kernel/linux.git/arch/tile/mm, branch v4.9.331

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

2017-06-24T05:11:18+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] [wt: backport to 4.9: adjust context ; kernel doc was not in admin-guide] Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tile: use simpler API for random address requests

2016-10-11T22:06:32+00:00

Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and calculate end by adding a constant to the start address. We can simplify the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables. Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-6-jason@lakedaemon.net Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move most file-based accounting to the node

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

There are now a number of accounting oddities such as mapped file pages being accounted for on the node while the total number of file pages are accounted on the zone. This can be coped with to some extent but it's confusing so this patch moves the relevant file-based accounted. Due to throttling logic in the page allocator for reliable OOM detection, it is still necessary to track dirty and writeback pages on a per-zone basis. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING accounting] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468404004-5085-5-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-20-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move page mapped accounting to the node

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

Reclaim makes decisions based on the number of pages that are mapped but it's mixing node and zone information. Account NR_FILE_MAPPED and NR_ANON_PAGES pages on the node. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-18-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node

2016-07-28T23:07:41+00:00

This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking. Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node logic. Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and active sizes. It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks. Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note that it introduces a number of anomalies. For example, the scans are per-zone but using per-node counters. We also mark a node as congested when a zone is congested. This causes weird problems that are fixed later but is easier to review. In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions 1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list. That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages. 2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during memory pressure than skipping LRU pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_fault

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

We always have vma->vm_mm around. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-8-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tile: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00

__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. pgtable_alloc_one uses __GFP_REPEAT flag for L2_USER_PGTABLE_ORDER but the order is either 0 or 3 if L2_KERNEL_PGTABLE_SHIFT for HPAGE_SHIFT. This means that this flag has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-16-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Chris Metcalf [for tile] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tile: mm: use hugetlb_bad_size()

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Update setup_hugepagesz() to call hugetlb_bad_size() when unsupported hugepage size is found. Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Yaowei Bai Cc: Dominik Dingel Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Many developers already know that field for reference count of the struct page is _count and atomic type. They would try to handle it directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count tracepoint. To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it to _refcount and add warning message on the code. After that, developer who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be accessed directly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Sunil Goutham Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Manish Chopra Cc: Yuval Mintz Cc: Tariq Toukan Cc: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: cleanup pte_alloc interfaces

2016-03-17T22:09:34+00:00

There are few things about *pte_alloc*() helpers worth cleaning up: - 'vma' argument is unused, let's drop it; - most __pte_alloc() callers do speculative check for pmd_none(), before taking ptl: let's introduce pte_alloc() macro which does the check. The only direct user of __pte_alloc left is userfaultfd, which has different expectation about atomicity wrt pmd. - pte_alloc_map() and pte_alloc_map_lock() are redefined using pte_alloc(). [sudeep.holla@arm.com: fix build for arm64 hugetlbpage] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix arch/arm/mm/mmu.c some more] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/linux.git/arch/tile/mm, branch v4.9.331

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

tile: use simpler API for random address requests

mm: move most file-based accounting to the node

mm: move page mapped accounting to the node

mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node

mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_fault

tile: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT

tile: mm: use hugetlb_bad_size()

mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount

mm: cleanup *pte_alloc* interfaces

mm: cleanup pte_alloc interfaces