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2021-09-08Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-7/+0
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "147 patches, based on 7d2a07b769330c34b4deabeed939325c77a7ec2f. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (memory-hotplug, rmap, ioremap, highmem, cleanups, secretmem, kfence, damon, and vmscan), alpha, percpu, procfs, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, epoll, init, nilfs2, coredump, fork, pids, criu, kconfig, selftests, ipc, and scripts" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (94 commits) scripts: check_extable: fix typo in user error message mm/workingset: correct kernel-doc notations ipc: replace costly bailout check in sysvipc_find_ipc() selftests/memfd: remove unused variable Kconfig.debug: drop selecting non-existing HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH configs: remove the obsolete CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executables pid: cleanup the stale comment mentioning pidmap_init(). kernel/fork.c: unexport get_{mm,task}_exe_file coredump: fix memleak in dump_vma_snapshot() fs/coredump.c: log if a core dump is aborted due to changed file permissions nilfs2: use refcount_dec_and_lock() to fix potential UAF nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_snapshot_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_delete_##name##_group nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_##name##_group nilfs2: fix NULL pointer in nilfs_##name##_attr_release nilfs2: fix memory leak in nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group trap: cleanup trap_init() init: move usermodehelper_enable() to populate_rootfs() ...
2021-09-08prctl: allow to setup brk for et_dyn executablesCyrill Gorcunov1-7/+0
Keno Fischer reported that when a binray loaded via ld-linux-x the prctl(PR_SET_MM_MAP) doesn't allow to setup brk value because it lays before mm:end_data. For example a test program shows | # ~/t | | start_code 401000 | end_code 401a15 | start_stack 7ffce4577dd0 | start_data 403e10 | end_data 40408c | start_brk b5b000 | sbrk(0) b5b000 and when executed via ld-linux | # /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ~/t | | start_code 7fc25b0a4000 | end_code 7fc25b0c4524 | start_stack 7fffcc6b2400 | start_data 7fc25b0ce4c0 | end_data 7fc25b0cff98 | start_brk 55555710c000 | sbrk(0) 55555710c000 This of course prevent criu from restoring such programs. Looking into how kernel operates with brk/start_brk inside brk() syscall I don't see any problem if we allow to setup brk/start_brk without checking for end_data. Even if someone pass some weird address here on a purpose then the worst possible result will be an unexpected unmapping of existing vma (own vma, since prctl works with the callers memory) but test for RLIMIT_DATA is still valid and a user won't be able to gain more memory in case of expanding VMAs via new values shipped with prctl call. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210121221207.GB2174@grain Fixes: bbdc6076d2e5 ("binfmt_elf: move brk out of mmap when doing direct loader exec") Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com> Acked-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander.mikhalitsyn@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-04Merge tag 'denywrite-for-5.15' of git://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linuxLinus Torvalds1-32/+1
Pull MAP_DENYWRITE removal from David Hildenbrand: "Remove all in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE from the kernel and remove VM_DENYWRITE. There are some (minor) user-visible changes: - We no longer deny write access to shared libaries loaded via legacy uselib(); this behavior matches modern user space e.g. dlopen(). - We no longer deny write access to the elf interpreter after exec completed, treating it just like shared libraries (which it often is). - We always deny write access to the file linked via /proc/pid/exe: sys_prctl(PR_SET_MM_MAP/EXE_FILE) will fail if write access to the file cannot be denied, and write access to the file will remain denied until the link is effectivel gone (exec, termination, sys_prctl(PR_SET_MM_MAP/EXE_FILE)) -- just as if exec'ing the file. Cross-compiled for a bunch of architectures (alpha, microblaze, i386, s390x, ...) and verified via ltp that especially the relevant tests (i.e., creat07 and execve04) continue working as expected" * tag 'denywrite-for-5.15' of git://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux: fs: update documentation of get_write_access() and friends mm: ignore MAP_DENYWRITE in ksys_mmap_pgoff() mm: remove VM_DENYWRITE binfmt: remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE kernel/fork: always deny write access to current MM exe_file kernel/fork: factor out replacing the current MM exe_file binfmt: don't use MAP_DENYWRITE when loading shared libraries via uselib()
2021-09-03kernel/fork: factor out replacing the current MM exe_fileDavid Hildenbrand1-32/+1
Let's factor the main logic out into replace_mm_exe_file(), such that all mm->exe_file logic is contained in kernel/fork.c. While at it, perform some simple cleanups that are possible now that we're simplifying the individual functions. Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
2021-08-12set_user: add capability check when rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC) exceedsRan Xiaokai1-1/+2
in copy_process(): non root users but with capability CAP_SYS_RESOURCE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN will clean PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED flag even rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC) exceeds. Add the same capability check logic here. Align the permission checks in copy_process() and set_user(). In copy_process() CAP_SYS_RESOURCE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN capable users will be able to circumvent and clear the PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED flag whereas they aren't able to the same in set_user(). There's no obvious logic to this and trying to unearth the reason in the thread didn't go anywhere. The gist seems to be that this code wants to make sure that a program can't successfully exec if it has gone through a set*id() transition while exceeding its RLIMIT_NPROC. A capable but non-INIT_USER caller getting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED set during a set*id() transition wouldn't be able to exec right away if they still exceed their RLIMIT_NPROC at the time of exec. So their exec would fail in fs/exec.c: if ((current->flags & PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED) && is_ucounts_overlimit(current_ucounts(), UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC))) { retval = -EAGAIN; goto out_ret; } However, if the caller were to fork() right after the set*id() transition but before the exec while still exceeding their RLIMIT_NPROC then they would get PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED cleared (while the child would inherit it): retval = -EAGAIN; if (is_ucounts_overlimit(task_ucounts(p), UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC))) { if (p->real_cred->user != INIT_USER && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) goto bad_fork_free; } current->flags &= ~PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED; which means a subsequent exec by the capable caller would now succeed even though they could still exceed their RLIMIT_NPROC limit. This seems inconsistent. Allow a CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capable user to avoid PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED as they already can in copy_process(). Cc: peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>, , , Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210728072629.530435-1-ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-06-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace rlimit handling update from Eric Biederman: "This is the work mainly by Alexey Gladkov to limit rlimits to the rlimits of the user that created a user namespace, and to allow users to have stricter limits on the resources created within a user namespace." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: cred: add missing return error code when set_cred_ucounts() failed ucounts: Silence warning in dec_rlimit_ucounts ucounts: Set ucount_max to the largest positive value the type can hold kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting Add a reference to ucounts for each cred Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t
2021-05-12sched: prctl() core-scheduling interfaceChris Hyser1-0/+5
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 <chris.hyser@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123309.039845339@infradead.org
2021-05-07kernel/sys.c: fix typoXiaofeng Cao1-7/+7
change 'infite' to 'infinite' change 'concurent' to 'concurrent' change 'memvers' to 'members' change 'decendants' to 'descendants' change 'argumets' to 'arguments' Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316112904.10661-1-cxfcosmos@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Xiaofeng Cao <caoxiaofeng@yulong.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucountsAlexey Gladkov1-1/+1
The rlimit counter is tied to uid in the user_namespace. This allows rlimit values to be specified in userns even if they are already globally exceeded by the user. However, the value of the previous user_namespaces cannot be exceeded. To illustrate the impact of rlimits, let's say there is a program that does not fork. Some service-A wants to run this program as user X in multiple containers. Since the program never fork the service wants to set RLIMIT_NPROC=1. service-A \- program (uid=1000, container1, rlimit_nproc=1) \- program (uid=1000, container2, rlimit_nproc=1) The service-A sets RLIMIT_NPROC=1 and runs the program in container1. When the service-A tries to run a program with RLIMIT_NPROC=1 in container2 it fails since user X already has one running process. We cannot use existing inc_ucounts / dec_ucounts because they do not allow us to exceed the maximum for the counter. Some rlimits can be overlimited by root or if the user has the appropriate capability. Changelog v11: * Change inc_rlimit_ucounts() which now returns top value of ucounts. * Drop inc_rlimit_ucounts_and_test() because the return code of inc_rlimit_ucounts() can be checked. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5286a8aa16d2d698c222f7532f3d735c82bc6bc.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-04-30Add a reference to ucounts for each credAlexey Gladkov1-0/+12
For RLIMIT_NPROC and some other rlimits the user_struct that holds the global limit is kept alive for the lifetime of a process by keeping it in struct cred. Adding a pointer to ucounts in the struct cred will allow to track RLIMIT_NPROC not only for user in the system, but for user in the user_namespace. Updating ucounts may require memory allocation which may fail. So, we cannot change cred.ucounts in the commit_creds() because this function cannot fail and it should always return 0. For this reason, we modify cred.ucounts before calling the commit_creds(). Changelog v6: * Fix null-ptr-deref in is_ucounts_overlimit() detected by trinity. This error was caused by the fact that cred_alloc_blank() left the ucounts pointer empty. Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b37aaef28d8b9b0d757e07ba6dd27281bbe39259.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-04-13arm64: Introduce prctl(PR_PAC_{SET,GET}_ENABLED_KEYS)Peter Collingbourne1-0/+16
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 <pcc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> 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 <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2021-03-15prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV kernel stack leakAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
Doing a prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_AUXV, addr, 1); will copy 1 byte from userspace to (quite big) on-stack array and then stash everything to mm->saved_auxv. AT_NULL terminator will be inserted at the very end. /proc/*/auxv handler will find that AT_NULL terminator and copy original stack contents to userspace. This devious scheme requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-02-25Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Fix false-positive build warnings for ARCH=ia64 builds - Optimize dictionary size for module compression with xz - Check the compiler and linker versions in Kconfig - Fix misuse of extra-y - Support DWARF v5 debug info - Clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 because stable releases 4.4.x and 4.9.x exceeded the limit - Add generic syscall{tbl,hdr}.sh for cleanups across arches - Minor cleanups of genksyms - Minor cleanups of Kconfig * tag 'kbuild-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (38 commits) initramfs: Remove redundant dependency of RD_ZSTD on BLK_DEV_INITRD kbuild: remove deprecated 'always' and 'hostprogs-y/m' kbuild: parse C= and M= before changing the working directory kbuild: reuse this-makefile to define abs_srctree kconfig: unify rule of config, menuconfig, nconfig, gconfig, xconfig kconfig: omit --oldaskconfig option for 'make config' kconfig: fix 'invalid option' for help option kconfig: remove dead code in conf_askvalue() kconfig: clean up nested if-conditionals in check_conf() kconfig: Remove duplicate call to sym_get_string_value() Makefile: Remove # characters from compiler string Makefile: reuse CC_VERSION_TEXT kbuild: check the minimum linker version in Kconfig kbuild: remove ld-version macro scripts: add generic syscallhdr.sh scripts: add generic syscalltbl.sh arch: syscalls: remove $(srctree)/ prefix from syscall tables arch: syscalls: add missing FORCE and fix 'targets' to make if_changed work gen_compile_commands: prune some directories kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's version ...
2021-02-24Merge tag 'idmapped-mounts-v5.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull idmapped mounts from Christian Brauner: "This introduces idmapped mounts which has been in the making for some time. Simply put, different mounts can expose the same file or directory with different ownership. This initial implementation comes with ports for fat, ext4 and with Christoph's port for xfs with more filesystems being actively worked on by independent people and maintainers. Idmapping mounts handle a wide range of long standing use-cases. Here are just a few: - Idmapped mounts make it possible to easily share files between multiple users or multiple machines especially in complex scenarios. For example, idmapped mounts will be used in the implementation of portable home directories in systemd-homed.service(8) where they allow users to move their home directory to an external storage device and use it on multiple computers where they are assigned different uids and gids. This effectively makes it possible to assign random uids and gids at login time. - It is possible to share files from the host with unprivileged containers without having to change ownership permanently through chown(2). - It is possible to idmap a container's rootfs and without having to mangle every file. For example, Chromebooks use it to share the user's Download folder with their unprivileged containers in their Linux subsystem. - It is possible to share files between containers with non-overlapping idmappings. - Filesystem that lack a proper concept of ownership such as fat can use idmapped mounts to implement discretionary access (DAC) permission checking. - They allow users to efficiently changing ownership on a per-mount basis without having to (recursively) chown(2) all files. In contrast to chown (2) changing ownership of large sets of files is instantenous with idmapped mounts. This is especially useful when ownership of a whole root filesystem of a virtual machine or container is changed. With idmapped mounts a single syscall mount_setattr syscall will be sufficient to change the ownership of all files. - Idmapped mounts always take the current ownership into account as idmappings specify what a given uid or gid is supposed to be mapped to. This contrasts with the chown(2) syscall which cannot by itself take the current ownership of the files it changes into account. It simply changes the ownership to the specified uid and gid. This is especially problematic when recursively chown(2)ing a large set of files which is commong with the aforementioned portable home directory and container and vm scenario. - Idmapped mounts allow to change ownership locally, restricting it to specific mounts, and temporarily as the ownership changes only apply as long as the mount exists. Several userspace projects have either already put up patches and pull-requests for this feature or will do so should you decide to pull this: - systemd: In a wide variety of scenarios but especially right away in their implementation of portable home directories. https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/ - container runtimes: containerd, runC, LXD:To share data between host and unprivileged containers, unprivileged and privileged containers, etc. The pull request for idmapped mounts support in containerd, the default Kubernetes runtime is already up for quite a while now: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/4734 - The virtio-fs developers and several users have expressed interest in using this feature with virtual machines once virtio-fs is ported. - ChromeOS: Sharing host-directories with unprivileged containers. I've tightly synced with all those projects and all of those listed here have also expressed their need/desire for this feature on the mailing list. For more info on how people use this there's a bunch of talks about this too. Here's just two recent ones: https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rootless-Containers-in-Gitpod.pdf https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/containers_idmap/ This comes with an extensive xfstests suite covering both ext4 and xfs: https://git.kernel.org/brauner/xfstests-dev/h/idmapped_mounts It covers truncation, creation, opening, xattrs, vfscaps, setid execution, setgid inheritance and more both with idmapped and non-idmapped mounts. It already helped to discover an unrelated xfs setgid inheritance bug which has since been fixed in mainline. It will be sent for inclusion with the xfstests project should you decide to merge this. In order to support per-mount idmappings vfsmounts are marked with user namespaces. The idmapping of the user namespace will be used to map the ids of vfs objects when they are accessed through that mount. By default all vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace. The initial user namespace is used to indicate that a mount is not idmapped. All operations behave as before and this is verified in the testsuite. Based on prior discussions we want to attach the whole user namespace and not just a dedicated idmapping struct. This allows us to reuse all the helpers that already exist for dealing with idmappings instead of introducing a whole new range of helpers. In addition, if we decide in the future that we are confident enough to enable unprivileged users to setup idmapped mounts the permission checking can take into account whether the caller is privileged in the user namespace the mount is currently marked with. The user namespace the mount will be marked with can be specified by passing a file descriptor refering to the user namespace as an argument to the new mount_setattr() syscall together with the new MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP flag. The system call follows the openat2() pattern of extensibility. The following conditions must be met in order to create an idmapped mount: - The caller must currently have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the user namespace the underlying filesystem has been mounted in. - The underlying filesystem must support idmapped mounts. - The mount must not already be idmapped. This also implies that the idmapping of a mount cannot be altered once it has been idmapped. - The mount must be a detached/anonymous mount, i.e. it must have been created by calling open_tree() with the OPEN_TREE_CLONE flag and it must not already have been visible in the filesystem. The last two points guarantee easier semantics for userspace and the kernel and make the implementation significantly simpler. By default vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace and no behavioral or performance changes are observed. The manpage with a detailed description can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/brauner/man-pages/c/1d7b902e2875a1ff342e036a9f866a995640aea8 In order to support idmapped mounts, filesystems need to be changed and mark themselves with the FS_ALLOW_IDMAP flag in fs_flags. The patches to convert individual filesystem are not very large or complicated overall as can be seen from the included fat, ext4, and xfs ports. Patches for other filesystems are actively worked on and will be sent out separately. The xfstestsuite can be used to verify that port has been done correctly. The mount_setattr() syscall is motivated independent of the idmapped mounts patches and it's been around since July 2019. One of the most valuable features of the new mount api is the ability to perform mounts based on file descriptors only. Together with the lookup restrictions available in the openat2() RESOLVE_* flag namespace which we added in v5.6 this is the first time we are close to hardened and race-free (e.g. symlinks) mounting and path resolution. While userspace has started porting to the new mount api to mount proper filesystems and create new bind-mounts it is currently not possible to change mount options of an already existing bind mount in the new mount api since the mount_setattr() syscall is missing. With the addition of the mount_setattr() syscall we remove this last restriction and userspace can now fully port to the new mount api, covering every use-case the old mount api could. We also add the crucial ability to recursively change mount options for a whole mount tree, both removing and adding mount options at the same time. This syscall has been requested multiple times by various people and projects. There is a simple tool available at https://github.com/brauner/mount-idmapped that allows to create idmapped mounts so people can play with this patch series. I'll add support for the regular mount binary should you decide to pull this in the following weeks: Here's an example to a simple idmapped mount of another user's home directory: u1001@f2-vm:/$ sudo ./mount --idmap both:1000:1001:1 /home/ubuntu/ /mnt u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 28 22:07 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 28 04:00 .. -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3154 Oct 28 22:12 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 220 Feb 25 2020 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3771 Feb 25 2020 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 807 Feb 25 2020 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 16 16:11 .sudo_as_admin_successful -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1144 Oct 28 00:43 .viminfo u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /mnt/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 u1001 u1001 4096 Oct 28 22:07 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Oct 28 22:01 .. -rw------- 1 u1001 u1001 3154 Oct 28 22:12 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 220 Feb 25 2020 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 3771 Feb 25 2020 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 807 Feb 25 2020 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 0 Oct 16 16:11 .sudo_as_admin_successful -rw------- 1 u1001 u1001 1144 Oct 28 00:43 .viminfo u1001@f2-vm:/$ touch /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ setfacl -m u:1001:rwx /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ sudo setcap -n 1001 cap_net_raw+ep /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /mnt/my-file -rw-rwxr--+ 1 u1001 u1001 0 Oct 28 22:14 /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/my-file -rw-rwxr--+ 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 22:14 /home/ubuntu/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ getfacl /mnt/my-file getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: mnt/my-file # owner: u1001 # group: u1001 user::rw- user:u1001:rwx group::rw- mask::rwx other::r-- u1001@f2-vm:/$ getfacl /home/ubuntu/my-file getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/ubuntu/my-file # owner: ubuntu # group: ubuntu user::rw- user:ubuntu:rwx group::rw- mask::rwx other::r--" * tag 'idmapped-mounts-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: (41 commits) xfs: remove the possibly unused mp variable in xfs_file_compat_ioctl xfs: support idmapped mounts ext4: support idmapped mounts fat: handle idmapped mounts tests: add mount_setattr() selftests fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP fs: add mount_setattr() fs: add attr_flags_to_mnt_flags helper fs: split out functions to hold writers namespace: only take read lock in do_reconfigure_mnt() mount: make {lock,unlock}_mount_hash() static namespace: take lock_mount_hash() directly when changing flags nfs: do not export idmapped mounts overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts ecryptfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts ima: handle idmapped mounts apparmor: handle idmapped mounts fs: make helpers idmap mount aware exec: handle idmapped mounts would_dump: handle idmapped mounts ...
2021-02-16kbuild: simplify access to the kernel's versionSasha Levin1-1/+1
Instead of storing the version in a single integer and having various kernel (and userspace) code how it's constructed, export individual (major, patchlevel, sublevel) components and simplify kernel code that uses it. This should also make it easier on userspace. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2021-01-29fs: Remove dcookies supportViresh Kumar1-1/+0
The dcookies stuff was only used by the kernel's old oprofile code. Now that oprofile's support is removed from the kernel, there is no need for dcookies as well. Remove it. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2021-01-24fs: add file and path permissions helpersChristian Brauner1-1/+1
Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit. Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g. ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more complex argument passing than necessary. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-12-02kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirectionGabriel Krisman Bertazi1-0/+5
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, <op>, <off>, <length>, [selector]) The range [<offset>,<offset>+<length>) 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 <krisman@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193238.821364-4-krisman@collabora.com
2020-10-25kernel/sys.c: fix prototype of prctl_get_tid_address()Rasmus Villemoes1-3/+3
tid_addr is not a "pointer to (pointer to int in userspace)"; it is in fact a "pointer to (pointer to int in userspace) in userspace". So sparse rightfully complains about passing a kernel pointer to put_user(). Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-25Merge tag 'safesetid-5.10' of git://github.com/micah-morton/linuxLinus Torvalds1-5/+5
Pull SafeSetID updates from Micah Morton: "The changes are mostly contained to within the SafeSetID LSM, with the exception of a few 1-line changes to change some ns_capable() calls to ns_capable_setid() -- causing a flag (CAP_OPT_INSETID) to be set that is examined by SafeSetID code and nothing else in the kernel. The changes to SafeSetID internally allow for setting up GID transition security policies, as already existed for UIDs" * tag 'safesetid-5.10' of git://github.com/micah-morton/linux: LSM: SafeSetID: Fix warnings reported by test bot LSM: SafeSetID: Add GID security policy handling LSM: Signal to SafeSetID when setting group IDs
2020-10-16kernel/sys.c: replace do_brk with do_brk_flags in comment of prctl_set_mm_map()Liao Pingfang1-1/+1
Replace do_brk with do_brk_flags in comment of prctl_set_mm_map(), since do_brk was removed in following commit. Fixes: bb177a732c4369 ("mm: do not bug_on on incorrect length in __mm_populate()") Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <liao.pingfang@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600650751-43127-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-13LSM: Signal to SafeSetID when setting group IDsThomas Cedeno1-5/+5
For SafeSetID to properly gate set*gid() calls, it needs to know whether ns_capable() is being called from within a sys_set*gid() function or is being called from elsewhere in the kernel. This allows SafeSetID to deny CAP_SETGID to restricted groups when they are attempting to use the capability for code paths other than updating GIDs (e.g. setting up userns GID mappings). This is the identical approach to what is currently done for CAP_SETUID. NOTE: We also add signaling to SafeSetID from the setgroups() syscall, as we have future plans to restrict a process' ability to set supplementary groups in addition to what is added in this series for restricting setting of the primary group. Signed-off-by: Thomas Cedeno <thomascedeno@google.com> Signed-off-by: Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>
2020-08-24treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keywordGustavo A. R. Silva1-1/+1
Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary fall-through markings when it is the case. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
2020-07-19prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERMNicolas Viennot1-1/+1
This brings consistency with the rest of the prctl() syscall where -EPERM is returned when failing a capability check. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Viennot <Nicolas.Viennot@twosigma.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200719100418.2112740-7-areber@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-07-19prctl: Allow local CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to change /proc/self/exeNicolas Viennot1-4/+7
Originally, only a local CAP_SYS_ADMIN could change the exe link, making it difficult for doing checkpoint/restore without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. This commit adds CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE in addition to CAP_SYS_ADMIN for permitting changing the exe link. The following describes the history of the /proc/self/exe permission checks as it may be difficult to understand what decisions lead to this point. * [1] May 2012: This commit introduces the ability of changing /proc/self/exe if the user is CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capable. In the related discussion [2], no clear thread model is presented for what could happen if the /proc/self/exe changes multiple times, or why would the admin be at the mercy of userspace. * [3] Oct 2014: This commit introduces a new API to change /proc/self/exe. The permission no longer checks for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, but instead checks if the current user is root (uid=0) in its local namespace. In the related discussion [4] it is said that "Controlling exe_fd without privileges may turn out to be dangerous. At least things like tomoyo examine it for making policy decisions (see tomoyo_manager())." * [5] Dec 2016: This commit removes the restriction to change /proc/self/exe at most once. The related discussion [6] informs that the audit subsystem relies on the exe symlink, presumably audit_log_d_path_exe() in kernel/audit.c. * [7] May 2017: This commit changed the check from uid==0 to local CAP_SYS_ADMIN. No discussion. * [8] July 2020: A PoC to spoof any program's /proc/self/exe via ptrace is demonstrated Overall, the concrete points that were made to retain capability checks around changing the exe symlink is that tomoyo_manager() and audit_log_d_path_exe() uses the exe_file path. Christian Brauner said that relying on /proc/<pid>/exe being immutable (or guarded by caps) in a sake of security is a bit misleading. It can only be used as a hint without any guarantees of what code is being executed once execve() returns to userspace. Christian suggested that in the future, we could call audit_log() or similar to inform the admin of all exe link changes, instead of attempting to provide security guarantees via permission checks. However, this proposed change requires the understanding of the security implications in the tomoyo/audit subsystems. [1] b32dfe377102 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file") [2] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/292515/ [3] f606b77f1a9e ("prctl: PR_SET_MM -- introduce PR_SET_MM_MAP operation") [4] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/479359/ [5] 3fb4afd9a504 ("prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link") [6] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/697304/ [7] 4d28df6152aa ("prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file") [8] https://github.com/nviennot/run_as_exe Signed-off-by: Nicolas Viennot <Nicolas.Viennot@twosigma.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200719100418.2112740-6-areber@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-06-14Merge tag 'LSM-add-setgid-hook-5.8-author-fix' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+14
git://github.com/micah-morton/linux Pull SafeSetID update from Micah Morton: "Add additional LSM hooks for SafeSetID SafeSetID is capable of making allow/deny decisions for set*uid calls on a system, and we want to add similar functionality for set*gid calls. The work to do that is not yet complete, so probably won't make it in for v5.8, but we are looking to get this simple patch in for v5.8 since we have it ready. We are planning on the rest of the work for extending the SafeSetID LSM being merged during the v5.9 merge window" * tag 'LSM-add-setgid-hook-5.8-author-fix' of git://github.com/micah-morton/linux: security: Add LSM hooks to set*gid syscalls
2020-06-14security: Add LSM hooks to set*gid syscallsThomas Cedeno1-1/+14
The SafeSetID LSM uses the security_task_fix_setuid hook to filter set*uid() syscalls according to its configured security policy. In preparation for adding analagous support in the LSM for set*gid() syscalls, we add the requisite hook here. Tested by putting print statements in the security_task_fix_setgid hook and seeing them get hit during kernel boot. Signed-off-by: Thomas Cedeno <thomascedeno@google.com> Signed-off-by: Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>
2020-06-09mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem commentsMichel Lespinasse1-2/+2
Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-09mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sitesMichel Lespinasse1-9/+9
This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap locking API instead. The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule: // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir . @@ expression mm; @@ ( -init_rwsem +mmap_init_lock | -down_write +mmap_write_lock | -down_write_killable +mmap_write_lock_killable | -down_write_trylock +mmap_write_trylock | -up_write +mmap_write_unlock | -downgrade_write +mmap_write_downgrade | -down_read +mmap_read_lock | -down_read_killable +mmap_read_lock_killable | -down_read_trylock +mmap_read_trylock | -up_read +mmap_read_unlock ) -(&mm->mmap_sem) +(mm) Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-02Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "A few little subsystems and a start of a lot of MM patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: squashfs, ocfs2, parisc, vfs. With mm subsystems: slab-generic, slub, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, memory-failure, vmalloc, kasan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits) kasan: move kasan_report() into report.c mm/mm_init.c: report kasan-tag information stored in page->flags ubsan: entirely disable alignment checks under UBSAN_TRAP kasan: fix clang compilation warning due to stack protector x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting mm: remove vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings() x86/mm/32: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings() x86/mm/64: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings() mm/ioremap: track which page-table levels were modified mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified mm: add functions to track page directory modifications s390: use __vmalloc_node in stack_alloc powerpc: use __vmalloc_node in alloc_vm_stack arm64: use __vmalloc_node in arch_alloc_vmap_stack mm: remove vmalloc_user_node_flags mm: switch the test_vmalloc module to use __vmalloc_node mm: remove __vmalloc_node_flags_caller mm: remove both instances of __vmalloc_node_flags mm: remove the prot argument to __vmalloc_node mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc ...
2020-06-02mm/writeback: replace PF_LESS_THROTTLE with PF_LOCAL_THROTTLENeilBrown1-1/+1
PF_LESS_THROTTLE exists for loop-back nfsd (and a similar need in the loop block driver and callers of prctl(PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER)), where a daemon needs to write to one bdi (the final bdi) in order to free up writes queued to another bdi (the client bdi). The daemon sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE and gets a larger allowance of dirty pages, so that it can still dirty pages after other processses have been throttled. The purpose of this is to avoid deadlock that happen when the PF_LESS_THROTTLE process must write for any dirty pages to be freed, but it is being thottled and cannot write. This approach was designed when all threads were blocked equally, independently on which device they were writing to, or how fast it was. Since that time the writeback algorithm has changed substantially with different threads getting different allowances based on non-trivial heuristics. This means the simple "add 25%" heuristic is no longer reliable. The important issue is not that the daemon needs a *larger* dirty page allowance, but that it needs a *private* dirty page allowance, so that dirty pages for the "client" bdi that it is helping to clear (the bdi for an NFS filesystem or loop block device etc) do not affect the throttling of the daemon writing to the "final" bdi. This patch changes the heuristic so that the task is not throttled when the bdi it is writing to has a dirty page count below below (or equal to) the free-run threshold for that bdi. This ensures it will always be able to have some pages in flight, and so will not deadlock. In a steady-state, it is expected that PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks might still be throttled by global threshold, but that is acceptable as it is only the deadlock state that is interesting for this flag. This approach of "only throttle when target bdi is busy" is consistent with the other use of PF_LESS_THROTTLE in current_may_throttle(), were it causes attention to be focussed only on the target bdi. So this patch - renames PF_LESS_THROTTLE to PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE, - removes the 25% bonus that that flag gives, and - If PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE is set, don't delay at all unless the global and the local free-run thresholds are exceeded. Note that previously realtime threads were treated the same as PF_LESS_THROTTLE threads. This patch does *not* change the behvaiour for real-time threads, so it is now different from the behaviour of nfsd and loop tasks. I don't know what is wanted for realtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> [nfsd] Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbf7gs3.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-26compat sysinfo(2): don't bother with field-by-field copyoutAl Viro1-16/+17
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-03sys/sysinfo: Respect boottime inside time namespaceCyril Hrubis1-0/+2
The sysinfo() syscall includes uptime in seconds but has no correction for time namespaces which makes it inconsistent with the /proc/uptime inside of a time namespace. Add the missing time namespace adjustment call. Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303150638.7329-1-chrubis@suse.cz
2020-01-28prctl: PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER to support controlling memory reclaimMike Christie1-0/+25
There are several storage drivers like dm-multipath, iscsi, tcmu-runner, amd nbd that have userspace components that can run in the IO path. For example, iscsi and nbd's userspace deamons may need to recreate a socket and/or send IO on it, and dm-multipath's daemon multipathd may need to send SG IO or read/write IO to figure out the state of paths and re-set them up. In the kernel these drivers have access to GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS and the memalloc_*_save/restore functions to control the allocation behavior, but for userspace we would end up hitting an allocation that ended up writing data back to the same device we are trying to allocate for. The device is then in a state of deadlock, because to execute IO the device needs to allocate memory, but to allocate memory the memory layers want execute IO to the device. Here is an example with nbd using a local userspace daemon that performs network IO to a remote server. We are using XFS on top of the nbd device, but it can happen with any FS or other modules layered on top of the nbd device that can write out data to free memory. Here a nbd daemon helper thread, msgr-worker-1, is performing a write/sendmsg on a socket to execute a request. This kicks off a reclaim operation which results in a WRITE to the nbd device and the nbd thread calling back into the mm layer. [ 1626.609191] msgr-worker-1 D 0 1026 1 0x00004000 [ 1626.609193] Call Trace: [ 1626.609195] ? __schedule+0x29b/0x630 [ 1626.609197] ? wait_for_completion+0xe0/0x170 [ 1626.609198] schedule+0x30/0xb0 [ 1626.609200] schedule_timeout+0x1f6/0x2f0 [ 1626.609202] ? blk_finish_plug+0x21/0x2e [ 1626.609204] ? _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x2e6/0x410 [ 1626.609206] ? wait_for_completion+0xe0/0x170 [ 1626.609208] wait_for_completion+0x108/0x170 [ 1626.609210] ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70 [ 1626.609212] ? __xfs_buf_submit+0x12e/0x250 [ 1626.609214] ? xfs_bwrite+0x25/0x60 [ 1626.609215] xfs_buf_iowait+0x22/0xf0 [ 1626.609218] __xfs_buf_submit+0x12e/0x250 [ 1626.609220] xfs_bwrite+0x25/0x60 [ 1626.609222] xfs_reclaim_inode+0x2e8/0x310 [ 1626.609224] xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag+0x1b6/0x300 [ 1626.609227] xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr+0x31/0x40 [ 1626.609228] super_cache_scan+0x152/0x1a0 [ 1626.609231] do_shrink_slab+0x12c/0x2d0 [ 1626.609233] shrink_slab+0x9c/0x2a0 [ 1626.609235] shrink_node+0xd7/0x470 [ 1626.609237] do_try_to_free_pages+0xbf/0x380 [ 1626.609240] try_to_free_pages+0xd9/0x1f0 [ 1626.609245] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x3a4/0xd30 [ 1626.609251] ? ___slab_alloc+0x238/0x560 [ 1626.609254] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x30c/0x350 [ 1626.609259] skb_page_frag_refill+0x97/0xd0 [ 1626.609274] sk_page_frag_refill+0x1d/0x80 [ 1626.609279] tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x2bb/0xdd0 [ 1626.609304] tcp_sendmsg+0x27/0x40 [ 1626.609307] sock_sendmsg+0x54/0x60 [ 1626.609308] ___sys_sendmsg+0x29f/0x320 [ 1626.609313] ? sock_poll+0x66/0xb0 [ 1626.609318] ? ep_item_poll.isra.15+0x40/0xc0 [ 1626.609320] ? ep_send_events_proc+0xe6/0x230 [ 1626.609322] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x54/0xf0 [ 1626.609324] ? ep_read_events_proc+0xc0/0xc0 [ 1626.609326] ? _raw_write_unlock_irq+0xa/0x20 [ 1626.609327] ? ep_scan_ready_list.constprop.19+0x218/0x230 [ 1626.609329] ? __hrtimer_init+0xb0/0xb0 [ 1626.609331] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xa/0x20 [ 1626.609334] ? ep_poll+0x26c/0x4a0 [ 1626.609337] ? tcp_tsq_write.part.54+0xa0/0xa0 [ 1626.609339] ? release_sock+0x43/0x90 [ 1626.609341] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0xa/0x20 [ 1626.609342] __sys_sendmsg+0x47/0x80 [ 1626.609347] do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x1c0 [ 1626.609349] ? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x75/0xa0 [ 1626.609351] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 This patch adds a new prctl command that daemons can use after they have done their initial setup, and before they start to do allocations that are in the IO path. It sets the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO and PF_LESS_THROTTLE flags so both userspace block and FS threads can use it to avoid the allocation recursion and try to prevent from being throttled while writing out data to free up memory. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Masato Suzuki <masato.suzuki@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112001900.9206-1-mchristi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2019-12-05kernel/sys.c: avoid copying possible padding bytes in copy_to_userJoe Perches1-1/+3
Initialization is not guaranteed to zero padding bytes so use an explicit memset instead to avoid leaking any kernel content in any possible padding bytes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dfa331c00881d61c8ee51577a082d8bebd61805c.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-15y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timevalArnd Bergmann1-2/+2
There are two 'struct timeval' fields in 'struct rusage'. Unfortunately the definition of timeval is now ambiguous when used in user space with a libc that has a 64-bit time_t, and this also changes the 'rusage' definition in user space in a way that is incompatible with the system call interface. While there is no good solution to avoid all ambiguity here, change the definition in the kernel headers to be compatible with the kernel ABI, using __kernel_old_timeval as an unambiguous base type. In previous discussions, there was also a plan to add a replacement for rusage based on 64-bit timestamps and nanosecond resolution, i.e. 'struct __kernel_timespec'. I have patches for that as well, if anyone thinks we should do that. Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2019-09-17Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-13/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Timers and timekeeping updates: - A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be properly accounted on the task/process. An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for travel. - Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the homebrewn caching of the leftmost node. - Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a single function - Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the affected timers accordingly. - Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer which should be canceled is currently executing the callback. Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and released by the (hr)timer expiry code. - Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions. - Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device tree bindings. - The usual small improvements all over the place" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires ...
2019-09-17Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-14/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpu-feature updates from Ingo Molnar: - Rework the Intel model names symbols/macros, which were decades of ad-hoc extensions and added random noise. It's now a coherent, easy to follow nomenclature. - Add new Intel CPU model IDs: - "Tiger Lake" desktop and mobile models - "Elkhart Lake" model ID - and the "Lightning Mountain" variant of Airmont, plus support code - Add the new AVX512_VP2INTERSECT instruction to cpufeatures - Remove Intel MPX user-visible APIs and the self-tests, because the toolchain (gcc) is not supporting it going forward. This is the first, lowest-risk phase of MPX removal. - Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC - Various smaller cleanups and fixes * 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits) x86/cpu: Update init data for new Airmont CPU model x86/cpu: Add new Airmont variant to Intel family x86/cpu: Add Elkhart Lake to Intel family x86/cpu: Add Tiger Lake to Intel family x86: Correct misc typos x86/intel: Add common OPTDIFFs x86/intel: Aggregate microserver naming x86/intel: Aggregate big core graphics naming x86/intel: Aggregate big core mobile naming x86/intel: Aggregate big core client naming x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication x86/ftrace: Remove mcount() declaration x86/PCI: Remove superfluous returns from void functions x86/msr-index: Move AMD MSRs where they belong x86/cpu: Use constant definitions for CPU models lib: Remove redundant ftrace flag removal x86/crash: Remove unnecessary comparison x86/bitops: Use __builtin_constant_p() directly instead of IS_IMMEDIATE() x86: Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIs ...
2019-08-28posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checksThomas Gleixner1-9/+0
Deactivation of the expiry cache is done by setting all clock caches to 0. That requires to have a check for zero in all places which update the expiry cache: if (cache == 0 || new < cache) cache = new; Use U64_MAX as the deactivated value, which allows to remove the zero checks when updating the cache and reduces it to the obvious check: if (new < cache) cache = new; This also removes the weird workaround in do_prlimit() which was required to convert a RLIMIT_CPU value of 0 (immediate expiry) to 1 because handing in 0 to the posix CPU timer code would have effectively disarmed it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192922.275086128@linutronix.de
2019-08-28rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU commentThomas Gleixner1-4/+3
The comment above the function which arms RLIMIT_CPU in the posix CPU timer code makes no sense at all. It claims that the kernel does not return an error code when it rejected the attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU. That's clearly bogus as the code does an error check and the rlimit is only set and activated when the permission checks are ok. In case of a rejection an appropriate error code is returned. This is a historical and outdated comment which got dragged along even when the rlimit handling code was rewritten. Replace it with an explanation why the setup function is not called when the rlimit value is RLIM_INFINITY and how the 'disarming' is handled. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192922.185511287@linutronix.de
2019-08-20arm64: Tighten the PR_{SET, GET}_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL prctl() unused argumentsCatalin Marinas1-0/+4
Require that arg{3,4,5} of the PR_{SET,GET}_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL prctl and arg2 of the PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL prctl() are zero rather than ignored for future extensions. Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-08-06arm64: Introduce prctl() options to control the tagged user addresses ABICatalin Marinas1-0/+12
It is not desirable to relax the ABI to allow tagged user addresses into the kernel indiscriminately. This patch introduces a prctl() interface for enabling or disabling the tagged ABI with a global sysctl control for preventing applications from enabling the relaxed ABI (meant for testing user-space prctl() return error checking without reconfiguring the kernel). The ABI properties are inherited by threads of the same application and fork()'ed children but cleared on execve(). A Kconfig option allows the overall disabling of the relaxed ABI. The PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL will be expanded in the future to handle MTE-specific settings like imprecise vs precise exceptions. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-07-22x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIsDave Hansen1-14/+2
MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support in the toolchain going forward (gcc). The first step is to remove the userspace-visible ABIs so that applications will stop using it. The most visible one are the enable/disable prctl()s. Remove them first. This is the most minimal and least invasive change needed to ensure that apps stop using MPX with new kernels. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190705175321.DB42F0AD@viggo.jf.intel.com
2019-06-02prctl_set_mm: downgrade mmap_sem to read lockMichal Koutný1-2/+9
The commit a3b609ef9f8b ("proc read mm's {arg,env}_{start,end} with mmap semaphore taken.") added synchronization of reading argument/environment boundaries under mmap_sem. Later commit 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") avoided the coarse use of mmap_sem in similar situations. But there still remained two places that (mis)use mmap_sem. get_cmdline should also use arg_lock instead of mmap_sem when it reads the boundaries. The second place that should use arg_lock is in prctl_set_mm. By protecting the boundaries fields with the arg_lock, we can downgrade mmap_sem to reader lock (analogous to what we already do in prctl_set_mm_map). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190502125203.24014-3-mkoutny@suse.com Fixes: 88aa7cc688d4 ("mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct") Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Co-developed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-06-02prctl_set_mm: refactor checks from validate_prctl_mapMichal Koutný1-26/+25
Despite comment of validate_prctl_map claims there are no capability checks, it is not completely true since commit 4d28df6152aa ("prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file"). Extract the check out of the function and make the function perform purely arithmetic checks. This patch should not change any behavior, it is mere refactoring for following patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190502125203.24014-2-mkoutny@suse.com Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14kernel/sys.c: prctl: fix false positive in validate_prctl_map()Cyrill Gorcunov1-1/+1
While validating new map we require the @start_data to be strictly less than @end_data, which is fine for regular applications (this is why this nit didn't trigger for that long). These members are set from executable loaders such as elf handers, still it is pretty valid to have a loadable data section with zero size in file, in such case the start_data is equal to end_data once kernel loader finishes. As a result when we're trying to restore such programs the procedure fails and the kernel returns -EINVAL. From the image dump of a program: | "mm_start_code": "0x400000", | "mm_end_code": "0x8f5fb4", | "mm_start_data": "0xf1bfb0", | "mm_end_data": "0xf1bfb0", Thus we need to change validate_prctl_map from strictly less to less or equal operator use. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190408143554.GY1421@uranus.lan Fixes: f606b77f1a9e3 ("prctl: PR_SET_MM -- introduce PR_SET_MM_MAP operation") Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-08Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - some of the rest of MM - various misc things - dynamic-debug updates - checkpatch - some epoll speedups - autofs - rapidio - lib/, lib/lzo/ updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (83 commits) samples/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h: remove duplicate header kernel/fork.c: remove duplicated include include/linux/relay.h: fix percpu annotation in struct rchan arch/nios2/mm/fault.c: remove duplicate include unicore32: stop printing the virtual memory layout MAINTAINERS: fix GTA02 entry and mark as orphan mm: create the new vm_fault_t type arm, s390, unicore32: remove oneliner wrappers for memblock_alloc() arch: simplify several early memory allocations openrisc: simplify pte_alloc_one_kernel() sh: prefer memblock APIs returning virtual address microblaze: prefer memblock API returning virtual address powerpc: prefer memblock APIs returning virtual address lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo lib/lzo: implement run-length encoding lib/lzo: fast 8-byte copy on arm64 lib/lzo: 64-bit CTZ on arm64 lib/lzo: tidy-up ifdefs ipc/sem.c: replace kvmalloc/memset with kvzalloc and use struct_size ipc: annotate implicit fall through ...
2019-03-08kernel/sys: annotate implicit fall throughMathieu Malaterre1-0/+1
There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and this place in the code produced a warning (W=1). This commit remove the following warning: kernel/sys.c:1748:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114203347.17530-1-malat@debian.org Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-01-25LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid callsMicah Morton1-5/+5
This change ensures that the set*uid family of syscalls in kernel/sys.c (setreuid, setuid, setresuid, setfsuid) all call ns_capable_common with the CAP_OPT_INSETID flag, so capability checks in the security_capable hook can know whether they are being called from within a set*uid syscall. This change is a no-op by itself, but is needed for the proposed SafeSetID LSM. Signed-off-by: Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
2019-01-14kernel/sys.c: Clarify that UNAME26 does not generate unique versions anymoreJonathan Neuschäfer1-1/+2
UNAME26 is a mechanism to report Linux's version as 2.6.x, for compatibility with old/broken software. Due to the way it is implemented, it would have to be updated after 5.0, to keep the resulting versions unique. Linus Torvalds argued: "Do we actually need this? I'd rather let it bitrot, and just let it return random versions. It will just start again at 2.4.60, won't it? Anybody who uses UNAME26 for a 5.x kernel might as well think it's still 4.x. The user space is so old that it can't possibly care about differences between 4.x and 5.x, can it? The only thing that matters is that it shows "2.4.<largeenough>", which it will do regardless" Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>