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# a07279c9 15-Oct-2020 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot

In both binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic, use a new helper
dump_vma_snapshot() to take a snapshot of the VMA list (including the gate

binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot

In both binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic, use a new helper
dump_vma_snapshot() to take a snapshot of the VMA list (including the gate
VMA, if we have one) while protected by the mmap_lock, and then use that
snapshot instead of walking the VMA list without locking.

An alternative approach would be to keep the mmap_lock held across the
entire core dumping operation; however, keeping the mmap_lock locked while
we may be blocked for an unbounded amount of time (e.g. because we're
dumping to a FUSE filesystem or so) isn't really optimal; the mmap_lock
blocks things like the ->release handler of userfaultfd, and we don't
really want critical system daemons to grind to a halt just because
someone "gifted" them SCM_RIGHTS to an eternally-locked userfaultfd, or
something like that.

Since both the normal ELF code and the FDPIC ELF code need this
functionality (and if any other binfmt wants to add coredump support in
the future, they'd probably need it, too), implement this with a common
helper in fs/coredump.c.

A downside of this approach is that we now need a bigger amount of kernel
memory per userspace VMA in the normal ELF case, and that we need O(n)
kernel memory in the FDPIC ELF case at all; but 40 bytes per VMA shouldn't
be terribly bad.

There currently is a data race between stack expansion and anything that
reads ->vm_start or ->vm_end under the mmap_lock held in read mode; to
mitigate that for core dumping, take the mmap_lock in write mode when
taking a snapshot of the VMA hierarchy. (If we only took the mmap_lock in
read mode, we could end up with a corrupted core dump if someone does
get_user_pages_remote() concurrently. Not really a major problem, but
taking the mmap_lock either way works here, so we might as well avoid the
issue.) (This doesn't do anything about the existing data races with stack
expansion in other mm code.)

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-6-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 429a22e7 15-Oct-2020 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

coredump: rework elf/elf_fdpic vma_dump_size() into common helper

At the moment, the binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic code have slightly
different code to figure out which VMAs should be

coredump: rework elf/elf_fdpic vma_dump_size() into common helper

At the moment, the binfmt_elf and binfmt_elf_fdpic code have slightly
different code to figure out which VMAs should be dumped, and if so,
whether the dump should contain the entire VMA or just its first page.

Eliminate duplicate code by reworking the binfmt_elf version into a
generic core dumping helper in coredump.c.

As part of that, change the heuristic for detecting executable/library
header pages to check whether the inode is executable instead of looking
at the file mode.

This is less problematic in terms of locking because it lets us avoid
get_user() under the mmap_sem. (And arguably it looks nicer and makes
more sense in generic code.)

Adjust a little bit based on the binfmt_elf_fdpic version: ->anon_vma is
only meaningful under CONFIG_MMU, otherwise we have to assume that the VMA
has been written to.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-5-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# afc63a97b 15-Oct-2020 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

coredump: refactor page range dumping into common helper

Both fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c need to dump ranges of
pages into the coredump file. Extract that logic into a co

coredump: refactor page range dumping into common helper

Both fs/binfmt_elf.c and fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c need to dump ranges of
pages into the coredump file. Extract that logic into a common helper.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-4-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# df0c09c0 15-Oct-2020 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

coredump: let dump_emit() bail out on short writes

dump_emit() has a retry loop, but there seems to be no way for that retry
logic to actually be used; and it was also buggy, writing the

coredump: let dump_emit() bail out on short writes

dump_emit() has a retry loop, but there seems to be no way for that retry
logic to actually be used; and it was also buggy, writing the same data
repeatedly after a short write.

Let's just bail out on a short write.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114932.3572699-3-jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# f38c85f1 11-Aug-2020 Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>

coredump: add %f for executable filename

The document reads "%e" should be "executable filename" while actually it
could be changed by things like pr_ctl PR_SET_NAME. People who uses "%

coredump: add %f for executable filename

The document reads "%e" should be "executable filename" while actually it
could be changed by things like pr_ctl PR_SET_NAME. People who uses "%e"
in core_pattern get surprised when they find out they get thread name
instead of executable filename.

This is either a bug of document or a bug of code. Since the behavior of
"%e" is there for long time, it could bring another surprise for users if
we "fix" the code.

So we just "fix" the document. And more, for users who really need the
"executable filename" in core_pattern, we introduce a new "%f" for the
real executable filename. We already have "%E" for executable path in
kernel, so just reuse most of its code for the new added "%f" format.

Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200701031432.2978761-1-ytht.net@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# c1e8d7c6 08-Jun-2020 Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>

mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments

Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers]
[ak

mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments

Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel]

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# d8ed45c5 08-Jun-2020 Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>

mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites

This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
locking API instead.

The change

mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites

This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
locking API instead.

The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule:

// spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir .

@@
expression mm;
@@
(
-init_rwsem
+mmap_init_lock
|
-down_write
+mmap_write_lock
|
-down_write_killable
+mmap_write_lock_killable
|
-down_write_trylock
+mmap_write_trylock
|
-up_write
+mmap_write_unlock
|
-downgrade_write
+mmap_write_downgrade
|
-down_read
+mmap_read_lock
|
-down_read_killable
+mmap_read_lock_killable
|
-down_read_trylock
+mmap_read_trylock
|
-up_read
+mmap_read_unlock
)
-(&mm->mmap_sem)
+(mm)

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 3740d93e 16-Apr-2020 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

coredump: fix crash when umh is disabled

Commit 64e90a8acb859 ("Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate
call_usermodehelper()") added the optiont to disable all
call_usermodehelpe

coredump: fix crash when umh is disabled

Commit 64e90a8acb859 ("Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate
call_usermodehelper()") added the optiont to disable all
call_usermodehelper() calls by setting STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH to
an empty string. When this is done, and crashdump is triggered, it
will crash on null pointer dereference, since we make assumptions
over what call_usermodehelper_exec() did.

This has been reported by Sergey when one triggers a a coredump
with the following configuration:

```
CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER=y
CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH=""
kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h %e
```

The way disabling the umh was designed was that call_usermodehelper_exec()
would just return early, without an error. But coredump assumes
certain variables are set up for us when this happens, and calls
ile_start_write(cprm.file) with a NULL file.

[ 2.819676] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
[ 2.819859] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 2.820035] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 2.820188] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 2.820305] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 2.820436] CPU: 2 PID: 89 Comm: a Not tainted 5.7.0-rc1+ #7
[ 2.820680] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20190711_202441-buildvm-armv7-10.arm.fedoraproject.org-2.fc31 04/01/2014
[ 2.821150] RIP: 0010:do_coredump+0xd80/0x1060
[ 2.821385] Code: e8 95 11 ed ff 48 c7 c6 cc a7 b4 81 48 8d bd 28 ff
ff ff 89 c2 e8 70 f1 ff ff 41 89 c2 85 c0 0f 84 72 f7 ff ff e9 b4 fe ff
ff <48> 8b 57 20 0f b7 02 66 25 00 f0 66 3d 00 8
0 0f 84 9c 01 00 00 44
[ 2.822014] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000029bcb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 2.822339] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88803f860000 RCX: 000000000000000a
[ 2.822746] RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 2.823141] RBP: ffffc9000029bde8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000029bc00
[ 2.823508] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff88803dec90be R12: ffffffff81c39da0
[ 2.823902] R13: ffff88803de84400 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 2.824285] FS: 00007fee08183540(0000) GS:ffff88803e480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 2.824767] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 2.825111] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000003f856005 CR4: 0000000000060ea0
[ 2.825479] Call Trace:
[ 2.825790] get_signal+0x11e/0x720
[ 2.826087] do_signal+0x1d/0x670
[ 2.826361] ? force_sig_info_to_task+0xc1/0xf0
[ 2.826691] ? force_sig_fault+0x3c/0x40
[ 2.826996] ? do_trap+0xc9/0x100
[ 2.827179] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x49/0x90
[ 2.827359] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x77/0xb0
[ 2.827559] ? invalid_op+0xa/0x30
[ 2.827747] ret_from_intr+0x20/0x20
[ 2.827921] RIP: 0033:0x55e2c76d2129
[ 2.828107] Code: 2d ff ff ff e8 68 ff ff ff 5d c6 05 18 2f 00 00 01
c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 e9 7b ff ff ff 55 48 89
e5 <0f> 0b b8 00 00 00 00 5d c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 0
0 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40
[ 2.828603] RSP: 002b:00007fffeba5e080 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 2.828801] RAX: 000055e2c76d2125 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fee0817c718
[ 2.829034] RDX: 00007fffeba5e188 RSI: 00007fffeba5e178 RDI: 0000000000000001
[ 2.829257] RBP: 00007fffeba5e080 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fee08193c00
[ 2.829482] R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000055e2c76d2040
[ 2.829727] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 2.829964] CR2: 0000000000000020
[ 2.830149] ---[ end trace ceed83d8c68a1bf1 ]---
```

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
Fixes: 64e90a8acb85 ("Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate call_usermodehelper()")
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199795
Reported-by: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org>
Reported-by: Sergey Kvachonok <ravenexp@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200416162859.26518-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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# db973a72 20-Apr-2020 Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>

coredump: fix null pointer dereference on coredump

If the core_pattern is set to "|" and any process segfaults then we get
a null pointer derefernce while trying to coredump. The call st

coredump: fix null pointer dereference on coredump

If the core_pattern is set to "|" and any process segfaults then we get
a null pointer derefernce while trying to coredump. The call stack shows:

RIP: do_coredump+0x628/0x11c0

When the core_pattern has only "|" there is no use of trying the
coredump and we can check that while formating the corename and exit
with an error.

After this change I get:

format_corename failed
Aborting core

Fixes: 315c69261dd3 ("coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template")
Reported-by: Matthew Ruffell <matthew.ruffell@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416194612.21418-1-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.4.24, v5.4.23, v5.4.22, v5.4.21, v5.4.20, v5.4.19, v5.4.18, v5.4.17, v5.4.16, v5.5, v5.4.15, v5.4.14, v5.4.13, v5.4.12, v5.4.11, v5.4.10, v5.4.9, v5.4.8, v5.4.7, v5.4.6, v5.4.5, v5.4.4, v5.4.3
# 0ddad21d 09-Dec-2019 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing

This makes the pipe code use separate wait-queues and exclusive waiting
for readers and writers, avoiding a nasty thundering herd proble

pipe: use exclusive waits when reading or writing

This makes the pipe code use separate wait-queues and exclusive waiting
for readers and writers, avoiding a nasty thundering herd problem when
there are lots of readers waiting for data on a pipe (or, less commonly,
lots of writers waiting for a pipe to have space).

While this isn't a common occurrence in the traditional "use a pipe as a
data transport" case, where you typically only have a single reader and
a single writer process, there is one common special case: using a pipe
as a source of "locking tokens" rather than for data communication.

In particular, the GNU make jobserver code ends up using a pipe as a way
to limit parallelism, where each job consumes a token by reading a byte
from the jobserver pipe, and releases the token by writing a byte back
to the pipe.

This pattern is fairly traditional on Unix, and works very well, but
will waste a lot of time waking up a lot of processes when only a single
reader needs to be woken up when a writer releases a new token.

A simplified test-case of just this pipe interaction is to create 64
processes, and then pass a single token around between them (this
test-case also intentionally passes another token that gets ignored to
test the "wake up next" logic too, in case anybody wonders about it):

#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd[2], counters[2];

pipe(fd);
counters[0] = 0;
counters[1] = -1;
write(fd[1], counters, sizeof(counters));

/* 64 processes */
fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork(); fork();

do {
int i;
read(fd[0], &i, sizeof(i));
if (i < 0)
continue;
counters[0] = i+1;
write(fd[1], counters, (1+(i & 1)) *sizeof(int));
} while (counters[0] < 1000000);
return 0;
}

and in a perfect world, passing that token around should only cause one
context switch per transfer, when the writer of a token causes a
directed wakeup of just a single reader.

But with the "writer wakes all readers" model we traditionally had, on
my test box the above case causes more than an order of magnitude more
scheduling: instead of the expected ~1M context switches, "perf stat"
shows

231,852.37 msec task-clock # 15.857 CPUs utilized
11,250,961 context-switches # 0.049 M/sec
616,304 cpu-migrations # 0.003 M/sec
1,648 page-faults # 0.007 K/sec
1,097,903,998,514 cycles # 4.735 GHz
120,781,778,352 instructions # 0.11 insn per cycle
27,997,056,043 branches # 120.754 M/sec
283,581,233 branch-misses # 1.01% of all branches

14.621273891 seconds time elapsed

0.018243000 seconds user
3.611468000 seconds sys

before this commit.

After this commit, I get

5,229.55 msec task-clock # 3.072 CPUs utilized
1,212,233 context-switches # 0.232 M/sec
103,951 cpu-migrations # 0.020 M/sec
1,328 page-faults # 0.254 K/sec
21,307,456,166 cycles # 4.074 GHz
12,947,819,999 instructions # 0.61 insn per cycle
2,881,985,678 branches # 551.096 M/sec
64,267,015 branch-misses # 2.23% of all branches

1.702148350 seconds time elapsed

0.004868000 seconds user
0.110786000 seconds sys

instead. Much better.

[ Note! This kernel improvement seems to be very good at triggering a
race condition in the make jobserver (in GNU make 4.2.1) for me. It's
a long known bug that was fixed back in June 2017 by GNU make commit
b552b0525198 ("[SV 51159] Use a non-blocking read with pselect to
avoid hangs.").

But there wasn't a new release of GNU make until 4.3 on Jan 19 2020,
so a number of distributions may still have the buggy version. Some
have backported the fix to their 4.2.1 release, though, and even
without the fix it's quite timing-dependent whether the bug actually
is hit. ]

Josh Triplett says:
"I've been hammering on your pipe fix patch (switching to exclusive
wait queues) for a month or so, on several different systems, and I've
run into no issues with it. The patch *substantially* improves
parallel build times on large (~100 CPU) systems, both with parallel
make and with other things that use make's pipe-based jobserver.

All current distributions (including stable and long-term stable
distributions) have versions of GNU make that no longer have the
jobserver bug"

Tested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.3.15, v5.4.2, v5.4.1, v5.3.14, v5.4, v5.3.13, v5.3.12, v5.3.11, v5.3.10, v5.3.9, v5.3.8, v5.3.7, v5.3.6, v5.3.5, v5.3.4, v5.3.3, v5.3.2, v5.3.1, v5.3, v5.2.14, v5.3-rc8, v5.2.13, v5.2.12, v5.2.11, v5.2.10, v5.2.9, v5.2.8, v5.2.7, v5.2.6
# 315c6926 02-Aug-2019 Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>

coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template

Save the offsets of the start of each argument to avoid having to update
pointers to each argument after every corename

coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template

Save the offsets of the start of each argument to avoid having to update
pointers to each argument after every corename krealloc and to avoid
having to duplicate the memory for the dump command.

Executable names containing spaces were previously being expanded from
%e or %E and then split in the middle of the filename. This is
incorrect behaviour since an argument list can represent arguments with
spaces.

The splitting could lead to extra arguments being passed to the core
dump handler that it might have interpreted as options or ignored
completely.

Core dump handlers that are not aware of this Linux kernel issue will be
using %e or %E without considering that it may be split and so they will
be vulnerable to processes with spaces in their names breaking their
argument list. If their internals are otherwise well written, such as
if they are written in shell but quote arguments, they will work better
after this change than before. If they are not well written, then there
is a slight chance of breakage depending on the details of the code but
they will already be fairly broken by the split filenames.

Core dump handlers that are aware of this Linux kernel issue will be
placing %e or %E as the last item in their core_pattern and then
aggregating all of the remaining arguments into one, separated by
spaces. Alternatively they will be obtaining the filename via other
methods. Both of these will be compatible with the new arrangement.

A side effect from this change is that unknown template types (for
example %z) result in an empty argument to the dump handler instead of
the argument being dropped. This is a desired change as:

It is easier for dump handlers to process empty arguments than dropped
ones, especially if they are written in shell or don't pass each
template item with a preceding command-line option in order to
differentiate between individual template types. Most core_patterns in
the wild do not use options so they can confuse different template types
(especially numeric ones) if an earlier one gets dropped in old kernels.
If the kernel introduces a new template type and a core_pattern uses it,
the core dump handler might not expect that the argument can be dropped
in old kernels.

For example, this can result in security issues when %d is dropped in
old kernels. This happened with the corekeeper package in Debian and
resulted in the interface between corekeeper and Linux having to be
rewritten to use command-line options to differentiate between template
types.

The core_pattern for most core dump handlers is written by the handler
author who would generally not insert unknown template types so this
change should be compatible with all the core dump handlers that exist.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528051142.24939-1-pabs3@bonedaddy.net
Fixes: 74aadce98605 ("core_pattern: allow passing of arguments to user mode helper when core_pattern is a pipe")
Signed-off-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> [https://bugs.debian.org/924398]
Reported-by: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> [https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/c8b7ecb8508895bf4adb62a748e2ea2c71854597.camel@bonedaddy.net/]
Suggested-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# ae7795bc 25-Sep-2018 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo

Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding
member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes

signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo

Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding
member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is
much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying
around in the kernel.

The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is
including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in
the kernel that embed struct siginfo.

So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo. Keeping the
traditional name for the userspace definition. While the version that
is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to
128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo.

The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h

A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have
the same field offsets.

To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same
size as siginfo. The reduction in size comes in a following change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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# 93f30c73 17-Nov-2017 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro:

- {get,put}_compat_sigset() series

- as

Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro:

- {get,put}_compat_sigset() series

- assorted compat ioctl stuff

- more set_fs() elimination

- a few more timespec64 conversions

- several removals of pointless access_ok() in places where it was
followed only by non-__ variants of primitives

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (24 commits)
coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink
fs: expose do_unlinkat for built-in callers
ext4: take handling of EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD into a helper, get rid of set_fs()
ipmi: get rid of pointless access_ok()
pi433: sanitize ioctl
cxlflash: get rid of pointless access_ok()
mtdchar: get rid of pointless access_ok()
r128: switch compat ioctls to drm_ioctl_kernel()
selection: get rid of field-by-field copyin
VT_RESIZEX: get rid of field-by-field copyin
i2c compat ioctls: move to ->compat_ioctl()
sched_rr_get_interval(): move compat to native, get rid of set_fs()
mips: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
sparc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
s390: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
ppc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
parisc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
get_compat_sigset()
get rid of {get,put}_compat_itimerspec()
io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts
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Revision tags: v4.18.9, v4.18.7, v4.18.6, v4.18.5, v4.17.18, v4.18.4, v4.18.3, v4.17.17, v4.18.2, v4.17.16, v4.17.15, v4.18.1, v4.18, v4.17.14, v4.17.13, v4.17.12, v4.17.11, v4.17.10, v4.17.9, v4.17.8, v4.17.7, v4.17.6, v4.17.5, v4.17.4, v4.17.3, v4.17.2, v4.17.1, v4.17, v4.16, v4.15, v4.13.16, v4.14
# 96271654 04-Nov-2017 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink

And stop messing with the address limit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zen

coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink

And stop messing with the address limit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

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>

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Revision tags: v4.13.5
# 0ee931c4 13-Sep-2017 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag

GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMAB

mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag

GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived
and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's
primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is
short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close
together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds
like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the
highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the
context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is
no good answer for those questions.

The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of
the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So
this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits.

I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag
with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from
other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to
use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just
motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning.

I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially
those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from
confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and
replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that
SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and
so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention.

I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm
allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and
only then add users with proper justification.

This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it
turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It
seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not
all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that
opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between
developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a
semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag
and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term
allocations.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v4.13, v4.12, v4.10.17, v4.10.16, v4.10.15, v4.10.14, v4.10.13, v4.10.12, v4.10.11, v4.10.10, v4.10.9, v4.10.8, v4.10.7, v4.10.6, v4.10.5, v4.10.4, v4.10.3, v4.10.2, v4.10.1, v4.10
# 68db0cf1 08-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will ha

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# 3f07c014 08-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# f7ccbae4 08-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/coredump.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have t

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/coredump.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/coredump.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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# 4d22c75d 11-Jan-2017 Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>

coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files

If the last section of a core file ends with an unmapped or zero page,
the size of the file does not correspond with the last dump_skip(

coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files

If the last section of a core file ends with an unmapped or zero page,
the size of the file does not correspond with the last dump_skip() call.
gdb complains that the file is truncated and can be confusing to users.

After all of the vma sections are written, make sure that the file size
is no smaller than the current file position.

This problem can be demonstrated with gdb's bigcore testcase on the
sparc architecture.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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# 7c0f6ba6 24-Dec-2016 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'

Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally

This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v4.9, openbmc-4.4-20161121-1, v4.4.33, v4.4.32
# 70d78fe7 10-Nov-2016 Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>

coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task

It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits for
'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen in
get_s

coredump: fix unfreezable coredumping task

It could be not possible to freeze coredumping task when it waits for
'core_state->startup' completion, because threads are frozen in
get_signal() before they got a chance to complete 'core_state->startup'.

Inability to freeze a task during suspend will cause suspend to fail.
Also CRIU uses cgroup freezer during dump operation. So with an
unfreezable task the CRIU dump will fail because it waits for a
transition from 'FREEZING' to 'FROZEN' state which will never happen.

Use freezer_do_not_count() to tell freezer to ignore coredumping task
while it waits for core_state->startup completion.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475225434-3753-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# 1607f09c 05-Jun-2016 Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>

coredump: fix dumping through pipes

The offset in the core file used to be tracked with ->written field of
the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of
file->f_p

coredump: fix dumping through pipes

The offset in the core file used to be tracked with ->written field of
the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of
file->f_pos.

However, ->f_pos is not maintained for pipes which leads to breakage.

Restore explicit tracking of the offset in coredump_params. Introduce
->pos field for this purpose since ->written was already reused.

Fixes: a00839395103 ("get rid of coredump_params->written").

Reported-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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Revision tags: v4.6.1, v4.4.12
# 4136c26b 23-May-2016 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mmap_sem for write killable

coredump_wait waits for mmap_sem for write currently which can prevent
oom_reaper to reclaim the oom victims address spa

coredump: make coredump_wait wait for mmap_sem for write killable

coredump_wait waits for mmap_sem for write currently which can prevent
oom_reaper to reclaim the oom victims address space asynchronously
because that requires mmap_sem for read. This might happen if the oom
victim is multi threaded and some thread(s) is holding mmap_sem for read
(e.g. page fault) and it is stuck in the page allocator while other
thread(s) reached coredump_wait already.

This patch simply uses down_write_killable and bails out with EINTR if
the lock got interrupted by the fatal signal. do_coredump will return
right away and do_group_exit will take care to zap the whole thread
group.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: openbmc-20160521-1, v4.4.11, openbmc-20160518-1, v4.6
# 2c4cb043 11-May-2016 Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>

coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE

Commit 9b56d54380ad ("dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking
coredump_params") introduced a regression with regard to RLIMIT_C

coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE

Commit 9b56d54380ad ("dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking
coredump_params") introduced a regression with regard to RLIMIT_CORE.
Previously, when a core dump was sparse, only the data that was actually
written out would count against the limit. Now, the sparse ranges are
also included, which leads to truncated core dumps when the actual disk
usage is still well below the limit. Restore the old behavior by only
counting what gets emitted and ignoring what gets skipped.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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