As my_inptr is only used in __init function unpack_to_rootfs(), mark it as
__initdata to allow it be freed after boot.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220827071116.83078-1-wuchi.zero@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: wuchi <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ordinary user mode tasks.
In commit 40966e316f ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
struct kthread possible.
The commit 343f4c49f2 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple enough
to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace thread.
I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code sitting
in linux-next.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mtfu4up3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Eric W. Biederman (8):
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/csky/kernel/process.c | 15 ++++++-------
arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 10 ++++-----
arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/um/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/sched.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 8 +++----
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 17 ++++++++-------
fs/exec.c | 8 ++++---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 8 +++++--
init/initramfs.c | 2 ++
init/main.c | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
kernel/umh.c | 6 +++---
33 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
"This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
tasks.
Commit 40966e316f ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
struct kthread possible.
Here, commit 343f4c49f2 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
enough to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
thread.
I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
sitting in linux-next"
* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
Add support for extraction of checksum-enabled "070702" cpio archives,
specified in Documentation/driver-api/early-userspace/buffer-format.rst.
Fail extraction if the calculated file data checksum doesn't match the
value carried in the header.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-7-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
initramfs cpio mtime preservation, as implemented in commit 889d51a107
("initramfs: add option to preserve mtime from initramfs cpio images"),
uses a linked list to defer directory mtime processing until after all
other items in the cpio archive have been processed. This is done to
ensure that parent directory mtimes aren't overwritten via subsequent
child creation.
The lkml link below indicates that the mtime retention use case was for
embedded devices with applications running exclusively out of initramfs,
where the 32-bit mtime value provided a rough file version identifier.
Linux distributions which discard an extracted initramfs immediately after
the root filesystem has been mounted may want to avoid the unnecessary
overhead.
This change adds a new INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME Kconfig option, which can
be used to disable on-by-default mtime retention and in turn speed up
initramfs extraction, particularly for cpio archives with large directory
counts.
Benchmarks with a one million directory cpio archive extracted 20 times
demonstrated:
mean extraction time (s) std dev
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME=y 3.808 0.006
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME unset 3.056 0.004
The above extraction times were measured using ftrace (initcall_finish -
initcall_start) values for populate_rootfs() with initramfs_async
disabled.
[ddiss@suse.de: rebase atop dir_entry.name flexible array member and drop separate initramfs_mtime.h header]
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/3/424
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-4-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
dir_entry.name is currently allocated via a separate kstrdup(). Change it
to a flexible array member and allocate it along with struct dir_entry.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-3-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "initramfs: "crc" cpio format and INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME", v7.
This patchset does some minor initramfs refactoring and allows cpio entry
mtime preservation to be disabled via a new Kconfig
INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME option.
Patches 4/6 to 6/6 implement support for creation and extraction of "crc"
cpio archives, which carry file data checksums. Basic tests for this
functionality can be found at https://github.com/rapido-linux/rapido/pull/163
This patch (of 6):
do_header() is called for each cpio entry and fails if the first six bytes
don't match "newc" magic. The magic check includes a special case error
message if POSIX.1 ASCII (cpio -H odc) magic is detected. This special
case POSIX.1 check can be nested under the "newc" mismatch code path to
avoid calling memcmp() twice in a non-error case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-1-ddiss@suse.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404093429.27570-2-ddiss@suse.de
Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
It is silly for user_mode_thread to leave PF_KTHREAD set
on the resulting task. Update the init process so that
it does not care if PF_KTHREAD is set or not.
Ensure do_populate_rootfs flushes all delayed fput work by calling
task_work_run. In the rare instance that async_schedule_domain calls
do_populate_rootfs synchronously it is possible do_populate_rootfs
will be called directly from the init process. At which point fput
will call "task_work_add(current, ..., TWA_RESUME)". The files on the
initramfs need to be completely put before we attempt to exec them
(which is before the code enters userspace). So call task_work_run
just in case there are any pending fput operations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-5-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Rename memblock_free_ptr() to memblock_free() and use memblock_free()
when freeing a virtual pointer so that memblock_free() will be a
counterpart of memblock_alloc()
The callers are updated with the below semantic patch and manual
addition of (void *) casting to pointers that are represented by
unsigned long variables.
@@
identifier vaddr;
expression size;
@@
(
- memblock_phys_free(__pa(vaddr), size);
+ memblock_free(vaddr, size);
|
- memblock_free_ptr(vaddr, size);
+ memblock_free(vaddr, size);
)
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018192940.3d1d532f@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-7-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Shahab Vahedi <Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since memblock_free() operates on a physical range, make its name
reflect it and rename it to memblock_phys_free(), so it will be a
logical counterpart to memblock_phys_alloc().
The callers are updated with the below semantic patch:
@@
expression addr;
expression size;
@@
- memblock_free(addr, size);
+ memblock_phys_free(addr, size);
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930185031.18648-6-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Shahab Vahedi <Shahab.Vahedi@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, usermodehelper is enabled right before PID1 starts going
through the initcalls. However, any call of a usermodehelper from a
pure_, core_, postcore_, arch_, subsys_ or fs_ initcall is futile, as
there is no filesystem contents yet.
Up until commit e7cb072eb9 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking
asynchronously"), such calls, whether via some request_module(), a
legacy uevent "/sbin/hotplug" notification or something else, would
just fail silently with (presumably) -ENOENT from
kernel_execve(). However, that commit introduced the
wait_for_initramfs() synchronization hook which must be called from
the usermodehelper exec path right before the kernel_execve, in order
that request_module() et al done from *after* rootfs_initcall()
time (i.e. device_ and late_ initcalls) would continue to find a
populated initramfs as they used to.
Any call of wait_for_initramfs() done before the unpacking has been
scheduled (i.e. before rootfs_initcall time) must just return
immediately [and let the caller find an empty file system] in order
not to deadlock the machine. I mistakenly thought, and my limited
testing confirmed, that there were no such calls, so I added a
pr_warn_once() in wait_for_initramfs(). It turns out that one can
indeed hit request_module() as well as kobject_uevent_env() during
those early init calls, leading to a user-visible warning in the
kernel log emitted consistently for certain configurations.
We could just remove the pr_warn_once(), but I think it's better to
postpone enabling the usermodehelper framework until there is at least
some chance of finding the executable. That is also a little more
efficient in that a lot of work done in umh.c will be elided. However,
it does change the error seen by those early callers from -ENOENT to
-EBUSY, so there is a risk of a regression if any caller care about
the exact error value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210728134638.329060-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Fixes: e7cb072eb9 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously")
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Goncalves <bgoncalv@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3.
These two patches are independent, but better-together.
The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to
change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g. the empty string, so
that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without
even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the
initramfs unpacking.
The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread,
allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_
initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of
rootfs) to finish. Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the
initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the
firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places
that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any
places I have missed.
There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is
only available as modules. But systems with a custom-made .config and
initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu
earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still
trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating
most of the first benefit).
This patch (of 2):
Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the
initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed. So instead of doing
the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in
populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread.
This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking
even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long
enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get
attention soon enough. By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker
thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the
watchdog much sooner.
Normal desktops might benefit as well. On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel,
my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M.
That takes almost two seconds:
[ 0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K
Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg. With this
patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but
with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing
work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs()
finished.
Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_
and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel
module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs
unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this
completely safe.
But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one
of the official kernel interfaces (i.e. request_firmware*(),
call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might
have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs(). So there is an
escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have a handful of new RISC-V related patches for this merge window:
* A check to ensure drivers are properly using uaccess. This isn't
manifesting with any of the drivers I'm currently using, but may catch
errors in new drivers.
* Some preliminary support for the FU740, along with the HiFive
Unleashed it will appear on.
* NUMA support for RISC-V, which involves making the arm64 code generic.
* Support for kasan on the vmalloc region.
* A handful of new drivers for the Kendryte K210, along with the DT
plumbing required to boot on a handful of K210-based boards.
* Support for allocating ASIDs.
* Preliminary support for kernels larger than 128MiB.
* Various other improvements to our KASAN support, including the
utilization of huge pages when allocating the KASAN regions.
We may have already found a bug with the KASAN_VMALLOC code, but it's
passing my tests. There's a fix in the works, but that will probably
miss the merge window.
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Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.12-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
"A handful of new RISC-V related patches for this merge window:
- A check to ensure drivers are properly using uaccess. This isn't
manifesting with any of the drivers I'm currently using, but may
catch errors in new drivers.
- Some preliminary support for the FU740, along with the HiFive
Unleashed it will appear on.
- NUMA support for RISC-V, which involves making the arm64 code
generic.
- Support for kasan on the vmalloc region.
- A handful of new drivers for the Kendryte K210, along with the DT
plumbing required to boot on a handful of K210-based boards.
- Support for allocating ASIDs.
- Preliminary support for kernels larger than 128MiB.
- Various other improvements to our KASAN support, including the
utilization of huge pages when allocating the KASAN regions.
We may have already found a bug with the KASAN_VMALLOC code, but it's
passing my tests. There's a fix in the works, but that will probably
miss the merge window.
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.12-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (75 commits)
riscv: Improve kasan population by using hugepages when possible
riscv: Improve kasan population function
riscv: Use KASAN_SHADOW_INIT define for kasan memory initialization
riscv: Improve kasan definitions
riscv: Get rid of MAX_EARLY_MAPPING_SIZE
soc: canaan: Sort the Makefile alphabetically
riscv: Disable KSAN_SANITIZE for vDSO
riscv: Remove unnecessary declaration
riscv: Add Canaan Kendryte K210 SD card defconfig
riscv: Update Canaan Kendryte K210 defconfig
riscv: Add Kendryte KD233 board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIXDUINO board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIX GO board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIX DOCK board device tree
riscv: Add SiPeed MAIX BiT board device tree
riscv: Update Canaan Kendryte K210 device tree
dt-bindings: add resets property to dw-apb-timer
dt-bindings: fix sifive gpio properties
dt-bindings: update sifive uart compatible string
dt-bindings: update sifive clint compatible string
...
On systems with large amounts of reserved memory we may fail to
successfully complete unpack_to_rootfs() and be left with:
Kernel panic - not syncing: write error
this is not too helpful to understand what happened, so let's wrap the
panic() calls with a surrounding show_mem() such that we have a chance of
understanding the memory conditions leading to these allocation failures.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace macro with C function]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210114231517.1854379-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some architectures(eg, ARM and riscv) have similar logic to
check and reserve the memory of initrd, let's provide a common
function reserve_initrd_mem() to reduce duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
There is only one function in init/initramfs.c that is in the .text
section, and it is marked __weak. When building with clang-12 and the
integrated assembler, this leads to a bug with recordmcount:
./scripts/recordmcount "init/initramfs.o"
Cannot find symbol for section 2: .text.
init/initramfs.o: failed
I'm not quite sure what exactly goes wrong, but I notice that this
function is only ever called from an __init function, and normally
inlined. Marking it __init as well is clearly correct and it leads to
recordmcount no longer complaining.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201204165742.3815221-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init_stat() returns 0 on success, same as vfs_lstat(). When it replaced
vfs_lstat(), the '!' was dropped.
Fixes: 716308a533 ("init: add an init_stat helper")
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a simple helper to set timestamps with a kernel space file name and
switch the early init code over to it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to mknod with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mknod.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to mkdir with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mkdir.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to symlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_symlink.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to link with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_link.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to rmdir with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_rmdir.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add a simple helper to unlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_unlink.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Don't bother saving away the pathname and just use the new struct path
based utimes helper instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no good reason to mess with file descriptors from in-kernel
code, switch the initramfs unpacking to struct file based write
instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no point in trying to clean up after unpacking the initramfs
failed, as it should never get past the magic number check. In addition
the current code only removes file that are direct children of the root
entry, which wasn't complete anyway
Fixes: df52092f3c ("fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs()")
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
If initrd support is not enable just print the warning directly instead
of hiding the fact that we just failed behind two stub functions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It seems that for whatever reason, gcc-10 ends up not inlining a couple
of functions that used to be inlined before. Even if they only have one
single callsite - it looks like gcc may have decided that the code was
unlikely, and not worth inlining.
The code generation difference is harmless, but caused a few new section
mismatch errors, since the (now no longer inlined) function wasn't in
the __init section, but called other init functions:
Section mismatch in reference from the function kexec_free_initrd() to the function .init.text:free_initrd_mem()
Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memremap()
Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memunmap()
So add the appropriate __init annotation to make modpost not complain.
In both cases there were trivially just a single callsite from another
__init function.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arm64 calls memblock_free() for the initrd area in its implementation of
free_initrd_mem(), but this call has no actual effect that late in the boot
process. By the time initrd is freed, all the reserved memory is managed by
the page allocator and the memblock.reserved is unused, so the only purpose
of the memblock_free() call is to keep track of initrd memory for debugging
and accounting.
Without the memblock_free() call the only difference between arm64 and the
generic versions of free_initrd_mem() is the memory poisoning.
Move memblock_free() call to the generic code, enable it there
for the architectures that define ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK and use the generic
implementation of free_initrd_mem() on arm64.
Tested-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> #arm64
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
With gcc-4.6.3:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x140): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the variable .init.ramfs.info:__initramfs_size
The function populate_initrd_image() references
the variable __init __initramfs_size.
This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of __initramfs_size is wrong.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x14c): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the function .init.text:unpack_to_rootfs()
The function populate_initrd_image() references
the function __init unpack_to_rootfs().
This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of unpack_to_rootfs is wrong.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x198): Section mismatch in reference from the function populate_initrd_image() to the function .init.text:xwrite()
The function populate_initrd_image() references
the function __init xwrite().
This is often because populate_initrd_image lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of xwrite is wrong.
Indeed, if the compiler decides not to inline populate_initrd_image(), a
warning is generated.
Fix this by adding the missing __init annotations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617074340.12779-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Fixes: 7c184ecd26 ("initramfs: factor out a helper to populate the initrd image")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 54c7a8916a ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening
/initrd.image fails"), the kernel has unconditionally attempted to free
the initrd even if it doesn't exist.
In the non-existent case this causes a boot-time splat if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled due to a call to virt_to_phys() with a
NULL address.
Instead we should check that the initrd actually exists and only attempt
to free it if it does.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516143125.48948-1-steven.price@arm.com
Fixes: 54c7a8916a ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails")
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various architectures including x86 poison the freed initrd memory. Do
the same in the generic free_initrd_mem implementation and switch a few
more architectures that are identical to the generic code over to it now.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-9-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For most architectures free_initrd_mem just expands to the same
free_reserved_area call. Provide that as a generic implementation marked
__weak.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No need to handle the freeing disable in arch code when we already have a
core hook (and a different name for the option) for it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The code for kernels that support ramdisks or not is mostly the same.
Unify it by using an IS_ENABLED for the info message, and moving the error
message into a stub for populate_initrd_image.
[cai@lca.pw: fix a compilation error]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328014806.36375-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This will allow for cleaner code sharing in the caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Factor the kexec logic into a separate helper, and then inline the rest of
free_initrd into the only caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "initramfs tidyups".
I've spent some time chasing down behavior in initramfs and found
plenty of opportunity to improve the code. A first stab on that is
contained in this series.
This patch (of 7):
We free the initrd memory for all successful or error cases except for the
case where opening /initrd.image fails, which looks like an oversight.
Steven said:
: This also changes the behaviour when CONFIG_INITRAMFS_FORCE is enabled
: - specifically it means that the initrd is freed (previously it was
: ignored and never freed). But that seems like reasonable behaviour and
: the previous behaviour looks like another oversight.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190213174621.29297-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [arm64]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert ff1522bb7d ("initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs").
Andy reports
: This breaks my setup where I have U-boot provided more size of initramfs
: than needed. This allows a bit of flexibility to increase or decrease
: initramfs compressed image without taking care of bootloader. The proper
: solution is to do this if we sure that we didn't get enough memory,
: otherwise I can't consider the error fatal to clean up rootfs.
Fixes: ff1522bb7d ("initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs")
Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Unpacking an external initrd may fail e.g. not enough memory. This
leads to an incomplete rootfs because some files might be extracted
already. Fixed by cleaning the rootfs so the kernel is not using an
incomplete rootfs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030151805.5519-1-david.engraf@sysgo.com
Signed-off-by: David Engraf <david.engraf@sysgo.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'v4.20-rc5' into for-4.21/block
Pull in v4.20-rc5, solving a conflict we'll otherwise get in aio.c and
also getting the merge fix that went into mainline that users are
hitting testing for-4.21/block and/or for-next.
* tag 'v4.20-rc5': (664 commits)
Linux 4.20-rc5
PCI: Fix incorrect value returned from pcie_get_speed_cap()
MAINTAINERS: Update linux-mips mailing list address
ocfs2: fix potential use after free
mm/khugepaged: fix the xas_create_range() error path
mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() do not crash on Compound
mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() without freezing new_page
mm/khugepaged: minor reorderings in collapse_shmem()
mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() remember to clear holes
mm/khugepaged: fix crashes due to misaccounted holes
mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() stop if punched or truncated
mm/huge_memory: fix lockdep complaint on 32-bit i_size_read()
mm/huge_memory: splitting set mapping+index before unfreeze
mm/huge_memory: rename freeze_page() to unmap_page()
initramfs: clean old path before creating a hardlink
kernel/kcov.c: mark funcs in __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() as notrace
psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels
proc: fixup map_files test on arm
debugobjects: avoid recursive calls with kmemleak
userfaultfd: shmem: UFFDIO_COPY: set the page dirty if VM_WRITE is not set
...
This removes a bunch of core and elevator related code. On the core
front, we remove anything related to queue running, draining,
initialization, plugging, and congestions. We also kill anything
related to request allocation, merging, retrieval, and completion.
Remove any checking for single queue IO schedulers, as they no
longer exist. This means we can also delete a bunch of code related
to request issue, adding, completion, etc - and all the SQ related
ops and helpers.
Also kill the load_default_modules(), as all that did was provide
for a way to load the default single queue elevator.
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sparse checking used to be disabled on init/do_mounts.c and a few related
files because "Many of the syscalls used in this file expect some of the
arguments to be __user pointers not __kernel pointers".
However since 28128c61e ("kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid
missed struct attributes") the checks are, in fact, not disabled anymore
because of the more early include of "linux/compiler_types.h"
So remove the now ineffective #undefery that was done to disable these
warnings, as well as the associated comment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617115355.53799-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_getdents64() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_getdents64().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_open() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_open().
This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
