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* flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()Al Viro2012-11-291-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* audit: no nested contexts anymore...Al Viro2012-11-291-81/+21
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* generic sys_fork / sys_vfork / sys_cloneAl Viro2012-11-291-0/+43
| | | | | | | | | | | ... and get rid of idiotic struct pt_regs * in asm-generic/syscalls.h prototypes of the same, while we are at it. Eventually we want those in linux/syscalls.h, of course, but that'll have to wait a bit. Note that there are *three* variants of sys_clone() order of arguments. Braindamage galore... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* kill daemonize()Al Viro2012-11-291-92/+0
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-11-131-19/+22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull futex fix from Thomas Gleixner: "Single fix for a long standing futex race when taking over a futex whose owner died. You can end up with two owners, which violates quite some rules." * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Handle futex_pi OWNER_DIED take over correctly
| * futex: Handle futex_pi OWNER_DIED take over correctlyThomas Gleixner2012-11-011-19/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Siddhesh analyzed a failure in the take over of pi futexes in case the owner died and provided a workaround. See: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14076 The detailed problem analysis shows: Futex F is initialized with PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT and PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_NP attributes. T1 lock_futex_pi(F); T2 lock_futex_pi(F); --> T2 blocks on the futex and creates pi_state which is associated to T1. T1 exits --> exit_robust_list() runs --> Futex F userspace value TID field is set to 0 and FUTEX_OWNER_DIED bit is set. T3 lock_futex_pi(F); --> Succeeds due to the check for F's userspace TID field == 0 --> Claims ownership of the futex and sets its own TID into the userspace TID field of futex F --> returns to user space T1 --> exit_pi_state_list() --> Transfers pi_state to waiter T2 and wakes T2 via rt_mutex_unlock(&pi_state->mutex) T2 --> acquires pi_state->mutex and gains real ownership of the pi_state --> Claims ownership of the futex and sets its own TID into the userspace TID field of futex F --> returns to user space T3 --> observes inconsistent state This problem is independent of UP/SMP, preemptible/non preemptible kernels, or process shared vs. private. The only difference is that certain configurations are more likely to expose it. So as Siddhesh correctly analyzed the following check in futex_lock_pi_atomic() is the culprit: if (unlikely(ownerdied || !(curval & FUTEX_TID_MASK))) { We check the userspace value for a TID value of 0 and take over the futex unconditionally if that's true. AFAICT this check is there as it is correct for a different corner case of futexes: the WAITERS bit became stale. Now the proposed change - if (unlikely(ownerdied || !(curval & FUTEX_TID_MASK))) { + if (unlikely(ownerdied || + !(curval & (FUTEX_TID_MASK | FUTEX_WAITERS)))) { solves the problem, but it's not obvious why and it wreckages the "stale WAITERS bit" case. What happens is, that due to the WAITERS bit being set (T2 is blocked on that futex) it enforces T3 to go through lookup_pi_state(), which in the above case returns an existing pi_state and therefor forces T3 to legitimately fight with T2 over the ownership of the pi_state (via pi_state->mutex). Probelm solved! Though that does not work for the "WAITERS bit is stale" problem because if lookup_pi_state() does not find existing pi_state it returns -ERSCH (due to TID == 0) which causes futex_lock_pi() to return -ESRCH to user space because the OWNER_DIED bit is not set. Now there is a different solution to that problem. Do not look at the user space value at all and enforce a lookup of possibly available pi_state. If pi_state can be found, then the new incoming locker T3 blocks on that pi_state and legitimately races with T2 to acquire the rt_mutex and the pi_state and therefor the proper ownership of the user space futex. lookup_pi_state() has the correct order of checks. It first tries to find a pi_state associated with the user space futex and only if that fails it checks for futex TID value = 0. If no pi_state is available nothing can create new state at that point because this happens with the hash bucket lock held. So the above scenario changes to: T1 lock_futex_pi(F); T2 lock_futex_pi(F); --> T2 blocks on the futex and creates pi_state which is associated to T1. T1 exits --> exit_robust_list() runs --> Futex F userspace value TID field is set to 0 and FUTEX_OWNER_DIED bit is set. T3 lock_futex_pi(F); --> Finds pi_state and blocks on pi_state->rt_mutex T1 --> exit_pi_state_list() --> Transfers pi_state to waiter T2 and wakes it via rt_mutex_unlock(&pi_state->mutex) T2 --> acquires pi_state->mutex and gains ownership of the pi_state --> Claims ownership of the futex and sets its own TID into the userspace TID field of futex F --> returns to user space This covers all gazillion points on which T3 might come in between T1's exit_robust_list() clearing the TID field and T2 fixing it up. It also solves the "WAITERS bit stale" problem by forcing the take over. Another benefit of changing the code this way is that it makes it less dependent on untrusted user space values and therefor minimizes the possible wreckage which might be inflicted. As usual after staring for too long at the futex code my brain hurts so much that I really want to ditch that whole optimization of avoiding the syscall for the non contended case for PI futexes and rip out the maze of corner case handling code. Unfortunately we can't as user space relies on that existing behaviour, but at least thinking about it helps me to preserve my mental sanity. Maybe we should nevertheless :) Reported-and-tested-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1210232138540.2756@ionos Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | module: fix out-by-one error in kallsymsRusty Russell2012-10-311-11/+16
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Masaki found and patched a kallsyms issue: the last symbol in a module's symtab wasn't transferred. This is because we manually copy the zero'th entry (which is always empty) then copy the rest in a loop starting at 1, though from src[0]. His fix was minimal, I prefer to rewrite the loops in more standard form. There are two loops: one to get the size, and one to copy. Make these identical: always count entry 0 and any defined symbol in an allocated non-init section. This bug exists since the following commit was introduced. module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2) commit: 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/24/27 Reported-by: Masaki Kimura <masaki.kimura.kz@hitachi.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's fixes)Linus Torvalds2012-10-261-1/+11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "18 total. 15 fixes and some updates to a device_cgroup patchset which bring it up to date with the version which I should have merged in the first place." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (18 patches) fs/compat_ioctl.c: VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE missing error check gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c: add missing spin lock initialization mm, numa: avoid setting zone_reclaim_mode unless a node is sufficiently distant pidns: limit the nesting depth of pid namespaces drivers/dma/dw_dmac: make driver's endianness configurable mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance tools/testing/selftests/epoll/test_epoll.c: fix build UAPI: fix tools/vm/page-types.c mm/page_alloc.c:alloc_contig_range(): return early for err path rbtree: include linux/compiler.h for definition of __always_inline genalloc: stop crashing the system when destroying a pool backlight: ili9320: add missing SPI dependency device_cgroup: add proper checking when changing default behavior device_cgroup: stop using simple_strtoul() device_cgroup: rename deny_all to behavior cgroup: fix invalid rcu dereference mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390
| * pidns: limit the nesting depth of pid namespacesAndrew Vagin2012-10-251-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'struct pid' is a "variable sized struct" - a header with an array of upids at the end. The size of the array depends on a level (depth) of pid namespaces. Now a level of pidns is not limited, so 'struct pid' can be more than one page. Looks reasonable, that it should be less than a page. MAX_PIS_NS_LEVEL is not calculated from PAGE_SIZE, because in this case it depends on architectures, config options and it will be reduced, if someone adds a new fields in struct pid or struct upid. I suggest to set MAX_PIS_NS_LEVEL = 32, because it saves ability to expand "struct pid" and it's more than enough for all known for me use-cases. When someone finds a reasonable use case, we can add a config option or a sysctl parameter. In addition it will reduce the effect of another problem, when we have many nested namespaces and the oldest one starts dying. zap_pid_ns_processe will be called for each namespace and find_vpid will be called for each process in a namespace. find_vpid will be called minimum max_level^2 / 2 times. The reason of that is that when we found a bit in pidmap, we can't determine this pidns is top for this process or it isn't. vpid is a heavy operation, so a fork bomb, which create many nested namespace, can make a system inaccessible for a long time. For example my system becomes inaccessible for a few minutes with 4000 processes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: return -EINVAL in response to excessive nesting, not -ENOMEM] Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Makefile: Documentation for external tool should be correctH. Peter Anvin2012-10-261-4/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If one includes documentation for an external tool, it should be correct. This is not: 1. Overriding the input to rngd should typically be neither necessary nor desired. This is especially so since newer versions of rngd support a number of different *types* of sources. 2. The default kernel-exported device is called /dev/hwrng not /dev/hwrandom nor /dev/hw_random (both of which were used in the past; however, kernel and udev seem to have converged on /dev/hwrng.) Overall it is better if the documentation for rngd is kept with rngd rather than in a kernel Makefile. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-3.7-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-10-251-31/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: "This pull request contains three fixes. Two are reverts of task_lock() removal in cgroup fork path. The optimizations incorrectly assumed that threadgroup_lock can protect process forks (as opposed to thread creations) too. Further cleanup of cgroup fork path is scheduled. The third fixes cgroup emptiness notification loss." * 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: Revert "cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()" Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()" cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some cases
| * Revert "cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()"Tejun Heo2012-10-191-12/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 7e3aa30ac8c904a706518b725c451bb486daaae9. The commit incorrectly assumed that fork path always performed threadgroup_change_begin/end() and depended on that for synchronization against task exit and cgroup migration paths instead of explicitly grabbing task_lock(). threadgroup_change is not locked when forking a new process (as opposed to a new thread in the same process) and even if it were it wouldn't be effective as different processes use different threadgroup locks. Revert the incorrect optimization. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20121008020000.GB2575@localhost> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
| * Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()"Tejun Heo2012-10-191-17/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 7e381b0eb1e1a9805c37335562e8dc02e7d7848c. The commit incorrectly assumed that fork path always performed threadgroup_change_begin/end() and depended on that for synchronization against task exit and cgroup migration paths instead of explicitly grabbing task_lock(). threadgroup_change is not locked when forking a new process (as opposed to a new thread in the same process) and even if it were it wouldn't be effective as different processes use different threadgroup locks. Revert the incorrect optimization. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20121008020000.GB2575@localhost> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Bitterly-Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
| * cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some casesDaisuke Nishimura2012-10-171-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | notify_on_release must be triggered when the last process in a cgroup is move to another. But if the first(and only) process in a cgroup is moved to another, notify_on_release is not triggered. # mkdir /cgroup/cpu/SRC # mkdir /cgroup/cpu/DST # # echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/notify_on_release # echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/notify_on_release # # sleep 300 & [1] 8629 # # echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/tasks # echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/tasks -> notify_on_release for /SRC must be triggered at this point, but it isn't. This is because put_css_set() is called before setting CGRP_RELEASABLE in cgroup_task_migrate(), and is a regression introduce by the commit:74a1166d(cgroups: make procs file writable), which was merged into v3.0. Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0.x and later Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-3.7-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-10-251-1/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq Pull workqueue fix from Tejun Heo: "This pull request contains one patch from Dan Magenheimer to fix cancel_delayed_work() regression introduced by its reimplementation using try_to_grab_pending(). The reimplementation made it incorrectly return %true when the work item is idle. There aren't too many consumers of the return value but it broke at least ramster." * 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idle
| * | workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idleDan Magenheimer2012-10-241-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 57b30ae77b ("workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()") made cancel_delayed_work() always return %true unless someone else is also trying to cancel the work item, which is broken - if the target work item is idle, the return value should be %false. try_to_grab_pending() indicates that the target work item was idle by zero return value. Use it for return. Note that this brings cancel_delayed_work() in line with __cancel_work_timer() in return value handling. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <444a6439-b1a4-4740-9e7e-bc37267cfe73@default>
* | Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-10-242-183/+166
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Most of these are uprobes race fixes from Oleg, and their preparatory cleanups. (It's larger than what I'd normally send for an -rc kernel, but they looked significant enough to not delay them.) There's also an oprofile fix and an uncore PMU fix." * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits) perf/x86: Disable uncore on virtualized CPUs oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl() ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing uprobes: Fix the racy uprobe->flags manipulation uprobes: Fix prepare_uprobe() race with itself uprobes: Introduce prepare_uprobe() uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race uprobes: Do not delete uprobe if uprobe_unregister() fails uprobes: Don't return success if alloc_uprobe() fails uprobes/x86: Only rep+nop can be emulated correctly uprobes: Simplify is_swbp_at_addr(), remove stale comments uprobes: Kill set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr() uprobes: Introduce copy_opcode(), kill read_opcode() uprobes: Kill set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr() uprobes: Restrict valid_vma(false) to skip VM_SHARED vmas uprobes: Change valid_vma() to demand VM_MAYEXEC rather than VM_EXEC uprobes: Change write_opcode() to use FOLL_FORCE uprobes: Move clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) to uprobe_notify_resume() uprobes: Kill UTASK_BP_HIT state uprobes: Fix UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP checks in handle_swbp() ...
| * \ Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar2012-10-211-0/+4
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent Pull ftrace ring-buffer resizing fix from Steve Rostedt. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| | * | ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizingVaibhav Nagarnaik2012-10-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With a system where, num_present_cpus < num_possible_cpus, even if all CPUs are online, non-present CPUs don't have per_cpu buffers allocated. If per_cpu/<cpu>/buffer_size_kb is modified for such a CPU, it can cause a panic due to NULL dereference in ring_buffer_resize(). To fix this, resize operation is allowed only if the per-cpu buffer has been initialized. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349912427-6486-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+ Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'uprobes/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar2012-10-211-183/+162
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc into perf/urgent Pull various uprobes bugfixes from Oleg Nesterov - mostly race and failure path fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| | * | | uprobes: Fix the racy uprobe->flags manipulationOleg Nesterov2012-10-071-14/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Multiple threads can manipulate uprobe->flags, this is obviously unsafe. For example mmap can set UPROBE_COPY_INSN while register tries to set UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER, the latter can also race with can_skip_sstep() which clears UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP. Change this code to use bitops. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Fix prepare_uprobe() race with itselfOleg Nesterov2012-10-071-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | install_breakpoint() is called under mm->mmap_sem, this protects set_swbp() but not prepare_uprobe(). Two or more different tasks can call install_breakpoint()->prepare_uprobe() at the same time, this leads to numerous problems if UPROBE_COPY_INSN is not set. Just for example, the second copy_insn() can corrupt the already analyzed/fixuped uprobe->arch.insn and race with handle_swbp(). This patch simply adds uprobe->copy_mutex to serialize this code. We could probably reuse ->consumer_rwsem, but this would mean that consumer->handler() can not use mm->mmap_sem, not good. Note: this is another temporary ugly hack until we move this logic into uprobe_register(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Introduce prepare_uprobe()Oleg Nesterov2012-10-071-19/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Preparation. Extract the copy_insn/arch_uprobe_analyze_insn code from install_breakpoint() into the new helper, prepare_uprobe(). And move uprobe->flags defines from uprobes.h to uprobes.c, nobody else can use them anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() raceOleg Nesterov2012-10-071-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Strictly speaking this race was added by me in 56bb4cf6. However I think that this bug is just another indication that we should move copy_insn/uprobe_analyze_insn code from install_breakpoint() to uprobe_register(), there are a lot of other reasons for that. Until then, add a hack to close the race. A task can hit uprobe U1, but before it calls find_uprobe() this uprobe can be unregistered *AND* another uprobe U2 can be added to uprobes_tree at the same inode/offset. In this case handle_swbp() will use the not-fully-initialized U2, in particular its arch.insn for xol. Add the additional !UPROBE_COPY_INSN check into handle_swbp(), if this flag is not set we simply restart as if the new uprobe was not inserted yet. This is not very nice, we need barriers, but we will remove this hack when we change uprobe_register(). Note: with or without this patch install_breakpoint() can race with itself, yet another reson to kill UPROBE_COPY_INSN altogether. And even the usage of uprobe->flags is not safe. See the next patches. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Do not delete uprobe if uprobe_unregister() failsOleg Nesterov2012-10-071-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | delete_uprobe() must not be called if register_for_each_vma(false) fails to remove all breakpoints, __uprobe_unregister() is correct. The problem is that register_for_each_vma(false) always returns 0 and thus this logic does not work. 1. Change verify_opcode() to return 0 rather than -EINVAL when unregister detects the !is_swbp insn, we can treat this case as success and currently unregister paths ignore the error code anyway. 2. Change remove_breakpoint() to propagate the error code from write_opcode(). 3. Change register_for_each_vma(is_register => false) to remove as much breakpoints as possible but return non-zero if remove_breakpoint() fails at least once. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Don't return success if alloc_uprobe() failsOleg Nesterov2012-10-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If alloc_uprobe() fails uprobe_register() should return ENOMEM, not 0. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Simplify is_swbp_at_addr(), remove stale commentsOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-49/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After the previous change is_swbp_at_addr() is always called with current->mm. Remove this check and move it close to its single caller. Also, remove the obsolete comment about is_swbp_at_addr() and uprobe_state.count. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Kill set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr()Oleg Nesterov2012-09-291-9/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unlike set_swbp(), set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr() makes sense, although it can't prevent all confusions. But the usage of is_swbp_at_addr() is equally confusing, and it adds the extra get_user_pages() we can avoid. This patch removes set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr() but changes write_opcode() to do the necessary checks before replace_page(). Perhaps it also makes sense to ensure PAGE_MAPPING_ANON in unregister case. find_active_uprobe() becomes the only user of is_swbp_at_addr(), we can change its semantics. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Introduce copy_opcode(), kill read_opcode()Oleg Nesterov2012-09-291-44/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes, preparations. 1. Extract the kmap-and-memcpy code from read_opcode() into the new trivial helper, copy_opcode(). The next patch will add another user. 2. read_opcode() becomes really trivial, fold it into its single caller, is_swbp_at_addr(). 3. Remove "auprobe" argument from write_opcode(), it is not used since f403072c6. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Kill set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr()Oleg Nesterov2012-09-291-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A separate patch for better documentation. set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr() is not needed for correctness, it is harmless to do the unnecessary __replace_page(old_page, new_page) when these 2 pages are identical. And it can not be counted as optimization. mmap/register races are very unlikely, while in the likely case is_swbp_at_addr() adds the extra get_user_pages() even if the caller is uprobe_mmap(current->mm) and returns false. Note also that the semantics/usage of is_swbp_at_addr() in uprobe.c is confusing. set_swbp() uses it to detect the case when this insn was already modified by uprobes, that is why it should always compare the opcode with UPROBE_SWBP_INSN even if the hardware (like powerpc) has other trap insns. It doesn't matter if this breakpoint was in fact installed by gdb or application itself, we are going to "steal" this breakpoint anyway and execute the original insn from vm_file even if it no longer matches the memory. OTOH, handle_swbp()->find_active_uprobe() uses is_swbp_at_addr() to figure out whether we need to send SIGTRAP or not if we can not find uprobe, so in this case it should return true for all trap variants, not only for UPROBE_SWBP_INSN. This patch removes set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr(), the next patches will remove it from set_orig_insn() which is similar to set_swbp() in this respect. So the only caller will be handle_swbp() and we can make its semantics clear. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Restrict valid_vma(false) to skip VM_SHARED vmasOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-9/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | valid_vma(false) ignores ->vm_flags, this is not actually right. We should never try to write into MAP_SHARED mapping, this can confuse an apllication which actually writes to ->vm_file. With this patch valid_vma(false) ignores VM_WRITE only but checks other (immutable) bits checked by valid_vma(true). This can also speedup uprobe_munmap() and uprobe_unregister(). Note: even after this patch _unregister can confuse the probed application if it does mprotect(PROT_WRITE) after _register and installs "int3", but this is hardly possible to avoid and this doesn't differ from gdb case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Change valid_vma() to demand VM_MAYEXEC rather than VM_EXECOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | uprobe_register() or uprobe_mmap() requires VM_READ | VM_EXEC, this is not right. An apllication can do mprotect(PROT_EXEC) later and execute this code. Change valid_vma(is_register => true) to check VM_MAYEXEC instead. No need to check VM_MAYREAD, it is always set. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Change write_opcode() to use FOLL_FORCEOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | write_opcode()->get_user_pages() needs FOLL_FORCE to ensure we can read the page even if the probed task did mprotect(PROT_NONE) after uprobe_register(). Without FOLL_WRITE, FOLL_FORCE doesn't have any side effect but allows to read the !VM_READ memory. Otherwiese the subsequent uprobe_unregister()->set_orig_insn() fails and we leak "int3". If that task does mprotect(PROT_READ | EXEC) and execute the probed insn later it will be killed. Note: in fact this is also needed for _register, see the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Move clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) to uprobe_notify_resume()Oleg Nesterov2012-09-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) from do_notify_resume() to uprobe_notify_resume() for !CONFIG_UPROBES case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Kill UTASK_BP_HIT stateOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-20/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kill UTASK_BP_HIT state, it buys nothing but complicates the code. It is only used in uprobe_notify_resume() to decide who should be called, we can check utask->active_uprobe != NULL instead. And this allows us to simplify handle_swbp(), no need to clear utask->state. Likewise we could kill UTASK_SSTEP, but UTASK_BP_HIT is worse and imho should die. The problem is, it creates the special case when task->utask is NULL, we can't distinguish RUNNING and BP_HIT. With this patch utask == NULL always means RUNNING. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Fix UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP checks in handle_swbp()Oleg Nesterov2012-09-291-16/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If handle_swbp()->add_utask() fails but UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP is set, cleanup_ret: path do not restart the insn, this is wrong. Remove this check and add the additional label for can_skip_sstep() = T case. Note also that UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP can be false positive, we simply can not trust it unless arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() was already called. Also, move another UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP check before can_skip_sstep() into this helper, this looks more clean and understandable. Note: probably we should rename "skip" to "emulate" and I think that "clear UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP" should be moved to arch_can_skip. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Do not setup ->active_uprobe/state prematurelyOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | handle_swbp() sets utask->active_uprobe before handler_chain(), and UTASK_SSTEP before pre_ssout(). This complicates the code for no reason, arch_ hooks or consumer->handler() should not (and can't) use this info. Change handle_swbp() to initialize them after pre_ssout(), and remove the no longer needed cleanup-utask code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> cked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | uprobes: Do not leak UTASK_BP_HIT if find_active_uprobe() failsOleg Nesterov2012-09-291-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If handle_swbp()->find_active_uprobe() fails we return with utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT. Change handle_swbp() to reset utask->state at the start. Note that we do this unconditionally, see the next patch(es). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | | | | module_signing: fix printk format warningRandy Dunlap2012-10-221-1/+1
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the warning: kernel/module_signing.c:195:2: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t' by using the proper 'z' modifier for printing a size_t. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | use clamp_t in UNAME26 fixKees Cook2012-10-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The min/max call needed to have explicit types on some architectures (e.g. mn10300). Use clamp_t instead to avoid the warning: kernel/sys.c: In function 'override_release': kernel/sys.c:1287:10: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default] Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the searchDavid Howells2012-10-203-28/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Emit the magic string that indicates a module has a signature after the signature data instead of before it. This allows module_sig_check() to be made simpler and faster by the elimination of the search for the magic string. Instead we just need to do a single memcmp(). This works because at the end of the signature data there is the fixed-length signature information block. This block then falls immediately prior to the magic number. From the contents of the information block, it is trivial to calculate the size of the signature data and thus the size of the actual module data. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns()Cyrill Gorcunov2012-10-191-7/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | free_pid_ns() operates in a recursive fashion: free_pid_ns(parent) put_pid_ns(parent) kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns); free_pid_ns thus if there was a huge nesting of namespaces the userspace may trigger avalanche calling of free_pid_ns leading to kernel stack exhausting and a panic eventually. This patch turns the recursion into an iterative loop. Based on a patch by Andrew Vagin. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export put_pid_ns() to modules] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26Kees Cook2012-10-191-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel stack contents. This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill). CVE-2012-0957 Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()Paul E. McKenney2012-10-171-1/+0
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The console_cpu_notify() function runs with interrupts disabled in the CPU_DYING case. It therefore cannot block, for example, as will happen when it calls console_lock(). Therefore, remove the CPU_DYING leg of the switch statement to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'modules-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-10-145-27/+578
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell: "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..." Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG. * 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits) X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files. MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy module: signature checking hook X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler ...
| * | | MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.Rusty Russell2012-10-101-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It doesn't, because the clean targets don't include kernel/Makefile, and because two files were missing from the list. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certsDavid Howells2012-10-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Place an indication that the certificate should use utf8 strings into the x509.genkey template generated by kernel/Makefile. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sigDavid Howells2012-10-101-1/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the same digest type for the autogenerated key signature as for the module signature so that the hash algorithm is guaranteed to be present in the kernel. Without this, the X.509 certificate loader may reject the X.509 certificate so generated because it was self-signed and the signature will be checked against itself - but this won't work if the digest algorithm must be loaded as a module. The symptom is that the key fails to load with the following message emitted into the kernel log: MODSIGN: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-65) the error in brackets being -ENOPKG. What you should see is something like: MODSIGN: Loaded cert 'Magarathea: Glacier signing key: 9588321144239a119d3406d4c4cf1fbae1836fa0' Note that this doesn't apply to certificates that are not self-signed as we don't check those currently as they require the parent CA certificate to be available. Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | MODSIGN: Implement module signature checkingDavid Howells2012-10-101-1/+221
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check the signature on the module against the keys compiled into the kernel or available in a hardware key store. Currently, only RSA keys are supported - though that's easy enough to change, and the signature is expected to contain raw components (so not a PGP or PKCS#7 formatted blob). The signature blob is expected to consist of the following pieces in order: (1) The binary identifier for the key. This is expected to match the SubjectKeyIdentifier from an X.509 certificate. Only X.509 type identifiers are currently supported. (2) The signature data, consisting of a series of MPIs in which each is in the format of a 2-byte BE word sizes followed by the content data. (3) A 12 byte information block of the form: struct module_signature { enum pkey_algo algo : 8; enum pkey_hash_algo hash : 8; enum pkey_id_type id_type : 8; u8 __pad; __be32 id_length; __be32 sig_length; }; The three enums are defined in crypto/public_key.h. 'algo' contains the public-key algorithm identifier (0->DSA, 1->RSA). 'hash' contains the digest algorithm identifier (0->MD4, 1->MD5, 2->SHA1, etc.). 'id_type' contains the public-key identifier type (0->PGP, 1->X.509). '__pad' should be 0. 'id_length' should contain in the binary identifier length in BE form. 'sig_length' should contain in the signature data length in BE form. The lengths are in BE order rather than CPU order to make dealing with cross-compilation easier. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor Kconfig fix)
| * | | MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernelDavid Howells2012-10-103-2/+124
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Include a PGP keyring containing the public keys required to perform module verification in the kernel image during build and create a special keyring during boot which is then populated with keys of crypto type holding the public keys found in the PGP keyring. These can be seen by root: [root@andromeda ~]# cat /proc/keys 07ad4ee0 I----- 1 perm 3f010000 0 0 crypto modsign.0: RSA 87b9b3bd [] 15c7f8c3 I----- 1 perm 1f030000 0 0 keyring .module_sign: 1/4 ... It is probably worth permitting root to invalidate these keys, resulting in their removal and preventing further modules from being loaded with that key. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>