The patch titled Subject: fs/proc/kcore: drop KCORE_REMAP and KCORE_OTHER has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fs-proc-kcore-drop-kcore_remap-and-kcore_other.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/proc/kcore: drop KCORE_REMAP and KCORE_OTHER Patch series "fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections, logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages", v2. Looking for places where the kernel might unconditionally read PageOffline() pages, I stumbled over /proc/kcore; turns out /proc/kcore needs some more love to not touch some other pages we really don't want to read -- i.e., hwpoisoned ones. Examples for PageOffline() pages are pages inflated in a balloon, memory unplugged via virtio-mem, and partially-present sections in memory added by the Hyper-V balloon. When reading pages inflated in a balloon, we essentially produce unnecessary load in the hypervisor; holes in partially present sections in case of Hyper-V are not accessible and already were a problem for /proc/vmcore, fixed in makedumpfile by detecting PageOffline() pages. In the future, virtio-mem might disallow reading unplugged memory -- marked as PageOffline() -- in some environments, resulting in undefined behavior when accessed; therefore, I'm trying to identify and rework all these (corner) cases. With this series, there is really only access via /dev/mem, /proc/vmcore and kdb left after I ripped out /dev/kmem. kdb is an advanced corner-case use case -- we won't care for now if someone explicitly tries to do nasty things by reading from/writing to physical addresses we better not touch. /dev/mem is a use case we won't support for virtio-mem, at least for now, so we'll simply disallow mapping any virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem next. /proc/vmcore is really only a problem when dumping the old kernel via something that's not makedumpfile (read: basically never), however, we'll try sanitizing that as well in the second kernel in the future. Tested via kcore_dump: https://github.com/schlafwandler/kcore_dump This patch (of 6): Commit db779ef67ffe ("proc/kcore: Remove unused kclist_add_remap()") removed the last user of KCORE_REMAP. Commit 595dd46ebfc1 ("vfs/proc/kcore, x86/mm/kcore: Fix SMAP fault when dumping vsyscall user page") removed the last user of KCORE_OTHER. Let's drop both types. While at it, also drop vaddr in "struct kcore_list", used by KCORE_REMAP only. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210514172247.176750-1-david@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210514172247.176750-2-david@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/kcore.c | 7 ++----- include/linux/kcore.h | 3 --- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/kcore.c~fs-proc-kcore-drop-kcore_remap-and-kcore_other +++ a/fs/proc/kcore.c @@ -380,11 +380,8 @@ read_kcore(struct file *file, char __use phdr->p_type = PT_LOAD; phdr->p_flags = PF_R | PF_W | PF_X; phdr->p_offset = kc_vaddr_to_offset(m->addr) + data_offset; - if (m->type == KCORE_REMAP) - phdr->p_vaddr = (size_t)m->vaddr; - else - phdr->p_vaddr = (size_t)m->addr; - if (m->type == KCORE_RAM || m->type == KCORE_REMAP) + phdr->p_vaddr = (size_t)m->addr; + if (m->type == KCORE_RAM) phdr->p_paddr = __pa(m->addr); else if (m->type == KCORE_TEXT) phdr->p_paddr = __pa_symbol(m->addr); --- a/include/linux/kcore.h~fs-proc-kcore-drop-kcore_remap-and-kcore_other +++ a/include/linux/kcore.h @@ -11,14 +11,11 @@ enum kcore_type { KCORE_RAM, KCORE_VMEMMAP, KCORE_USER, - KCORE_OTHER, - KCORE_REMAP, }; struct kcore_list { struct list_head list; unsigned long addr; - unsigned long vaddr; size_t size; int type; }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are perf-map_executable-does-not-indicate-vm_mayexec.patch binfmt-remove-in-tree-usage-of-map_executable.patch mm-ignore-map_executable-in-ksys_mmap_pgoff.patch mm-make-variable-names-for-populate_vma_page_range-consistent.patch mm-madvise-introduce-madv_populate_readwrite-to-prefault-page-tables.patch maintainers-add-tools-testing-selftests-vm-to-memory-management.patch selftests-vm-add-protection_keys_32-protection_keys_64-to-gitignore.patch selftests-vm-add-test-for-madv_populate_readwrite.patch memory-hotplugrst-complete-admin-guide-overhaul.patch fs-proc-kcore-pfn_is_ram-check-only-applies-to-kcore_ram.patch fs-proc-kcore-dont-read-offline-sections-logically-offline-pages-and-hwpoisoned-pages.patch mm-introduce-page_offline_beginendfreezethaw-to-synchronize-setting-pageoffline.patch virtio-mem-use-page_offline_startend-when-setting-pageoffline.patch fs-proc-kcore-use-page_offline_freezethaw.patch