The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).
Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.
The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.
The qemu code which implements this features is at:
http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch
In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
patch.
I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.
This patch:
The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap reports that we get
arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/ptrace.h:7:20: error: redefinition of 'regs_return_value'
arch/x86/um/shared/sysdep/ptrace.h:7:20: note: previous definition of 'regs_return_value' was here
when compiling UML for x86-64.
Stephen Rothwell root-caused it and says:
"Caused by commit d7e7528bcd ("Audit: push audit success and retcode
into arch ptrace.h") (another patch that was never in linux-next :-().
This file now needs protection against double inclusion."
so let's do as the man says.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Analyzed-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
audit: comparison on interprocess fields
audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
audit: complex interfield comparison helper
audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
audit: do not call audit_getname on error
audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
audit: allow matching on obj_uid
audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
audit: reject entry,always rules
audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
...
Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.
Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to
supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was.
Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify things
by converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating
success or failure. This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid
pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall. The fix is to fix the
layering foolishness. We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it
in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to
determine if the syscall was a success or failure. We also define a generic
is_syscall_success() macro which determines success/failure based on if the
value is < -MAX_ERRNO. This works for arches like x86 which do not use a
separate mechanism to indicate syscall failure.
We make both the is_syscall_success() and regs_return_value() static inlines
instead of macros. The reason is because the audit function must take a void*
for the regs. (uml calls theirs struct uml_pt_regs instead of just struct
pt_regs so audit_syscall_exit can't take a struct pt_regs). Since the audit
function takes a void* we need to use static inlines to cast it back to the
arch correct structure to dereference it.
The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, MIPS and ppc, we
change regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure.
THE only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it
makes the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs.
In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old
audit code as the return value. But the ptrace_64.h code defined the macro
regs_return_value() as regs[3]. I have no idea which one is correct, but this
patch now uses the regs_return_value() function, so it now uses regs[3].
For powerpc we previously used regs->result but now use the
regs_return_value() function which uses regs->gprs[3]. regs->gprs[3] is
always positive so the regs_return_value(), much like ia64 makes it negative
before calling the audit code when appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [for x86 portion]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [for ia64]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for uml]
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [for sparc]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [for mips]
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [for ppc]
* 'x86-syscall-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Move <asm/asm-offsets.h> from trace_syscalls.c to asm/syscall.h
x86, um: Fix typo in 32-bit system call modifications
um: Use $(srctree) not $(KBUILD_SRC)
x86, um: Mark system call tables readonly
x86, um: Use the same style generated syscall tables as native
um: Generate headers before generating user-offsets.s
um: Run host archheaders, allow use of host generated headers
kbuild, headers.sh: Don't make archheaders explicitly
x86, syscall: Allow syscall offset to be symbolic
x86, syscall: Re-fix typo in comment
x86: Simplify syscallhdr.sh
x86: Generate system call tables and unistd_*.h from tables
checksyscalls: Use arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl as source
x86: Machine-readable syscall tables and scripts to process them
trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c
x86-64, ia32: Move compat_ni_syscall into C and its own file
x86-64, syscall: Adjust comment spacing and remove typo
kbuild: Add support for an "archheaders" target
kbuild: Add support for installing generated asm headers
Move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE and rename it to HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE so architectures
can simply select the option if it is supported.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move CMPXCHG_LOCAL and rename it to HAVE_CMPXCHG_LOCAL so architectures
can simply select the option if it is supported.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We override sys_iopl(), not stub_iopl(); the latter is a 64-bitism
that doesn't apply to i386 in the first place.
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Mark the system call tables readonly, as they already are on native,
and the 32-bit UM version was in the previous assembly version. The
32-bit version lost it due to copy and paste from the 64-bit version,
which was missing the const.
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/tip-45db1c6176c8171d9ae6fa6d82e07d115a5950ca@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Now when the native kernel uses a single style of generated system
call table, follow suite for UML and implement the same style, all in
C. This requires __NR_syscall_max and NR_syscalls to be generated; on
native this is done in asm-headers.h but that file is common to all
UML architectures; therefore put it in user-headers.h instead which
already have accommodations for architecture-specific values.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
scsi: drop unused Kconfig symbol
pci: drop unused Kconfig symbol
stmmac: drop unused Kconfig symbol
x86: drop unused Kconfig symbol
powerpc: drop unused Kconfig symbols
powerpc: 40x: drop unused Kconfig symbol
mips: drop unused Kconfig symbols
openrisc: drop unused Kconfig symbols
arm: at91: drop unused Kconfig symbol
samples: drop unused Kconfig symbol
m32r: drop unused Kconfig symbol
score: drop unused Kconfig symbols
sh: drop unused Kconfig symbol
um: drop unused Kconfig symbol
sparc: drop unused Kconfig symbol
alpha: drop unused Kconfig symbol
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
as per Michal: the STMMAC_DUAL_MAC config variable is still unused and
should be deleted.
kmalloc size is 1st arg, not second.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 3.0.x
[richard@nod.at: on 3.0 the to be patched file is
arch/um/sys-x86_64/vdso/vma.c]
... and switch get_thread_register() to HOST_... for register numbers
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
a) exports in gmon_syms.c duplicate kernel/gcov/* ones
b) excluding -pg in vdso compile is not enough - -fprofile-arcs
and -ftest-coverage also needs to be excluded
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
it's x86-only and we have no business playing with it in asm/mmu.h; make
the latter have
struct uml_arch_mm_context arch;
instead of
struct uml_ldt ldt;
and let arch/<subarch>/um/asm/mm_context.h decide what'll be in there.
While we are at it, kill host_ldt.h - it's not needed in part of places
that include it (we want asm/ldt.h in those) and it can be trivially
expanded into the single remaining one.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
analog of [PATCH] i386: let usermode execute the "enter" instruction from
circa 2006.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
it's i386-specific; moreover, analogs on other targets have
incompatible interface - PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA does exist
elsewhere, but struct user_desc does *not*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
