kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst, branch v5.10.257

panic: Introduce warn_limit

2023-02-01T07:23:21+00:00

commit 9fc9e278a5c0b708eeffaf47d6eb0c82aa74ed78 upstream. Like oops_limit, add warn_limit for limiting the number of warnings when panic_on_warn is not set. Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Eric Biggers Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: tangmeng Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" Cc: Tiezhu Yang Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117234328.594699-5-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled

2023-02-01T07:23:20+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: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

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

2023-02-01T07:23:20+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: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

random: fix sysctl documentation nits

2022-05-30T07:33:40+00:00

commit 069c4ea6871c18bd368f27756e0f91ffb524a788 upstream. A semicolon was missing, and the almost-alphabetical-but-not ordering was confusing, so regroup these by category instead. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: remove ifdef'd out interrupt bench

2022-05-30T07:33:34+00:00

commit 95e6060c20a7f5db60163274c5222a725ac118f9 upstream. With tools like kbench9000 giving more finegrained responses, and this basically never having been used ever since it was initially added, let's just get rid of this. There *is* still work to be done on the interrupt handler, but this really isn't the way it's being developed. Cc: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: always wake up entropy writers after extraction

2022-05-30T07:33:31+00:00

commit 489c7fc44b5740d377e8cfdbf0851036e493af00 upstream. Now that POOL_BITS == POOL_MIN_BITS, we must unconditionally wake up entropy writers after every extraction. Therefore there's no point of write_wakeup_threshold, so we can move it to the dustbin of unused compatibility sysctls. While we're at it, we can fix a small comparison where we were waking up after <= min rather than < min. Cc: Theodore Ts'o Suggested-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print

2022-04-08T12:40:44+00:00

commit a1ff1de00db21ecb956213f046b79741b64c6b65 upstream. Patch series "Some improvements on panic_print". This is a mix of a documentation fix with some additions to the "panic_print" syscall / parameter. The goal here is being able to collect all CPUs backtraces during a panic event and also to enable "panic_print" in a kdump event - details of the reasoning and design choices in the patches. This patch (of 3): Commit de6da1e8bcf0 ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk message in buffer") added a new bit to the sysctl/kernel parameter "panic_print", but the documentation was added only in kernel-parameters.txt, not in the sysctl guide. Fix it here by adding bit 5 to sysctl admin-guide documentation. [rdunlap@infradead.org: fix table format warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220109055635.6999-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com Fixes: de6da1e8bcf0 ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk message in buffer") Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli Reviewed-by: Feng Tang Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default

2022-01-05T11:40:34+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coredump: add %f for executable filename

2020-08-12T17:58:01+00:00

The document reads "%e" should be "executable filename" while actually it could be changed by things like pr_ctl PR_SET_NAME. People who uses "%e" in core_pattern get surprised when they find out they get thread name instead of executable filename. This is either a bug of document or a bug of code. Since the behavior of "%e" is there for long time, it could bring another surprise for users if we "fix" the code. So we just "fix" the document. And more, for users who really need the "executable filename" in core_pattern, we introduce a new "%f" for the real executable filename. We already have "%E" for executable path in kernel, so just reuse most of its code for the new added "%f" format. Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200701031432.2978761-1-ytht.net@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a while to come. Changes include: - Some new Chinese translations - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs - Some block-mq documentation - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:) - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors docs: ia64: correct typo mailmap: add entry for doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location devices.txt: document rfkill allocation PCI: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory ...