kernel/linux.git/ipc/util.c, branch v4.12.9

mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers

2017-05-09T00:15:12+00:00

Patch series "kvmalloc", v5. There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the tree. Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc fallback is available. As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory subsystem proper. Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper instead. This is patch 6. There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet was not opposed [2] to convert them as well. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com This patch (of 9): Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive user visible action. This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g. ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general (note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those need to be fixed separately. While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there. kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not superset) flags to catch new abusers. Existing ones would have to die slowly. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger [ext4 part] Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: John Hubbard Cc: David Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel-api.rst: fix a series of errors when parsing C files

2017-04-02T20:31:49+00:00

./lib/string.c:134: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. ./mm/filemap.c:522: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string. ./mm/filemap.c:1283: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. ./mm/filemap.c:3003: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string. ./mm/vmalloc.c:1544: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. ./mm/page_alloc.c:4245: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. ./ipc/util.c:676: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. ./drivers/pci/irq.c:35: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. ./security/security.c:109: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. ./security/security.c:110: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. ./block/genhd.c:275: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. ./block/genhd.c:283: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string. ./include/linux/clk.h:134: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. ./include/linux/clk.h:134: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string. ./ipc/util.c:477: ERROR: Unknown target name: "s". Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

tree wide: use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

2016-01-23T01:02:18+00:00

There are many locations that do if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc) vfree(ptr); else kfree(ptr); but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons, we can replace this branch with kvfree(). Please check and reply if you found problems. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Russell King Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: Boris Petkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid()

2015-09-30T16:48:40+00:00

As reported by Dmitry Vyukov, we really shouldn't do ipc_addid() before having initialized the IPC object state. Yes, we initialize the IPC object in a locked state, but with all the lockless RCU lookup work, that IPC object lock no longer means that the state cannot be seen. We already did this for the IPC semaphore code (see commit e8577d1f0329: "ipc/sem.c: fully initialize sem_array before making it visible") but we clearly forgot about msg and shm. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,sysv: return -EINVAL upon incorrect id/seqnum

2015-07-01T02:44:59+00:00

In ipc_obtain_object_check we return -EIDRM when a bogus sequence number is detected via ipc_checkid, while the ipc manpages state the following return codes for such errors: EIDRM points to a removed identifier. EINVAL Invalid value, or unaligned, etc. EIDRM should only be returned upon a RMID call (->deleted check), and thus return EINVAL for wrong seq. This difference in semantics has also caused real bugs, ie: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=246509 Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc,sysv: make return -EIDRM when racing with RMID consistent

2015-07-01T02:44:59+00:00

The ipc_lock helper is used by all forms of sysv ipc to acquire the ipc object's spinlock. Upon error (bogus identifier), we always return -EINVAL, whether the problem be in the idr path or because we raced with a task performing RMID. For the later, however, all ipc related manpages, state the that for: EIDRM points to a removed identifier. And return: EINVAL Invalid value, or unaligned, etc. Which (EINVAL) should only return once the ipc resource is deleted. For all types of ipc this is done immediately upon a RMID command. However, shared memory behaves slightly different as it can merely mark a segment for deletion, and delay the actual freeing until there are no more active consumers. Per shmctl(IPC_RMID) manpage: "" Mark the segment to be destroyed. The segment will only actually be destroyed after the last process detaches it (i.e., when the shm_nattch member of the associated structure shmid_ds is zero). "" Unlike ipc_lock, paths that behave "correctly", at least per the manpage, involve controlling the ipc resource via *ctl(), doing the exact same validity check as ipc_lock after right acquiring the spinlock: if (!ipc_valid_object()) { err = -EIDRM; goto out_unlock; } Thus make ipc_lock consistent with the rest of ipc code and return -EIDRM in ipc_lock when !ipc_valid_object(). Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: rename ipc_obtain_object

2015-07-01T02:44:58+00:00

... to ipc_obtain_object_idr, which is more meaningful and makes the code slightly easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/util.c: use kvfree() in ipc_rcu_free()

2015-07-01T02:44:58+00:00

Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value

2015-04-15T23:35:24+00:00

The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused, will eventually be converted to void. See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to seq_has_overflowed() and make public") Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling

2014-12-13T20:42:52+00:00

SysV can be abused to allocate locked kernel memory. For most systems, a small limit doesn't make sense, see the discussion with regards to SHMMAX. Therefore: increase MSGMNI to the maximum supported. And: If we ignore the risk of locking too much memory, then an automatic scaling of MSGMNI doesn't make sense. Therefore the logic can be removed. The code preserves auto_msgmni to avoid breaking any user space applications that expect that the value exists. Notes: 1) If an administrator must limit the memory allocations, then he can set MSGMNI as necessary. Or he can disable sysv entirely (as e.g. done by Android). 2) MSGMAX and MSGMNB are intentionally not increased, as these values are used to control latency vs. throughput: If MSGMNB is large, then msgsnd() just returns and more messages can be queued before a task switch to a task that calls msgrcv() is forced. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Rafael Aquini Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds