kernel/git/stable/linux.git/mm/memory.c, branch linux-4.11.y

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

2017-06-24T05:06:22+00:00

commit 1be7107fbe18eed3e319a6c3e83c78254b693acb upstream. Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping. But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX] which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN. This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical, unfortunatelly. Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot. One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace, but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units). Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page: because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point, a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK and strict non-overcommit mode. Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start (or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(), and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that. Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Michal Hocko Tested-by: Helge Deller # parisc Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [wt: backport to 4.11: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: avoid spurious 'bad pmd' warning messages

2017-06-07T10:10:11+00:00

commit d0f0931de936a0a468d7e59284d39581c16d3a73 upstream. When the pmd_devmap() checks were added by 5c7fb56e5e3f ("mm, dax: dax-pmd vs thp-pmd vs hugetlbfs-pmd") to add better support for DAX huge pages, they were all added to the end of if() statements after existing pmd_trans_huge() checks. So, things like: - if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) + if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)) When further checks were added after pmd_trans_unstable() checks by commit 7267ec008b5c ("mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map") they were also added at the end of the conditional: + if (pmd_trans_unstable(fe->pmd) || pmd_devmap(*fe->pmd)) This ordering is fine for pmd_trans_huge(), but doesn't work for pmd_trans_unstable(). This is because DAX huge pages trip the bad_pmd() check inside of pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() (called by pmd_trans_unstable()), which prints out a warning and returns 1. So, we do end up doing the right thing, but only after spamming dmesg with suspicious looking messages: mm/pgtable-generic.c:39: bad pmd ffff8808daa49b88(84000001006000a5) Reorder these checks in a helper so that pmd_devmap() is checked first, avoiding the error messages, and add a comment explaining why the ordering is important. Fixes: commit 7267ec008b5c ("mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522215749.23516-1-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Pawel Lebioda Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Xiong Zhou Cc: Eryu Guan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: introduce __p4d_alloc()

2017-03-09T19:48:48+00:00

For full 5-level paging we need a helper to allocate p4d page table. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging

2017-03-09T19:48:47+00:00

Convert all non-architecture-specific code to 5-level paging. It's mostly mechanical adding handling one more page table level in places where we deal with pud_t. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:35+00:00

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:30+00:00

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. The APIs that are going to be moved first are: mm_alloc() __mmdrop() mmdrop() mmdrop_async_fn() mmdrop_async() mmget_not_zero() mmput() mmput_async() get_task_mm() mm_access() mm_release() Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm/autonuma: let architecture override how the write bit should be stashed in a protnone pte.

2017-02-25T01:46:56+00:00

Patch series "Numabalancing preserve write fix", v2. This patch series address an issue w.r.t THP migration and autonuma preserve write feature. migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() cannot deal with concurrent modification of the page. It does a page copy without following the migration pte sequence. IIUC, this was done to keep the migration simpler and at the time of implemenation we didn't had THP page cache which would have required a more elaborate migration scheme. That means thp autonuma migration expect the protnone with saved write to be done such that both kernel and user cannot update the page content. This patch series enables archs like ppc64 to do that. We are good with the hash translation mode with the current code, because we never create a hardware page table entry for a protnone pte. This patch (of 2): Autonuma preserves the write permission across numa fault to avoid taking a writefault after a numa fault (Commit: b191f9b106ea " mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault"). Architecture can implement protnone in different ways and some may choose to implement that by clearing Read/ Write/Exec bit of pte. Setting the write bit on such pte can result in wrong behaviour. Fix this up by allowing arch to override how to save the write bit on a protnone pte. [aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: don't mark pte saved write in case of dirty_accountable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487942884-16517-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com [aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487498625-10891-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487050314-3892-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Acked-by: Michael Neuling Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/autonuma: don't use set_pte_at when updating protnone ptes

2017-02-25T01:46:56+00:00

Architectures like ppc64, use privilege access bit to mark pte non accessible. This implies that kernel can do a copy_to_user to an address marked for numa fault. This also implies that there can be a parallel hardware update for the pte. set_pte_at cannot be used in such scenarios. Hence switch the pte update to use ptep_get_and_clear and set_pte_at combination. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unwanted ppc change, per Aneesh] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486400776-28114-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds