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  1. 08 Mar, 2021 1 commit
    • Andy Lutomirski's avatar
      x86/stackprotector/32: Make the canary into a regular percpu variable · 3fb0fdb3
      Andy Lutomirski authored 
      On 32-bit kernels, the stackprotector canary is quite nasty -- it is
stored at %gs:(20), which is nasty because 32-bit kernels use %fs for
percpu storage.  It's even nastier because it means that whether %gs
contains userspace state or kernel state while running kernel code
depends on whether stackprotector is enabled (this is
CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS), and this setting radically changes the way
that segment selectors work.  Supporting both variants is a
maintenance and testing mess.

Merely rearranging so that percpu and the stack canary
share the same segment would be messy as the 32-bit percpu address
layout isn't currently compatible with putting a variable at a fixed
offset.

Fortunately, GCC 8.1 added options that allow the stack canary to be
accessed as %fs:__stack_chk_guard, effectively turning it into an ordinary
percpu variable.  This lets us get rid of all of the code to manage the
stack canary GDT descriptor and the CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS mess.

(That name is special.  We could use any symbol we want for the
 %fs-relative mode, but for CONFIG_SMP=n, gcc refuses to let us use any
 name other than __stack_chk_guard.)

Forcibly disable stackprotector on older compilers that don't support
the new options and turn the stack canary into a percpu variable. The
"lazy GS" approach is now used for all 32-bit configurations.

Also makes load_gs_index() work on 32-bit kernels. On 64-bit kernels,
it loads the GS selector and updates the user GSBASE accordingly. (This
is unchanged.) On 32-bit kernels, it loads the GS selector and updates
GSBASE, which is now always the user base. This means that the overall
effect is the same on 32-bit and 64-bit, which avoids some ifdeffery.

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c0ff7dba14041c7e5d1cae5d4df052f03759bef3.1613243844.git.luto@kernel.org
      3fb0fdb3
  3. 06 Mar, 2021 4 commits
  5. 05 Mar, 2021 33 commits
  7. 04 Mar, 2021 2 commits
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      kernel: provide create_io_thread() helper · cc440e87
      Jens Axboe authored 
      Provide a generic helper for setting up an io_uring worker. Returns a
task_struct so that the caller can do whatever setup is needed, then call
wake_up_new_task() to kick it into gear.

Add a kernel_clone_args member, io_thread, which tells copy_process() to
mark the task with PF_IO_WORKER.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      cc440e87
    • Pavel Begunkov's avatar
      io_uring: reliably cancel linked timeouts · dd59a3d5
      Pavel Begunkov authored 
      Linked timeouts are fired asynchronously (i.e. soft-irq), and use
generic cancellation paths to do its stuff, including poking into io-wq.
The problem is that it's racy to access tctx->io_wq, as
io_uring_task_cancel() and others may be happening at this exact moment.
Mark linked timeouts with REQ_F_INLIFGHT for now, making sure there are
no timeouts before io-wq destraction.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      dd59a3d5
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