kernel/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h, branch v5.16.1

Merge tag 'kernel.sys.v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2021-11-11T00:10:47+00:00

Pull prctl updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the missing prctl uapi pieces for PR_SCHED_CORE. In order to activate core scheduling the caller is expected to specify the scope of the new core scheduling domain. For example, passing 2 in the 4th argument of prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE, , 2, 0); would indicate that the new core scheduling domain encompasses all tasks in the process group of . Specifying 0 would only create a core scheduling domain for the thread identified by and 2 would encompass the whole thread-group of . Note, the values 0, 1, and 2 correspond to PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID, and PIDTYPE_PGID. A first version tried to expose those values directly to which I objected because: - PIDTYPE_* is an enum that is kernel internal which we should not expose to userspace directly. - PIDTYPE_* indicates what a given struct pid is used for it doesn't express a scope. But what the 4th argument of PR_SCHED_CORE prctl() expresses is the scope of the operation, i.e. the scope of the core scheduling domain at creation time. So Eugene's patch now simply introduces three new defines PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_THREAD, PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_THREAD_GROUP, and PR_SCHED_CORE_SCOPE_PROCESS_GROUP. They simply express what happens. This has been on the mailing list for quite a while with all relevant scheduler folks Cced. I announced multiple times that I'd pick this up if I don't see or her anyone else doing it. None of this touches proper scheduler code but only concerns uapi so I think this is fine. With core scheduling being quite common now for vm managers (e.g. moving individual vcpu threads into their own core scheduling domain) and container managers (e.g. moving the init process into its own core scheduling domain and letting all created children inherit it) having to rely on raw numbers passed as the 4th argument in prctl() is a bit annoying and everyone is starting to come up with their own defines" * tag 'kernel.sys.v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: uapi/linux/prctl: provide macro definitions for the PR_SCHED_CORE type argument

arm64: mte: change PR_MTE_TCF_NONE back into an unsigned long

2021-11-08T10:04:33+00:00

This constant was previously an unsigned long, but was changed into an int in commit 433c38f40f6a ("arm64: mte: change ASYNC and SYNC TCF settings into bitfields"). This ended up causing spurious unsigned-signed comparison warnings in expressions such as: (x & PR_MTE_TCF_MASK) != PR_MTE_TCF_NONE Therefore, change it back into an unsigned long to silence these warnings. Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I07a72310db30227a5b7d789d0b817d78b657c639 Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211105230829.2254790-1-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

uapi/linux/prctl: provide macro definitions for the PR_SCHED_CORE type argument

2021-09-29T11:00:05+00:00

Commit 7ac592aa35a684ff ("sched: prctl() core-scheduling interface") made use of enum pid_type in prctl's arg4; this type and the associated enumeration definitions are not exposed to userspace. Christian has suggested to provide additional macro definitions that convey the meaning of the type argument more in alignment with its actual usage, and this patch does exactly that. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210825170613.GA3884@asgard.redhat.com Suggested-by: Christian Brauner Acked-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov Complements: 7ac592aa35a684ff ("sched: prctl() core-scheduling interface") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2021-09-01T22:04:29+00:00

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: - Support for 32-bit tasks on asymmetric AArch32 systems (on top of the scheduler changes merged via the tip tree). - More entry.S clean-ups and conversion to C. - MTE updates: allow a preferred tag checking mode to be set per CPU (the overhead of synchronous mode is smaller for some CPUs than others); optimisations for kernel entry/exit path; optionally disable MTE on the kernel command line. - Kselftest improvements for SVE and signal handling, PtrAuth. - Fix unlikely race where a TLBI could use stale ASID on an ASID roll-over (found by inspection). - Miscellaneous fixes: disable trapping of PMSNEVFR_EL1 to higher exception levels; drop unnecessary sigdelsetmask() call in the signal32 handling; remove BUG_ON when failing to allocate SVE state (just signal the process); SYM_CODE annotations. - Other trivial clean-ups: use macros instead of magic numbers, remove redundant returns, typos. * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (56 commits) arm64: Do not trap PMSNEVFR_EL1 arm64: mm: fix comment typo of pud_offset_phys() arm64: signal32: Drop pointless call to sigdelsetmask() arm64/sve: Better handle failure to allocate SVE register storage arm64: Document the requirement for SCR_EL3.HCE arm64: head: avoid over-mapping in map_memory arm64/sve: Add a comment documenting the binutils needed for SVE asm arm64/sve: Add some comments for sve_save/load_state() kselftest/arm64: signal: Add a TODO list for signal handling tests kselftest/arm64: signal: Add test case for SVE register state in signals kselftest/arm64: signal: Verify that signals can't change the SVE vector length kselftest/arm64: signal: Check SVE signal frame shows expected vector length kselftest/arm64: signal: Support signal frames with SVE register data kselftest/arm64: signal: Add SVE to the set of features we can check for arm64: replace in_irq() with in_hardirq() kselftest/arm64: pac: Fix skipping of tests on systems without PAC Documentation: arm64: describe asymmetric 32-bit support arm64: Remove logic to kill 32-bit tasks on 64-bit-only cores arm64: Hook up cmdline parameter to allow mismatched 32-bit EL0 arm64: Advertise CPUs capable of running 32-bit applications in sysfs ...

arm64: mte: change ASYNC and SYNC TCF settings into bitfields

2021-07-28T17:33:43+00:00

Allow the user program to specify both ASYNC and SYNC TCF modes by repurposing the existing constants as bitfields. This will allow the kernel to select one of the modes on behalf of the user program. With this patch the kernel will always select async mode, but a subsequent patch will make this configurable. Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Icc5923c85a8ea284588cc399ae74fd19ec291230 Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210727205300.2554659-3-pcc@google.com Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

x86, prctl: Hook L1D flushing in via prctl

2021-07-28T09:42:25+00:00

Use the existing PR_GET/SET_SPECULATION_CTRL API to expose the L1D flush capability. For L1D flushing PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE and PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC are not supported. Enabling L1D flush does not check if the task is running on an SMT enabled core, rather a check is done at runtime (at the time of flush), if the task runs on a SMT sibling then the task is sent a SIGBUS which is executed before the task returns to user space or to a guest. This is better than the other alternatives of: a. Ensuring strict affinity of the task (hard to enforce without further changes in the scheduler) b. Silently skipping flush for tasks that move to SMT enabled cores. Hook up the core prctl and implement the x86 specific parts which in turn makes it functional. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108121056.21940-5-sblbir@amazon.com

sched: prctl() core-scheduling interface

2021-05-12T09:43:31+00:00

This patch provides support for setting and copying core scheduling 'task cookies' between threads (PID), processes (TGID), and process groups (PGID). The value of core scheduling isn't that tasks don't share a core, 'nosmt' can do that. The value lies in exploiting all the sharing opportunities that exist to recover possible lost performance and that requires a degree of flexibility in the API. From a security perspective (and there are others), the thread, process and process group distinction is an existent hierarchal categorization of tasks that reflects many of the security concerns about 'data sharing'. For example, protecting against cache-snooping by a thread that can just read the memory directly isn't all that useful. With this in mind, subcommands to CREATE/SHARE (TO/FROM) provide a mechanism to create and share cookies. CREATE/SHARE_TO specify a target pid with enum pidtype used to specify the scope of the targeted tasks. For example, PIDTYPE_TGID will share the cookie with the process and all of it's threads as typically desired in a security scenario. API: prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_GET, tgtpid, pidtype, &cookie) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE, tgtpid, pidtype, NULL) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO, tgtpid, pidtype, NULL) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_FROM, srcpid, pidtype, NULL) where 'tgtpid/srcpid == 0' implies the current process and pidtype is kernel enum pid_type {PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID, PIDTYPE_PGID, ...}. For return values, EINVAL, ENOMEM are what they say. ESRCH means the tgtpid/srcpid was not found. EPERM indicates lack of PTRACE permission access to tgtpid/srcpid. ENODEV indicates your machines lacks SMT. [peterz: complete rewrite] Signed-off-by: Chris Hyser Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Don Hiatt Tested-by: Hongyu Ning Tested-by: Vincent Guittot Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123309.039845339@infradead.org

arm64: Introduce prctl(PR_PAC_{SET,GET}_ENABLED_KEYS)

2021-04-13T16:31:44+00:00

This change introduces a prctl that allows the user program to control which PAC keys are enabled in a particular task. The main reason why this is useful is to enable a userspace ABI that uses PAC to sign and authenticate function pointers and other pointers exposed outside of the function, while still allowing binaries conforming to the ABI to interoperate with legacy binaries that do not sign or authenticate pointers. The idea is that a dynamic loader or early startup code would issue this prctl very early after establishing that a process may load legacy binaries, but before executing any PAC instructions. This change adds a small amount of overhead to kernel entry and exit due to additional required instruction sequences. On a DragonBoard 845c (Cortex-A75) with the powersave governor, the overhead of similar instruction sequences was measured as 4.9ns when simulating the common case where IA is left enabled, or 43.7ns when simulating the uncommon case where IA is disabled. These numbers can be seen as the worst case scenario, since in more realistic scenarios a better performing governor would be used and a newer chip would be used that would support PAC unlike Cortex-A75 and would be expected to be faster than Cortex-A75. On an Apple M1 under a hypervisor, the overhead of the entry/exit instruction sequences introduced by this patch was measured as 0.3ns in the case where IA is left enabled, and 33.0ns in the case where IA is disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Reviewed-by: Dave Martin Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ibc41a5e6a76b275efbaa126b31119dc197b927a5 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d6609065f8f40397a4124654eb68c9f490b4d477.1616123271.git.pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

entry: Use different define for selector variable in SUD

2021-02-05T23:21:42+00:00

Michael Kerrisk suggested that, from an API perspective, it is a bad idea to share the PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ defines between the prctl operation and the selector variable. Therefore, define two new constants to be used by SUD's selector variable and update the corresponding documentation and test cases. While this changes the API syscall user dispatch has never been part of a Linux release, it will show up for the first time in 5.11. Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210205184321.2062251-1-krisman@collabora.com

kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection

2020-12-02T14:07:56+00:00

Introduce a mechanism to quickly disable/enable syscall handling for a specific process and redirect to userspace via SIGSYS. This is useful for processes with parts that require syscall redirection and parts that don't, but who need to perform this boundary crossing really fast, without paying the cost of a system call to reconfigure syscall handling on each boundary transition. This is particularly important for Windows games running over Wine. The proposed interface looks like this: prctl(PR_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH, , , , [selector]) The range [,+) is a part of the process memory map that is allowed to by-pass the redirection code and dispatch syscalls directly, such that in fast paths a process doesn't need to disable the trap nor the kernel has to check the selector. This is essential to return from SIGSYS to a blocked area without triggering another SIGSYS from rt_sigreturn. selector is an optional pointer to a char-sized userspace memory region that has a key switch for the mechanism. This key switch is set to either PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON, PR_SYS_DISPATCH_OFF to enable and disable the redirection without calling the kernel. The feature is meant to be set per-thread and it is disabled on fork/clone/execv. Internally, this doesn't add overhead to the syscall hot path, and it requires very little per-architecture support. I avoided using seccomp, even though it duplicates some functionality, due to previous feedback that maybe it shouldn't mix with seccomp since it is not a security mechanism. And obviously, this should never be considered a security mechanism, since any part of the program can by-pass it by using the syscall dispatcher. For the sysinfo benchmark, which measures the overhead added to executing a native syscall that doesn't require interception, the overhead using only the direct dispatcher region to issue syscalls is pretty much irrelevant. The overhead of using the selector goes around 40ns for a native (unredirected) syscall in my system, and it is (as expected) dominated by the supervisor-mode user-address access. In fact, with SMAP off, the overhead is consistently less than 5ns on my test box. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193238.821364-4-krisman@collabora.com