linux.git/mm/slab.c, branch v5.3.2

mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options

2019-07-12T18:05:46+00:00

Patch series "add init_on_alloc/init_on_free boot options", v10.

Provide init_on_alloc and init_on_free boot options.

These are aimed at preventing possible information leaks and making the
control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.

Enabling either of the options guarantees that the memory returned by the
page allocator and SL[AU]B is initialized with zeroes.  SLOB allocator
isn't supported at the moment, as its emulation of kmem caches complicates
handling of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches correctly.

Enabling init_on_free also guarantees that pages and heap objects are
initialized right after they're freed, so it won't be possible to access
stale data by using a dangling pointer.

As suggested by Michal Hocko, right now we don't let the heap users to
disable initialization for certain allocations.  There's not enough
evidence that doing so can speed up real-life cases, and introducing ways
to opt-out may result in things going out of control.

This patch (of 2):

The new options are needed to prevent possible information leaks and make
control-flow bugs that depend on uninitialized values more deterministic.

This is expected to be on-by-default on Android and Chrome OS.  And it
gives the opportunity for anyone else to use it under distros too via the
boot args.  (The init_on_free feature is regularly requested by folks
where memory forensics is included in their threat models.)

init_on_alloc=1 makes the kernel initialize newly allocated pages and heap
objects with zeroes.  Initialization is done at allocation time at the
places where checks for __GFP_ZERO are performed.

init_on_free=1 makes the kernel initialize freed pages and heap objects
with zeroes upon their deletion.  This helps to ensure sensitive data
doesn't leak via use-after-free accesses.

Both init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 guarantee that the allocator
returns zeroed memory.  The two exceptions are slab caches with
constructors and SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag.  Those are never
zero-initialized to preserve their semantics.

Both init_on_alloc and init_on_free default to zero, but those defaults
can be overridden with CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON and
CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.

If either SLUB poisoning or page poisoning is enabled, those options take
precedence over init_on_alloc and init_on_free: initialization is only
applied to unpoisoned allocations.

Slowdown for the new features compared to init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0:

hackbench, init_on_free=1:  +7.62% sys time (st.err 0.74%)
hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.75% sys time (st.err 2.14%)

Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1:  +8.38% wall time (st.err 0.39%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1:  +24.42% sys time (st.err 0.52%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.13% wall time (st.err 0.42%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +0.57% sys time (st.err 0.40%)

The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the baseline
is within the standard error.

The new features are also going to pave the way for hardware memory
tagging (e.g.  arm64's MTE), which will require both on_alloc and on_free
hooks to set the tags for heap objects.  With MTE, tagging will have the
same cost as memory initialization.

Although init_on_free is rather costly, there are paranoid use-cases where
in-memory data lifetime is desired to be minimized.  There are various
arguments for/against the realism of the associated threat models, but
given that we'll need the infrastructure for MTE anyway, and there are
people who want wipe-on-free behavior no matter what the performance cost,
it seems reasonable to include it in this series.

[glider@google.com: v8]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626121943.131390-2-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: v9]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627130316.254309-2-glider@google.com
[glider@google.com: v10]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628093131.199499-2-glider@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617151050.92663-2-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 		[page and dmapool parts
Acked-by: James Morris ]
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Masahiro Yamada 
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Kostya Serebryany 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Sandeep Patil 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Marco Elver 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg/slab: unify SLAB and SLUB page accounting

2019-07-12T18:05:44+00:00

Currently the page accounting code is duplicated in SLAB and SLUB
internals.  Let's move it into new (un)charge_slab_page helpers in the
slab_common.c file.  These helpers will be responsible for statistics
(global and memcg-aware) and memcg charging.  So they are replacing direct
memcg_(un)charge_slab() calls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190611231813.3148843-6-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Andrei Vagin 
Cc: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg/slab: generalize postponed non-root kmem_cache deactivation

2019-07-12T18:05:44+00:00

Currently SLUB uses a work scheduled after an RCU grace period to
deactivate a non-root kmem_cache.  This mechanism can be reused for
kmem_caches release, but requires generalization for SLAB case.

Introduce kmemcg_cache_deactivate() function, which calls
allocator-specific __kmem_cache_deactivate() and schedules execution of
__kmem_cache_deactivate_after_rcu() with all necessary locks in a worker
context after an rcu grace period.

Here is the new calling scheme:
  kmemcg_cache_deactivate()
    __kmemcg_cache_deactivate()                  SLAB/SLUB-specific
    kmemcg_rcufn()                               rcu
      kmemcg_workfn()                            work
        __kmemcg_cache_deactivate_after_rcu()    SLAB/SLUB-specific

instead of:
  __kmemcg_cache_deactivate()                    SLAB/SLUB-specific
    slab_deactivate_memcg_cache_rcu_sched()      SLUB-only
      kmemcg_rcufn()                             rcu
        kmemcg_workfn()                          work
          kmemcg_cache_deact_after_rcu()         SLUB-only

For consistency, all allocator-specific functions start with "__".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190611231813.3148843-4-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Andrei Vagin 
Cc: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcg/slab: postpone kmem_cache memcg pointer initialization to memcg_link_cache()

2019-07-12T18:05:43+00:00

Patch series "mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal", v7.

# Why do we need this?

We've noticed that the number of dying cgroups is steadily growing on most
of our hosts in production.  The following investigation revealed an issue
in the userspace memory reclaim code [1], accounting of kernel stacks [2],
and also the main reason: slab objects.

The underlying problem is quite simple: any page charged to a cgroup holds
a reference to it, so the cgroup can't be reclaimed unless all charged
pages are gone.  If a slab object is actively used by other cgroups, it
won't be reclaimed, and will prevent the origin cgroup from being
reclaimed.

Slab objects, and first of all vfs cache, is shared between cgroups, which
are using the same underlying fs, and what's even more important, it's
shared between multiple generations of the same workload.  So if something
is running periodically every time in a new cgroup (like how systemd
works), we do accumulate multiple dying cgroups.

Strictly speaking pagecache isn't different here, but there is a key
difference: we disable protection and apply some extra pressure on LRUs of
dying cgroups, and these LRUs contain all charged pages.  My experiments
show that with the disabled kernel memory accounting the number of dying
cgroups stabilizes at a relatively small number (~100, depends on memory
pressure and cgroup creation rate), and with kernel memory accounting it
grows pretty steadily up to several thousands.

Memory cgroups are quite complex and big objects (mostly due to percpu
stats), so it leads to noticeable memory losses.  Memory occupied by dying
cgroups is measured in hundreds of megabytes.  I've even seen a host with
more than 100Gb of memory wasted for dying cgroups.  It leads to a
degradation of performance with the uptime, and generally limits the usage
of cgroups.

My previous attempt [3] to fix the problem by applying extra pressure on
slab shrinker lists caused a regressions with xfs and ext4, and has been
reverted [4].  The following attempts to find the right balance [5, 6]
were not successful.

So instead of trying to find a maybe non-existing balance, let's do
reparent accounted slab caches to the parent cgroup on cgroup removal.

# Implementation approach

There is however a significant problem with reparenting of slab memory:
there is no list of charged pages.  Some of them are in shrinker lists,
but not all.  Introducing of a new list is really not an option.

But fortunately there is a way forward: every slab page has a stable
pointer to the corresponding kmem_cache.  So the idea is to reparent
kmem_caches instead of slab pages.

It's actually simpler and cheaper, but requires some underlying changes:
1) Make kmem_caches to hold a single reference to the memory cgroup,
   instead of a separate reference per every slab page.
2) Stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for memcg slab pages and use
   page->kmem_cache->memcg indirection instead. It's used only on
   slab page release, so performance overhead shouldn't be a big issue.
3) Introduce a refcounter for non-root slab caches. It's required to
   be able to destroy kmem_caches when they become empty and release
   the associated memory cgroup.

There is a bonus: currently we release all memcg kmem_caches all together
with the memory cgroup itself.  This patchset allows individual
kmem_caches to be released as soon as they become inactive and free.

Some additional implementation details are provided in corresponding
commit messages.

# Results

Below is the average number of dying cgroups on two groups of our
production hosts.  They do run some sort of web frontend workload, the
memory pressure is moderate.  As we can see, with the kernel memory
reparenting the number stabilizes in 60s range; however with the original
version it grows almost linearly and doesn't show any signs of plateauing.
The difference in slab and percpu usage between patched and unpatched
versions also grows linearly.  In 7 days it exceeded 200Mb.

day           0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7
original     56  362  628  752 1070 1250 1490 1560
patched      23   46   51   55   60   57   67   69
mem diff(Mb) 22   74  123  152  164  182  214  241

# Links

[1]: commit 68600f623d69 ("mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error")
[2]: commit 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting")
[3]: commit 172b06c32b94 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects")
[4]: commit a9a238e83fbb ("Revert "mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects")
[5]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/28/1865
[6]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=155064763626437&w=2

This patch (of 10):

Initialize kmem_cache->memcg_params.memcg pointer in memcg_link_cache()
rather than in init_memcg_params().

Once kmem_cache will hold a reference to the memory cgroup, it will
simplify the refcounting.

For non-root kmem_caches memcg_link_cache() is always called before the
kmem_cache becomes visible to a user, so it's safe.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190611231813.3148843-2-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andrei Vagin 
Cc: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: refactor common ksize KASAN logic into slab_common.c

2019-07-12T18:05:42+00:00

This refactors common code of ksize() between the various allocators into
slab_common.c: __ksize() is the allocator-specific implementation without
instrumentation, whereas ksize() includes the required KASAN logic.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626142014.141844-5-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: sanity-check page type when looking up cache

2019-07-12T18:05:41+00:00

This avoids any possible type confusion when looking up an object.  For
example, if a non-slab were to be passed to kfree(), the invalid
slab_cache pointer (i.e.  overlapped with some other value from the
struct page union) would be used for subsequent slab manipulations that
could lead to further memory corruption.

Since the page is already in cache, adding the PageSlab() check will
have nearly zero cost, so add a check and WARN() to virt_to_cache().
Additionally replaces an open-coded virt_to_cache().  To support the
failure mode this also updates all callers of virt_to_cache() and
cache_from_obj() to handle a NULL cache pointer return value (though
note that several already handle this case gracefully).

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: restore IRQs in kfree()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613065637.GE16334@mwanda
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530045017.15252-3-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Alexander Popov 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators

2019-05-16T22:51:55+00:00

It turned out that DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK is still broken even after recent
recue efforts that when there is a large number of objects like
kmemleak_object which is normal on a debug kernel,

  # grep kmemleak /proc/slabinfo
  kmemleak_object   2243606 3436210 ...

reading /proc/slab_allocators could easily loop forever while processing
the kmemleak_object cache and any additional freeing or allocating
objects will trigger a reprocessing. To make a situation worse,
soft-lockups could easily happen in this sitatuion which will call
printk() to allocate more kmemleak objects to guarantee an infinite
loop.

Also, since it seems no one had noticed when it was totally broken
more than 2-year ago - see the commit fcf88917dd43 ("slab: fix a crash
by reading /proc/slab_allocators"), probably nobody cares about it
anymore due to the decline of the SLAB. Just remove it entirely.

Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab.c: fix an infinite loop in leaks_show()

2019-05-14T16:47:45+00:00

"cat /proc/slab_allocators" could hang forever on SMP machines with
kmemleak or object debugging enabled due to other CPUs running do_drain()
will keep making kmemleak_object or debug_objects_cache dirty and unable
to escape the first loop in leaks_show(),

do {
	set_store_user_clean(cachep);
	drain_cpu_caches(cachep);
	...

} while (!is_store_user_clean(cachep));

For example,

do_drain
  slabs_destroy
    slab_destroy
      kmem_cache_free
        __cache_free
          ___cache_free
            kmemleak_free_recursive
              delete_object_full
                __delete_object
                  put_object
                    free_object_rcu
                      kmem_cache_free
                        cache_free_debugcheck --> dirty kmemleak_object

One approach is to check cachep->name and skip both kmemleak_object and
debug_objects_cache in leaks_show().  The other is to set store_user_clean
after drain_cpu_caches() which leaves a small window between
drain_cpu_caches() and set_store_user_clean() where per-CPU caches could
be dirty again lead to slightly wrong information has been stored but
could also speed up things significantly which sounds like a good
compromise.  For example,

 # cat /proc/slab_allocators
 0m42.778s # 1st approach
 0m0.737s  # 2nd approach

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190411032635.10325-1-cai@lca.pw
Fixes: d31676dfde25 ("mm/slab: alternative implementation for DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab.c: remove unneed check in cpuup_canceled

2019-05-14T16:47:45+00:00

nc is a member of percpu allocation memory, and cannot be NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553159353-5056-1-git-send-email-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab: use slab_list instead of lru

2019-05-14T16:47:45+00:00

Currently we use the page->lru list for maintaining lists of slabs.  We
have a list in the page structure (slab_list) that can be used for this
purpose.  Doing so makes the code cleaner since we are not overloading the
lru list.

Use the slab_list instead of the lru list for maintaining lists of slabs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190402230545.2929-7-tobin@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds