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* [PATCH v1 0/5] Reenable might_sleep() checks for might_fault()
@ 2014-12-05 11:18 David Hildenbrand
  2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] uaccess: add pagefault_count to thread_info David Hildenbrand
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: David Hildenbrand @ 2014-12-05 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arch, linux-kernel
  Cc: benh, paulus, akpm, heiko.carstens, dahi, schwidefsky,
	borntraeger, mst, tglx, David.Laight, peterz, hughd, hocko

I recently discovered that might_fault() doesn't call might_sleep() anymore.
Therefore bugs like:
	spin_lock(&lock);
	rc = copy_to_user(...);
	spin_unlock(&lock);
would not be detected with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP. The code was changed to
disable false positives for code like:
	pagefault_disable();
	rc = copy_to_user(...);
	pagefault_enable();

Until now, pagefault_disable() and pagefault_enable() simply modified the
preempt count, therefore telling the pagefault handler that the context is
atomic and sleeping is disallowed.

In order to reenable might_sleep() checks for the correct path, we need a way to
detect whether we run in a pagefault_disable() context.

This series therefore introduces a separate pagefault_count and uses it to count
the levels of pagefault_disable() per thread. might_sleep() checks are
reactivated for the !pagefault_disable() path.

So this should now work:
	spin_lock(&lock); /* also if left away */
	pagefault_disable()
	rc = copy_to_user(...);
	pagefault_enable();
	spin_unlock(&lock);
And this should report a warning again:
	spin_lock(&lock);
	rc = copy_to_user(...);
	spin_unlock(&lock);

Please note that this series will not completely split the handling of
pagefault_disable() and the preempt count. This will be done in another series.
Purpose of this series is to reenable might_sleep() checks for might_fault(),
avoiding to produce false positives.

Cross compiled on powerpc, arm, sparc, sparc64, arm64, x86_64, i386, mips,
alpha, ia64, xtensa, m68k, microblaze.

Tested on s390. Would be good to get some feedback on the ASM offsets for m32r,
sparc and xtensa (or if I should simply move the count to the end of the struct
for these archs ...).

Thanks!

David


David Hildenbrand (5):
  uaccess: add pagefault_count to thread_info
  uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_count
  mm, uaccess: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when pagefaults
    are disabled
  uaccess: clearify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are not
    disabled
  uaccess: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEFAULT_COUNT to debug pagefault_count

 arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h      |  1 +
 arch/arc/include/asm/thread_info.h        |  1 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h        |  1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h      |  1 +
 arch/avr32/include/asm/thread_info.h      |  1 +
 arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h          | 12 +++++---
 arch/blackfin/include/asm/thread_info.h   |  1 +
 arch/c6x/include/asm/thread_info.h        |  1 +
 arch/cris/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  1 +
 arch/frv/include/asm/thread_info.h        |  1 +
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/thread_info.h    |  1 +
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/uaccess.h        |  3 +-
 arch/ia64/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  1 +
 arch/m32r/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  5 +--
 arch/m32r/include/asm/uaccess.h           | 30 ++++++++++++------
 arch/m68k/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  1 +
 arch/metag/include/asm/thread_info.h      |  1 +
 arch/microblaze/include/asm/thread_info.h |  1 +
 arch/microblaze/include/asm/uaccess.h     |  6 ++--
 arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  1 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/uaccess.h           | 45 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 arch/mn10300/include/asm/thread_info.h    |  1 +
 arch/openrisc/include/asm/thread_info.h   |  1 +
 arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h     |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h    |  1 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  1 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h           | 15 ++++++---
 arch/score/include/asm/thread_info.h      |  1 +
 arch/score/include/asm/uaccess.h          | 15 ++++++---
 arch/sh/include/asm/thread_info.h         |  1 +
 arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h   | 20 ++++++------
 arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_64.h   | 17 ++++++-----
 arch/tile/include/asm/thread_info.h       |  1 +
 arch/tile/include/asm/uaccess.h           | 21 ++++++++-----
 arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h         |  1 +
 arch/unicore32/include/asm/thread_info.h  |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h        |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h            | 15 ++++++---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h         |  6 ++--
 arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c                |  6 ++--
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/thread_info.h     |  5 +--
 include/linux/kernel.h                    |  3 +-
 include/linux/uaccess.h                   | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 lib/Kconfig.debug                         |  9 ++++++
 lib/strnlen_user.c                        |  6 ++--
 mm/maccess.c                              | 11 +++++++
 mm/memory.c                               | 19 +++++-------
 47 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.5.5

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2014-12-08 13:12   ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-12-08 13:24     ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_count David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18   ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] mm, uaccess: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when pagefaults are disabled David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18   ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:45   ` Heiko Carstens
2014-12-05 11:46     ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 12:08       ` David Laight
2014-12-05 12:08         ` David Laight
2014-12-05 13:30         ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] uaccess: clearify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are not disabled David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18   ` David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] uaccess: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEFAULT_COUNT to debug pagefault_count David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05 11:18   ` David Hildenbrand

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