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Petr Pavlu
2a7ecc5fbd module/dups: Clean up includes
The kernel/module/dups.c file relies on the following definitions and
associated functions:

* module_param() -> linux/moduleparam.h,
* DEFINE_MUTEX() -> linux/mutex.h,
* LIST_HEAD(), list_for_each_entry(), ... -> linux/list.h,
* refcount_t, refcount_inc(), ... -> linux/refcount.h,
* MODULE_NAME_LEN -> linux/module.h,
* completion, complete_all(), ... -> linux/completion.h,
* delayed_work, work_struct, ... -> linux/workqueue.h,
* lockdep_assert_held() -> linux/lockdep.h,
* strcmp(), memcpy() -> linux/string.h,
* container_of() -> linux/container_of.h,
* DEFINE_FREE(), __free(), scoped_guard() -> linux/cleanup.h,
* kzalloc_obj(), kfree() -> linux/slab.h,
* pr_debug(), pr_warn() -> linux/printk.h,
* WARN() -> linux/bug.h,
* TASK_KILLABLE -> linux/sched.h,
* HZ -> linux/param.h.

Update the file's include list accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:03 +02:00
Petr Pavlu
cc6e79b208 module/dups: Use strcmp() to compare module names
Use strcmp() instead of strlen()+memcmp() to compare module names in
kmod_dup_request_lookup(), since all strings are NUL-terminated.

Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:03 +02:00
Petr Pavlu
c85e76535b module/dups: Use scope-based cleanup helpers
Use scope-based cleanup helpers for kmod_dup_mutex and kmod_req to shorten
the code and to clarify where the lock is taken in
kmod_dup_request_exists_wait().

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:03 +02:00
Petr Pavlu
96e6f752fc module/dups: Avoid unnecessary kmod_dup_req allocations
The kmod dups code preallocates kmod_dup_req before taking kmod_dup_mutex
to avoid allocating memory while holding the lock. This provides little
benefit, since the allocation is fast and can safely be done under the
lock. On the other hand, it leads to unnecessary allocations when the
request turns out to be a duplicate and slightly complicates the code.

Allocate kmod_dup_req only when needed and introduce a helper function
alloc_kmod_req() to initialize the structure.

Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:03 +02:00
Petr Pavlu
5eecb11b54 module/dups: Fix use-after-free in kmod_dup_req lifetime handling
The kmod dups code uses RCU to ensure that a kmod_dup_req instance is freed
only after it is no longer referenced. When releasing an instance, the
kmod_dup_request_delete() function removes the kmod_dup_req from the
dup_kmod_reqs list, waits via synchronize_rcu() and finally frees it.
However, this doesn't work correctly because parallel users referencing the
instance in kmod_dup_request_exists_wait() don't enter an RCU read-side
critical section. This can result in a use-after-free.

The kmod_dup_request_exists_wait() function may need to hold a valid
reference to a kmod_dup_req instance across a blocking wait until the
corresponding modprobe command completes. This makes it unsuitable for RCU.

Fix the issue by changing the lifecycle management of kmod_dup_req to use
reference counting.

Fixes: 8660484ed1 ("module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support")
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:03 +02:00
Petr Pavlu
d258ed8a86 module/dups: Inform duplicate requests about the result directly
When kmod_dup_request_announce() announces the completion of
a request_module() call to duplicate waiters, it queues a work item to
invoke kmod_dup_request_complete(), and only that function calls
complete_all().

This adds an arbitrary delay that is unnecessary and provides little
benefit. Call complete_all() directly from kmod_dup_request_announce()
instead.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:03 +02:00
Naveen Kumar Chaudhary
93c29ebd16 module: use strscpy() to copy module names in stats and dup tracking
Both try_add_failed_module() and kmod_dup_request_exists_wait() use
memcpy() with strlen() to copy module names into fixed-size
char[MODULE_NAME_LEN] buffers. Neither performs a bounds check on the
copy. Current callers always pass names originating from
mod->name (itself char[MODULE_NAME_LEN]), so this is not exploitable
today. However both functions accept a plain const char * with no
documented length contract, making them latent buffer overflows if a
future caller passes a longer string.

Replace memcpy() with strscpy() in both sites, which bounds the copy
to MODULE_NAME_LEN and always NUL-terminates.

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <naveen.osdev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
2026-08-06 13:29:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bf4afc53b7 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kees Cook
69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Marco Crivellari
581ac2d4a5 module: replace use of system_wq with system_dfl_wq
Currently if a user enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with
the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:

commit 128ea9f6cc ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
commit 930c2ea566 ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

Switch to using system_dfl_wq, the new unbound workqueue, because the
users do not benefit from a per-cpu workqueue.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
2025-12-22 16:35:53 +00:00
Al Viro
be5498cac2 remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>
some of those used to be needed, some had been cargo-culted for
no reason...

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-10-07 13:34:41 -04:00
Kevin Hao
f17f2c13d6 module: Remove redundant TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
TASK_KILLABLE already includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so there is no
need to add a separate TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2023-12-19 13:30:28 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
0b891c83d8 module: include internal.h in module/dups.c
Two newly introduced functions are declared in a header that is not
included before the definition, causing a warning with sparse or
'make W=1':

kernel/module/dups.c:118:6: error: no previous prototype for 'kmod_dup_request_exists_wait' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
  118 | bool kmod_dup_request_exists_wait(char *module_name, bool wait, int *dup_ret)
      |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/module/dups.c:220:6: error: no previous prototype for 'kmod_dup_request_announce' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
  220 | void kmod_dup_request_announce(char *module_name, int ret)
      |      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Add an explicit include to ensure the prototypes match.

Fixes: 8660484ed1 ("module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202304141440.DYO4NAzp-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2023-05-02 20:33:36 -07:00
Luis Chamberlain
8660484ed1 module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
The finit_module() system call can in the worst case use up to more than
twice of a module's size in virtual memory. Duplicate finit_module()
system calls are non fatal, however they unnecessarily strain virtual
memory during bootup and in the worst case can cause a system to fail
to boot. This is only known to currently be an issue on systems with
larger number of CPUs.

To help debug this situation we need to consider the different sources for
finit_module(). Requests from the kernel that rely on module auto-loading,
ie, the kernel's *request_module() API, are one source of calls. Although
modprobe checks to see if a module is already loaded prior to calling
finit_module() there is a small race possible allowing userspace to
trigger multiple modprobe calls racing against modprobe and this not
seeing the module yet loaded.

This adds debugging support to the kernel module auto-loader (*request_module()
calls) to easily detect duplicate module requests. To aid with possible bootup
failure issues incurred by this, it will converge duplicates requests to a
single request. This avoids any possible strain on virtual memory during
bootup which could be incurred by duplicate module autoloading requests.

Folks debugging virtual memory abuse on bootup can and should enable
this to see what pr_warn()s come on, to see if module auto-loading is to
blame for their wores. If they see duplicates they can further debug this
by enabling the module.enable_dups_trace kernel parameter or by enabling
CONFIG_MODULE_DEBUG_AUTOLOAD_DUPS_TRACE.

Current evidence seems to point to only a few duplicates for module
auto-loading. And so the source for other duplicates creating heavy
virtual memory pressure due to larger number of CPUs should becoming
from another place (likely udev).

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
2023-04-19 17:26:01 -07:00