lwn.git/mm, branch v6.7-rc4

Merge tag 'vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2023-11-24T17:45:40+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: - Avoid calling back into LSMs from vfs_getattr_nosec() calls. IMA used to query inode properties accessing raw inode fields without dedicated helpers. That was finally fixed a few releases ago by forcing IMA to use vfs_getattr_nosec() helpers. The goal of the vfs_getattr_nosec() helper is to query for attributes without calling into the LSM layer which would be quite problematic because incredibly IMA is called from __fput()... __fput() -> ima_file_free() What it does is to call back into the filesystem to update the file's IMA xattr. Querying the inode without using vfs_getattr_nosec() meant that IMA didn't handle stacking filesystems such as overlayfs correctly. So the switch to vfs_getattr_nosec() is quite correct. But the switch to vfs_getattr_nosec() revealed another bug when used on stacking filesystems: __fput() -> ima_file_free() -> vfs_getattr_nosec() -> i_op->getattr::ovl_getattr() -> vfs_getattr() -> i_op->getattr::$WHATEVER_UNDERLYING_FS_getattr() -> security_inode_getattr() # calls back into LSMs Now, if that __fput() happens from task_work_run() of an exiting task current->fs and various other pointer could already be NULL. So anything in the LSM layer relying on that not being NULL would be quite surprised. Fix that by passing the information that this is a security request through to the stacking filesystem by adding a new internal ATT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag. Now the callchain becomes: __fput() -> ima_file_free() -> vfs_getattr_nosec() -> i_op->getattr::ovl_getattr() -> if (AT_GETATTR_NOSEC) vfs_getattr_nosec() else vfs_getattr() -> i_op->getattr::$WHATEVER_UNDERLYING_FS_getattr() - Fix a bug introduced with the iov_iter rework from last cycle. This broke /proc/kcore by copying too much and without the correct offset. - Add a missing NULL check when allocating the root inode in autofs_fill_super(). - Fix stable writes for multi-device filesystems (xfs, btrfs etc) and the block device pseudo filesystem. Stable writes used to be a superblock flag only, making it a per filesystem property. Add an additional AS_STABLE_WRITES mapping flag to allow for fine-grained control. - Ensure that offset_iterate_dir() returns 0 after reaching the end of a directory so it adheres to getdents() convention. * tag 'vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: libfs: getdents() should return 0 after reaching EOD xfs: respect the stable writes flag on the RT device xfs: clean up FS_XFLAG_REALTIME handling in xfs_ioctl_setattr_xflags block: update the stable_writes flag in bdev_add filemap: add a per-mapping stable writes flag autofs: add: new_inode check in autofs_fill_super() iov_iter: fix copy_page_to_iter_nofault() fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function

filemap: add a per-mapping stable writes flag

2023-11-20T14:05:18+00:00

folio_wait_stable waits for writeback to finish before modifying the contents of a folio again, e.g. to support check summing of the data in the block integrity code. Currently this behavior is controlled by the SB_I_STABLE_WRITES flag on the super_block, which means it is uniform for the entire file system. This is wrong for the block device pseudofs which is shared by all block devices, or file systems that can use multiple devices like XFS witht the RT subvolume or btrfs (although btrfs currently reimplements folio_wait_stable anyway). Add a per-address_space AS_STABLE_WRITES flag to control the behavior in a more fine grained way. The existing SB_I_STABLE_WRITES is kept to initialize AS_STABLE_WRITES to the existing default which covers most cases. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025141020.192413-2-hch@lst.de Tested-by: Ilya Dryomov Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm: more ptep_get() conversion

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

Commit c33c794828f2 ("mm: ptep_get() conversion") converted all (non-arch) call sites to use ptep_get() instead of doing a direct dereference of the pte. Full rationale can be found in that commit's log. Since then, three new call sites have snuck in, which directly dereference the pte, so let's fix those up. Unfortunately there is no reliable automated mechanism to catch these; I'm relying on a combination of Coccinelle (which throws up a lot of false positives) and some compiler magic to force a compiler error on dereference (While this approach finds dereferences, it also yields a non-booting kernel so can't be committed). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231114154945.490401-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

parisc: fix mmap_base calculation when stack grows upwards

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

Matoro reported various userspace crashes on the parisc platform with kernel 6.6 and bisected it to commit 3033cd430768 ("parisc: Use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization"). That commit switched parisc to use the common infrastructure to calculate mmap_base, but missed that the mmap_base() function takes care for architectures where the stack grows downwards only. Fix the mmap_base() calculation to include the stack-grows-upwards case and thus fix the userspace crashes on parisc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZVH2qeS1bG7/1J/l@p100 Fixes: 3033cd430768 ("parisc: Use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization") Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Reported-by: matoro Tested-by: matoro Cc: [6.6+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/damon/core.c: avoid unintentional filtering out of schemes

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

The function '__damos_filter_out()' causes DAMON to always filter out schemes whose filter type is anon or memcg if its matching value is set to false. This commit addresses the issue by ensuring that '__damos_filter_out()' no longer applies to filters whose type is 'anon' or 'memcg'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1699594629-3816-1-git-send-email-hyeongtak.ji@gmail.com Fixes: ab9bda001b681 ("mm/damon/core: introduce address range type damos filter") Signed-off-by: Hyeongtak Ji Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmem: drop __GFP_NOFAIL when allocating objcg vectors

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

Objcg vectors attached to slab pages to store slab object ownership information are allocated using gfp flags for the original slab allocation. Depending on slab page order and the size of slab objects, objcg vector can take several pages. If the original allocation was done with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag, it triggered a warning in the page allocation code. Indeed, order > 1 pages should not been allocated with the __GFP_NOFAIL flag. Fix this by simply dropping the __GFP_NOFAIL flag when allocating the objcg vector. It effectively allows to skip the accounting of a single slab object under a heavy memory pressure. An alternative would be to implement the mechanism to fallback to order-0 allocations for accounting metadata, which is also not perfect because it will increase performance penalty and memory footprint of the kernel memory accounting under memory pressure. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZUp8ZFGxwmCx4ZFr@P9FQF9L96D.corp.robot.car Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Reported-by: Christoph Lameter Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6b42243e-f197-600a-5d22-56bd728a5ad8@gentwo.org Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: handle tried region directory allocation failure

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

DAMON sysfs interface's before_damos_apply callback (damon_sysfs_before_damos_apply()), which creates the DAMOS tried regions for each DAMOS action applied region, is not handling the allocation failure for the sysfs directory data. As a result, NULL pointer derefeence is possible. Fix it by handling the case. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-4-sj@kernel.org Fixes: f1d13cacabe1 ("mm/damon/sysfs: implement DAMOS tried regions update command") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: [6.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: handle tried regions sysfs directory allocation failure

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

DAMOS tried regions sysfs directory allocation function (damon_sysfs_scheme_regions_alloc()) is not handling the memory allocation failure. In the case, the code will dereference NULL pointer. Handle the failure to avoid such invalid access. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-3-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 9277d0367ba1 ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: implement scheme region directory") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: [6.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/damon/sysfs: check error from damon_sysfs_update_target()

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

Patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix unhandled return values". Some of DAMON sysfs interface code is not handling return values from some functions. As a result, confusing user input handling or NULL-dereference is possible. Check those properly. This patch (of 3): damon_sysfs_update_target() returns error code for failures, but its caller, damon_sysfs_set_targets() is ignoring that. The update function seems making no critical change in case of such failures, but the behavior will look like DAMON sysfs is silently ignoring or only partially accepting the user input. Fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106233408.51159-2-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 19467a950b49 ("mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: [5.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix for negative counter: nr_file_hugepages

2023-11-15T23:30:09+00:00

While qualifiying the 6.4 release, the following warning was detected in messages: vmstat_refresh: nr_file_hugepages -15664 The warning is caused by the incorrect updating of the NR_FILE_THPS counter in the function split_huge_page_to_list. The if case is checking for folio_test_swapbacked, but the else case is missing the check for folio_test_pmd_mappable. The other functions that manipulate the counter like __filemap_add_folio and filemap_unaccount_folio have the corresponding check. I have a test case, which reproduces the problem. It can be found here: https://github.com/sroeschus/testcase/blob/main/vmstat_refresh/madv.c The test case reproduces on an XFS filesystem. Running the same test case on a BTRFS filesystem does not reproduce the problem. AFAIK version 6.1 until 6.6 are affected by this problem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace fix] [shr@devkernel.io: test for folio_test_pmd_mappable()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231108171517.2436103-1-shr@devkernel.io Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231106181918.1091043-1-shr@devkernel.io Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch Co-debugged-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton