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2018-04-02ipc: add shmdt syscall wrapperDominik Brodowski
Provide ksys_shmdt() wrapper to avoid in-kernel calls to this syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_shmdt(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02ipc: add shmget syscall wrapperDominik Brodowski
Provide ksys_shmget() wrapper to avoid in-kernel calls to this syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_shmget(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02ipc: add msgget syscall wrapperDominik Brodowski
Provide ksys_msgget() wrapper to avoid in-kernel calls to this syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_msgget(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02ipc: add semctl syscall/compat_syscall wrappersDominik Brodowski
Provide ksys_semctl() and compat_ksys_semctl() wrappers to avoid in-kernel calls to these syscalls. The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same calling convention as sys_semctl() and compat_sys_semctl(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02ipc: add semget syscall wrapperDominik Brodowski
Provide ksys_semget() wrapper to avoid in-kernel calls to this syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same calling convention as sys_semget(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02ipc: add semtimedop syscall/compat_syscall wrappersDominik Brodowski
Provide ksys_semtimedop() and compat_ksys_semtimedop() wrappers to avoid in-kernel calls to these syscalls. The ksys_ prefix denotes that these functions are meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscalls. In particular, they use the same calling convention as sys_semtimedop() and compat_sys_semtimedop(). This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-28ipc/shm.c: add split function to shm_vm_opsMike Kravetz
If System V shmget/shmat operations are used to create a hugetlbfs backed mapping, it is possible to munmap part of the mapping and split the underlying vma such that it is not huge page aligned. This will untimately result in the following BUG: kernel BUG at /build/linux-jWa1Fv/linux-4.15.0/mm/hugetlb.c:3310! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV Modules linked in: kcm nfc af_alg caif_socket caif phonet fcrypt CPU: 18 PID: 43243 Comm: trinity-subchil Tainted: G C E 4.15.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu NIP: c00000000036e764 LR: c00000000036ee48 CTR: 0000000000000009 REGS: c000003fbcdcf810 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G C E (4.15.0-10-generic) MSR: 9000000000029033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24002222 XER: 20040000 CFAR: c00000000036ee44 SOFTE: 1 NIP __unmap_hugepage_range+0xa4/0x760 LR __unmap_hugepage_range_final+0x28/0x50 Call Trace: 0x7115e4e00000 (unreliable) __unmap_hugepage_range_final+0x28/0x50 unmap_single_vma+0x11c/0x190 unmap_vmas+0x94/0x140 exit_mmap+0x9c/0x1d0 mmput+0xa8/0x1d0 do_exit+0x360/0xc80 do_group_exit+0x60/0x100 SyS_exit_group+0x24/0x30 system_call+0x58/0x6c ---[ end trace ee88f958a1c62605 ]--- This bug was introduced by commit 31383c6865a5 ("mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to vm_operations_struct"). A split function was added to vm_operations_struct to determine if a mapping can be split. This was mostly for device-dax and hugetlbfs mappings which have specific alignment constraints. Mappings initiated via shmget/shmat have their original vm_ops overwritten with shm_vm_ops. shm_vm_ops functions will call back to the original vm_ops if needed. Add such a split function to shm_vm_ops. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180321161314.7711-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Fixes: 31383c6865a5 ("mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to vm_operations_struct") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-03-28ipc/shm: Fix pid freeing.Eric W. Biederman
The 0day kernel test build report reported an oops: > > IP: put_pid+0x22/0x5c > PGD 19efa067 P4D 19efa067 PUD 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] > CPU: 0 PID: 727 Comm: trinity Not tainted 4.16.0-rc2-00010-g98f929b #1 > RIP: 0010:put_pid+0x22/0x5c > RSP: 0018:ffff986719f73e48 EFLAGS: 00010202 > RAX: 00000006d765f710 RBX: ffff98671a4fa4d0 RCX: ffff986719f73d40 > RDX: 000000006f6e6125 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffa01e6d21 > RBP: ffffffffa0955fe0 R08: 0000000000000020 R09: 0000000000000000 > R10: 0000000000000078 R11: ffff986719f73e76 R12: 0000000000001000 > R13: 00000000ffffffea R14: 0000000054000fb0 R15: 0000000000000000 > FS: 00000000028c2880(0000) GS:ffffffffa06ad000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 0000000677846439 CR3: 0000000019fc1005 CR4: 00000000000606b0 > Call Trace: > ? ipc_update_pid+0x36/0x3e > ? newseg+0x34c/0x3a6 > ? ipcget+0x5d/0x528 > ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x52/0xb7 > ? SyS_shmget+0x5a/0x84 > ? do_syscall_64+0x194/0x1b3 > ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7 > Code: ff 05 e7 20 9b 03 58 c9 c3 48 ff 05 85 21 9b 03 48 85 ff 74 4f 8b 47 04 8b 17 48 ff 05 7c 21 9b 03 48 83 c0 03 48 c1 e0 04 ff ca <48> 8b 44 07 08 74 1f 48 ff 05 6c 21 9b 03 ff 0f 0f 94 c2 48 ff > RIP: put_pid+0x22/0x5c RSP: ffff986719f73e48 > CR2: 0000000677846439 > ---[ end trace ab8c5cb4389d37c5 ]--- > Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception In newseg when changing shm_cprid and shm_lprid from pid_t to struct pid* I misread the kvmalloc as kvzalloc and thought shp was initialized to 0. As that is not the case it is not safe to for the error handling to address shm_cprid and shm_lprid before they are initialized. Therefore move the cleanup of shm_cprid and shm_lprid from the no_file error cleanup path to the no_id error cleanup path. Ensuring that an early error exit won't cause the oops above. Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-27ipc: Directly call the security hook in ipc_ops.associateEric W. Biederman
After the last round of cleanups the shm, sem, and msg associate operations just became trivial wrappers around the appropriate security method. Simplify things further by just calling the security method directly. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-27ipc/sem: Fix semctl(..., GETPID, ...) between pid namespacesEric W. Biederman
Today the last process to update a semaphore is remembered and reported in the pid namespace of that process. If there are processes in any other pid namespace querying that process id with GETPID the result will be unusable nonsense as it does not make any sense in your own pid namespace. Due to ipc_update_pid I don't think you will be able to get System V ipc semaphores into a troublesome cache line ping-pong. Using struct pids from separate process are not a problem because they do not share a cache line. Using struct pid from different threads of the same process are unlikely to be a problem as the reference count update can be avoided. Further linux futexes are a much better tool for the job of mutual exclusion between processes than System V semaphores. So I expect programs that are performance limited by their interprocess mutual exclusion primitive will be using futexes. So while it is possible that enhancing the storage of the last rocess of a System V semaphore from an integer to a struct pid will cause a performance regression because of the effect of frequently updating the pid reference count. I don't expect that to happen in practice. This change updates semctl(..., GETPID, ...) to return the process id of the last process to update a semphore inthe pid namespace of the calling process. Fixes: b488893a390e ("pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-27ipc/msg: Fix msgctl(..., IPC_STAT, ...) between pid namespacesEric W. Biederman
Today msg_lspid and msg_lrpid are remembered in the pid namespace of the creator and the processes that last send or received a sysvipc message. If you have processes in multiple pid namespaces that is just wrong. The process ids reported will not make the least bit of sense. This fix is slightly more susceptible to a performance problem than the related fix for System V shared memory. By definition the pids are updated by msgsnd and msgrcv, the fast path of System V message queues. The only concern over the previous implementation is the incrementing and decrementing of the pid reference count. As that is the only difference and multiple updates by of the task_tgid by threads in the same process have been shown in af_unix sockets to create a cache line ping-pong between cpus of the same processor. In this case I don't expect cache lines holding pid reference counts to ping pong between cpus. As senders and receivers update different pids there is a natural separation there. Further if multiple threads of the same process either send or receive messages the pid will be updated to the same value and ipc_update_pid will avoid the reference count update. Which means in the common case I expect msg_lspid and msg_lrpid to remain constant, and reference counts not to be updated when messages are sent. In rare cases it may be possible to trigger the issue which was observed for af_unix sockets, but it will require multiple processes with multiple threads to be either sending or receiving messages. It just does not feel likely that anyone would do that in practice. This change updates msgctl(..., IPC_STAT, ...) to return msg_lspid and msg_lrpid in the pid namespace of the process calling stat. This change also updates cat /proc/sysvipc/msg to return print msg_lspid and msg_lrpid in the pid namespace of the process that opened the proc file. Fixes: b488893a390e ("pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user") Reviewed-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-27ipc/shm: Fix shmctl(..., IPC_STAT, ...) between pid namespaces.Eric W. Biederman
Today shm_cpid and shm_lpid are remembered in the pid namespace of the creator and the processes that last touched a sysvipc shared memory segment. If you have processes in multiple pid namespaces that is just wrong, and I don't know how this has been over-looked for so long. As only creation and shared memory attach and shared memory detach update the pids I do not expect there to be a repeat of the issues when struct pid was attached to each af_unix skb, which in some notable cases cut the performance in half. The problem was threads of the same process updating same struct pid from different cpus causing the cache line to be highly contended and bounce between cpus. As creation, attach, and detach are expected to be rare operations for sysvipc shared memory segments I do not expect that kind of cache line ping pong to cause probems. In addition because the pid is at a fixed location in the structure instead of being dynamic on a skb, the reference count of the pid does not need to be updated on each operation if the pid is the same. This ability to simply skip the pid reference count changes if the pid is unchanging further reduces the likelihood of the a cache line holding a pid reference count ping-ponging between cpus. Fixes: b488893a390e ("pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user") Reviewed-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-24Revert "mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount"Eric W. Biederman
This reverts commit 36735a6a2b5e042db1af956ce4bcc13f3ff99e21. Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> writes: > [REGRESSION v4.16-rc6] [PATCH] mqueue: forbid unprivileged user access to internal mount > > Felix reported weird behaviour on 4.16.0-rc6 with regards to mqueue[1], > which was introduced by 36735a6a2b5e ("mqueue: switch to on-demand > creation of internal mount"). > > Basically, the reproducer boils down to being able to mount mqueue if > you create a new user namespace, even if you don't unshare the IPC > namespace. > > Previously this was not possible, and you would get an -EPERM. The mount > is the *host* mqueue mount, which is being cached and just returned from > mqueue_mount(). To be honest, I'm not sure if this is safe or not (or if > it was intentional -- since I'm not familiar with mqueue). > > To me it looks like there is a missing permission check. I've included a > patch below that I've compile-tested, and should block the above case. > Can someone please tell me if I'm missing something? Is this actually > safe? > > [1]: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/36674 The issue is a lot deeper than a missing permission check. sb->s_user_ns was is improperly set as well. So in addition to the filesystem being mounted when it should not be mounted, so things are not allow that should be. We are practically to the release of 4.16 and there is no agreement between Al Viro and myself on what the code should looks like to fix things properly. So revert the code to what it was before so that we can take our time and discuss this properly. Fixes: 36735a6a2b5e ("mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount") Reported-by: Felix Abecassis <fabecassis@nvidia.com> Reported-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-24ipc/util: Helpers for making the sysvipc operations pid namespace awareEric W. Biederman
Capture the pid namespace when /proc/sysvipc/msg /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sysvipc/sem are opened, and make it available through the new helper ipc_seq_pid_ns. This makes it possible to report the pids in these files in the pid namespace of the opener of the files. Implement ipc_update_pid. A simple impline helper that will only update a struct pid pointer if the new value does not equal the old value. This removes the need for wordy code sequences like: old = object->pid; object->pid = new; put_pid(old); and old = object->pid; if (old != new) { object->pid = new; put_pid(old); } Allowing the following to be written instead: ipc_update_pid(&object->pid, new); Which is easier to read and ensures that the pid reference count is not touched the old and the new values are the same. Not touching the reference count in this case is important to help avoid issues like af_unix experienced, where multiple threads of the same process managed to bounce the struct pid between cpu cache lines, but updating the pids reference count. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-24ipc: Move IPCMNI from include/ipc.h into ipc/util.hEric W. Biederman
The definition IPCMNI is only used in ipc/util.h and ipc/util.c. So there is no reason to keep it in a header file that the whole kernel can see. Move it into util.h to simplify future maintenance. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-24msg: Move struct msg_queue into ipc/msg.cEric W. Biederman
All of the users are now in ipc/msg.c so make the definition local to that file to make code maintenance easier. AKA to prevent rebuilding the entire kernel when struct msg_queue changes. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-24shm: Move struct shmid_kernel into ipc/shm.cEric W. Biederman
All of the users are now in ipc/shm.c so make the definition local to that file to make code maintenance easier. AKA to prevent rebuilding the entire kernel when struct shmid_kernel changes. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-22sem: Move struct sem and struct sem_array into ipc/sem.cEric W. Biederman
All of the users are now in ipc/sem.c so make the definitions local to that file to make code maintenance easier. AKA to prevent rebuilding the entire kernel when one of these files is changed. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-22msg/security: Pass kern_ipc_perm not msg_queue into the msg_queue security hooksEric W. Biederman
All of the implementations of security hooks that take msg_queue only access q_perm the struct kern_ipc_perm member. This means the dependencies of the msg_queue security hooks can be simplified by passing the kern_ipc_perm member of msg_queue. Making this change will allow struct msg_queue to become private to ipc/msg.c. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-22shm/security: Pass kern_ipc_perm not shmid_kernel into the shm security hooksEric W. Biederman
All of the implementations of security hooks that take shmid_kernel only access shm_perm the struct kern_ipc_perm member. This means the dependencies of the shm security hooks can be simplified by passing the kern_ipc_perm member of shmid_kernel.. Making this change will allow struct shmid_kernel to become private to ipc/shm.c. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-22sem/security: Pass kern_ipc_perm not sem_array into the sem security hooksEric W. Biederman
All of the implementations of security hooks that take sem_array only access sem_perm the struct kern_ipc_perm member. This means the dependencies of the sem security hooks can be simplified by passing the kern_ipc_perm member of sem_array. Making this change will allow struct sem and struct sem_array to become private to ipc/sem.c. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-02-11vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacementLinus Torvalds
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL* variables as described by Al, done by this script: for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'` for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done done with de-mangling cleanups yet to come. NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost". For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al. The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we should be all done. Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-02-06ipc/mqueue.c: have RT tasks queue in by priority in wq_add()Jonathan Haws
Previous behavior added tasks to the work queue using the static_prio value instead of the dynamic priority value in prio. This caused RT tasks to be added to the work queue in a FIFO manner rather than by priority. Normal tasks were handled by priority. This fix utilizes the dynamic priority of the task to ensure that both RT and normal tasks are added to the work queue in priority order. Utilizing the dynamic priority (prio) rather than the base priority (normal_prio) was chosen to ensure that if a task had a boosted priority when it was added to the work queue, it would be woken sooner to to ensure that it releases any other locks it may be holding in a more timely manner. It is understood that the task could have a lower priority when it wakes than when it was added to the queue in this (unlikely) case. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513006652-7014-1-git-send-email-jhaws@sdl.usu.edu Signed-off-by: Jonathan Haws <jhaws@sdl.usu.edu> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-02-06ipc: fix ipc data structures inconsistencyPhilippe Mikoyan
As described in the title, this patch fixes <ipc>id_ds inconsistency when <ipc>ctl_stat executes concurrently with some ds-changing function, e.g. shmat, msgsnd or whatever. For instance, if shmctl(IPC_STAT) is running concurrently with shmat, following data structure can be returned: {... shm_lpid = 0, shm_nattch = 1, ...} Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202153456.6514-1-philippe.mikoyan@skat.systems Signed-off-by: Philippe Mikoyan <philippe.mikoyan@skat.systems> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-01-30Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups from Al Viro: "mqueue and bpf go through rather painful and similar contortions to create objects in their dentry trees. Provide a primitive for doing that without abusing ->mknod(), switch bpf and mqueue to it. Another mqueue-related thing that has ended up in that branch is on-demand creation of internal mount (based upon the work of Giuseppe Scrivano)" * 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount tidy do_mq_open() up a bit mqueue: clean prepare_open() up do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helper mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode() move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open() mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->d_fsdata bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->mknod() new primitive: vfs_mkobj()
2018-01-30Merge branch 'misc.poll' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull poll annotations from Al Viro: "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as 'make ->poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local variables used to hold the future return value'. Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. ->poll() instance deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those in this series - it's large enough as it is. Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are arch-independent, but POLL### are not. The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll() work on all architectures. As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all architectures" * 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits) make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap annotate poll(2) guts 9p: untangle ->poll() mess ->si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of ->poll() the rest of drivers/*: annotate ->poll() instances media: annotate ->poll() instances fs: annotate ->poll() instances ipc, kernel, mm: annotate ->poll() instances net: annotate ->poll() instances apparmor: annotate ->poll() instances tomoyo: annotate ->poll() instances sound: annotate ->poll() instances acpi: annotate ->poll() instances crypto: annotate ->poll() instances block: annotate ->poll() instances x86: annotate ->poll() instances ...
2018-01-12signal: Ensure generic siginfos the kernel sends have all bits initializedEric W. Biederman
Call clear_siginfo to ensure stack allocated siginfos are fully initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions. This ensures that if there is the kind of confusion documented by TRAP_FIXME, FPE_FIXME, or BUS_FIXME the kernel won't send unitialized data to userspace when the kernel generates a signal with SI_USER but the copy to userspace assumes it is a different kind of signal, and different fields are initialized. This also prepares the way for turning copy_siginfo_to_user into a copy_to_user, by removing the need in many cases to perform a field by field copy simply to skip the uninitialized fields. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-01-05mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mountAl Viro
Instead of doing that upon each ipcns creation, we do that the first time mq_open(2) or mqueue mount is done in an ipcns. What's more, doing that allows to get rid of mount_ns() use - we can go with considerably cheaper mount_nodev(), avoiding the loop over all mqueue superblock instances; ipcns->mq_mnt is used to locate preexisting instance in O(1) time instead of O(instances) mount_ns() would've cost us. Based upon the version by Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>; I've added handling of userland mqueue mounts (original had been broken in that area) and added a switch to mount_nodev(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05tidy do_mq_open() up a bitAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05mqueue: clean prepare_open() upAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helperAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-01-05mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->d_fsdataAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-11-27ipc, kernel, mm: annotate ->poll() instancesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-11-27Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz)Linus Torvalds
This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel superblock flags. The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to. Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call, while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb->s_flags. The script to do this was: # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags. FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \ include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \ security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h" # the list of MS_... constants SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \ DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \ POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \ I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \ ACTIVE NOUSER" SED_PROG= for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done # we want files that contain at least one of MS_..., # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded. L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c') for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - a bit more MM - procfs updates - dynamic-debug fixes - lib/ updates - checkpatch - epoll - nilfs2 - signals - rapidio - PID management cleanup and optimization - kcov updates - sysvipc updates - quite a few misc things all over the place * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (94 commits) EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu include/asm-generic/topology.h: remove unused parent_node() macro arch/tile/include/asm/topology.h: remove unused parent_node() macro arch/sparc/include/asm/topology_64.h: remove unused parent_node() macro arch/sh/include/asm/topology.h: remove unused parent_node() macro arch/ia64/include/asm/topology.h: remove unused parent_node() macro drivers/pcmcia/sa1111_badge4.c: avoid unused function warning mm: add infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking sysvipc: make get_maxid O(1) again sysvipc: properly name ipc_addid() limit parameter sysvipc: duplicate lock comments wrt ipc_addid() sysvipc: unteach ids->next_id for !CHECKPOINT_RESTORE initramfs: use time64_t timestamps drivers/watchdog: make use of devm_register_reboot_notifier() kernel/reboot.c: add devm_register_reboot_notifier() kcov: update documentation Makefile: support flag -fsanitizer-coverage=trace-cmp kcov: support comparison operands collection kcov: remove pointless current != NULL check kernel/panic.c: add TAINT_AUX ...
2017-11-17sysvipc: make get_maxid O(1) againDavidlohr Bueso
For a custom microbenchmark on a 3.30GHz Xeon SandyBridge, which calls IPC_STAT over and over, it was calculated that, on avg the cost of ipc_get_maxid() for increasing amounts of keys was: 10 keys: ~900 cycles 100 keys: ~15000 cycles 1000 keys: ~150000 cycles 10000 keys: ~2100000 cycles This is unsurprising as maxid is currently O(n). By having the max_id available in O(1) we save all those cycles for each semctl(_STAT) command, the idr_find can be expensive -- which some real (customer) workloads actually poll on. Note that this used to be the case, until commit 7ca7e564e04 ("ipc: store ipcs into IDRs"). The cost is the extra idr_find when doing RMIDs, but we simply go backwards, and should not take too many iterations to find the new value. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831172049.14576-5-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17sysvipc: properly name ipc_addid() limit parameterDavidlohr Bueso
This is better understood as a limit, instead of size; exactly like the function comment indicates. Rename it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831172049.14576-4-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17sysvipc: duplicate lock comments wrt ipc_addid()Davidlohr Bueso
The comment in msgqueues when using ipc_addid() is quite useful imo. Duplicate it for shm and semaphores. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831172049.14576-3-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17sysvipc: unteach ids->next_id for !CHECKPOINT_RESTOREDavidlohr Bueso
Patch series "sysvipc: ipc-key management improvements". Here are a few improvements I spotted while eyeballing Guillaume's rhashtable implementation for ipc keys. The first and fourth patches are the interesting ones, the middle two are trivial. This patch (of 4): The next_id object-allocation functionality was introduced in commit 03f595668017 ("ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id"). Given that these new entries are _only_ exported under the CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE option, there is no point for the common case to even know about ->next_id. As such rewrite ipc_buildid() such that it can do away with the field as well as unnecessary branches when adding a new identifier. The end result also better differentiates both cases, so the code ends up being cleaner; albeit the small duplications regarding the default case. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831172049.14576-2-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-17Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff, really no common topic here" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: vfs: grab the lock instead of blocking in __fd_install during resizing vfs: stop clearing close on exec when closing a fd include/linux/fs.h: fix comment about struct address_space fs: make fiemap work from compat_ioctl coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync pstore: remove unneeded unlikely() vfs: remove unneeded unlikely() stubs for mount_bdev() and kill_block_super() in !CONFIG_BLOCK case make vfs_ustat() static do_handle_open() should be static elf_fdpic: fix unused variable warning fold destroy_super() into __put_super() new helper: destroy_unused_super() fix address space warnings in ipc/ acct.h: get rid of detritus
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-11fix address space warnings in ipc/Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-09-25fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info()Al Viro
"uip" misspelled as "up"; unfortunately, the latter happens to be a function and gcc is happy to convert it to void *... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-09-20ipc/shm: Fix order of parameters when calling copy_compat_shmid_to_userWill Deacon
Commit 553f770ef71b ("ipc: move compat shmctl to native") moved the compat IPC syscall handling into ipc/shm.c and refactored the struct accessors in the process. Unfortunately, the call to copy_compat_shmid_to_user when handling a compat {IPC,SHM}_STAT command gets the arguments the wrong way round, passing a kernel stack address as the user buffer (destination) and the user buffer as the kernel stack address (source). This patch fixes the parameter ordering so the buffers are accessed correctly. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-09-14Merge branch 'work.ipc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull ipc compat cleanup and 64-bit time_t from Al Viro: "IPC copyin/copyout sanitizing, including 64bit time_t work from Deepa Dinamani" * 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe ipc: shm: Make shmid_kernel timestamps y2038 safe ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe ipc: msg: Make msg_queue timestamps y2038 safe ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64 ipc: Make sys_semtimedop() y2038 safe get rid of SYSVIPC_COMPAT on ia64 semtimedop(): move compat to native shmat(2): move compat to native msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2): move compat to native ipc(2): move compat to native ipc: make use of compat ipc_perm helpers semctl(): move compat to native semctl(): separate all layout-dependent copyin/copyout msgctl(): move compat to native msgctl(): split the actual work from copyin/copyout ipc: move compat shmctl to native shmctl: split the work from copyin/copyout
2017-09-08ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keysGuillaume Knispel
ipc_findkey() used to scan all objects to look for the wanted key. This is slow when using a high number of keys. This change adds an rhashtable of kern_ipc_perm objects in ipc_ids, so that one lookup cease to be O(n). This change gives a 865% improvement of benchmark reaim.jobs_per_min on a 56 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz with 256G memory [1] Other (more micro) benchmark results, by the author: On an i5 laptop, the following loop executed right after a reboot took, without and with this change: for (int i = 0, k=0x424242; i < KEYS; ++i) semget(k++, 1, IPC_CREAT | 0600); total total max single max single KEYS without with call without call with 1 3.5 4.9 µs 3.5 4.9 10 7.6 8.6 µs 3.7 4.7 32 16.2 15.9 µs 4.3 5.3 100 72.9 41.8 µs 3.7 4.7 1000 5,630.0 502.0 µs * * 10000 1,340,000.0 7,240.0 µs * * 31900 17,600,000.0 22,200.0 µs * * *: unreliable measure: high variance The duration for a lookup-only usage was obtained by the same loop once the keys are present: total total max single max single KEYS without with call without call with 1 2.1 2.5 µs 2.1 2.5 10 4.5 4.8 µs 2.2 2.3 32 13.0 10.8 µs 2.3 2.8 100 82.9 25.1 µs * 2.3 1000 5,780.0 217.0 µs * * 10000 1,470,000.0 2,520.0 µs * * 31900 17,400,000.0 7,810.0 µs * * Finally, executing each semget() in a new process gave, when still summing only the durations of these syscalls: creation: total total KEYS without with 1 3.7 5.0 µs 10 32.9 36.7 µs 32 125.0 109.0 µs 100 523.0 353.0 µs 1000 20,300.0 3,280.0 µs 10000 2,470,000.0 46,700.0 µs 31900 27,800,000.0 219,000.0 µs lookup-only: total total KEYS without with 1 2.5 2.7 µs 10 25.4 24.4 µs 32 106.0 72.6 µs 100 591.0 352.0 µs 1000 22,400.0 2,250.0 µs 10000 2,510,000.0 25,700.0 µs 31900 28,200,000.0 115,000.0 µs [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814060507.GE23258@yexl-desktop Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815194954.ck32ta2z35yuzpwp@debix Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com> Reviewed-by: Marc Pardo <marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com> Cc: Marc Pardo <marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-08ipc/sem: play nicer with large nsops allocationsDavidlohr Bueso
Replacing semop()'s kmalloc for kvmalloc was originally proposed by Manfred on the premise that it can be called for large (than order-1) sizes. For example, while Oracle recommends setting SEMOPM to a _minimum_ of 100, some distros[1] encourage the setting to be a factor of the amount of db tasks (PROCESSES), which can get fishy for large systems (easily going beyond 1000). [1] An Example of Semaphore Settings https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Tuning_and_Optimizing_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_for_Oracle_9i_and_10g_Databases/sect-Oracle_9i_and_10g_Tuning_Guide-Setting_Semaphores-An_Example_of_Semaphore_Settings.html So let's just convert this to kvmalloc, just like the rest of the allocations we do in ipc. While the fallback vmalloc obviously involves more overhead, this by far the uncommon path, and it's better for the user than just erroring out with kmalloc. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803184136.13855-2-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-08ipc/sem: drop sem_checkid helperDavidlohr Bueso
... 'tis not used. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803184136.13855-1-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>