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These are the few pending fixes I have queued up for v4.13-final. One is a a generic regression fix for recursive loops on kmod and the other one is a trivial print out correction. During the v4.13 development we assumed that recursive kmod loops were no longer possible. Clearly that is not true. The regression fix makes use of a new killable wait. We use a killable wait to be paranoid in how signals might be sent to modprobe and only accept a proper SIGKILL. The signal will only be available to userspace to issue *iff* a thread has already entered a wait state, and that happens only if we've already throttled after 50 kmod threads have been hit. Note that although it may seem excessive to trigger a failure afer 5 seconds if all kmod thread remain busy, prior to the series of changes that went into v4.13 we would actually *always* fatally fail any request which came in if the limit was already reached. The new waiting implemented in v4.13 actually gives us *more* breathing room -- the wait for 5 seconds is a wait for *any* kmod thread to finish. We give up and fail *iff* no kmod thread has finished and they're *all* running straight for 5 consecutive seconds. If 50 kmod threads are running consecutively for 5 seconds something else must be really bad. Recursive loops with kmod are bad but they're also hard to implement properly as a selftest without currently fooling current userspace tools like kmod [1]. For instance kmod will complain when you run depmod if it finds a recursive loop with symbol dependency between modules as such this type of recursive loop cannot go upstream as the modules_install target will fail after running depmod. These tests already exist on userspace kmod upstream though (refer to the testsuite/module-playground/mod-loop-*.c files). The same is not true if request_module() is used though, or worst if aliases are used. Likewise the issue with 64-bit kernels booting 32-bit userspace without a binfmt handler built-in is also currently not detected and proactively avoided by userspace kmod tools, or kconfig for all architectures. Although we could complain in the kernel when some of these individual recursive issues creep up, proactively avoiding these situations in userspace at build time is what we should keep striving for. Lastly, since recursive loops could happen with kmod it may mean recursive loops may also be possible with other kernel usermode helpers, this should be investigated and long term if we can come up with a more sensible generic solution even better! [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=20170809-kmod-for-v4.13-final [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git This patch (of 3): This wait is similar to wait_event_interruptible_timeout() but only accepts SIGKILL interrupt signal. Other signals are ignored. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809234635.13443-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> Cc: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgetc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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