On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:58:26PM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Looks about right, IIUC the key being:
>
> p->flags & PF_KTHREAD + p->set_child_tid => the struct kthread is
> persistent
>
> p->flags & PF_KTHREAD => you may or may not have a struct kthread (see
> kernel/umh.c kernel_thread() uses). PF_KTHREAD isn't even guaranteed to
> persist (begin_new_exec()), which seems to be what the syzbot hit.
Ack, that's nicely put.
> While we're at it, does free_kthread_struct() want the __to_kthread()
> treatment as well? The other to_kthread() callsites looked like they only
> made sense with a "proper" kthread anyway.
I think free_kthread_struct() is ok, because a task at that point in its
lifetime cannot be also doing exec().
kthread_func() is another 'fun' trainwreck waiting to happen -- luckily
the only caller uses current, still let me go fix it.
kthread_probe_data() relies on PF_WQ_WORKER implying PF_KTHREAD but
otherwise seems very fragile too.
Something like so then?
---
Subject: kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Tue Apr 20 10:18:17 CEST 2021
The kthread_is_per_cpu() construct relies on only being called on
PF_KTHREAD tasks (per the WARN in to_kthread). This gives rise to the
following usage pattern:
if ((p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_is_per_cpu(p))
However, as reported by syzcaller, this is broken. The scenario is:
CPU0 CPU1 (running p)
(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) // true
begin_new_exec()
me->flags &= ~(PF_KTHREAD|...);
kthread_is_per_cpu(p)
to_kthread(p)
WARN(!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) <-- *SPLAT*
Introduce __to_kthread() that omits the WARN and is sure to check both
values.
Use this to remove the problematic pattern for kthread_is_per_cpu()
and fix a number of other kthread_*() functions that have similar
issues but are currently not used in ways that would expose the
problem.
Notably kthread_func() is only ever called on 'current', while
kthread_probe_data() is only used for PF_WQ_WORKER, which implies the
task is from kthread_create*().
Fixes: ac687e6e8c26 ("kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -84,6 +84,25 @@ static inline struct kthread *to_kthread
return (__force void *)k->set_child_tid;
}
+/*
+ * Variant of to_kthread() that doesn't assume @p is a kthread.
+ *
+ * Per construction; when:
+ *
+ * (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && p->set_child_tid
+ *
+ * the task is both a kthread and struct kthread is persistent. However
+ * PF_KTHREAD on it's own is not, kernel_thread() can exec() (See umh.c and
+ * begin_new_exec()).
+ */
+static inline struct kthread *__to_kthread(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ void *kthread = (__force void *)p->set_child_tid;
+ if (kthread && !(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+ kthread = NULL;
+ return kthread;
+}
+
void free_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *k)
{
struct kthread *kthread;
@@ -168,8 +187,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_freezable_shou
*/
void *kthread_func(struct task_struct *task)
{
- if (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
- return to_kthread(task)->threadfn;
+ struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(task);
+ if (kthread)
+ return kthread->threadfn;
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_func);
@@ -199,10 +219,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_data);
*/
void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_struct *task)
{
- struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(task);
+ struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(task);
void *data = NULL;
- copy_from_kernel_nofault(&data, &kthread->data, sizeof(data));
+ if (kthread)
+ copy_from_kernel_nofault(&data, &kthread->data, sizeof(data));
return data;
}
@@ -514,9 +535,9 @@ void kthread_set_per_cpu(struct task_str
set_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, &kthread->flags);
}
-bool kthread_is_per_cpu(struct task_struct *k)
+bool kthread_is_per_cpu(struct task_struct *p)
{
- struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(k);
+ struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(p);
if (!kthread)
return false;
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8505,7 +8505,7 @@ static void balance_push(struct rq *rq)
* histerical raisins.
*/
if (rq->idle == push_task ||
- ((push_task->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_is_per_cpu(push_task))
||
+ kthread_is_per_cpu(push_task) ||
is_migration_disabled(push_task)) {
/*
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7619,7 +7619,7 @@ int can_migrate_task(struct task_struct
return 0;
/* Disregard pcpu kthreads; they are where they need to be. */
- if ((p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_is_per_cpu(p))
+ if (kthread_is_per_cpu(p))
return 0;
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(env->dst_cpu, p->cpus_ptr)) {
