From: "Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis)" <regressions@leemhuis.info>
To: Linux kernel regressions list <regressions@lists.linux.dev>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Don't fill the kernel log with memfd_create messages
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 14:10:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d79cc64-46d8-42ab-8219-e45e8d19532f@leemhuis.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14b4a922-a31a-a329-0264-3d8bd101ee6b@suse.cz>
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On 04.09.23 15:31, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 8/30/23 17:52, Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Recently "memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing exec-related
>> flags" was merged. On my system, this is a regression, not an
>> improvement, because the entire 256k kernel log buffer (default on x86)
>> is filled with these warnings and "__do_sys_memfd_create: 122 callbacks
>> suppressed". I haven't investigated too closely, but the most likely
>> cause is Wayland libraries.
>>
>> This is too serious of a consequence for using an old API, especially
>> considering how recently the flags were added. The vast majority of
>> software has not had time to add the flags: glibc does not define the
>> macros until 2.38 which was released less than one month ago, man-pages
>> does not document the flags, and according to Debian Code Search, only
>> systemd, stress-ng, and strace actually pass either of these flags.
>>
>> Furthermore, since old kernels reject unknown flags, it's not just a
>> matter of defining and passing the flag; every program needs to
>> add logic to handle EINVAL and try again.
>>
>> Some other way needs to be found to encourage userspace to add the
>> flags; otherwise, this message will be patched out because the kernel
>> log becomes unusable after running unupdated programs, which will still
>> exist even after upstreams are fixed. In particular, AppImages,
>> flatpaks, snaps, and similar app bundles contain vendored Wayland
>> libraries which can be difficult or impossible to update.
>
> It's being reverted:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230902230530.6B663C433C8@smtp.kernel.org/
in that case:
#regzbot fix: revert "memfd: improve userspace warnings for missing
exec-related flags".
#regzbot ignore-activity
Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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2023-08-30 15:52 ` Don't fill the kernel log with memfd_create messages Alex Xu (Hello71)
2023-09-04 13:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-09-05 12:10 ` Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis) [this message]
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