linux.git/kernel/exit.c, branch v6.1.168

perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()

2025-06-27T10:07:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39 ]

Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a
synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access
MMIO in bad ways.

The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in
exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address
space it is trying to access.

It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a
receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for
various reasons.

Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit().

Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes
sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual
teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample")
Reported-by: Baisheng Gao 
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: optimize the redundant loop of mm_update_owner_next()

2024-07-11T10:47:13+00:00

commit cf3f9a593dab87a032d2b6a6fb205e7f3de4f0a1 upstream.

When mm_update_owner_next() is racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or
/proc or ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()), it is impossible to
find an appropriate task_struct in the loop whose mm_struct is the same as
the target mm_struct.

If the above race condition is combined with the stress-ng-zombie and
stress-ng-dup tests, such a long loop can easily cause a Hard Lockup in
write_lock_irq() for tasklist_lock.

Recognize this situation in advance and exit early.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240620122123.3877432-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Mateusz Guzik 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Tycho Andersen 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops

2023-03-10T08:33:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 001c28e57187570e4b5aa4492c7a957fb6d65d7b ]

If a task oopses with irqs disabled, this can cause various cascading
problems in the oops path such as sleep-from-invalid warnings, and
potentially worse.

Since commit 0258b5fd7c712 ("coredump: Limit coredumps to a single
thread group"), the unconditional irq enable in coredump_task_exit()
will "fix" the irq state to be enabled early in do_exit(), so currently
this may not be triggerable, but that is coincidental and fragile.

Detect and fix the irqs_disabled() condition in the oops path before
calling do_exit(), similarly to the way in_atomic() is handled.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221004094401.708299-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads

2023-01-24T06:24:41+00:00

commit 7535b832c6399b5ebfc5b53af5c51dd915ee2538 upstream.

Use a temporary variable to take full advantage of READ_ONCE() behavior.
Without this, the report (and even the test) might be out of sync with
the initial test.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5x7GXeluFmZ8E0E@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Fixes: 9fc9e278a5c0 ("panic: Introduce warn_limit")
Fixes: d4ccd54d28d3 ("exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops")
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Cc: Marco Elver 
Cc: tangmeng 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Tiezhu Yang 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

2023-01-24T06:24:41+00:00

commit de92f65719cd672f4b48397540b9f9eff67eca40 upstream.

In preparation for keeping oops_limit logic in sync with warn_limit,
have oops_limit == 0 disable checking the Oops counter.

Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" 
Cc: Eric Biggers 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs

2023-01-24T06:24:41+00:00

commit 9db89b41117024f80b38b15954017fb293133364 upstream.

Since Oops count is now tracked and is a fairly interesting signal, add
the entry /sys/kernel/oops_count to expose it to userspace.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-3-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops

2023-01-24T06:24:41+00:00

commit d4ccd54d28d3c8598e2354acc13e28c060961dbb upstream.

Many Linux systems are configured to not panic on oops; but allowing an
attacker to oops the system **really** often can make even bugs that look
completely unexploitable exploitable (like NULL dereferences and such) if
each crash elevates a refcount by one or a lock is taken in read mode, and
this causes a counter to eventually overflow.

The most interesting counters for this are 32 bits wide (like open-coded
refcounts that don't use refcount_t). (The ldsem reader count on 32-bit
platforms is just 16 bits, but probably nobody cares about 32-bit platforms
that much nowadays.)

So let's panic the system if the kernel is constantly oopsing.

The speed of oopsing 2^32 times probably depends on several factors, like
how long the stack trace is and which unwinder you're using; an empirically
important one is whether your console is showing a graphical environment or
a text console that oopses will be printed to.
In a quick single-threaded benchmark, it looks like oopsing in a vfork()
child with a very short stack trace only takes ~510 microseconds per run
when a graphical console is active; but switching to a text console that
oopses are printed to slows it down around 87x, to ~45 milliseconds per
run.
(Adding more threads makes this faster, but the actual oops printing
happens under &die_lock on x86, so you can maybe speed this up by a factor
of around 2 and then any further improvement gets eaten up by lock
contention.)

It looks like it would take around 8-12 days to overflow a 32-bit counter
with repeated oopsing on a multi-core X86 system running a graphical
environment; both me (in an X86 VM) and Seth (with a distro kernel on
normal hardware in a standard configuration) got numbers in that ballpark.

12 days aren't *that* short on a desktop system, and you'd likely need much
longer on a typical server system (assuming that people don't run graphical
desktop environments on their servers), and this is a *very* noisy and
violent approach to exploiting the kernel; and it also seems to take orders
of magnitude longer on some machines, probably because stuff like EFI
pstore will slow it down a ton if that's active.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107201317.324457-1-jannh@google.com
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-12T18:00:22+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)

 - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
   (Valentin Schneider)

 - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)

 - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
   counters (Jiebin Sun)

 - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)

 - lots of other single patches all over the tree!

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
  proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
  mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
  ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
  init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
  ia64: update config files
  nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
  fork: remove duplicate included header files
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  proc: mark more files as permanent
  nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
  checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
  usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
  ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
  percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
  fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
  relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
  proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
  fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
  ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

- Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
contention.

Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

- Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
to the single bit level.

KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

- Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
memory into THPs.

- Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
support file/shmem-backed pages.

- userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

- zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

- cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
memory-failure

- Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

- memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
memory consumption.

- memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

- memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

- Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

- Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

- migration enhancements from Peter Xu

- migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

- Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
drivers, etc.

- vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

- NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

- xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
activity.

- THP & KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

- more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

- KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

- DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

- DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

- hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

- Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock->vma pointer
hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
...

Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2022-10-10T16:10:28+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Debuggability:

   - Change most occurances of BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()

   - Reorganize & fix TASK_ state comparisons, turn it into a bitmap

   - Update/fix misc scheduler debugging facilities

  Load-balancing & regular scheduling:

   - Improve the behavior of the scheduler in presence of lot of
     SCHED_IDLE tasks - in particular they should not impact other
     scheduling classes.

   - Optimize task load tracking, cleanups & fixes

   - Clean up & simplify misc load-balancing code

  Freezer:

   - Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be
     simpler in general, by replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN &
     fixing/adjusting all the fallout.

  Deadline scheduler:

   - Fix the DL capacity-aware code

   - Factor out dl_task_is_earliest_deadline() &
     replenish_dl_new_period()

   - Relax/optimize locking in task_non_contending()

  Cleanups:

   - Factor out the update_current_exec_runtime() helper

   - Various cleanups, simplifications"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons
  sched: Fix TASK_state comparisons
  sched/fair: Move call to list_last_entry() in detach_tasks
  sched/fair: Cleanup loop_max and loop_break
  sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task
  sched: Show PF_flag holes
  freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic
  sched: Widen TAKS_state literals
  sched/wait: Add wait_event_state()
  sched/completion: Add wait_for_completion_state()
  sched: Add TASK_ANY for wait_task_inactive()
  sched: Change wait_task_inactive()s match_state
  freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction
  freezer: Have {,un}lock_system_sleep() save/restore flags
  sched: Rename task_running() to task_on_cpu()
  sched/fair: Cleanup for SIS_PROP
  sched/fair: Default to false in test_idle_cores()
  sched/fair: Remove useless check in select_idle_core()
  sched/fair: Avoid double search on same cpu
  sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt()
  ...