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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fc8c67833 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================================== +Virtually Mapped Kernel Stack Support +===================================== + +:Author: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> + +.. contents:: :local: + +Overview +-------- + +This is a compilation of information from the code and original patch +series that introduced the `Virtually Mapped Kernel Stacks feature +<https://lwn.net/Articles/694348/>` + +Introduction +------------ + +Kernel stack overflows are often hard to debug and make the kernel +susceptible to exploits. Problems could show up at a later time making +it difficult to isolate and root-cause. + +Virtually-mapped kernel stacks with guard pages causes kernel stack +overflows to be caught immediately rather than causing difficult to +diagnose corruptions. + +HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK and VMAP_STACK configuration options enable +support for virtually mapped stacks with guard pages. This feature +causes reliable faults when the stack overflows. The usability of +the stack trace after overflow and response to the overflow itself +is architecture dependent. + +.. note:: + As of this writing, arm64, powerpc, riscv, s390, um, and x86 have + support for VMAP_STACK. + +HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK +-------------------- + +Architectures that can support Virtually Mapped Kernel Stacks should +enable this bool configuration option. The requirements are: + +- vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks. This + may rule out many 32-bit architectures. +- Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably. For example, if + vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism + needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with + unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(), + most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries + are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack. +- If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable + should happen. The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but + instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly. + +VMAP_STACK +---------- + +VMAP_STACK bool configuration option when enabled allocates virtually +mapped task stacks. This option depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK. + +- Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks + with guard pages. This causes kernel stack overflows to be caught + immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose corruption. + +.. note:: + + Using this feature with KASAN requires architecture support + for backing virtual mappings with real shadow memory, and + KASAN_VMALLOC must be enabled. + +.. note:: + + VMAP_STACK is enabled, it is not possible to run DMA on stack + allocated data. + +Kernel configuration options and dependencies keep changing. Refer to +the latest code base: + +`Kconfig <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/Kconfig>` + +Allocation +----------- + +When a new kernel thread is created, thread stack is allocated from +virtually contiguous memory pages from the page level allocator. These +pages are mapped into contiguous kernel virtual space with PAGE_KERNEL +protections. + +alloc_thread_stack_node() calls __vmalloc_node_range() to allocate stack +with PAGE_KERNEL protections. + +- Allocated stacks are cached and later reused by new threads, so memcg + accounting is performed manually on assigning/releasing stacks to tasks. + Hence, __vmalloc_node_range is called without __GFP_ACCOUNT. +- vm_struct is cached to be able to find when thread free is initiated + in interrupt context. free_thread_stack() can be called in interrupt + context. +- On arm64, all VMAP's stacks need to have the same alignment to ensure + that VMAP'd stack overflow detection works correctly. Arch specific + vmap stack allocator takes care of this detail. +- This does not address interrupt stacks - according to the original patch + +Thread stack allocation is initiated from clone(), fork(), vfork(), +kernel_thread() via kernel_clone(). Leaving a few hints for searching +the code base to understand when and how thread stack is allocated. + +Bulk of the code is in: +`kernel/fork.c <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/fork.c>`. + +stack_vm_area pointer in task_struct keeps track of the virtually allocated +stack and a non-null stack_vm_area pointer serves as a indication that the +virtually mapped kernel stacks are enabled. + +:: + + struct vm_struct *stack_vm_area; + +Stack overflow handling +----------------------- + +Leading and trailing guard pages help detect stack overflows. When stack +overflows into the guard pages, handlers have to be careful not overflow +the stack again. When handlers are called, it is likely that very little +stack space is left. + +On x86, this is done by handling the page fault indicating the kernel +stack overflow on the double-fault stack. + +Testing VMAP allocation with guard pages +---------------------------------------- + +How do we ensure that VMAP_STACK is actually allocating with a leading +and trailing guard page? The following lkdtm tests can help detect any +regressions. + +:: + + void lkdtm_STACK_GUARD_PAGE_LEADING() + void lkdtm_STACK_GUARD_PAGE_TRAILING() + +Conclusions +----------- + +- A percpu cache of vmalloced stacks appears to be a bit faster than a + high-order stack allocation, at least when the cache hits. +- THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK gets rid of arch-specific thread_info entirely and + simply embed the thread_info (containing only flags) and 'int cpu' into + task_struct. +- The thread stack can be free'ed as soon as the task is dead (without + waiting for RCU) and then, if vmapped stacks are in use, cache the + entire stack for reuse on the same cpu. |