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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2024-06-05 12:17:10 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-06-15 20:43:05 +0300
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Revert "mm: init_mlocked_on_free_v3"
There was insufficient review and no agreement that this is the right approach. There are serious flaws with the implementation that make processes using mlock() not even work with simple fork() [1] and we get reliable crashes when rebooting. Further, simply because we might be unmapping a single PTE of a large mlocked folio, we shouldn't zero out the whole folio. ... especially because the code can also *corrupt* urelated memory because kernel_init_pages(page, folio_nr_pages(folio)); Could end up writing outside of the actual folio if we work with a tail page. Let's revert it. Once there is agreement that this is the right approach, the issues were fixed and there was reasonable review and proper testing, we can consider it again. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4da9da2f-73e4-45fd-b62f-a8a513314057@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605091710.38961-1-david@redhat.com Fixes: ba42b524a040 ("mm: init_mlocked_on_free_v3") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reported-by: David Wang <00107082@163.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240528151340.4282-1-00107082@163.com/ Reported-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240601140917.43562-1-ioworker0@gmail.com Acked-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2192,12 +2192,6 @@
Format: 0 | 1
Default set by CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON.
- init_mlocked_on_free= [MM] Fill freed userspace memory with zeroes if
- it was mlock'ed and not explicitly munlock'ed
- afterwards.
- Format: 0 | 1
- Default set by CONFIG_INIT_MLOCKED_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON
-
init_pkru= [X86] Specify the default memory protection keys rights
register contents for all processes. 0x55555554 by
default (disallow access to all but pkey 0). Can