linux/security
Minchan Kim 4b58c2891d selinux: use __GFP_NOWARN with GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC
[ Upstream commit 648f2c6100 ]

In the field, we have seen lots of allocation failure from the call
path below.

06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Binder  : 31542_2: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x800(GFP_NOWAIT), nodemask=(null),cpuset=background,mems_allowed=0
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06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Call trace:
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : dump_stack+0xc8/0x14c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : warn_alloc+0x158/0x1c8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9d8/0xb80
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c4/0x430
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : allocate_slab+0xb4/0x390
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : ___slab_alloc+0x12c/0x3a4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : kmem_cache_alloc+0x358/0x5e4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : avc_alloc_node+0x30/0x184
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : avc_update_node+0x54/0x4f0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : avc_has_extended_perms+0x1a4/0x460
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : selinux_file_ioctl+0x320/0x3d0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xec/0x1fc
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_svc_common+0xc0/0x24c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_svc+0x28/0x88
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W         : el0_sync+0x1a4/0x1c0
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06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W node 0  : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB    : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache   : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0

Based on [1], selinux is tolerate for failure of memory allocation.
Then, use __GFP_NOWARN together.

[1] 476accbe2f ("selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches")

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
[PM: subj fix, line wraps, normalized commit refs]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2021-07-19 10:04:38 +02:00
..
apparmor Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2021-05-02 09:14:01 -07:00
bpf bpf: Implement task local storage 2020-11-06 08:08:37 -08:00
integrity evm: fix writing <securityfs>/evm overflow 2021-07-14 17:06:40 +02:00
keys trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
landlock landlock: Enable user space to infer supported features 2021-04-22 12:22:11 -07:00
loadpin LSM: Add "contents" flag to kernel_read_file hook 2020-10-05 13:37:03 +02:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid LSM: SafeSetID: Fix code specification by scripts/checkpatch.pl 2021-04-26 16:36:50 -07:00
selinux selinux: use __GFP_NOWARN with GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC 2021-07-19 10:04:38 +02:00
smack Add Landlock, a new LSM from Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com> 2021-05-01 18:50:44 -07:00
tomoyo tomoyo: don't special case PF_IO_WORKER for PF_KTHREAD 2021-03-28 13:11:29 +09:00
yama task_work: cleanup notification modes 2020-10-17 15:05:30 -06:00
commoncap.c Miscellaneous minor fixes for v5.13. 2021-04-27 19:32:55 -07:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning 2020-08-20 11:25:03 -07:00
inode.c Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
Kconfig landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials 2021-04-22 12:22:10 -07:00
Kconfig.hardening kasan: remove redundant config option 2021-04-16 16:10:36 -07:00
lsm_audit.c make dump_common_audit_data() safe to be called from RCU pathwalk 2021-01-16 15:12:08 -05:00
Makefile landlock: Add object management 2021-04-22 12:22:10 -07:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c Add Landlock, a new LSM from Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com> 2021-05-01 18:50:44 -07:00