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2026-04-18sysctl: fix uninitialized variable in proc_do_large_bitmapMarc Buerg1-1/+1
[ Upstream commit f63a9df7e3f9f842945d292a19d9938924f066f9 ] proc_do_large_bitmap() does not initialize variable c, which is expected to be set to a trailing character by proc_get_long(). However, proc_get_long() only sets c when the input buffer contains a trailing character after the parsed value. If c is not initialized it may happen to contain a '-'. If this is the case proc_do_large_bitmap() expects to be able to parse a second part of the input buffer. If there is no second part an unjustified -EINVAL will be returned. Initialize c to 0 to prevent returning -EINVAL on valid input. Fixes: 9f977fb7ae9d ("sysctl: add proc_do_large_bitmap") Signed-off-by: Marc Buerg <buermarc@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-06-21sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_doboolJia He1-0/+42
[ Upstream commit a2071573d6346819cc4e5787b4206f2184985160 ] This is to let bool variable could be correctly displayed in big/little endian sysctl procfs. sizeof(bool) is arch dependent, proc_dobool should work in all arches. Suggested-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com> [thuth: rebased the patch to the current kernel version] Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-06-21fanotify: configurable limits via sysfsAmir Goldstein1-1/+11
[ Upstream commit 5b8fea65d197f408bb00b251c70d842826d6b70b ] fanotify has some hardcoded limits. The only APIs to escape those limits are FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE and FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS. Allow finer grained tuning of the system limits via sysfs tunables under /proc/sys/fs/fanotify, similar to tunables under /proc/sys/fs/inotify, with some minor differences. - max_queued_events - global system tunable for group queue size limit. Like the inotify tunable with the same name, it defaults to 16384 and applies on initialization of a new group. - max_user_marks - user ns tunable for marks limit per user. Like the inotify tunable named max_user_watches, on a machine with sufficient RAM and it defaults to 1048576 in init userns and can be further limited per containing user ns. - max_user_groups - user ns tunable for number of groups per user. Like the inotify tunable named max_user_instances, it defaults to 128 in init userns and can be further limited per containing user ns. The slightly different tunable names used for fanotify are derived from the "group" and "mark" terminology used in the fanotify man pages and throughout the code. Considering the fact that the default value for max_user_instances was increased in kernel v5.10 from 8192 to 1048576, leaving the legacy fanotify limit of 8192 marks per group in addition to the max_user_marks limit makes little sense, so the per group marks limit has been removed. Note that when a group is initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS, its own marks are not accounted in the per user marks account, so in effect the limit of max_user_marks is only for the collection of groups that are not initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304112921.3996419-2-amir73il@gmail.com Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-03-01sched/rt: Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_usCyril Hrubis1-0/+4
commit 079be8fc630943d9fc70a97807feb73d169ee3fc upstream. The validation of the value written to sched_rt_period_us was broken because: - the sysclt_sched_rt_period is declared as unsigned int - parsed by proc_do_intvec() - the range is asserted after the value parsed by proc_do_intvec() Because of this negative values written to the file were written into a unsigned integer that were later on interpreted as large positive integers which did passed the check: if (sysclt_sched_rt_period <= 0) return EINVAL; This commit fixes the parsing by setting explicit range for both perid_us and runtime_us into the sched_rt_sysctls table and processes the values with proc_dointvec_minmax() instead. Alternatively if we wanted to use full range of unsigned int for the period value we would have to split the proc_handler and use proc_douintvec() for it however even the Documentation/scheduller/sched-rt-group.rst describes the range as 1 to INT_MAX. As far as I can tell the only problem this causes is that the sysctl file allows writing negative values which when read back may confuse userspace. There is also a LTP test being submitted for these sysctl files at: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/ltp/patch/20230901144433.2526-1-chrubis@suse.cz/ Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115553.3007-2-chrubis@suse.cz [ pvorel: rebased for 5.15, 5.10 ] Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-06-28sysctl: move some boundary constants from sysctl.c to sysctl_valsXiaoming Ni1-26/+19
[ Upstream commit 78e36f3b0dae586f623c4a37ec5eb5496f5abbe1 ] sysctl has helpers which let us specify boundary values for a min or max int value. Since these are used for a boundary check only they don't change, so move these variables to sysctl_vals to avoid adding duplicate variables. This will help with our cleanup of kernel/sysctl.c. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update it for "mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%"] [mcgrof@kernel.org: major rebase] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123202347.818157-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com> Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com> Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Stable-dep-of: 935d44acf621 ("memfd: check for non-NULL file_seals in memfd_create() syscall") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-06-28mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%Suren Baghdasaryan1-1/+2
[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ] For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every time such application is started. This results in slow application startup times and bad end-user experience. By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their device and workload requirements. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de> Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Stable-dep-of: 935d44acf621 ("memfd: check for non-NULL file_seals in memfd_create() syscall") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-04-20sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dou8vec_minmax().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-2/+2
commit 7dee5d7747a69aa2be41f04c6a7ecfe3ac8cdf18 upstream. A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_dou8vec_minmax() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dou8vec_minmax() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: cb9444130662 ("sysctl: add proc_dou8vec_minmax()") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-04-20sysctl: add proc_dou8vec_minmax()Eric Dumazet1-0/+65
[ Upstream commit cb9444130662c6c13022579c861098f212db2562 ] Networking has many sysctls that could fit in one u8. This patch adds proc_dou8vec_minmax() for this purpose. Note that the .extra1 and .extra2 fields are pointing to integers, because it makes conversions easier. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Stable-dep-of: dc5110c2d959 ("tcp: restrict net.ipv4.tcp_app_win") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-01kernel/panic: move panic sysctls to its own filetangmeng1-11/+0
commit 9df918698408fd914493aba0b7858fef50eba63a upstream. kernel/sysctl.c is a kitchen sink where everyone leaves their dirty dishes, this makes it very difficult to maintain. To help with this maintenance let's start by moving sysctls to places where they actually belong. The proc sysctl maintainers do not want to know what sysctl knobs you wish to add for your own piece of code, we just care about the core logic. All filesystem syctls now get reviewed by fs folks. This commit follows the commit of fs, move the oops_all_cpu_backtrace sysctl to its own file, kernel/panic.c. Signed-off-by: tangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-12-08proc: proc_skip_spaces() shouldn't think it is working on C stringsLinus Torvalds1-12/+13
commit bce9332220bd677d83b19d21502776ad555a0e73 upstream. proc_skip_spaces() seems to think it is working on C strings, and ends up being just a wrapper around skip_spaces() with a really odd calling convention. Instead of basing it on skip_spaces(), it should have looked more like proc_skip_char(), which really is the exact same function (except it skips a particular character, rather than whitespace). So use that as inspiration, odd coding and all. Now the calling convention actually makes sense and works for the intended purpose. Reported-and-tested-by: Kyle Zeng <zengyhkyle@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-12-08proc: avoid integer type confusion in get_proc_longLinus Torvalds1-3/+2
commit e6cfaf34be9fcd1a8285a294e18986bfc41a409c upstream. proc_get_long() is passed a size_t, but then assigns it to an 'int' variable for the length. Let's not do that, even if our IO paths are limited to MAX_RW_COUNT (exactly because of these kinds of type errors). So do the proper test in the rigth type. Reported-by: Kyle Zeng <zengyhkyle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-21mm: sysctl: fix missing numa_stat when !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGEMuchun Song1-9/+11
[ Upstream commit 43b5240ca6b33108998810593248186b1e3ae34a ] "numa_stat" should not be included in the scope of CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE, if CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not configured even if CONFIG_NUMA is configured, "numa_stat" is missed form /proc. Move it out of CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE to fix it. Fixes: 4518085e127d ("mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data-races in proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-4/+4
[ Upstream commit 7d1025e559782b58824b36cb8ad547a69f2e4b31 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec_jiffies().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-2/+5
[ Upstream commit e877820877663fbae8cb9582ea597a7230b94df3 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_dointvec_jiffies() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_jiffies() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data races in proc_doulongvec_minmax().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-2/+2
[ Upstream commit c31bcc8fb89fc2812663900589c6325ba35d9a65 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_doulongvec_minmax() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_doulongvec_minmax() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data races in proc_douintvec_minmax().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-1/+1
[ Upstream commit 2d3b559df3ed39258737789aae2ae7973d205bc1 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_douintvec_minmax() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_douintvec_minmax() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 61d9b56a8920 ("sysctl: add unsigned int range support") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec_minmax().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-1/+1
[ Upstream commit f613d86d014b6375a4085901de39406598121e35 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_dointvec_minmax() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec_minmax() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data races in proc_douintvec().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-2/+2
[ Upstream commit 4762b532ec9539755aab61445d5da6e1926ccb99 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_douintvec() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_douintvec() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21sysctl: Fix data races in proc_dointvec().Kuniyuki Iwashima1-3/+3
[ Upstream commit 1f1be04b4d48a2475ea1aab46a99221bfc5c0968 ] A sysctl variable is accessed concurrently, and there is always a chance of data-race. So, all readers and writers need some basic protection to avoid load/store-tearing. This patch changes proc_dointvec() to use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() internally to fix data-races on the sysctl side. For now, proc_dointvec() itself is tolerant to a data-race, but we still need to add annotations on the other subsystem's side. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-03-11x86/speculation: Include unprivileged eBPF status in Spectre v2 mitigation ↵Josh Poimboeuf1-0/+7
reporting commit 44a3918c8245ab10c6c9719dd12e7a8d291980d8 upstream. With unprivileged eBPF enabled, eIBRS (without retpoline) is vulnerable to Spectre v2 BHB-based attacks. When both are enabled, print a warning message and report it in the 'spectre_v2' sysfs vulnerabilities file. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 5.10] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-01-05bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by defaultDaniel Borkmann1-5/+24
commit 08389d888287c3823f80b0216766b71e17f0aba5 upstream. Add a kconfig knob which allows for unprivileged bpf to be disabled by default. If set, the knob sets /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to value of 2. This still allows a transition of 2 -> {0,1} through an admin. Similarly, this also still keeps 1 -> {1} behavior intact, so that once set to permanently disabled, it cannot be undone aside from a reboot. We've also added extra2 with max of 2 for the procfs handler, so that an admin still has a chance to toggle between 0 <-> 2. Either way, as an additional alternative, applications can make use of CAP_BPF that we added a while ago. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-17sysctl.c: fix underflow value setting risk in vm_tableLin Feng1-4/+4
[ Upstream commit 3b3376f222e3ab58367d9dd405cafd09d5e37b7c ] Apart from subsystem specific .proc_handler handler, all ctl_tables with extra1 and extra2 members set should use proc_dointvec_minmax instead of proc_dointvec, or the limit set in extra* never work and potentially echo underflow values(negative numbers) is likely make system unstable. Especially vfs_cache_pressure and zone_reclaim_mode, -1 is apparently not a valid value, but we can set to them. And then kernel may crash. # echo -1 > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201223105535.2875-1-linf@wangsu.com Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linf@wangsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-09-17mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the page lockLinus Torvalds1-0/+8
Commit 2a9127fcf229 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic") made the page locking entirely fair, in that if a waiter came in while the lock was held, the lock would be transferred to the lockers strictly in order. That was intended to finally get rid of the long-reported watchdog failures that involved the page lock under extreme load, where a process could end up waiting essentially forever, as other page lockers stole the lock from under it. It also improved some benchmarks, but it ended up causing huge performance regressions on others, simply because fair lock behavior doesn't end up giving out the lock as aggressively, causing better worst-case latency, but potentially much worse average latencies and throughput. Instead of reverting that change entirely, this introduces a controlled amount of unfairness, with a sysctl knob to tune it if somebody needs to. But the default value should hopefully be good for any normal load, allowing a few rounds of lock stealing, but enforcing the strict ordering before the lock has been stolen too many times. There is also a hint from Matthieu Baerts that the fair page coloring may end up exposing an ABBA deadlock that is hidden by the usual optimistic lock stealing, and while the unfairness doesn't fix the fundamental issue (and I'm still looking at that), it avoids it in practice. The amount of unfairness can be modified by writing a new value to the 'sysctl_page_lock_unfairness' variable (default value of 5, exposed through /proc/sys/vm/page_lock_unfairness), but that is hopefully something we'd use mainly for debugging rather than being necessary for any deep system tuning. This whole issue has exposed just how critical the page lock can be, and how contended it gets under certain locks. And the main contention doesn't really seem to be anything related to IO (which was the origin of this lock), but for things like just verifying that the page file mapping is stable while faulting in the page into a page table. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/ed8442fd-6f54-dd84-cd4a-941e8b7ee603@MichaelLarabel.com/ Link: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-50-59&num=1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/c560a38d-8313-51fb-b1ec-e904bd8836bc@tessares.net/ Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@michaellarabel.com> Tested-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-24bpf, sysctl: Let bpf_stats_handler take a kernel pointer bufferTobias Klauser1-2/+1
Commit 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") changed ctl_table.proc_handler to take a kernel pointer. Adjust the signature of bpf_stats_handler to match ctl_table.proc_handler which fixes the following sparse warning: kernel/sysctl.c:226:49: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different address spaces) kernel/sysctl.c:226:49: expected void * kernel/sysctl.c:226:49: got void [noderef] __user *buffer kernel/sysctl.c:2640:35: warning: incorrect type in initializer (incompatible argument 3 (different address spaces)) kernel/sysctl.c:2640:35: expected int ( [usertype] *proc_handler )( ... ) kernel/sysctl.c:2640:35: got int ( * )( ... ) Fixes: 32927393dc1c ("sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler") Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200824142047.22043-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
2020-08-12mm: use unsigned types for fragmentation scoreNitin Gupta1-1/+1
Proactive compaction uses per-node/zone "fragmentation score" which is always in range [0, 100], so use unsigned type of these scores as well as for related constants. Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618010319.13159-1-nigupta@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-12mm: proactive compactionNitin Gupta1-0/+9
For some applications, we need to allocate almost all memory as hugepages. However, on a running system, higher-order allocations can fail if the memory is fragmented. Linux kernel currently does on-demand compaction as we request more hugepages, but this style of compaction incurs very high latency. Experiments with one-time full memory compaction (followed by hugepage allocations) show that kernel is able to restore a highly fragmented memory state to a fairly compacted memory state within <1 sec for a 32G system. Such data suggests that a more proactive compaction can help us allocate a large fraction of memory as hugepages keeping allocation latencies low. For a more proactive compaction, the approach taken here is to define a new sysctl called 'vm.compaction_proactiveness' which dictates bounds for external fragmentation which kcompactd tries to maintain. The tunable takes a value in range [0, 100], with a default of 20. Note that a previous version of this patch [1] was found to introduce too many tunables (per-order extfrag{low, high}), but this one reduces them to just one sysctl. Also, the new tunable is an opaque value instead of asking for specific bounds of "external fragmentation", which would have been difficult to estimate. The internal interpretation of this opaque value allows for future fine-tuning. Currently, we use a simple translation from this tunable to [low, high] "fragmentation score" thresholds (low=100-proactiveness, high=low+10%). The score for a node is defined as weighted mean of per-zone external fragmentation. A zone's present_pages determines its weight. To periodically check per-node score, we reuse per-node kcompactd threads, which are woken up every 500 milliseconds to check the same. If a node's score exceeds its high threshold (as derived from user-provided proactiveness value), proactive compaction is started until its score reaches its low threshold value. By default, proactiveness is set to 20, which implies threshold values of low=80 and high=90. This patch is largely based on ideas from Michal Hocko [2]. See also the LWN article [3]. Performance data ================ System: x64_64, 1T RAM, 80 CPU threads. Kernel: 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo madvise | sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag Before starting the driver, the system was fragmented from a userspace program that allocates all memory and then for each 2M aligned section, frees 3/4 of base pages using munmap. The workload is mainly anonymous userspace pages, which are easy to move around. I intentionally avoided unmovable pages in this test to see how much latency we incur when hugepage allocations hit direct compaction. 1. Kernel hugepage allocation latencies With the system in such a fragmented state, a kernel driver then allocates as many hugepages as possible and measures allocation latency: (all latency values are in microseconds) - With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3 percentile latency –––––––––– ––––––– 5 7894 10 9496 25 12561 30 15295 40 18244 50 21229 60 27556 75 30147 80 31047 90 32859 95 33799 Total 2M hugepages allocated = 383859 (749G worth of hugepages out of 762G total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages) - With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20 sysctl -w vm.compaction_proactiveness=20 percentile latency –––––––––– ––––––– 5 2 10 2 25 3 30 3 40 3 50 4 60 4 75 4 80 4 90 5 95 429 Total 2M hugepages allocated = 384105 (750G worth of hugepages out of 762G total free => 98% of free memory could be allocated as hugepages) 2. JAVA heap allocation In this test, we first fragment memory using the same method as for (1). Then, we start a Java process with a heap size set to 700G and request the heap to be allocated with THP hugepages. We also set THP to madvise to allow hugepage backing of this heap. /usr/bin/time java -Xms700G -Xmx700G -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch The above command allocates 700G of Java heap using hugepages. - With vanilla 5.6.0-rc3 17.39user 1666.48system 27:37.89elapsed - With 5.6.0-rc3 + this patch, with proactiveness=20 8.35user 194.58system 3:19.62elapsed Elapsed time remains around 3:15, as proactiveness is further increased. Note that proactive compaction happens throughout the runtime of these workloads. The situation of one-time compaction, sufficient to supply hugepages for following allocation stream, can probably happen for more extreme proactiveness values, like 80 or 90. In the above Java workload, proactiveness is set to 20. The test starts with a node's score of 80 or higher, depending on the delay between the fragmentation step and starting the benchmark, which gives more-or-less time for the initial round of compaction. As t he benchmark consumes hugepages, node's score quickly rises above the high threshold (90) and proactive compaction starts again, which brings down the score to the low threshold level (80). Repeat. bpftrace also confirms proactive compaction running 20+ times during the runtime of this Java benchmark. kcompactd threads consume 100% of one of the CPUs while it tries to bring a node's score within thresholds. Backoff behavior ================ Above workloads produce a memory state which is easy to compact. However, if memory is filled with unmovable pages, proactive compaction should essentially back off. To test this aspect: - Created a kernel driver that allocates almost all memory as hugepages followed by freeing first 3/4 of each hugepage. - Set proactiveness=40 - Note that proactive_compact_node() is deferred maximum number of times with HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC of wait between each check (=> ~30 seconds between retries). [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11098289/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20161230131412.GI13301@dhcp22.suse.cz/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/817905/ Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@nitingupta.dev> Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616204527.19185-1-nigupta@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policyFeng Tang1-1/+1
When checking a performance change for will-it-scale scalability mmap test [1], we found very high lock contention for spinlock of percpu counter 'vm_committed_as': 94.14% 0.35% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 48.21% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__vm_enough_memory;mmap_region;do_mmap; 45.91% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave;percpu_counter_add_batch;__do_munmap; Actually this heavy lock contention is not always necessary. The 'vm_committed_as' needs to be very precise when the strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy is set, which requires a rather small batch number for the percpu counter. So keep 'batch' number unchanged for strict OVERCOMMIT_NEVER policy, and lift it to 64X for OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and OVERCOMMIT_GUESS policies. Also add a sysctl handler to adjust it when the policy is reconfigured. Benchmark with the same testcase in [1] shows 53% improvement on a 8C/16T desktop, and 2097%(20X) on a 4S/72C/144T server. We tested with test platforms in 0day (server, desktop and laptop), and 80%+ platforms shows improvements with that test. And whether it shows improvements depends on if the test mmap size is bigger than the batch number computed. And if the lift is 16X, 1/3 of the platforms will show improvements, though it should help the mmap/unmap usage generally, as Michal Hocko mentioned: : I believe that there are non-synthetic worklaods which would benefit from : a larger batch. E.g. large in memory databases which do large mmaps : during startups from multiple threads. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200305062138.GI5972@shao2-debian/ Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1589611660-89854-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1592725000-73486-4-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594389708-60781-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-29sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost valueQais Yousef1-0/+7
RT tasks by default run at the highest capacity/performance level. When uclamp is selected this default behavior is retained by enforcing the requested uclamp.min (p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) of the RT tasks to be uclamp_none(UCLAMP_MAX), which is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE; the maximum value. This is also referred to as 'the default boost value of RT tasks'. See commit 1a00d999971c ("sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks"). On battery powered devices, it is desired to control this default (currently hardcoded) behavior at runtime to reduce energy consumed by RT tasks. For example, a mobile device manufacturer where big.LITTLE architecture is dominant, the performance of the little cores varies across SoCs, and on high end ones the big cores could be too power hungry. Given the diversity of SoCs, the new knob allows manufactures to tune the best performance/power for RT tasks for the particular hardware they run on. They could opt to further tune the value when the user selects a different power saving mode or when the device is actively charging. The runtime aspect of it further helps in creating a single kernel image that can be run on multiple devices that require different tuning. Keep in mind that a lot of RT tasks in the system are created by the kernel. On Android for instance I can see over 50 RT tasks, only a handful of which created by the Android framework. To control the default behavior globally by system admins and device integrator, introduce the new sysctl_sched_uclamp_util_min_rt_default to change the default boost value of the RT tasks. I anticipate this to be mostly in the form of modifying the init script of a particular device. To avoid polluting the fast path with unnecessary code, the approach taken is to synchronously do the update by traversing all the existing tasks in the system. This could race with a concurrent fork(), which is dealt with by introducing sched_post_fork() function which will ensure the racy fork will get the right update applied. Tested on Juno-r2 in combination with the RT capacity awareness [1]. By default an RT task will go to the highest capacity CPU and run at the maximum frequency, which is particularly energy inefficient on high end mobile devices because the biggest core[s] are 'huge' and power hungry. With this patch the RT task can be controlled to run anywhere by default, and doesn't cause the frequency to be maximum all the time. Yet any task that really needs to be boosted can easily escape this default behavior by modifying its requested uclamp.min value (p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) via sched_setattr() syscall. [1] 804d402fb6f6: ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware") Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
2020-06-15sched/deadline: Impose global limits on sched_attr::sched_periodPeter Zijlstra1-0/+14
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726161357.397880775@infradead.org
2020-06-08kernel/sysctl.c: ignore out-of-range taint bits introduced via kernel.taintedRafael Aquini1-3/+2
Users with SYS_ADMIN capability can add arbitrary taint flags to the running kernel by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/tainted or issuing the command 'sysctl -w kernel.tainted=...'. This interface, however, is open for any integer value and this might cause an invalid set of flags being committed to the tainted_mask bitset. This patch introduces a simple way for proc_taint() to ignore any eventual invalid bit coming from the user input before committing those bits to the kernel tainted_mask. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512223946.888020-1-aquini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08panic: add sysctl to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops eventGuilherme G. Piccoli1-0/+11
Usually when the kernel reaches an oops condition, it's a point of no return; in case not enough debug information is available in the kernel splat, one of the last resorts would be to collect a kernel crash dump and analyze it. The problem with this approach is that in order to collect the dump, a panic is required (to kexec-load the crash kernel). When in an environment of multiple virtual machines, users may prefer to try living with the oops, at least until being able to properly shutdown their VMs / finish their important tasks. This patch implements a way to collect a bit more debug details when an oops event is reached, by printing all the CPUs backtraces through the usage of NMIs (on architectures that support that). The sysctl added (and documented) here was called "oops_all_cpu_backtrace", and when set will (as the name suggests) dump all CPUs backtraces. Far from ideal, this may be the last option though for users that for some reason cannot panic on oops. Most of times oopses are clear enough to indicate the kernel portion that must be investigated, but in virtual environments it's possible to observe hypervisor/KVM issues that could lead to oopses shown in other guests CPUs (like virtual APIC crashes). This patch hence aims to help debug such complex issues without resorting to kdump. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327224116.21030-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08kernel/hung_task.c: introduce sysctl to print all traces when a hung task is ↵Guilherme G. Piccoli1-0/+11
detected Commit 401c636a0eeb ("kernel/hung_task.c: show all hung tasks before panic") introduced a change in that we started to show all CPUs backtraces when a hung task is detected _and_ the sysctl/kernel parameter "hung_task_panic" is set. The idea is good, because usually when observing deadlocks (that may lead to hung tasks), the culprit is another task holding a lock and not necessarily the task detected as hung. The problem with this approach is that dumping backtraces is a slightly expensive task, specially printing that on console (and specially in many CPU machines, as servers commonly found nowadays). So, users that plan to collect a kdump to investigate the hung tasks and narrow down the deadlock definitely don't need the CPUs backtrace on dmesg/console, which will delay the panic and pollute the log (crash tool would easily grab all CPUs traces with 'bt -a' command). Also, there's the reciprocal scenario: some users may be interested in seeing the CPUs backtraces but not have the system panic when a hung task is detected. The current approach hence is almost as embedding a policy in the kernel, by forcing the CPUs backtraces' dump (only) on hung_task_panic. This patch decouples the panic event on hung task from the CPUs backtraces dump, by creating (and documenting) a new sysctl called "hung_task_all_cpu_backtrace", analog to the approach taken on soft/hard lockups, that have both a panic and an "all_cpu_backtrace" sysctl to allow individual control. The new mechanism for dumping the CPUs backtraces on hung task detection respects "hung_task_warnings" by not dumping the traces in case there's no warnings left. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327223646.20779-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08kernel: add panic_on_taintRafael Aquini1-1/+10
Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch introduces a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to provide a simple and generic way to stop execution and catch a coredump when the kernel gets tainted by any given flag. This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids having to rebuild the kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() into the code sites that introduce the taint flags of interest. For instance, if one is interested in proceeding with a post-mortem analysis at the point a given code path is hitting a bad page (i.e. unaccount_page_cache_page(), or slab_bug()), a coredump can be collected by rebooting the kernel with 'panic_on_taint=0x20' amended to the command line. Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be as a means for assuring a security policy case where only a subset of taints, or no single taint (in paranoid mode), is allowed for the running system. The optional switch 'nousertaint' is handy in this particular scenario, as it will avoid userspace induced crashes by writes to sysctl interface /proc/sys/kernel/tainted causing false positive hits for such policies. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt wording] Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian