Commit 39f8049c authored Aug 12, 2025 by Lorenzo Stoakes Committed by Andrew Morton Sep 13, 2025

mm: update coredump logic to correctly use bitmap mm flags

The coredump logic is slightly different from other users in that it both
stores mm flags and additionally sets and gets using masks.

Since the MMF_DUMPABLE_* flags must remain as they are for uABI reasons,
and of course these are within the first 32-bits of the flags, it is
reasonable to provide access to these in the same fashion so this logic
can all still keep working as it has been.

Therefore, introduce coredump-specific helpers __mm_flags_get_dumpable()
and __mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable() for this purpose, and update all core
dump users of mm flags to use these.

[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: abstract set_mask_bits() invocation to mm_types.h to satisfy ARC]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e7ad263-1ff7-446d-81fe-97cff9c0e7ed@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5075f7e3c5b367d988178c79a3063d12ee53a9.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com


Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

parent c0951573

fs/coredump.c

+3 −1

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		@@ -1103,8 +1103,10 @@ void vfs_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo)
		* We must use the same mm->flags while dumping core to avoid
		* inconsistency of bit flags, since this flag is not protected
		* by any locks.
		*
		* Note that we only care about MMF_DUMP* flags.
		*/
		.mm_flags = mm->flags,
		.mm_flags = __mm_flags_get_dumpable(mm),
		.vma_meta = NULL,
		.cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(),
		};

fs/exec.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -1999,7 +1999,7 @@ void set_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm, int value)
		if (WARN_ON((unsigned)value > SUID_DUMP_ROOT))
		return;

		set_mask_bits(&mm->flags, MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK, value);
		__mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable(mm, value);
		}

		SYSCALL_DEFINE3(execve,

fs/pidfs.c

+5 −2

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		@@ -357,8 +357,11 @@ static long pidfd_info(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)

		if ((kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.coredump_mask)) {
		task_lock(task);
		if (task->mm)
		kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(task->mm->flags);
		if (task->mm) {
		unsigned long flags = __mm_flags_get_dumpable(task->mm);

		kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(flags);
		}
		task_unlock(task);
		}

fs/proc/base.c

+5 −3

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		@@ -2962,8 +2962,10 @@ static ssize_t proc_coredump_filter_read(struct file file, char __user buf,
		ret = 0;
		mm = get_task_mm(task);
		if (mm) {
		unsigned long flags = __mm_flags_get_dumpable(mm);

		len = snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%08lx\n",
		((mm->flags & MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK) >>
		((flags & MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK) >>
		MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT));
		mmput(mm);
		ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, buffer, len);
		@@ -3002,9 +3004,9 @@ static ssize_t proc_coredump_filter_write(struct file *file,

		for (i = 0, mask = 1; i < MMF_DUMP_FILTER_BITS; i++, mask <<= 1) {
		if (val & mask)
		set_bit(i + MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT, &mm->flags);
		mm_flags_set(i + MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT, mm);
		else
		clear_bit(i + MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT, &mm->flags);
		mm_flags_clear(i + MMF_DUMP_FILTER_SHIFT, mm);
		}

		mmput(mm);

include/linux/mm_types.h

+12 −0

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		@@ -1255,6 +1255,18 @@ static inline unsigned long __mm_flags_get_word(const struct mm_struct *mm)
		return bitmap_read(bitmap, 0, BITS_PER_LONG);
		}

		/*
		* Update the first system word of mm flags ONLY, applying the specified mask to
		* it, then setting all flags specified by bits.
		*/
		static inline void __mm_flags_set_mask_bits_word(struct mm_struct *mm,
		unsigned long mask, unsigned long bits)
		{
		unsigned long *bitmap = ACCESS_PRIVATE(&mm->_flags, __mm_flags);

		set_mask_bits(bitmap, mask, bits);
		}

		#define MM_MT_FLAGS (MT_FLAGS_ALLOC_RANGE \| MT_FLAGS_LOCK_EXTERN \| \
		MT_FLAGS_USE_RCU)
		extern struct mm_struct init_mm;