argument and store it with sighand
lock held. This is an intermediate change to address this issue.
The arguments to this function will be cleanup in subsequent changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.434338954@linutronix.de
Mop up the stale return value comment and add a lockdep check instead of
commenting on the locking requirement.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.374933959@linutronix.de
Move the itimer rearming out of the signal code and consolidate all posix
timer related functions in the signal code under one ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.314100569@linutronix.de
This reverts commit fb97d2eb54.
The logging was questionable to begin with, but it seems to actively
deadlock on the task lock.
"On second thought, let's not log core dump failures. 'Tis a silly place"
because if you can't tell your core dump is truncated, maybe you should
just fix your debugger instead of adding bugs to the kernel.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d122ece6-3606-49de-ae4d-8da88846bef2@oracle.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull 'struct fd' updates from Al Viro:
"Just the 'struct fd' layout change, with conversion to accessor
helpers"
* tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to_fd()
struct fd: representation change
introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.
- binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores (Brian Mak)
- binfmt_elf: mseal address zero (Jeff Xu)
- binfmt_elf, coredump: Log the reason of the failed core dumps
(Roman Kisel)
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Merge tag 'execve-v6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores (Brian Mak)
- binfmt_elf: mseal address zero (Jeff Xu)
- binfmt_elf, coredump: Log the reason of the failed core dumps (Roman
Kisel)
* tag 'execve-v6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_elf: mseal address zero
binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores
binfmt_elf, coredump: Log the reason of the failed core dumps
coredump: Standartize and fix logging
For any changes of struct fd representation we need to
turn existing accesses to fields into calls of wrappers.
Accesses to struct fd::flags are very few (3 in linux/file.h,
1 in net/socket.c, 3 in fs/overlayfs/file.c and 3 more in
explicit initializers).
Those can be dealt with in the commit converting to
new layout; accesses to struct fd::file are too many for that.
This commit converts (almost) all of f.file to
fd_file(f). It's not entirely mechanical ('file' is used as
a member name more than just in struct fd) and it does not
even attempt to distinguish the uses in pointer context from
those in boolean context; the latter will be eventually turned
into a separate helper (fd_empty()).
NOTE: mass conversion to fd_empty(), tempting as it
might be, is a bad idea; better do that piecewise in commit
that convert from fdget...() to CLASS(...).
[conflicts in fs/fhandle.c, kernel/bpf/syscall.c, mm/memcontrol.c
caught by git; fs/stat.c one got caught by git grep]
[fs/xattr.c conflict]
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Missing, failed, or corrupted core dumps might impede crash
investigations. To improve reliability of that process and consequently
the programs themselves, one needs to trace the path from producing
a core dumpfile to analyzing it. That path starts from the core dump file
written to the disk by the kernel or to the standard input of a user
mode helper program to which the kernel streams the coredump contents.
There are cases where the kernel will interrupt writing the core out or
produce a truncated/not-well-formed core dump without leaving a note.
Add logging for the core dump collection failure paths to be able to reason
what has gone wrong when the core dump is malformed or missing.
Report the size of the data written to aid in diagnosing the user mode
helper.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kisel <romank@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718182743.1959160-3-romank@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
These really can be handled gracefully without killing the machine.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
The task pointer which is handed to dequeue_signal() is always current. The
argument along with the first comment about signalfd in that function is
confusing at best. Remove it and use current internally.
Update the stale comment for dequeue_signal() while at it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
io_uring can asynchronously add a task_work while the task is getting
freezed. TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL will prevent the task from sleeping in
do_freezer_trap(), and since the get_signal()'s relock loop doesn't
retry task_work, the task will spin there not being able to sleep
until the freezing is cancelled / the task is killed / etc.
Run task_works in the freezer path. Keep the patch small and simple
so it can be easily back ported, but we might need to do some cleaning
after and look if there are other places with similar problems.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33626
Fixes: 12db8b6900 ("entry: Add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL")
Reported-by: Julian Orth <ju.orth@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/89ed3a52933370deaaf61a0a620a6ac91f1e754d.1720634146.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This removes the signal/coredump hacks added for vhost_tasks in:
Commit f9010dbdce ("fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression")
When that patch was added vhost_tasks did not handle SIGKILL and would
try to ignore/clear the signal and continue on until the device's close
function was called. In the previous patches vhost_tasks and the vhost
drivers were converted to support SIGKILL by cleaning themselves up and
exiting. The hacks are no longer needed so this removes them.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <20240316004707.45557-10-michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
Remove the sentinel from ctl_table arrays. Reduce by one the values used
to compare the size of the adjusted arrays.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
heap optimizations".
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has also sped up the library sorting code in the series
"lib/sort: Optimize the number of swaps and comparisons".
- Alexey Gladkov has added the ability for code running within an IPC
namespace to alter its IPC and MQ limits. The series is "Allow to
change ipc/mq sysctls inside ipc namespace".
- Geert Uytterhoeven has contributed some dhrystone maintenance work in
the series "lib: dhry: miscellaneous cleanups".
- Ryusuke Konishi continues nilfs2 maintenance work in the series
"nilfs2: eliminate kmap and kmap_atomic calls"
"nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()"
- Nathan Chancellor has updated our build tools requirements in the
series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum continues with the selftests maintenance work in
the series "selftests/mm: Improve run_vmtests.sh".
- Oleg Nesterov has done some maintenance work against the signal code
in the series "get_signal: minor cleanups and fix".
Plus the usual shower of singleton patches in various parts of the tree.
Please see the individual changelogs for details.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-03-14-09-36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has developed the well-named series "lib min_heap: Min
heap optimizations".
- Kuan-Wei Chiu has also sped up the library sorting code in the series
"lib/sort: Optimize the number of swaps and comparisons".
- Alexey Gladkov has added the ability for code running within an IPC
namespace to alter its IPC and MQ limits. The series is "Allow to
change ipc/mq sysctls inside ipc namespace".
- Geert Uytterhoeven has contributed some dhrystone maintenance work in
the series "lib: dhry: miscellaneous cleanups".
- Ryusuke Konishi continues nilfs2 maintenance work in the series
"nilfs2: eliminate kmap and kmap_atomic calls"
"nilfs2: fix kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()"
- Nathan Chancellor has updated our build tools requirements in the
series "Bump the minimum supported version of LLVM to 13.0.1".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum continues with the selftests maintenance work in
the series "selftests/mm: Improve run_vmtests.sh".
- Oleg Nesterov has done some maintenance work against the signal code
in the series "get_signal: minor cleanups and fix".
Plus the usual shower of singleton patches in various parts of the tree.
Please see the individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-03-14-09-36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
nilfs2: prevent kernel bug at submit_bh_wbc()
nilfs2: fix failure to detect DAT corruption in btree and direct mappings
ocfs2: enable ocfs2_listxattr for special files
ocfs2: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
assoc_array: fix the return value in assoc_array_insert_mid_shortcut()
buildid: use kmap_local_page()
watchdog/core: remove sysctl handlers from public header
nilfs2: use div64_ul() instead of do_div()
mul_u64_u64_div_u64: increase precision by conditionally swapping a and b
kexec: copy only happens before uchunk goes to zero
get_signal: don't initialize ksig->info if SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT/group_exec_task
get_signal: hide_si_addr_tag_bits: fix the usage of uninitialized ksig
get_signal: don't abuse ksig->info.si_signo and ksig->sig
const_structs.checkpatch: add device_type
Normalise "name (ad@dr)" MODULE_AUTHORs to "name <ad@dr>"
dyndbg: replace kstrdup() + strchr() with kstrdup_and_replace()
list: leverage list_is_head() for list_entry_is_head()
nilfs2: MAINTAINERS: drop unreachable project mirror site
smp: make __smp_processor_id() 0-argument macro
fat: fix uninitialized field in nostale filehandles
...
This initialization is incomplete and unnecessary, neither do_group_exit()
nor PF_USER_WORKER need ksig->info.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226165653.GA20834@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ksig->ka and ksig->info are not initialized if get_signal() returns 0 or
if the caller is PF_USER_WORKER.
Check signr != 0 before SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS and move the "out" label down.
The latter means that ksig->sig won't be initialized if a PF_USER_WORKER
thread gets a fatal signal but this is fine, PF_USER_WORKER's don't use
ksig. And there is nothing new, in this case ksig->ka and ksig-info are
not initialized anyway. Add a comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226165650.GA20829@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "get_signal: minor cleanups and fix".
Lets remove this clear_siginfo() right now. It is incomplete (and thus
looks confusing) and unnecessary. Also, PF_USER_WORKER's already don't
get a fully initialized ksig anyway.
This patch (of 3):
Cleanup and preparation for the next changes.
get_signal() uses signr or ksig->info.si_signo or ksig->sig in a chaotic
way, this looks confusing. Change it to always use signr.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226165612.GA20787@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240226165647.GA20826@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Right now we determine the scope of the signal based on the type of
pidfd. There are use-cases where it's useful to override the scope of
the signal. For example in [1]. Add flags to determine the scope of the
signal:
(1) PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD: send signal to specific thread reference by @pidfd
(2) PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP: send signal to thread-group of @pidfd
(2) PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP: send signal to process-group of @pidfd
Since we now allow specifying PIDFD_SEND_PROCESS_GROUP for
pidfd_send_signal() to send signals to process groups we need to adjust
the check restricting si_code emulation by userspace to account for
PIDTYPE_PGID.
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/31093 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210-chihuahua-hinzog-3945b6abd44a@brauner
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214123655.GB16265@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Turn kill_pid_info() into kill_pid_info_type(), this allows to pass any
pid_type to group_send_sig_info(), despite its name it should work fine
even if type = PIDTYPE_PID.
Change pidfd_send_signal() to use PIDTYPE_PID or PIDTYPE_TGID depending
on PIDFD_THREAD.
While at it kill another TODO comment in pidfd_show_fdinfo(). As Christian
expains fdinfo reports f_flags, userspace can already detect PIDFD_THREAD.
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209130650.GA8048@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
So that do_tkill() can use this helper too. This also simplifies
the next patch.
TODO: perhaps we can kill prepare_kill_siginfo() and change the
callers to use SEND_SIG_NOINFO, but this needs some changes in
__send_signal_locked() and TP_STORE_SIGINFO().
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209130620.GA8039@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
rather than wake_up_all(). This way do_notify_pidfd() won't wakeup the
POLLHUP-only waiters which wait for pid_task() == NULL.
TODO:
- as Christian pointed out, this asks for the new wake_up_all_poll()
helper, it can already have other users.
- we can probably discriminate the PIDFD_THREAD and non-PIDFD_THREAD
waiters, but this needs more work. See
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240205140848.GA15853@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205141348.GA16539@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
With this flag:
- pidfd_open() doesn't require that the target task must be
a thread-group leader
- pidfd_poll() succeeds when the task exits and becomes a
zombie (iow, passes exit_notify()), even if it is a leader
and thread-group is not empty.
This means that the behaviour of pidfd_poll(PIDFD_THREAD,
pid-of-group-leader) is not well defined if it races with
exec() from its sub-thread; pidfd_poll() can succeed or not
depending on whether pidfd_task_exited() is called before
or after exchange_tids().
Perhaps we can improve this behaviour later, pidfd_poll()
can probably take sig->group_exec_task into account. But
this doesn't really differ from the case when the leader
exits before other threads (so pidfd_poll() succeeds) and
then another thread execs and pidfd_poll() will block again.
thread_group_exited() is no longer used, perhaps it can die.
Co-developed-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131132602.GA23641@redhat.com
Tested-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
do_notify_pidfd() makes no sense until the whole thread group exits, change
do_notify_parent() to check thread_group_empty().
This avoids the unnecessary do_notify_pidfd() when tsk is not a leader, or
it exits before other threads, or it has a ptraced EXIT_ZOMBIE sub-thread.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240127132407.GA29136@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The purpose of recalc_sigpending_and_wake() is not clear, it looks
"obviously unneeded" because we are going to send the signal which can't
be blocked or ignored.
Add the comment to explain why we can't rely on send_signal_locked() and
make this logic more simple/explicit. recalc_sigpending_and_wake() has no
other users, it can die.
In fact I think we don't even need signal_wake_up(), the target task must
be either current or a TASK_TRACED child, otherwise the usage of siglock
is not safe. But this needs another change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231120151649.GA15995@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cosmetic, but imho it makes the usage look more clear and simple, the new
helper doesn't require to initialize "t".
After this change while_each_thread() has only 3 users, and it is only
used in the do/while loops.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231030155710.GA9095@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
The lengthier patch series are
- "kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation in
arch", from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and consolidation of
the "crashkernel=" kernel parameter handling.
- After much discussion, David Laight's "minmax: Relax type checks in
min() and max()" is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and the
use of min_t() and max_t().
- A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly fix
our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
task_struct.therad_group.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
The lengthier patch series are
- 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling
- After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
the use of min_t() and max_t()
- A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
task_struct.thread_group"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
.mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
.mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock
do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
fs: ocfs2: check status values
proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
...
The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will
be maintained as an LTS kernel.
The architecture specific system call tables are updated for
the added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references
to the long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.
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Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
- The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
maintained as an LTS kernel.
- The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.
* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
ucounts is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the
assignment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926022410.4280-1-kunyu@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@nfschina.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
do/while_each_thread should be avoided when possible.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230909164537.GA11633@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
No need to calculate/check the "success" variable, we can kill it and update
retval in the main loop unless it is zero.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823171455.GA12188@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On PREEMPT_RT keeping preemption disabled during the invocation of
cgroup_enter_frozen() is a problem because the function acquires
css_set_lock which is a sleeping lock on PREEMPT_RT and must not be
acquired with disabled preemption.
The preempt-disabled section is only for performance optimisation reasons
and can be avoided.
Extend the comment and don't disable preemption before scheduling on
PREEMPT_RT.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803100932.325870-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Commit 53da1d9456 ("fix ptrace slowness") added a preempt-disable section
between read_unlock() and the following schedule() invocation without
explaining why it is needed.
Replace the existing contentless comment with a proper explanation to
clarify that it is not needed for correctness but for performance reasons.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803100932.325870-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Make the print-fatal-signals message more useful by printing the comm
and the exe name for the process which received the fatal signal:
Before:
potentially unexpected fatal signal 4
potentially unexpected fatal signal 11
After:
buggy-program: pool: potentially unexpected fatal signal 4
some-daemon: gdbus: potentially unexpected fatal signal 11
comm used to be present but was removed in commit 681a90ffe8
("arc, print-fatal-signals: reduce duplicated information") because it's
also included as part of the later stack trace. Having the comm as part
of the main "unexpected fatal..." print is rather useful though when
analysing logs, and the exe name is also valuable as shown in the
examples above where the comm ends up having some generic name like
"pool".
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't include linux/file.h twice]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230707-fatal-comm-v1-1-400363905d5e@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit eda0047296 ("mm: make the page fault mmap locking killable")
intentionally made it much easier to trigger the "page fault fails
because a fatal signal is pending" situation, by having the mmap locking
fail early in that case.
We have long aborted page faults in other fatal cases when the actual IO
for a page is interrupted by SIGKILL - which is particularly useful for
the traditional case of NFS hanging due to network issues, but local
filesystems could cause it too if you happened to get the SIGKILL while
waiting for a page to be faulted in (eg lock_folio_maybe_drop_mmap()).
So aborting the page fault wasn't a new condition - but it now triggers
earlier, before we even get to 'handle_mm_fault()'. And as a result the
error doesn't go through our 'fault_signal_pending()' logic, and doesn't
get filtered away there.
Normally you'd never even notice, because if a fatal signal is pending,
the new SIGSEGV we send ends up being ignored anyway.
But it turns out that there is one very noticeable exception: if you
enable 'show_unhandled_signals', the aborted page fault will be logged
in the kernel messages, and you'll get a scary line looking something
like this in your logs:
pverados[2183248]: segfault at 55e5a00f9ae0 ip 000055e5a00f9ae0 sp 00007ffc0720bea8 error 14 in perl[55e5a00d4000+195000] likely on CPU 10 (core 4, socket 0)
which is rather misleading. It's not really a segfault at all, it's
just "the thread was killed before the page fault completed, so we
aborted the page fault".
Fix this by just making it clear that a pending fatal signal means that
any new signal coming in after that is implicitly handled. This will
avoid the misleading logging, since now the signal isn't 'unhandled' any
more.
Reported-and-tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8d063a26-43f5-0bb7-3203-c6a04dc159f8@proxmox.com/
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: eda0047296 ("mm: make the page fault mmap locking killable")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The changes queued up for v6.5-rc1 for sysctl are in line with
prior efforts to stop usage of deprecated routines which incur
recursion and also make it hard to remove the empty array element
in each sysctl array declaration. The most difficult user to modify
was parport which required a bit of re-thinking of how to declare shared
sysctls there, Joel Granados has stepped up to the plate to do most of
this work and eventual removal of register_sysctl_table(). That work
ended up saving us about 1465 bytes according to bloat-o-meter. Since
we gained a few bloat-o-meter karma points I moved two rather small
sysctl arrays from kernel/sysctl.c leaving us only two more sysctl
arrays to move left.
Most changes have been tested on linux-next for about a month. The last
straggler patches are a minor parport fix, changes to the sysctl
kernel selftest so to verify correctness and prevent regressions for
the future change he made to provide an alternative solution for the
special sysctl mount point target which was using the now deprecated
sysctl child element.
This is all prep work to now finally be able to remove the empty
array element in all sysctl declarations / registrations which is
expected to save us a bit of bytes all over the kernel. That work
will be tested early after v6.5-rc1 is out.
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Merge tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The changes for sysctl are in line with prior efforts to stop usage of
deprecated routines which incur recursion and also make it hard to
remove the empty array element in each sysctl array declaration.
The most difficult user to modify was parport which required a bit of
re-thinking of how to declare shared sysctls there, Joel Granados has
stepped up to the plate to do most of this work and eventual removal
of register_sysctl_table(). That work ended up saving us about 1465
bytes according to bloat-o-meter. Since we gained a few bloat-o-meter
karma points I moved two rather small sysctl arrays from
kernel/sysctl.c leaving us only two more sysctl arrays to move left.
Most changes have been tested on linux-next for about a month. The
last straggler patches are a minor parport fix, changes to the sysctl
kernel selftest so to verify correctness and prevent regressions for
the future change he made to provide an alternative solution for the
special sysctl mount point target which was using the now deprecated
sysctl child element.
This is all prep work to now finally be able to remove the empty array
element in all sysctl declarations / registrations which is expected
to save us a bit of bytes all over the kernel. That work will be
tested early after v6.5-rc1 is out"
* tag 'v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
sysctl: replace child with an enumeration
sysctl: Remove debugging dump_stack
test_sysclt: Test for registering a mount point
test_sysctl: Add an option to prevent test skip
test_sysctl: Add an unregister sysctl test
test_sysctl: Group node sysctl test under one func
test_sysctl: Fix test metadata getters
parport: plug a sysctl register leak
sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file
sysctl: move umh sysctl registration to its own file
signal: move show_unhandled_signals sysctl to its own file
sysctl: remove empty dev table
sysctl: Remove register_sysctl_table
sysctl: Refactor base paths registrations
sysctl: stop exporting register_sysctl_table
parport: Removed sysctl related defines
parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_default_proc_register
parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_device_proc_register
parport: Remove register_sysctl_table from parport_proc_register
parport: Move magic number "15" to a define
