kernel/linux.git/include/linux/kcore.h, branch v6.19.11

fs/proc/vmcore: move vmcore definitions out of kcore.h

2025-01-27T14:39:07+00:00

These vmcore defines are not related to /proc/kcore, move them out. We'll move "struct vmcoredd_node" to vmcore.c, because it is only used internally. While "struct vmcore" is only used internally for now, we're planning on using it from inline functions in crash_dump.h next, so move it to crash_dump.h. While at it, rename "struct vmcore" to "struct vmcore_range", which is a more suitable name and will make the usage of it outside of vmcore.c clearer. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-6-david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

fs/proc/kcore: drop KCORE_REMAP and KCORE_OTHER

2021-07-01T03:47:28+00:00

Patch series "fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections, logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages", v3. Looking for places where the kernel might unconditionally read PageOffline() pages, I stumbled over /proc/kcore; turns out /proc/kcore needs some more love to not touch some other pages we really don't want to read -- i.e., hwpoisoned ones. Examples for PageOffline() pages are pages inflated in a balloon, memory unplugged via virtio-mem, and partially-present sections in memory added by the Hyper-V balloon. When reading pages inflated in a balloon, we essentially produce unnecessary load in the hypervisor; holes in partially present sections in case of Hyper-V are not accessible and already were a problem for /proc/vmcore, fixed in makedumpfile by detecting PageOffline() pages. In the future, virtio-mem might disallow reading unplugged memory -- marked as PageOffline() -- in some environments, resulting in undefined behavior when accessed; therefore, I'm trying to identify and rework all these (corner) cases. With this series, there is really only access via /dev/mem, /proc/vmcore and kdb left after I ripped out /dev/kmem. kdb is an advanced corner-case use case -- we won't care for now if someone explicitly tries to do nasty things by reading from/writing to physical addresses we better not touch. /dev/mem is a use case we won't support for virtio-mem, at least for now, so we'll simply disallow mapping any virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem next. /proc/vmcore is really only a problem when dumping the old kernel via something that's not makedumpfile (read: basically never), however, we'll try sanitizing that as well in the second kernel in the future. Tested via kcore_dump: https://github.com/schlafwandler/kcore_dump This patch (of 6): Commit db779ef67ffe ("proc/kcore: Remove unused kclist_add_remap()") removed the last user of KCORE_REMAP. Commit 595dd46ebfc1 ("vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page") removed the last user of KCORE_OTHER. Let's drop both types. While at it, also drop vaddr in "struct kcore_list", used by KCORE_REMAP only. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Steven Price Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Aili Yao Cc: Jiri Bohac Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Wei Liu Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'v5.1-rc2' into core/urgent, to resolve a conflict

2019-03-28T09:58:28+00:00

Conflicts: include/linux/kcore.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

proc/kcore: Remove unused kclist_add_remap()

2019-03-26T15:36:03+00:00

Commit bf904d2762ee ("x86/pti/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline") removed the sole usage of kclist_add_remap() but it did not remove the left-over definition from the include file. Fix the same. Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Dave Anderson Cc: Dave Young Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Morse Cc: Kairui Song Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Omar Sandoval Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: x86-ml Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553583028-17804-1-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com

x86/gart: Exclude GART aperture from kcore

2019-03-23T11:11:49+00:00

On machines where the GART aperture is mapped over physical RAM, /proc/kcore contains the GART aperture range. Accessing the GART range via /proc/kcore results in a kernel crash. vmcore used to have the same issue, until it was fixed with commit 2a3e83c6f96c ("x86/gart: Exclude GART aperture from vmcore")', leveraging existing hook infrastructure in vmcore to let /proc/vmcore return zeroes when attempting to read the aperture region, and so it won't read from the actual memory. Apply the same workaround for kcore. First implement the same hook infrastructure for kcore, then reuse the hook functions introduced in the previous vmcore fix. Just with some minor adjustment, rename some functions for more general usage, and simplify the hook infrastructure a bit as there is no module usage yet. Suggested-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Kairui Song Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Jiri Bohac Acked-by: Baoquan He Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Omar Sandoval Cc: Dave Young Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308030508.13548-1-kasong@redhat.com

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-08-26T18:25:21+00:00

Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Kernel: - Improve kallsyms coverage - Add x86 entry trampolines to kcore - Fix ARM SPE handling - Correct PPC event post processing Tools: - Make the build system more robust - Small fixes and enhancements all over the place - Update kernel ABI header copies - Preparatory work for converting libtraceevnt to a shared library - License cleanups" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (100 commits) tools arch: Update arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S copy used in 'perf bench mem memcpy' tools arch x86: Update tools's copy of cpufeatures.h perf python: Fix pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu() interface perf mmap: Store real cpu number in 'struct perf_mmap' perf tools: Remove ext from struct kmod_path perf tools: Add gzip_is_compressed function perf tools: Add lzma_is_compressed function perf tools: Add is_compressed callback to compressions array perf tools: Move the temp file processing into decompress_kmodule perf tools: Use compression id in decompress_kmodule() perf tools: Store compression id into struct dso perf tools: Add compression id into 'struct kmod_path' perf tools: Make is_supported_compression() static perf tools: Make decompress_to_file() function static perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in __open_dso() perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in symbol__disassemble() perf tools: Get rid of dso__needs_decompress() call in read_object_code() tools lib traceevent: Change to SPDX License format perf llvm: Allow passing options to llc in addition to clang perf parser: Improve error message for PMU address filters ...

proc/kcore: don't grab lock for kclist_add()

2018-08-22T17:52:46+00:00

Patch series "/proc/kcore improvements", v4. This series makes a few improvements to /proc/kcore. It fixes a couple of small issues in v3 but is otherwise the same. Patches 1, 2, and 3 are prep patches. Patch 4 is a fix/cleanup. Patch 5 is another prep patch. Patches 6 and 7 are optimizations to ->read(). Patch 8 makes it possible to enable CRASH_CORE on any architecture, which is needed for patch 9. Patch 9 adds vmcoreinfo to /proc/kcore. This patch (of 9): kclist_add() is only called at init time, so there's no point in grabbing any locks. We're also going to replace the rwlock with a rwsem, which we don't want to try grabbing during early boot. While we're here, mark kclist_add() with __init so that we'll get a warning if it's called from non-init code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98208db1faf167aa8b08eebfa968d95c70527739.1531953780.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma Tested-by: Bhupesh Sharma Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Bhupesh Sharma Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: James Morse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: Add entry trampolines to kcore

2018-08-14T22:13:26+00:00

Without program headers for PTI entry trampoline pages, the trampoline virtual addresses do not map to anything. Example before: sudo gdb --quiet vmlinux /proc/kcore Reading symbols from vmlinux...done. [New process 1] Core was generated by `BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.16.0 root=UUID=a6096b83-b763-4101-807e-f33daff63233'. #0 0x0000000000000000 in irq_stack_union () (gdb) x /21ib 0xfffffe0000006000 0xfffffe0000006000: Cannot access memory at address 0xfffffe0000006000 (gdb) quit After: sudo gdb --quiet vmlinux /proc/kcore [sudo] password for ahunter: Reading symbols from vmlinux...done. [New process 1] Core was generated by `BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.16.0-fix-4-00005-gd6e65a8b4072 root=UUID=a6096b83-b7'. #0 0x0000000000000000 in irq_stack_union () (gdb) x /21ib 0xfffffe0000006000 0xfffffe0000006000: swapgs 0xfffffe0000006003: mov %rsp,-0x3e12(%rip) # 0xfffffe00000021f8 0xfffffe000000600a: xchg %ax,%ax 0xfffffe000000600c: mov %cr3,%rsp 0xfffffe000000600f: bts $0x3f,%rsp 0xfffffe0000006014: and $0xffffffffffffe7ff,%rsp 0xfffffe000000601b: mov %rsp,%cr3 0xfffffe000000601e: mov -0x3019(%rip),%rsp # 0xfffffe000000300c 0xfffffe0000006025: pushq $0x2b 0xfffffe0000006027: pushq -0x3e35(%rip) # 0xfffffe00000021f8 0xfffffe000000602d: push %r11 0xfffffe000000602f: pushq $0x33 0xfffffe0000006031: push %rcx 0xfffffe0000006032: push %rdi 0xfffffe0000006033: mov $0xffffffff91a00010,%rdi 0xfffffe000000603a: callq 0xfffffe0000006046 0xfffffe000000603f: pause 0xfffffe0000006041: lfence 0xfffffe0000006044: jmp 0xfffffe000000603f 0xfffffe0000006046: mov %rdi,(%rsp) 0xfffffe000000604a: retq (gdb) quit In addition, entry trampolines all map to the same page. Represent that by giving the corresponding program headers in kcore the same offset. This has the benefit that, when perf tools uses /proc/kcore as a source for kernel object code, samples from different CPU trampolines are aggregated together. Note, such aggregation is normal for profiling i.e. people want to profile the object code, not every different virtual address the object code might be mapped to (across different processes for example). Notes by PeterZ: This also adds the KCORE_REMAP functionality. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Acked-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1528289651-4113-4-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel

2018-05-14T17:46:04+00:00

The sequence of actions done by device drivers to append their device specific hardware/firmware logs to /proc/vmcore are as follows: 1. During probe (before hardware is initialized), device drivers register to the vmcore module (via vmcore_add_device_dump()), with callback function, along with buffer size and log name needed for firmware/hardware log collection. 2. vmcore module allocates the buffer with requested size. It adds an Elf note and invokes the device driver's registered callback function. 3. Device driver collects all hardware/firmware logs into the buffer and returns control back to vmcore module. Ensure that the device dump buffer size is always aligned to page size so that it can be mmaped. Also, rename alloc_elfnotes_buf() to vmcore_alloc_buf() to make it more generic and reserve NT_VMCOREDD note type to indicate vmcore device dump. Suggested-by: Eric Biederman . Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page

2018-02-13T08:15:58+00:00

Commit: df04abfd181a ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext data") ... introduced a bounce buffer to work around CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y. However, accessing the vsyscall user page will cause an SMAP fault. Replace memcpy() with copy_from_user() to fix this bug works, but adding a common way to handle this sort of user page may be useful for future. Currently, only vsyscall page requires KCORE_USER. Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518446694-21124-2-git-send-email-zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar