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  3. 30 Jan, 2020 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma · 39bed42d
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull mmu_notifier updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "This small series revises the names in mmu_notifier to make the code
  clearer and more readable"

* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma:
  mm/mmu_notifiers: Use 'interval_sub' as the variable for mmu_interval_notifier
  mm/mmu_notifiers: Use 'subscription' as the variable name for mmu_notifier
  mm/mmu_notifier: Rename struct mmu_notifier_mm to mmu_notifier_subscriptions
      39bed42d
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'threads-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux · 83fa805b
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull thread management updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Sargun Dhillon over the last cycle has worked on the pidfd_getfd()
  syscall.

  This syscall allows for the retrieval of file descriptors of a process
  based on its pidfd. A task needs to have ptrace_may_access()
  permissions with PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS (suggested by Oleg and
  Andy) on the target.

  One of the main use-cases is in combination with seccomp's user
  notification feature. As a reminder, seccomp's user notification
  feature was made available in v5.0. It allows a task to retrieve a
  file descriptor for its seccomp filter. The file descriptor is usually
  handed of to a more privileged supervising process. The supervisor can
  then listen for syscall events caught by the seccomp filter of the
  supervisee and perform actions in lieu of the supervisee, usually
  emulating syscalls. pidfd_getfd() is needed to expand its uses.

  There are currently two major users that wait on pidfd_getfd() and one
  future user:

   - Netflix, Sargun said, is working on a service mesh where users
     should be able to connect to a dns-based VIP. When a user connects
     to e.g. 1.2.3.4:80 that runs e.g. service "foo" they will be
     redirected to an envoy process. This service mesh uses seccomp user
     notifications and pidfd to intercept all connect calls and instead
     of connecting them to 1.2.3.4:80 connects them to e.g.
     127.0.0.1:8080.

   - LXD uses the seccomp notifier heavily to intercept and emulate
     mknod() and mount() syscalls for unprivileged containers/processes.
     With pidfd_getfd() more uses-cases e.g. bridging socket connections
     will be possible.

   - The patchset has also seen some interest from the browser corner.
     Right now, Firefox is using a SECCOMP_RET_TRAP sandbox managed by a
     broker process. In the future glibc will start blocking all signals
     during dlopen() rendering this type of sandbox impossible. Hence,
     in the future Firefox will switch to a seccomp-user-nofication
     based sandbox which also makes use of file descriptor retrieval.
     The thread for this can be found at
     https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-12/msg00079.html

  With pidfd_getfd() it is e.g. possible to bridge socket connections
  for the supervisee (binding to a privileged port) and taking actions
  on file descriptors on behalf of the supervisee in general.

  Sargun's first version was using an ioctl on pidfds but various people
  pushed for it to be a proper syscall which he duely implemented as
  well over various review cycles. Selftests are of course included.
  I've also added instructions how to deal with merge conflicts below.

  There's also a small fix coming from the kernel mentee project to
  correctly annotate struct sighand_struct with __rcu to fix various
  sparse warnings. We've received a few more such fixes and even though
  they are mostly trivial I've decided to postpone them until after -rc1
  since they came in rather late and I don't want to risk introducing
  build warnings.

  Finally, there's a new prctl() command PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER which is
  needed to avoid allocation recursions triggerable by storage drivers
  that have userspace parts that run in the IO path (e.g. dm-multipath,
  iscsi, etc). These allocation recursions deadlock the device.

  The new prctl() allows such privileged userspace components to avoid
  allocation recursions by setting the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO and
  PF_LESS_THROTTLE flags. The patch carries the necessary acks from the
  relevant maintainers and is routed here as part of prctl()
  thread-management."

* tag 'threads-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  prctl: PR_{G,S}ET_IO_FLUSHER to support controlling memory reclaim
  sched.h: Annotate sighand_struct with __rcu
  test: Add test for pidfd getfd
  arch: wire up pidfd_getfd syscall
  pid: Implement pidfd_getfd syscall
  vfs, fdtable: Add fget_task helper
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-5.6/io_uring-vfs-2020-01-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block · 896f8d23
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Support for various new opcodes (fallocate, openat, close, statx,
   fadvise, madvise, openat2, non-vectored read/write, send/recv, and
   epoll_ctl)

 - Faster ring quiesce for fileset updates

 - Optimizations for overflow condition checking

 - Support for max-sized clamping

 - Support for probing what opcodes are supported

 - Support for io-wq backend sharing between "sibling" rings

 - Support for registering personalities

 - Lots of little fixes and improvements

* tag 'for-5.6/io_uring-vfs-2020-01-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (64 commits)
  io_uring: add support for epoll_ctl(2)
  eventpoll: support non-blocking do_epoll_ctl() calls
  eventpoll: abstract out epoll_ctl() handler
  io_uring: fix linked command file table usage
  io_uring: support using a registered personality for commands
  io_uring: allow registering credentials
  io_uring: add io-wq workqueue sharing
  io-wq: allow grabbing existing io-wq
  io_uring/io-wq: don't use static creds/mm assignments
  io-wq: make the io_wq ref counted
  io_uring: fix refcounting with batched allocations at OOM
  io_uring: add comment for drain_next
  io_uring: don't attempt to copy iovec for READ/WRITE
  io_uring: honor IOSQE_ASYNC for linked reqs
  io_uring: prep req when do IOSQE_ASYNC
  io_uring: use labeled array init in io_op_defs
  io_uring: optimise sqe-to-req flags translation
  io_uring: remove REQ_F_IO_DRAINED
  io_uring: file switch work needs to get flushed on exit
  io_uring: hide uring_fd in ctx
  ...
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