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2026-04-14Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-04-13' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Mutexes: - Add killable flavor to guard definitions (Davidlohr Bueso) - Remove the list_head from struct mutex (Matthew Wilcox) - Rename mutex_init_lockep() (Davidlohr Bueso) rwsems: - Remove the list_head from struct rw_semaphore and replace it with a single pointer (Matthew Wilcox) - Fix logic error in rwsem_del_waiter() (Andrei Vagin) Semaphores: - Remove the list_head from struct semaphore (Matthew Wilcox) Jump labels: - Use ATOMIC_INIT() for initialization of .enabled (Thomas Weißschuh) - Remove workaround for old compilers in initializations (Thomas Weißschuh) Lock context analysis changes and improvements: - Add context analysis for rwsems (Peter Zijlstra) - Fix rwlock and spinlock lock context annotations (Bart Van Assche) - Fix rwlock support in <linux/spinlock_up.h> (Bart Van Assche) - Add lock context annotations in the spinlock implementation (Bart Van Assche) - signal: Fix the lock_task_sighand() annotation (Bart Van Assche) - ww-mutex: Fix the ww_acquire_ctx function annotations (Bart Van Assche) - Add lock context support in do_raw_{read,write}_trylock() (Bart Van Assche) - arm64, compiler-context-analysis: Permit alias analysis through __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y (Marco Elver) - Add __cond_releases() (Peter Zijlstra) - Add context analysis for mutexes (Peter Zijlstra) - Add context analysis for rtmutexes (Peter Zijlstra) - Convert futexes to compiler context analysis (Peter Zijlstra) Rust integration updates: - Add atomic fetch_sub() implementation (Andreas Hindborg) - Refactor various rust_helper_ methods for expansion (Boqun Feng) - Add Atomic<*{mut,const} T> support (Boqun Feng) - Add atomic operation helpers over raw pointers (Boqun Feng) - Add performance-optimal Flag type for atomic booleans, to avoid slow byte-sized RMWs on architectures that don't support them. (FUJITA Tomonori) - Misc cleanups and fixes (Andreas Hindborg, Boqun Feng, FUJITA Tomonori) LTO support updates: - arm64: Optimize __READ_ONCE() with CONFIG_LTO=y (Marco Elver) - compiler: Simplify generic RELOC_HIDE() (Marco Elver) Miscellaneous fixes and cleanups by Peter Zijlstra, Randy Dunlap, Thomas Weißschuh, Davidlohr Bueso and Mikhail Gavrilov" * tag 'locking-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) compiler: Simplify generic RELOC_HIDE() locking: Add lock context annotations in the spinlock implementation locking: Add lock context support in do_raw_{read,write}_trylock() locking: Fix rwlock support in <linux/spinlock_up.h> lockdep: Raise default stack trace limits when KASAN is enabled cleanup: Optimize guards jump_label: remove workaround for old compilers in initializations jump_label: use ATOMIC_INIT() for initialization of .enabled futex: Convert to compiler context analysis locking/rwsem: Fix logic error in rwsem_del_waiter() locking/rwsem: Add context analysis locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis locking/mutex: Add context analysis compiler-context-analysys: Add __cond_releases() locking/mutex: Remove the list_head from struct mutex locking/semaphore: Remove the list_head from struct semaphore locking/rwsem: Remove the list_head from struct rw_semaphore rust: atomic: Update a safety comment in impl of `fetch_add()` rust: sync: atomic: Update documentation for `fetch_add()` rust: sync: atomic: Add fetch_sub() ...
2026-03-11clone: add CLONE_AUTOREAPChristian Brauner1-0/+1
Add a new clone3() flag CLONE_AUTOREAP that makes a child process auto-reap on exit without ever becoming a zombie. This is a per-process property in contrast to the existing auto-reap mechanism via SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD which applies to all children of a given parent. Currently the only way to automatically reap children is to set SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN on SIGCHLD. This is a parent-scoped property affecting all children which makes it unsuitable for libraries or applications that need selective auto-reaping of specific children while still being able to wait() on others. CLONE_AUTOREAP stores an autoreap flag in the child's signal_struct. When the child exits do_notify_parent() checks this flag and causes exit_notify() to transition the task directly to EXIT_DEAD. Since the flag lives on the child it survives reparenting: if the original parent exits and the child is reparented to a subreaper or init the child still auto-reaps when it eventually exits. CLONE_AUTOREAP can be combined with CLONE_PIDFD to allow the parent to monitor the child's exit via poll() and retrieve exit status via PIDFD_GET_INFO. Without CLONE_PIDFD it provides a fire-and-forget pattern where the parent simply doesn't care about the child's exit status. No exit signal is delivered so exit_signal must be zero. CLONE_AUTOREAP is rejected in combination with CLONE_PARENT. If a CLONE_AUTOREAP child were to clone(CLONE_PARENT) the new grandchild would inherit exit_signal == 0 from the autoreap parent's group leader but without signal->autoreap. This grandchild would become a zombie that never sends a signal and is never autoreaped - confusing and arguably broken behavior. The flag is not inherited by the autoreap process's own children. Each child that should be autoreaped must be explicitly created with CLONE_AUTOREAP. Link: https://github.com/uapi-group/kernel-features/issues/45 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-work-pidfs-autoreap-v5-1-d148b984a989@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-27signal: Fix the lock_task_sighand() annotationBart Van Assche1-1/+1
lock_task_sighand() may return NULL. Make this clear in its lock context annotation. Fixes: 04e49d926f43 ("sched: Enable context analysis for core.c and fair.c") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225183244.4035378-3-bvanassche@acm.org
2026-01-05sched: Enable context analysis for core.c and fair.cMarco Elver1-1/+3
This demonstrates a larger conversion to use Clang's context analysis. The benefit is additional static checking of locking rules, along with better documentation. Notably, kernel/sched contains sufficiently complex synchronization patterns, and application to core.c & fair.c demonstrates that the latest Clang version has become powerful enough to start applying this to more complex subsystems (with some modest annotations and changes). Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-37-elver@google.com
2026-01-05compiler-context-analysis: Remove __cond_lock() function-like helperMarco Elver1-12/+2
As discussed in [1], removing __cond_lock() will improve the readability of trylock code. Now that Sparse context tracking support has been removed, we can also remove __cond_lock(). Change existing APIs to either drop __cond_lock() completely, or make use of the __cond_acquires() function attribute instead. In particular, spinlock and rwlock implementations required switching over to inline helpers rather than statement-expressions for their trylock_* variants. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207082832.GU7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-25-elver@google.com
2025-09-10cgroup: replace global percpu_rwsem with per threadgroup resem when writing ↵Yi Tao1-0/+4
to cgroup.procs The static usage pattern of creating a cgroup, enabling controllers, and then seeding it with CLONE_INTO_CGROUP doesn't require write locking cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem and thus doesn't benefit from this patch. To avoid affecting other users, the per threadgroup rwsem is only used when the favordynmods is enabled. As computer hardware advances, modern systems are typically equipped with many CPU cores and large amounts of memory, enabling the deployment of numerous applications. On such systems, container creation and deletion become frequent operations, making cgroup process migration no longer a cold path. This leads to noticeable contention with common process operations such as fork, exec, and exit. To alleviate the contention between cgroup process migration and operations like process fork, this patch modifies lock to take the write lock on signal_struct->group_rwsem when writing pid to cgroup.procs/threads instead of holding a global write lock. Cgroup process migration has historically relied on signal_struct->group_rwsem to protect thread group integrity. In commit <1ed1328792ff> ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem"), this was changed to a global cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem. The advantage of using a global lock was simplified handling of process group migrations. This patch retains the use of the global lock for protecting process group migration, while reducing contention by using per thread group lock during cgroup.procs/threads writes. The locking behavior is as follows: write cgroup.procs/threads | process fork,exec,exit | process group migration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ cgroup_lock() | down_read(&g_rwsem) | cgroup_lock() down_write(&p_rwsem) | down_read(&p_rwsem) | down_write(&g_rwsem) critical section | critical section | critical section up_write(&p_rwsem) | up_read(&p_rwsem) | up_write(&g_rwsem) cgroup_unlock() | up_read(&g_rwsem) | cgroup_unlock() g_rwsem denotes cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem, p_rwsem denotes signal_struct->group_rwsem. This patch eliminates contention between cgroup migration and fork operations for threads that belong to different thread groups, thereby reducing the long-tail latency of cgroup migrations and lowering system load. With this patch, under heavy fork and exec interference, the long-tail latency of cgroup migration has been reduced from milliseconds to microseconds. Under heavy cgroup migration interference, the multi-CPU score of the spawn test case in UnixBench increased by 9%. tj: Update comment in cgroup_favor_dynmods() and switch WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once(). Signed-off-by: Yi Tao <escape@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-03-13posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer IDThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU) requires to reconstruct posix timers with the same timer ID on restore. It uses sys_timer_create() and relies on the monotonic increasing timer ID provided by this syscall. It creates and deletes timers until the desired ID is reached. This is can loop for a long time, when the checkpointed process had a very sparse timer ID range. It has been debated to implement a new syscall to allow the creation of timers with a given timer ID, but that's tideous due to the 32/64bit compat issues of sigevent_t and of dubious value. The restore mechanism of CRIU creates the timers in a state where all threads of the restored process are held on a barrier and cannot issue syscalls. That means the restorer task has exclusive control. This allows to address this issue with a prctl() so that the restorer thread can do: if (prctl(PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS, PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS_ON)) goto linear_mode; create_timers_with_explicit_ids(); prctl(PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS, PR_TIMER_CREATE_RESTORE_IDS_OFF); This is backwards compatible because the prctl() fails on older kernels and CRIU can fall back to the linear timer ID mechanism. CRIU versions which do not know about the prctl() just work as before. Implement the prctl() and modify timer_create() so that it copies the requested timer ID from userspace by utilizing the existing timer_t pointer, which is used to copy out the allocated timer ID on success. If the prctl() is disabled, which it is by default, timer_create() works as before and does not try to read from the userspace pointer. There is no problem when a broken or rogue user space application enables the prctl(). If the user space pointer does not contain a valid ID, then timer_create() fails. If the data is not initialized, but constains a random valid ID, timer_create() will create that random timer ID or fail if the ID is already given out. As CRIU must use the raw syscall to avoid manipulating the internal state of the restored process, this has no library dependencies and can be adopted by CRIU right away. Recreating two timers with IDs 1000000 and 2000000 takes 1.5 seconds with the create/delete method. With the prctl() it takes 3 microseconds. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87jz8vz0en.ffs@tglx
2025-03-13posix-timers: Make signal_struct:: Next_posix_timer_id an atomic_tEric Dumazet1-1/+1
The global hash_lock protecting the posix timer hash table can be heavily contended especially when there is an extensive linear search for a timer ID. Timer IDs are handed out by monotonically increasing next_posix_timer_id and then validating that there is no timer with the same ID in the hash table. Both operations happen with the global hash lock held. To reduce the hash lock contention the hash will be reworked to a scaled hash with per bucket locks, which requires to handle the ID counter lockless. Prepare for this by making next_posix_timer_id an atomic_t, which can be used lockless with atomic_inc_return(). [ tglx: Adopted from Eric's series, massaged change log and simplified it ] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250219125522.2535263-2-edumazet@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250308155624.151545978@linutronix.de
2024-11-07signal: Provide ignored_posix_timers listThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
To prepare for handling posix timer signals on sigaction(SIG_IGN) properly, add a list to task::signal. This list will be used to queue posix timers so their signal can be requeued when SIG_IGN is lifted later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.920101900@linutronix.de
2024-11-07signal: Cleanup unused posix-timer leftoversThomas Gleixner1-2/+0
Remove the leftovers of sigqueue preallocation as it's not longer used. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.786506636@linutronix.de
2024-11-07signal: Refactor send_sigqueue()Thomas Gleixner1-1/+0
To handle posix timers which have their signal ignored via SIG_IGN properly it is required to requeue a ignored signal for delivery when SIG_IGN is lifted so the timer gets rearmed. Split the required code out of send_sigqueue() so it can be reused in context of sigaction(). While at it rename send_sigqueue() to posixtimer_send_sigqueue() so its clear what this is about. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.586453412@linutronix.de
2024-10-29posix-timers: Cure si_sys_private raceThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
The si_sys_private member of the siginfo which is embedded in the preallocated sigqueue is used by the posix timer code to decide whether a timer must be reprogrammed on signal delivery. The handling of this is racy as a long standing comment in that code documents. It is modified with the timer lock held, but without sighand lock being held. The actual signal delivery code checks for it under sighand lock without holding the timer lock. Hand the new value to send_sigqueue() as argument and store it with sighand lock held. This is an intermediate change to address this issue. The arguments to this function will be cleanup in subsequent changes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001083835.434338954@linutronix.de
2024-07-29signal: Remove task argument from dequeue_signal()Thomas Gleixner1-3/+2
The task pointer which is handed to dequeue_signal() is always current. The argument along with the first comment about signalfd in that function is confusing at best. Remove it and use current internally. Update the stale comment for dequeue_signal() while at it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2024-07-29posix-timers: Convert timer list to hlistThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
No requirement for a real list. Spare a few bytes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2024-02-06pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group_exited()Oleg Nesterov1-2/+0
It was used by pidfd_poll() but now it has no callers. If it finally finds a modular user we can revert this change, but note that the comment above this helper and the changelog in 38fd525a4c61 ("exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll") are not accurate, thread_group_exited() won't return true if all other threads have passed exit_notify() and are zombies, it returns true only when all other threads are completely gone. Not to mention that it can only work if the task identified by @pid is a thread-group leader. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205174347.GA31461@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-01-10Merge tag 'header_cleanup-2024-01-10' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefsLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull header cleanups from Kent Overstreet: "The goal is to get sched.h down to a type only header, so the main thing happening in this patchset is splitting out various _types.h headers and dependency fixups, as well as moving some things out of sched.h to better locations. This is prep work for the memory allocation profiling patchset which adds new sched.h interdepencencies" * tag 'header_cleanup-2024-01-10' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs: (51 commits) Kill sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h kill unnecessary thread_info.h include Kill unnecessary kernel.h include preempt.h: Kill dependency on list.h rseq: Split out rseq.h from sched.h LoongArch: signal.c: add header file to fix build error restart_block: Trim includes lockdep: move held_lock to lockdep_types.h sem: Split out sem_types.h uidgid: Split out uidgid_types.h seccomp: Split out seccomp_types.h refcount: Split out refcount_types.h uapi/linux/resource.h: fix include x86/signal: kill dependency on time.h syscall_user_dispatch.h: split out *_types.h mm_types_task.h: Trim dependencies Split out irqflags_types.h ipc: Kill bogus dependency on spinlock.h shm: Slim down dependencies workqueue: Split out workqueue_types.h ...
2023-12-20sched.h: move pid helpers to pid.hKent Overstreet1-0/+1
This is needed for killing the sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h, and pid.h is a better place for this code anyways. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
2023-12-10kernel/signal.c: simplify force_sig_info_to_task(), kill ↵Oleg Nesterov1-1/+0
recalc_sigpending_and_wake() The purpose of recalc_sigpending_and_wake() is not clear, it looks "obviously unneeded" because we are going to send the signal which can't be blocked or ignored. Add the comment to explain why we can't rely on send_signal_locked() and make this logic more simple/explicit. recalc_sigpending_and_wake() has no other users, it can die. In fact I think we don't even need signal_wake_up(), the target task must be either current or a TASK_TRACED child, otherwise the usage of siglock is not safe. But this needs another change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231120151649.GA15995@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-12-10introduce for_other_threads(p, t)Oleg Nesterov1-0/+3
Cosmetic, but imho it makes the usage look more clear and simple, the new helper doesn't require to initialize "t". After this change while_each_thread() has only 3 users, and it is only used in the do/while loops. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231030155710.GA9095@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-11-02Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs. The lengthier patch series are - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and the use of min_t() and max_t() - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove task_struct.thread_group" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits) scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread() ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error() ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init fs: ocfs2: check status values proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h ...
2023-11-01Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-13/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: - The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned, now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be maintained as an LTS kernel. - The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall. * tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie() Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64 lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
2023-10-04change thread_group_empty() to use task_struct->thread_nodeOleg Nesterov1-1/+2
Patch series "kill task_struct->thread_group". This patch (of 2): It could use list_is_singular() but this way it is cheaper. Plus the thread_group_leader() check makes it clear that thread_group_empty() can only return true if p is a group leader. This was not immediately obvious before this patch. task_struct->thread_group no longer has users, it can die. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230826111200.GA22982@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230826111406.GA23238@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04change next_thread() to use __next_thread() ?: group_leaderOleg Nesterov1-3/+2
This relies on fact that group leader is always the 1st entry in the signal->thread_head list. With or without this change, if the lockless next_thread(last_thread) races with exec it can return the old or the new leader. We are almost ready to kill task->thread_group, after this change its only user is thread_group_empty(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230824143201.GB31222@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04introduce __next_thread(), fix next_tid() vs exec() raceOleg Nesterov1-0/+11
Patch series "introduce __next_thread(), change next_thread()". After commit dce8f8ed1de1 ("document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()") + this series 1. We have only one lockless user of next_thread(), task_group_seq_get_next(). I think it should be changed too. 2. We have only one user of task_struct->thread_group, thread_group_empty(). The next patches will change thread_group_empty() and kill ->thread_group. This patch (of 2): next_tid(start) does: rcu_read_lock(); if (pid_alive(start)) { pos = next_thread(start); if (thread_group_leader(pos)) pos = NULL; else get_task_struct(pos); it should return pos = NULL when next_thread() wraps to the 1st thread in the thread group, group leader, and the thread_group_leader() check tries to detect this case. But this can race with exec. To simplify, suppose we have a main thread M and a single sub-thread T, next_tid(T) should return NULL. Now suppose that T execs. If next_tid(T) is called after T changes the leadership and before it does release_task() which removes the old leader from list, then next_thread() returns M and thread_group_leader(M) = F. Lockless use of next_thread() should be avoided. After this change only task_group_seq_get_next() does this, and I believe it should be changed as well. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230824143112.GA31208@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230824143142.GA31222@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-15sched: Assert for_each_thread() is properly lockedMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)1-1/+2
list_for_each_entry_rcu() takes an optional fourth argument which allows RCU to assert that the correct lock is held. Several callers of for_each_thread() rely on their caller to be holding the appropriate lock, so this is a useful assertion to include. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230821134428.2504912-1-willy@infradead.org
2023-09-11kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlersArd Biesheuvel1-13/+4
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-08-24document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()Oleg Nesterov1-0/+4
Add the comment to explain that while_each_thread(g,t) is not rcu-safe unless g is stable (e.g. current). Even if g is a group leader and thus can't exit before t, t or another sub-thread can exec and remove g from the thread_group list. The only lockless user of while_each_thread() is first_tid() and it is fine in that it can't loop forever, yet for_each_thread() looks better and I am going to change while_each_thread/next_thread. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170806.GA11724@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21kill do_each_thread()Oleg Nesterov1-7/+0
Eric has pointed out that we still have 3 users of do_each_thread(). Change them to use for_each_process_thread() and kill this helper. There is a subtle change, after do_each_thread/while_each_thread g == t == &init_task, while after for_each_process_thread() they both point to nowhere, but this doesn't matter. > Why is for_each_process_thread() better than do_each_thread()? Say, for_each_process_thread() is rcu safe, do_each_thread() is not. And certainly for_each_process_thread(p, t) { do_something(p, t); } looks better than do_each_thread(p, t) { do_something(p, t); } while_each_thread(p, t); And again, there are only 3 users of this awkward helper left. It should have been killed years ago and in fact I thought it had already been killed. It uses while_each_thread() which needs some changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230817163708.GA8248@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> # tty/serial Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-18posix-timers: Ensure timer ID search-loop limit is validThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
posix_timer_add() tries to allocate a posix timer ID by starting from the cached ID which was stored by the last successful allocation. This is done in a loop searching the ID space for a free slot one by one. The loop has to terminate when the search wrapped around to the starting point. But that's racy vs. establishing the starting point. That is read out lockless, which leads to the following problem: CPU0 CPU1 posix_timer_add() start = sig->posix_timer_id; lock(hash_lock); ... posix_timer_add() if (++sig->posix_timer_id < 0) start = sig->posix_timer_id; sig->posix_timer_id = 0; So CPU1 can observe a negative start value, i.e. -1, and the loop break never happens because the condition can never be true: if (sig->posix_timer_id == start) break; While this is unlikely to ever turn into an endless loop as the ID space is huge (INT_MAX), the racy read of the start value caught the attention of KCSAN and Dmitry unearthed that incorrectness. Rewrite it so that all id operations are under the hash lock. Reported-by: syzbot+5c54bd3eb218bb595aa9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87bkhzdn6g.ffs@tglx
2022-07-20signal: Guarantee that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set on process exitEric W. Biederman1-0/+1
Track how many threads have not started exiting and when the last thread starts exiting set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT. This guarantees that SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT will get set when a process exits. In practice this achieves nothing as glibc's implementation of _exit calls sys_group_exit then sys_exit. While glibc's implemenation of pthread_exit calls exit (which cleansup and calls _exit) if it is the last thread and sys_exit if it is the last thread. This means the only way the kernel might observe a process that does not set call exit_group is if the language runtime does not use glibc. With more cleanups I hope to move the decrement of quick_threads earlier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bkukd4tc.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-06-03Merge tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull ptrace_stop cleanups from Eric Biederman: "While looking at the ptrace problems with PREEMPT_RT and the problems Peter Zijlstra was encountering with ptrace in his freezer rewrite I identified some cleanups to ptrace_stop that make sense on their own and move make resolving the other problems much simpler. The biggest issue is the habit of the ptrace code to change task->__state from the tracer to suppress TASK_WAKEKILL from waking up the tracee. No other code in the kernel does that and it is straight forward to update signal_wake_up and friends to make that unnecessary. Peter's task freezer sets frozen tasks to a new state TASK_FROZEN and then it stores them by calling "wake_up_state(t, TASK_FROZEN)" relying on the fact that all stopped states except the special stop states can tolerate spurious wake up and recover their state. The state of stopped and traced tasked is changed to be stored in task->jobctl as well as in task->__state. This makes it possible for the freezer to recover tasks in these special states, as well as serving as a general cleanup. With a little more work in that direction I believe TASK_STOPPED can learn to tolerate spurious wake ups and become an ordinary stop state. The TASK_TRACED state has to remain a special state as the registers for a process are only reliably available when the process is stopped in the scheduler. Fundamentally ptrace needs acess to the saved register values of a task. There are bunch of semi-random ptrace related cleanups that were found while looking at these issues. One cleanup that deserves to be called out is from commit 57b6de08b5f6 ("ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs"). This makes a change that is technically user space visible, in the handling of what happens to a tracee when a tracer dies unexpectedly. According to our testing and our understanding of userspace nothing cares that spurious SIGTRAPs can be generated in that case" * tag 'ptrace_stop-cleanup-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state ptrace: Always take siglock in ptrace_resume ptrace: Don't change __state ptrace: Admit ptrace_stop can generate spuriuos SIGTRAPs ptrace: Document that wait_task_inactive can't fail ptrace: Reimplement PTRACE_KILL by always sending SIGKILL signal: Use lockdep_assert_held instead of assert_spin_locked ptrace: Remove arch_ptrace_attach ptrace/xtensa: Replace PT_SINGLESTEP with TIF_SINGLESTEP ptrace/um: Replace PT_DTRACE with TIF_SINGLESTEP signal: Replace __group_send_sig_info with send_signal_locked signal: Rename send_signal send_signal_locked
2022-05-24Merge tag 'perf-core-2022-05-23' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar: "Platform PMU changes: - x86/intel: - Add new Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake support - x86/amd: - AMD Zen4 IBS extensions support - Add AMD PerfMonV2 support - Add AMD Fam19h Branch Sampling support Generic changes: - signal: Deliver SIGTRAP on perf event asynchronously if blocked Perf instrumentation can be driven via SIGTRAP, but this causes a problem when SIGTRAP is blocked by a task & terminate the task. Allow user-space to request these signals asynchronously (after they get unblocked) & also give the information to the signal handler when this happens: "To give user space the ability to clearly distinguish synchronous from asynchronous signals, introduce siginfo_t::si_perf_flags and TRAP_PERF_FLAG_ASYNC (opted for flags in case more binary information is required in future). The resolution to the problem is then to (a) no longer force the signal (avoiding the terminations), but (b) tell user space via si_perf_flags if the signal was synchronous or not, so that such signals can be handled differently (e.g. let user space decide to ignore or consider the data imprecise). " - Unify/standardize the /sys/devices/cpu/events/* output format. - Misc fixes & cleanups" * tag 'perf-core-2022-05-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) perf/x86/amd/core: Fix reloading events for SVM perf/x86/amd: Run AMD BRS code only on supported hw perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD BRS period adjustment perf/x86/amd: Remove unused variable 'hwc' perf/ibs: Fix comment perf/amd/ibs: Advertise zen4_ibs_extensions as pmu capability attribute perf/amd/ibs: Add support for L3 miss filtering perf/amd/ibs: Use ->is_visible callback for dynamic attributes perf/amd/ibs: Cascade pmu init functions' return value perf/x86/uncore: Add new Alder Lake and Raptor Lake support perf/x86/uncore: Clean up uncore_pci_ids[] perf/x86/cstate: Add new Alder Lake and Raptor Lake support perf/x86/msr: Add new Alder Lake and Raptor Lake support perf/x86: Add new Alder Lake and Raptor Lake support perf/amd/ibs: Use interrupt regs ip for stack unwinding perf/x86/amd/core: Add PerfMonV2 overflow handling perf/x86/amd/core: Add PerfMonV2 counter control perf/x86/amd/core: Detect available counters perf/x86/amd/core: Detect PerfMonV2 support x86/msr: Add PerfCntrGlobal* registers ...
2022-05-11sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED statePeter Zijlstra1-4/+15
Currently ptrace_stop() / do_signal_stop() rely on the special states TASK_TRACED and TASK_STOPPED resp. to keep unique state. That is, this state exists only in task->__state and nowhere else. There's two spots of bother with this: - PREEMPT_RT has task->saved_state which complicates matters, meaning task_is_{traced,stopped}() needs to check an additional variable. - An alternative freezer implementation that itself relies on a special TASK state would loose TASK_TRACED/TASK_STOPPED and will result in misbehaviour. As such, add additional state to task->jobctl to track this state outside of task->__state. NOTE: this doesn't actually fix anything yet, just adds extra state. --EWB * didn't add a unnecessary newline in signal.h * Update t->jobctl in signal_wake_up and ptrace_signal_wake_up instead of in signal_wake_up_state. This prevents the clearing of TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED from getting lost. * Added warnings if JOBCTL_STOPPED or JOBCTL_TRACED are not cleared Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220421150654.757693825@infradead.org Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-12-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-05-11ptrace: Don't change __stateEric W. Biederman1-2/+3
Stop playing with tsk->__state to remove TASK_WAKEKILL while a ptrace command is executing. Instead remove TASK_WAKEKILL from the definition of TASK_TRACED, and implement a new jobctl flag TASK_PTRACE_FROZEN. This new flag is set in jobctl_freeze_task and cleared when ptrace_stop is awoken or in jobctl_unfreeze_task (when ptrace_stop remains asleep). In signal_wake_up add __TASK_TRACED to state along with TASK_WAKEKILL when the wake up is for a fatal signal. Skip adding __TASK_TRACED when TASK_PTRACE_FROZEN is not set. This has the same effect as changing TASK_TRACED to __TASK_TRACED as all of the wake_ups that use TASK_KILLABLE go through signal_wake_up. Handle a ptrace_stop being called with a pending fatal signal. Previously it would have been handled by schedule simply failing to sleep. As TASK_WAKEKILL is no longer part of TASK_TRACED schedule will sleep with a fatal_signal_pending. The code in signal_wake_up guarantees that the code will be awaked by any fatal signal that codes after TASK_TRACED is set. Previously the __state value of __TASK_TRACED was changed to TASK_RUNNING when woken up or back to TASK_TRACED when the code was left in ptrace_stop. Now when woken up ptrace_stop now clears JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN and when left sleeping ptrace_unfreezed_traced clears JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN. Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-10-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-04-30task_work: allow TWA_SIGNAL without a rescheduling IPIJens Axboe1-2/+11
Some use cases don't always need an IPI when sending a TWA_SIGNAL notification. Add TWA_SIGNAL_NO_IPI, which is just like TWA_SIGNAL, except it doesn't send an IPI to the target task. It merely sets TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and wakes up the task. This can be useful in avoiding a forceful transition to the kernel if the task is running in userspace. Depending on the task_work in question, it may be quite fine waiting for the next reschedule or kernel enter anyway, or the use case may even have other mechanisms for hinting to the task that a transition may be useful. This can drive more cooperative scheduling of task_work. Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/821f42b6-7d91-8074-8212-d34998097de4@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2022-04-22signal: Deliver SIGTRAP on perf event asynchronously if blockedMarco Elver1-1/+1
With SIGTRAP on perf events, we have encountered termination of processes due to user space attempting to block delivery of SIGTRAP. Consider this case: <set up SIGTRAP on a perf event> ... sigset_t s; sigemptyset(&s); sigaddset(&s, SIGTRAP | <and others>); sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &s, ...); ... <perf event triggers> When the perf event triggers, while SIGTRAP is blocked, force_sig_perf() will force the signal, but revert back to the default handler, thus terminating the task. This makes sense for error conditions, but not so much for explicitly requested monitoring. However, the expectation is still that signals generated by perf events are synchronous, which will no longer be the case if the signal is blocked and delivered later. To give user space the ability to clearly distinguish synchronous from asynchronous signals, introduce siginfo_t::si_perf_flags and TRAP_PERF_FLAG_ASYNC (opted for flags in case more binary information is required in future). The resolution to the problem is then to (a) no longer force the signal (avoiding the terminations), but (b) tell user space via si_perf_flags if the signal was synchronous or not, so that such signals can be handled differently (e.g. let user space decide to ignore or consider the data imprecise). The alternative of making the kernel ignore SIGTRAP on perf events if the signal is blocked may work for some usecases, but likely causes issues in others that then have to revert back to interception of sigprocmask() (which we want to avoid). [ A concrete example: when using breakpoint perf events to track data-flow, in a region of code where signals are blocked, data-flow can no longer be tracked accurately. When a relevant asynchronous signal is received after unblocking the signal, the data-flow tracking logic needs to know its state is imprecise. ] Fixes: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220404111204.935357-1-elver@google.com
2022-03-10signal: Move set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal into sched/signal.hEric W. Biederman1-0/+17
The header tracehook.h is no place for code to live. The functions set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal are not about signals. They are about interruptions that act like signals. The fundamental signal primitives wind up calling set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal. Which means they need to be maintained with the signal code. Since set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal must be maintained with the signal subsystem move them into sched/signal.h and claim them as part of the signal subsystem. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-10-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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