linux/kernel
Mateusz Guzik a7031f1452 kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
xchg originated in 6e399cd144 ("prctl: avoid using mmap_sem for exe_file
serialization").  While the commit message does not explain *why* the
change, I found the original submission [1] which ultimately claims it
cleans things up by removing dependency of exe_file on the semaphore.

However, fe69d560b5 ("kernel/fork: always deny write access to current
MM exe_file") added a semaphore up/down cycle to synchronize the state of
exe_file against fork, defeating the point of the original change.

This is on top of semaphore trips already present both in the replacing
function and prctl (the only consumer).

Normally replacing exe_file does not happen for busy processes, thus
write-locking is not an impediment to performance in the intended use
case.  If someone keeps invoking the routine for a busy processes they are
trying to play dirty and that's another reason to avoid any trickery.

As such I think the atomic here only adds complexity for no benefit.

Just write-lock around the replacement.

I also note that replacement races against the mapping check loop as
nothing synchronizes actual assignment with with said checks but I am not
addressing it in this patch.  (Is the loop of any use to begin with?)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1424979417.10344.14.camel@stgolabs.net/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814172140.1777161-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21 13:46:24 -07:00
..
bpf bpf: Repeat check_max_stack_depth for async callbacks 2023-07-18 15:21:09 -07:00
cgroup sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI trigger polling 2023-07-10 09:52:30 +02:00
configs mm/slab: rename CONFIG_SLAB to CONFIG_SLAB_DEPRECATED 2023-05-26 19:01:47 +02:00
debug kdb: move kdb_send_sig() declaration to a better header file 2023-07-03 09:27:12 +01:00
dma dma-mapping fixes for Linux 6.5 2023-07-09 10:24:22 -07:00
entry ptrace: Provide set/get interface for syscall user dispatch 2023-04-16 14:23:07 +02:00
events cxl for v6.5 2023-07-01 08:58:41 -07:00
futex - Prevent the leaking of a debug timer in futex_waitv() 2023-01-01 11:15:05 -08:00
gcov gcov: shut up missing prototype warnings for internal stubs 2023-08-18 10:18:58 -07:00
irq irqdomain: Use return value of strreplace() 2023-06-30 11:13:44 +02:00
kcsan kcsan: Don't expect 64 bits atomic builtins from 32 bits architectures 2023-06-09 23:29:50 +10:00
livepatch livepatch: Make 'klp_stack_entries' static 2023-06-05 13:56:52 +02:00
locking locking/rtmutex: Fix task->pi_waiters integrity 2023-07-17 13:59:10 +02:00
module module: fix init_module_from_file() error handling 2023-07-04 10:17:11 -07:00
power Merge branches 'pm-sleep' and 'pm-qos' 2023-07-14 19:13:21 +02:00
printk seqlock/latch: Provide raw_read_seqcount_latch_retry() 2023-06-05 21:11:03 +02:00
rcu Merge branches 'doc.2023.05.10a', 'fixes.2023.05.11a', 'kvfree.2023.05.10a', 'nocb.2023.05.11a', 'rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a', 'torture.2023.05.15a' and 'rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a' into HEAD 2023-06-07 13:44:06 -07:00
sched sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI trigger polling 2023-07-10 09:52:30 +02:00
time hardening updates for v6.5-rc1 2023-06-27 21:24:18 -07:00
trace Probe fixes for 6.5-rc3: 2023-07-30 11:27:22 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy 2023-08-18 10:18:51 -07:00
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark 2022-08-22 18:50:06 -04:00
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c audit_init_parent(): constify path 2022-09-01 17:39:30 -04:00
audit.c audit: use time_after to compare time 2022-08-29 19:47:03 -04:00
audit.h audit: avoid missing-prototype warnings 2023-05-17 11:34:55 -04:00
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c capability: just use a 'u64' instead of a 'u32[2]' array 2023-03-01 10:01:22 -08:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation 2022-09-26 19:46:09 -07:00
capability.c capability: fix kernel-doc warnings in capability.c 2023-05-22 14:30:52 -04:00
cfi.c cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi 2022-09-26 10:13:13 -07:00
compat.c sched_getaffinity: don't assume 'cpumask_size()' is fully initialized 2023-03-14 19:32:38 -07:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_<op>() 2023-06-05 09:57:20 +02:00
cpu_pm.c cpuidle, cpu_pm: Remove RCU fiddling from cpu_pm_{enter,exit}() 2023-01-13 11:48:15 +01:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask() 2023-05-23 18:06:40 +02:00
crash_core.c mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: convert printks to pr_<level> 2023-08-18 10:18:49 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from IRQ/SOFTIRQ 2023-04-18 16:39:34 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression 2023-06-01 17:15:33 -04:00
extable.c
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup() 2023-02-08 13:36:22 +01:00
fork.c kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement 2023-08-21 13:46:24 -07:00
freezer.c freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07 21:53:50 +02:00
gen_kheaders.sh Revert "kheaders: substituting --sort in archive creation" 2023-05-28 16:20:21 +09:00
groups.c security: Add LSM hook to setgroups() syscall 2022-07-15 18:21:49 +00:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: set some hung_task.c variables storage-class-specifier to static 2023-04-08 13:45:37 -07:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu() 2023-03-24 11:01:29 +01:00
jump_label.c jump_label: Prevent key->enabled int overflow 2022-12-01 15:53:05 -08:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] 2022-11-12 18:47:36 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.c kallsyms: Delete an unused parameter related to {module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol() 2023-03-19 13:27:19 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.h kallsyms: Add self-test facility 2022-11-15 00:42:02 -08:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions 2023-07-12 15:39:34 -07:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.kexec remove ARCH_DEFAULT_KEXEC from Kconfig.kexec 2023-08-18 10:18:55 -07:00
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: add prototypes for helper functions 2023-06-09 17:44:17 -07:00
kexec_core.c kexec: enable kexec_crash_size to support two crash kernel regions 2023-06-09 17:44:24 -07:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c kexec: rename ARCH_HAS_KEXEC_PURGATORY 2023-08-18 10:18:54 -07:00
kexec_internal.h panic, kexec: make __crash_kexec() NMI safe 2022-09-11 21:55:06 -07:00
kexec.c kexec: introduce sysctl parameters kexec_load_limit_* 2023-02-02 22:50:05 -08:00
kheaders.c kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char 2023-03-24 20:10:59 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Prohibit probing on CFI preamble symbol 2023-07-29 23:32:26 +09:00
ksyms_common.c kallsyms: make kallsyms_show_value() as generic function 2023-06-08 12:27:20 -07:00
ksysfs.c kernel/ksysfs.c: use sysfs_emit for sysfs show handlers 2023-03-24 17:09:14 +01:00
kthread.c kthread: unexport __kthread_should_park() 2023-08-18 10:18:59 -07:00
latencytop.c latencytop: use the last element of latency_record of system 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
Makefile v6.5-rc1-modules-next 2023-06-28 15:51:08 -07:00
module_signature.c
notifier.c notifiers: add tracepoints to the notifiers infrastructure 2023-04-08 13:45:38 -07:00
nsproxy.c convert setns(2) to fdget()/fdput() 2023-04-20 22:55:35 -04:00
padata.c padata: use alignment when calculating the number of worker threads 2023-03-14 17:06:44 +08:00
panic.c panic: hide unused global functions 2023-06-09 17:44:15 -07:00
params.c kallsyms: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy 2023-06-14 12:27:38 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid: use struct_size_t() helper 2023-07-01 08:26:23 -07:00
pid_sysctl.h kernel: pid_namespace: remove unused set_memfd_noexec_scope() 2023-06-19 16:19:28 -07:00
pid.c pid: use struct_size_t() helper 2023-07-01 08:26:23 -07:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: simplify duplicated code in profile_setup() 2022-09-11 21:55:12 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace: Provide set/get interface for syscall user dispatch 2023-04-16 14:23:07 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot: Add SYS_OFF_MODE_RESTART_PREPARE mode 2022-10-04 15:59:36 +02:00
regset.c
relay.c kernel: relay: remove unnecessary NULL values from relay_open_buf 2023-08-18 10:18:55 -07:00
resource_kunit.c
resource.c dax/kmem: Fix leak of memory-hotplug resources 2023-02-17 14:58:01 -08:00
rseq.c rseq: Extend struct rseq with per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27 12:52:12 +01:00
scftorture.c
scs.c scs: add support for dynamic shadow call stacks 2022-11-09 18:06:35 +00:00
seccomp.c seccomp: simplify sysctls with register_sysctl_init() 2023-04-13 11:49:20 -07:00
signal.c signal: print comm and exe name on fatal signals 2023-08-18 10:18:50 -07:00
smp.c trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions 2023-06-16 22:08:09 +02:00
smpboot.c cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions 2023-05-15 13:45:00 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Revert "softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job" 2023-05-09 21:50:27 +02:00
stackleak.c stackleak: allow to specify arch specific stackleak poison function 2023-04-20 11:36:35 +02:00
stacktrace.c
static_call_inline.c static_call: Add call depth tracking support 2022-10-17 16:41:16 +02:00
static_call.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c asm-generic updates for 6.5 2023-07-06 10:06:04 -07:00
sys.c prctl: move PR_GET_AUXV out of PR_MCE_KILL 2023-07-17 12:53:21 -07:00
sysctl-test.c kernel/sysctl-test: use SYSCTL_{ZERO/ONE_HUNDRED} instead of i_{zero/one_hundred} 2022-09-08 16:56:45 -07:00
sysctl.c v6.5-rc1-sysctl-next 2023-06-28 16:05:21 -07:00
task_work.c task_work: use try_cmpxchg in task_work_add, task_work_cancel_match and task_work_run 2022-09-11 21:55:10 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: start to validate reserved header bytes 2022-08-29 12:47:15 +01:00
torture.c torture: Fix hang during kthread shutdown phase 2023-01-05 12:10:35 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event 2023-02-18 14:34:36 -05:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c sysctl: fix unused proc_cap_handler() function warning 2023-06-29 15:19:43 -07:00
up.c
user_namespace.c userns: fix a struct's kernel-doc notation 2023-02-02 22:50:04 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c kernel/user: Allow user_struct::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd 2022-11-30 20:16:49 -04:00
usermode_driver.c
utsname_sysctl.c utsname: simplify one-level sysctl registration for uts_kern_table 2023-04-13 11:49:35 -07:00
utsname.c
vhost_task.c vhost: Fix worker hangs due to missed wake up calls 2023-06-08 15:43:09 -04:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointer 2023-06-06 10:47:04 +02:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code 2023-06-19 16:25:28 -07:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog/perf: add a weak function for an arch to detect if perf can use NMIs 2023-06-09 17:44:21 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog/hardlockup: avoid large stack frames in watchdog_hardlockup_check() 2023-08-18 10:19:00 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE 2023-05-17 17:02:08 -10:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Changes for v6.5 2023-06-27 16:32:52 -07:00