Core & protocols
----------------
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list. Resulting
in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending twice the
number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
queue. Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out
of idle, but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly
busy. Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already did
for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is sadly
quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock pressure,
improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
(using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor fit
for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid unnecessarily
aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC 5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API
----------
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics,
as defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features
for 100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads IPsec
and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the default
or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame duplication
for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.
Device drivers
--------------
- Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.
- Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback
for reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which supports
Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support PPS in/out on all pins
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
- i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
- iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
- disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as other
drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is unused
- Meta (fbnic):
- add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
- Wangxun:
- support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
- support Rx coalescing offload
- support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google (gve):
- allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
- implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor format
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- support HW link state events
- handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
- AMD (amd-xgbe):
- add device selftests
- NXP (enetc):
- add i.MX94 support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support port isolation
- support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
- Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
- support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
- use regmap for register access
- allow user to enable/disable learning
- support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- support configuring RMII clock delays
- add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support using the HW clock in free running mode
- add Eswin EIC7700 support
- add Rockchip RK3506 support
- add Altera Agilex5 support
- Cadence (macb):
- cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
- add EyeQ5 support
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
- Airoha access points:
- add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
- add AN7583 support
- support out-of-order Tx completion processing
- Power over Ethernet:
- pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
- add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
- Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
- micrel:
- support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
- enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
- realtek:
- cable testing support on RTL8224
- interrupt support on RTL8221B
- motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
- microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
- mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers:
- m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
- remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
- mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth:
- add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi:
- split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
- improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
- improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211 debugfs
interface for it
- HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
- initial chanctx work towards NAN
- MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw89):
- support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
- initial work for RTL8922DE
- improved injection support
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WED support for >32-bit DMA
- airoha NPU support
- regdomain improvements
- continued WiFi7/MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath10k: factory test support
- ath11k: TX power insertion support
- ath12k: BSS color change support
- ath12k: statistics improvements
- brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
- rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.
Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending
twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
queue.
Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle,
but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.
Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already
did for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is
sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for
packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock
pressure, improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
(using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor
fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using
cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of
RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid
unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the
connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC
5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API:
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as
defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for
100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in
zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads
IPsec and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the
default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame
duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.
Device drivers:
- Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.
- Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for
reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which
supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support PPS in/out on all pins
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
- i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
- iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
- disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as
other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is
unused
- Meta (fbnic):
- add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
- Wangxun:
- support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
- support Rx coalescing offload
- support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google (gve):
- allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
- implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor
format
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- support HW link state events
- handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
- AMD (amd-xgbe):
- add device selftests
- NXP (enetc):
- add i.MX94 support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support port isolation
- support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
- Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
- support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
- use regmap for register access
- allow user to enable/disable learning
- support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- support configuring RMII clock delays
- add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support using the HW clock in free running mode
- add Eswin EIC7700 support
- add Rockchip RK3506 support
- add Altera Agilex5 support
- Cadence (macb):
- cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
- add EyeQ5 support
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
- Airoha access points:
- add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
- add AN7583 support
- support out-of-order Tx completion processing
- Power over Ethernet:
- pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
- add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
- Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
- micrel:
- support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
- enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
- realtek:
- cable testing support on RTL8224
- interrupt support on RTL8221B
- motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
- microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
- mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers:
- m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
- remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
- mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth:
- add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi:
- split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
- improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
- improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211
debugfs interface for it
- HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
- initial chanctx work towards NAN
- MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw89):
- support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
- initial work for RTL8922DE
- improved injection support
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WED support for >32-bit DMA
- airoha NPU support
- regdomain improvements
- continued WiFi7/MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath10k: factory test support
- ath11k: TX power insertion support
- ath12k: BSS color change support
- ath12k: statistics improvements
- brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
- rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"
* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits)
net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order
net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init
net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program
net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels
selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets
net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code
wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen
wireguard: uapi: move flag enums
wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd
wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification
selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases
selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS
net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()
Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
...
Update all struct proto_ops connect() callback function prototypes from
"struct sockaddr *" to "struct sockaddr_unsized *" to avoid lying to the
compiler about object sizes. Calls into struct proto handlers gain casts
that will be removed in the struct proto conversion patch.
No binary changes expected.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104002617.2752303-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
In be1e028302 ("coredump: don't pointlessly check and spew warnings")
we tried to fix input validation so it only happens during a write to
core_pattern. This would avoid needlessly logging a lot of warnings
during a read operation. However the logic accidently got inverted in
this commit. Fix it so the input validation only happens on write and is
skipped on read.
Fixes: be1e028302 ("coredump: don't pointlessly check and spew warnings")
Fixes: 16195d2c7d ("coredump: validate socket name as it is written")
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
- The 3 patch series "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from
Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap
cluster allocation.
- The 4 patch series "support large align and nid in Rust allocators"
from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large
alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from
Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets
for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters.
- The 3 patch series "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock"
from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps.
- The 2 patch series "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache
checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code.
- The 11 patch series "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David
Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code.
- The 5 patch series "add persistent huge zero folio support" from
Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero.
- The 3 patch series "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a
few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature.
- The 10 patch series "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all
arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To
end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with
64-bit's needs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li
cleans up some swap code.
- The 7 patch series "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip
unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests
code.
- The 7 patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide
THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes
to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other
workloads on the system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations.
- The 11 patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox
gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc.
- The 3 patch series "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from
Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path.
- The 5 patch series "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi
Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code.
- The 2 patch series "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang
adds some rmap selftests.
- The 3 patch series "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig
removes that function and converts its two remaining callers.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain
fixes some UFFD selftests issues.
- The 3 patch series "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris
Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these
permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather
than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks.
- The 2 patch series "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some
pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements
to the page allocator code.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae
Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem.
- The 4 patch series "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for
vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and
deduplication under tools/testing/.
- The 2 patch series "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from
Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in
tools/testing/radix-tree.c.
- The 2 patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove
arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN
arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral
implementation.
- The 3 patch series "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes
zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc).
- The 2 patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from
Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code.
- The 37 patch series "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand
makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites,
eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function.
- The 2 patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from
Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that
architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode
KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only.
- The 3 patch series "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation"
from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code.
- The 12 patch series "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer
parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API
functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This
was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they
attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy.
- The 7 patch series "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola
fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use
free_pages() vs __free_pages().
- The 3 patch series "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice
Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau
and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test:
split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and
some cleanups to the thp selftesting code.
- The 14 patch series "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache
(phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the
path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation
and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space
improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit
in some situations.
- The 3 patch series "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes
the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little.
- The 3 patch series "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from
Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code.
- The 2 patch series "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from
Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new
memory allocation profiling feature.
- The 3 patch series "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few
cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and
DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in
furtherance of supporting arm highmem.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix
warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code
and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code.
- The 10 patch series "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM
Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements
in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim
threads so they can release resources.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18"
from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization
check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and
maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and
non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to
userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information.
- The 2 patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse"
from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of
anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against
an anon vma.
- The 2 patch series "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in
compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards
removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon
clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems.
- The 6 patch series "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from
Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking
of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate.
- The 2 patch series "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters
during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats
inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these
counters.
- The 2 patch series "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei
Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's
mm_slot handling.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.workqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs workqueue updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains various workqueue changes affecting the filesystem
layer.
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work()
the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies
to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that
makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This replaces the use of system_wq and system_unbound_wq. system_wq is
a per-CPU workqueue which isn't very obvious from the name and
system_unbound_wq is to be used when locality is not required.
So this renames system_wq to system_percpu_wq, and system_unbound_wq
to system_dfl_wq.
This also adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to allow the fs subsystem users to
explicitly request the use of per-CPU behavior. Both WQ_UNBOUND and
WQ_PERCPU flags coexist for one release cycle to allow callers to
transition their calls. WQ_UNBOUND will be removed in a next release
cycle"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.workqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
fs: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
fs: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.
Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.
The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250916082906.77439-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The coredump logic is slightly different from other users in that it both
stores mm flags and additionally sets and gets using masks.
Since the MMF_DUMPABLE_* flags must remain as they are for uABI reasons,
and of course these are within the first 32-bits of the flags, it is
reasonable to provide access to these in the same fashion so this logic
can all still keep working as it has been.
Therefore, introduce coredump-specific helpers __mm_flags_get_dumpable()
and __mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable() for this purpose, and update all core
dump users of mm flags to use these.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: abstract set_mask_bits() invocation to mm_types.h to satisfy ARC]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e7ad263-1ff7-446d-81fe-97cff9c0e7ed@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5075f7e3c5b367d988178c79a3063d12ee53a9.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When a write happens it doesn't make sense to check perform checks on
the input. Skip them.
Whether a fixes tag is licensed is a bit of a gray area here but I'll
add one for the socket validation part I added recently.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250821-moosbedeckt-denunziant-7908663f3563@brauner
Fixes: 16195d2c7d ("coredump: validate socket name as it is written")
Reported-by: Brad Spengler <brad.spengler@opensrcsec.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The coredump_parse() function is bool type. It should return true on
success and false on failure. The cn_printf() returns zero on success
or negative error codes. This mismatch means that when "return err;"
here, it is treated as success instead of failure. Change it to return
false instead.
Fixes: a5715af549 ("coredump: make coredump_parse() return bool")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/aKRGu14w5vPSZLgv@stanley.mountain
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- persistent info
Persist exit and coredump information independent of whether anyone
currently holds a pidfd for the struct pid.
The current scheme allocated pidfs dentries on-demand repeatedly.
This scheme is reaching it's limits as it makes it impossible to pin
information that needs to be available after the task has exited or
coredumped and that should not be lost simply because the pidfd got
closed temporarily. The next opener should still see the stashed
information.
This is also a prerequisite for supporting extended attributes on
pidfds to allow attaching meta information to them.
If someone opens a pidfd for a struct pid a pidfs dentry is allocated
and stashed in pid->stashed. Once the last pidfd for the struct pid
is closed the pidfs dentry is released and removed from pid->stashed.
So if 10 callers create a pidfs dentry for the same struct pid
sequentially, i.e., each closing the pidfd before the other creates a
new one then a new pidfs dentry is allocated every time.
Because multiple tasks acquiring and releasing a pidfd for the same
struct pid can race with each another a task may still find a valid
pidfs entry from the previous task in pid->stashed and reuse it. Or
it might find a dead dentry in there and fail to reuse it and so
stashes a new pidfs dentry. Multiple tasks may race to stash a new
pidfs dentry but only one will succeed, the other ones will put their
dentry.
The current scheme aims to ensure that a pidfs dentry for a struct
pid can only be created if the task is still alive or if a pidfs
dentry already existed before the task was reaped and so exit
information has been was stashed in the pidfs inode.
That's great except that it's buggy. If a pidfs dentry is stashed in
pid->stashed after pidfs_exit() but before __unhash_process() is
called we will return a pidfd for a reaped task without exit
information being available.
The pidfds_pid_valid() check does not guard against this race as it
doens't sync at all with pidfs_exit(). The pid_has_task() check might
be successful simply because we're before __unhash_process() but
after pidfs_exit().
Introduce a new scheme where the lifetime of information associated
with a pidfs entry (coredump and exit information) isn't bound to the
lifetime of the pidfs inode but the struct pid itself.
The first time a pidfs dentry is allocated for a struct pid a struct
pidfs_attr will be allocated which will be used to store exit and
coredump information.
If all pidfs for the pidfs dentry are closed the dentry and inode can
be cleaned up but the struct pidfs_attr will stick until the struct
pid itself is freed. This will ensure minimal memory usage while
persisting relevant information.
The new scheme has various advantages. First, it allows to close the
race where we end up handing out a pidfd for a reaped task for which
no exit information is available. Second, it minimizes memory usage.
Third, it allows to remove complex lifetime tracking via dentries
when registering a struct pid with pidfs. There's no need to get or
put a reference. Instead, the lifetime of exit and coredump
information associated with a struct pid is bound to the lifetime of
struct pid itself.
- extended attributes
Now that we have a way to persist information for pidfs dentries we
can start supporting extended attributes on pidfds. This will allow
userspace to attach meta information to tasks.
One natural extension would be to introduce a custom pidfs.* extended
attribute space and allow for the inheritance of extended attributes
across fork() and exec().
The first simple scheme will allow privileged userspace to set
trusted extended attributes on pidfs inodes.
- Allow autonomous pidfs file handles
Various filesystems such as pidfs and drm support opening file
handles without having to require a file descriptor to identify the
filesystem. The filesystem are global single instances and can be
trivially identified solely on the information encoded in the file
handle.
This makes it possible to not have to keep or acquire a sentinal file
descriptor just to pass it to open_by_handle_at() to identify the
filesystem. That's especially useful when such sentinel file
descriptor cannot or should not be acquired.
For pidfs this means a file handle can function as full replacement
for storing a pid in a file. Instead a file handle can be stored and
reopened purely based on the file handle.
Such autonomous file handles can be opened with or without specifying
a a file descriptor. If no proper file descriptor is used the
FD_PIDFS_ROOT sentinel must be passed. This allows us to define
further special negative fd sentinels in the future.
Userspace can trivially test for support by trying to open the file
handle with an invalid file descriptor.
- Allow pidfds for reaped tasks with SCM_PIDFD messages
This is a logical continuation of the earlier work to create pidfds
for reaped tasks through the SO_PEERPIDFD socket option merged in
923ea4d448 ("Merge patch series "net, pidfs: enable handing out
pidfds for reaped sk->sk_peer_pid"").
- Two minor fixes:
* Fold fs_struct->{lock,seq} into a seqlock
* Don't bother with path_{get,put}() in unix_open_file()
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (37 commits)
don't bother with path_get()/path_put() in unix_open_file()
fold fs_struct->{lock,seq} into a seqlock
selftests: net: extend SCM_PIDFD test to cover stale pidfds
af_unix: enable handing out pidfds for reaped tasks in SCM_PIDFD
af_unix: stash pidfs dentry when needed
af_unix/scm: fix whitespace errors
af_unix: introduce and use scm_replace_pid() helper
af_unix: introduce unix_skb_to_scm helper
af_unix: rework unix_maybe_add_creds() to allow sleep
selftests/pidfd: decode pidfd file handles withou having to specify an fd
fhandle, pidfs: support open_by_handle_at() purely based on file handle
uapi/fcntl: add FD_PIDFS_ROOT
uapi/fcntl: add FD_INVALID
fcntl/pidfd: redefine PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP
uapi/fcntl: mark range as reserved
fhandle: reflow get_path_anchor()
pidfs: add pidfs_root_path() helper
fhandle: rename to get_path_anchor()
fhandle: hoist copy_from_user() above get_path_from_fd()
fhandle: raise FILEID_IS_DIR in handle_type
...
Now that we stash persistent information in struct pid there's no need
to play volatile games with pinning struct pid via dentries in pidfs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-8-98f3456fd552@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The exit path is currently entangled with core pipe limit accounting
which is really unpleasant. Use a local variable in struct core_name
that remembers whether the count was incremented and if so to clean
decrement in once the coredump is done. Assert that this only happens
for pipes.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250612-work-coredump-massage-v1-11-315c0c34ba94@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
* Move that whole mess into a separate helper instead of having all that
hanging around in vfs_coredump() directly.
* Stop using that need_suid_safe variable and add an inline helper that
clearly communicates what's going on everywhere consistently. The mm
flag snapshot is stable and can't change so nothing's gained with that
boolean.
* Only setup cprm->file once everything else succeeded, using RAII for
the coredump file before. That allows to don't care to what goto label
we jump in vfs_coredump().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250612-work-coredump-massage-v1-10-315c0c34ba94@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
There's no point in allowing to walk upwards for the coredump socket.
We already force userspace to give use a sane path, no symlinks, no
magiclinks, and also block "..". Use an absolute path without any
shenanigans.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250612-work-coredump-massage-v1-6-315c0c34ba94@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
We currently use multiple CONFIG_UNIX guards. This looks messy and makes
the code harder to follow and maintain. Use a helper function
coredump_sock_connect() that handles the connect portion. This allows us
to remove the CONFIG_UNIX guard in the main do_coredump() function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250605-schlamm-touren-720ba2b60a85@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Extend the coredump socket to allow the coredump server to tell the
kernel how to process individual coredumps.
When the crashing task connects to the coredump socket the kernel will
send a struct coredump_req to the coredump server. The kernel will set
the size member of struct coredump_req allowing the coredump server how
much data can be read.
The coredump server uses MSG_PEEK to peek the size of struct
coredump_req. If the kernel uses a newer struct coredump_req the
coredump server just reads the size it knows and discard any remaining
bytes in the buffer. If the kernel uses an older struct coredump_req
the coredump server just reads the size the kernel knows.
The returned struct coredump_req will inform the coredump server what
features the kernel supports. The coredump_req->mask member is set to
the currently know features.
The coredump server may only use features whose bits were raised by the
kernel in coredump_req->mask.
In response to a coredump_req from the kernel the coredump server sends
a struct coredump_ack to the kernel. The kernel informs the coredump
server what version of struct coredump_ack it supports by setting struct
coredump_req->size_ack to the size it knows about. The coredump server
may only send as many bytes as coredump_req->size_ack indicates (a
smaller size is fine of course). The coredump server must set
coredump_ack->size accordingly.
The coredump server sets the features it wants to use in struct
coredump_ack->mask. Only bits returned in struct coredump_req->mask may
be used.
In case an invalid struct coredump_ack is sent to the kernel a non-zero
u32 integer is sent indicating the reason for the failure. If it was
successful a zero u32 integer is sent.
In the initial version the following features are supported in
coredump_{req,ack}->mask:
* COREDUMP_KERNEL
The kernel will write the coredump data to the socket.
* COREDUMP_USERSPACE
The kernel will not write coredump data but will indicate to the
parent that a coredump has been generated. This is used when userspace
generates its own coredumps.
* COREDUMP_REJECT
The kernel will skip generating a coredump for this task.
* COREDUMP_WAIT
The kernel will prevent the task from exiting until the coredump
server has shutdown the socket connection.
The flexible coredump socket can be enabled by using the "@@" prefix
instead of the single "@" prefix for the regular coredump socket:
@@/run/systemd/coredump.socket
will enable flexible coredump handling. Current kernels already enforce
that "@" must be followed by "/" and will reject anything else. So
extending this is backward and forward compatible.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250603-work-coredump-socket-protocol-v2-1-05a5f0c18ecc@kernel.org
Acked-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
In contrast to other parameters written into
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern that never fail we can validate enabling
the new AF_UNIX support. This is obviously racy as hell but it's always
been that way.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-7-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Extend the PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP ioctl() with the new PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP
mask flag. This adds the @coredump_mask field to struct pidfd_info.
When a task coredumps the kernel will provide the following information
to userspace in @coredump_mask:
* PIDFD_COREDUMPED is raised if the task did actually coredump.
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_SKIP is raised if the task skipped coredumping (e.g.,
undumpable).
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_USER is raised if this is a regular coredump and
doesn't need special care by the coredump server.
* PIDFD_COREDUMP_ROOT is raised if the generated coredump should be
treated as sensitive and the coredump server should restrict to the
generated coredump to sufficiently privileged users.
The kernel guarantees that by the time the connection is made the all
PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP info is available.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-5-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Coredumping currently supports two modes:
(1) Dumping directly into a file somewhere on the filesystem.
(2) Dumping into a pipe connected to a usermode helper process
spawned as a child of the system_unbound_wq or kthreadd.
For simplicity I'm mostly ignoring (1). There's probably still some
users of (1) out there but processing coredumps in this way can be
considered adventurous especially in the face of set*id binaries.
The most common option should be (2) by now. It works by allowing
userspace to put a string into /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern like:
|/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h
The "|" at the beginning indicates to the kernel that a pipe must be
used. The path following the pipe indicator is a path to a binary that
will be spawned as a usermode helper process. Any additional parameters
pass information about the task that is generating the coredump to the
binary that processes the coredump.
In the example core_pattern shown above systemd-coredump is spawned as a
usermode helper. There's various conceptual consequences of this
(non-exhaustive list):
- systemd-coredump is spawned with file descriptor number 0 (stdin)
connected to the read-end of the pipe. All other file descriptors are
closed. That specifically includes 1 (stdout) and 2 (stderr). This has
already caused bugs because userspace assumed that this cannot happen
(Whether or not this is a sane assumption is irrelevant.).
- systemd-coredump will be spawned as a child of system_unbound_wq. So
it is not a child of any userspace process and specifically not a
child of PID 1. It cannot be waited upon and is in a weird hybrid
upcall which are difficult for userspace to control correctly.
- systemd-coredump is spawned with full kernel privileges. This
necessitates all kinds of weird privilege dropping excercises in
userspace to make this safe.
- A new usermode helper has to be spawned for each crashing process.
This series adds a new mode:
(3) Dumping into an AF_UNIX socket.
Userspace can set /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to:
@/path/to/coredump.socket
The "@" at the beginning indicates to the kernel that an AF_UNIX
coredump socket will be used to process coredumps.
The coredump socket must be located in the initial mount namespace.
When a task coredumps it opens a client socket in the initial network
namespace and connects to the coredump socket.
- The coredump server uses SO_PEERPIDFD to get a stable handle on the
connected crashing task. The retrieved pidfd will provide a stable
reference even if the crashing task gets SIGKILLed while generating
the coredump.
- By setting core_pipe_limit non-zero userspace can guarantee that the
crashing task cannot be reaped behind it's back and thus process all
necessary information in /proc/<pid>. The SO_PEERPIDFD can be used to
detect whether /proc/<pid> still refers to the same process.
The core_pipe_limit isn't used to rate-limit connections to the
socket. This can simply be done via AF_UNIX sockets directly.
- The pidfd for the crashing task will grow new information how the task
coredumps.
- The coredump server should mark itself as non-dumpable.
- A container coredump server in a separate network namespace can simply
bind to another well-know address and systemd-coredump fowards
coredumps to the container.
- Coredumps could in the future also be handled via per-user/session
coredump servers that run only with that users privileges.
The coredump server listens on the coredump socket and accepts a
new coredump connection. It then retrieves SO_PEERPIDFD for the
client, inspects uid/gid and hands the accepted client to the users
own coredump handler which runs with the users privileges only
(It must of coure pay close attention to not forward crashing suid
binaries.).
The new coredump socket will allow userspace to not have to rely on
usermode helpers for processing coredumps and provides a safer way to
handle them instead of relying on super privileged coredumping helpers
that have and continue to cause significant CVEs.
This will also be significantly more lightweight since no fork()+exec()
for the usermodehelper is required for each crashing process. The
coredump server in userspace can e.g., just keep a worker pool.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-4-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
They look rather messy right now.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-3-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
We're going to extend the coredump code in follow-up patches.
Clean it up so we can do this more easily.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-2-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
We're going to extend the coredump code in follow-up patches.
Clean it up so we can do this more easily.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250516-work-coredump-socket-v8-1-664f3caf2516@kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Give userspace a way to instruct the kernel to install a pidfd into the
usermode helper process. This makes coredump handling a lot more
reliable for userspace. In parallel with this commit we already have
systemd adding support for this in [1].
We create a pidfs file for the coredumping process when we process the
corename pattern. When the usermode helper process is forked we then
install the pidfs file as file descriptor three into the usermode
helpers file descriptor table so it's available to the exec'd program.
Since usermode helpers are either children of the system_unbound_wq
workqueue or kthreadd we know that the file descriptor table is empty
and can thus always use three as the file descriptor number.
Note, that we'll install a pidfd for the thread-group leader even if a
subthread is calling do_coredump(). We know that task linkage hasn't
been removed due to delay_group_leader() and even if this @current isn't
the actual thread-group leader we know that the thread-group leader
cannot be reaped until @current has exited.
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/37125 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-3-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The replace_fd() helper returns the file descriptor number on success
and a negative error code on failure. The current error handling in
umh_pipe_setup() only works because the file descriptor that is replaced
is zero but that's pretty volatile. Explicitly check for a negative
error code.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-2-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
* Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c
All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems leading
to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This increases modularity by
placing the ctl_tables closer to where they are actually used and at the same
time reducing the chances of merge conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c.
* ctl_table range fixes
Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in
coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the extra{1,2}
pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the values that users
can pass into the kernel effectively preventing {under,over}flows.
* Misc fixes
Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl files in
MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in declaration for
alignment_tbl
* Testing
- These have all been in linux-next for at least 1 month
- They have gone through 0-day
- Ran all these through sysctl selftests in x86_64
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c
All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems
leading to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This
increases modularity by placing the ctl_tables closer to where they
are actually used and at the same time reducing the chances of merge
conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c.
- ctl_table range fixes
Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in
coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the
extra{1,2} pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the
values that users can pass into the kernel effectively preventing
{under,over}flows.
- Misc fixes
Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl
files in MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in
declaration for alignment_tbl
* tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (22 commits)
selftests/sysctl: fix wording of help messages
selftests: fix spelling/grammar errors in sysctl/sysctl.sh
MAINTAINERS: Update sysctl file list in MAINTAINERS
sysctl: Fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler
sysctl: remove unneeded include
sysctl: remove the vm_table
sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c
sunrpc: simplify rpcauth_cache_shrink_count()
fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c
fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c
security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c
mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c
mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c
mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c
mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
...
Linus Torvalds
Christian Brauner
Kees Cook
Marco Crivellari
Lorenzo Stoakes
Dan Carpenter