From patchwork Tue Apr 14 11:32:20 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Vlastimil Babka X-Patchwork-Id: 11487279 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7CB92C for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB0B2072D for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:32:37 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org EFB0B2072D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.cz Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 8913E8E0006; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: linux-mm-outgoing@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 719218E0008; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:32:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 4CE4B8E0006; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:32:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: linux-mm@kvack.org X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0067.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.67]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCDA8E0001 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 07:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin20.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDEC824559C for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:32:30 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 76706247660.20.hair14_8a4c6a39edd01 X-Spam-Summary: 1,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,vbabka@suse.cz,,RULES_HIT:30029:30036:30054:30056:30062:30079,0,RBL:195.135.220.15:@suse.cz:.lbl8.mailshell.net-62.2.6.2 64.100.201.201,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fp,MSBL:0,DNSBL:neutral,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:25,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: hair14_8a4c6a39edd01 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 9537 Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by imf23.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:32:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2ABAE63; Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:32:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Vlastimil Babka To: Andrew Morton , Luis Chamberlain , Kees Cook , Iurii Zaikin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ivan Teterevkov , Michal Hocko , David Rientjes , Matthew Wilcox , "Eric W . Biederman" , "Guilherme G . Piccoli" , Alexey Dobriyan , Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christian Brauner , Masami Hiramatsu , Vlastimil Babka Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] kernel/sysctl: support setting sysctl parameters from kernel command line Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:32:20 +0200 Message-Id: <20200414113222.16959-2-vbabka@suse.cz> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.26.0 In-Reply-To: <20200414113222.16959-1-vbabka@suse.cz> References: <20200414113222.16959-1-vbabka@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: A recently proposed patch to add vm_swappiness command line parameter in addition to existing sysctl [1] made me wonder why we don't have a general support for passing sysctl parameters via command line. Googling found only somebody else wondering the same [2], but I haven't found any prior discussion with reasons why not to do this. Settings the vm_swappiness issue aside (the underlying issue might be solved in a different way), quick search of kernel-parameters.txt shows there are already some that exist as both sysctl and kernel parameter - hung_task_panic, nmi_watchdog, numa_zonelist_order, traceoff_on_warning. A general mechanism would remove the need to add more of those one-offs and might be handy in situations where configuration by e.g. /etc/sysctl.d/ is impractical. Hence, this patch adds a new parse_args() pass that looks for parameters prefixed by 'sysctl.' and tries to interpret them as writes to the corresponding sys/ files using an temporary in-kernel procfs mount. This mechanism was suggested by Eric W. Biederman [3], as it handles all dynamically registered sysctl tables, even though we don't handle modular sysctls. Errors due to e.g. invalid parameter name or value are reported in the kernel log. The processing is hooked right before the init process is loaded, as some handlers might be more complicated than simple setters and might need some subsystems to be initialized. At the moment the init process can be started and eventually execute a process writing to /proc/sys/ then it should be also fine to do that from the kernel. Sysctls registered later on module load time are not set by this mechanism - it's expected that in such scenarios, setting sysctl values from userspace is practical enough. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/BL0PR02MB560167492CA4094C91589930E9FC0@BL0PR02MB5601.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/ [2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/558802/how-to-set-sysctl-using-kernel-command-line-parameter [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87bloj2skm.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org/ Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Acked-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu --- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 ++ fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/sysctl.h | 4 + init/main.c | 2 + 4 files changed, 122 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index f2a93c8679e8..fd38f1e8a2bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4891,6 +4891,15 @@ switches= [HW,M68k] + sysctl.*= [KNL] + Set a sysctl parameter, right before loading the init + process, as if the value was written to the respective + /proc/sys/... file. Both '.' and '/' are recognized as + separators. Unrecognized parameters and invalid values + are reported in the kernel log. Sysctls registered + later by a loaded module cannot be set this way. + Example: sysctl.vm.swappiness=40 + sysfs.deprecated=0|1 [KNL] Enable/disable old style sysfs layout for old udev on older distributions. When this option is enabled diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index b6f5d459b087..7804da5f5be0 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "internal.h" static const struct dentry_operations proc_sys_dentry_operations; @@ -1692,3 +1693,109 @@ int __init proc_sys_init(void) return sysctl_init(); } + +/* Set sysctl value passed on kernel command line. */ +static int process_sysctl_arg(char *param, char *val, + const char *unused, void *arg) +{ + char *path; + struct vfsmount **proc_mnt = arg; + struct file_system_type *proc_fs_type; + struct file *file; + int len; + int err; + loff_t pos = 0; + ssize_t wret; + + if (strncmp(param, "sysctl", sizeof("sysctl") - 1)) + return 0; + + param += sizeof("sysctl") - 1; + + if (param[0] != '/' && param[0] != '.') + return 0; + + param++; + + /* + * To set sysctl options, we use a temporary mount of proc, look up the + * respective sys/ file and write to it. To avoid mounting it when no + * options were given, we mount it only when the first sysctl option is + * found. Why not a persistent mount? There are problems with a + * persistent mount of proc in that it forces userspace not to use any + * proc mount options. + */ + if (!*proc_mnt) { + proc_fs_type = get_fs_type("proc"); + if (!proc_fs_type) { + pr_err("Failed to find procfs to set sysctl from command line\n"); + return 0; + } + *proc_mnt = kern_mount(proc_fs_type); + put_filesystem(proc_fs_type); + if (IS_ERR(*proc_mnt)) { + pr_err("Failed to mount procfs to set sysctl from command line\n"); + return 0; + } + } + + path = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "sys/%s", param); + if (!path) + panic("%s: Failed to allocate path for %s\n", __func__, param); + strreplace(path, '.', '/'); + + file = file_open_root((*proc_mnt)->mnt_root, *proc_mnt, path, O_WRONLY, 0); + if (IS_ERR(file)) { + err = PTR_ERR(file); + if (err == -ENOENT) + pr_err("Failed to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s': parameter not found\n", + param, val); + else if (err == -EACCES) + pr_err("Failed to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s': permission denied (read-only?)\n", + param, val); + else + pr_err("Error %pe opening proc file to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s'\n", + file, param, val); + goto out; + } + len = strlen(val); + wret = kernel_write(file, val, len, &pos); + if (wret < 0) { + err = wret; + if (err == -EINVAL) + pr_err("Failed to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s': invalid value\n", + param, val); + else + pr_err("Error %pe writing to proc file to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s'\n", + ERR_PTR(err), param, val); + } else if (wret != len) { + pr_err("Wrote only %zd bytes of %d writing to proc file %s to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s\n", + wret, len, path, param, val); + } + + err = filp_close(file, NULL); + if (err) + pr_err("Error %pe closing proc file to set sysctl parameter '%s=%s\n", + ERR_PTR(err), param, val); +out: + kfree(path); + return 0; +} + +void do_sysctl_args(void) +{ + char *command_line; + struct vfsmount *proc_mnt = NULL; + + command_line = kstrdup(saved_command_line, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!command_line) + panic("%s: Failed to allocate copy of command line\n", __func__); + + parse_args("Setting sysctl args", command_line, + NULL, 0, -1, -1, &proc_mnt, process_sysctl_arg); + + if (proc_mnt) + kern_unmount(proc_mnt); + + kfree(command_line); +} diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index 02fa84493f23..bee62d30ebdb 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_paths(const struct ctl_path *path, void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * table); extern int sysctl_init(void); +void do_sysctl_args(void); extern struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[]; @@ -236,6 +237,9 @@ static inline void setup_sysctl_set(struct ctl_table_set *p, { } +static inline void do_sysctl_args(void) +{ +} #endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */ int sysctl_max_threads(struct ctl_table *table, int write, diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index a48617f2e5e5..7b43118215d6 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -1372,6 +1372,8 @@ static int __ref kernel_init(void *unused) rcu_end_inkernel_boot(); + do_sysctl_args(); + if (ramdisk_execute_command) { ret = run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command); if (!ret)