kernel/linux.git/include/linux/sched/task.h, branch v5.10.258

locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure

2025-10-29T13:01:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 ] Use __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))) to build: - simple auto-release pointers using __free() - 'classes' with constructor and destructor semantics for scope-based resource management. - lock guards based on the above classes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093537.614161713%40infradead.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/fork: beware of __put_task_struct() calling context

2023-09-23T09:01:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit d243b34459cea30cfe5f3a9b2feb44e7daff9938 ] Under PREEMPT_RT, __put_task_struct() indirectly acquires sleeping locks. Therefore, it can't be called from an non-preemptible context. One practical example is splat inside inactive_task_timer(), which is called in a interrupt context: CPU: 1 PID: 2848 Comm: life Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W --------- Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL388p Gen8, BIOS P70 07/15/2012 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d mark_lock_irq.cold+0x33/0xba mark_lock+0x1e7/0x400 mark_usage+0x11d/0x140 __lock_acquire+0x30d/0x930 lock_acquire.part.0+0x9c/0x210 rt_spin_lock+0x27/0xe0 refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0 kmem_cache_free+0x357/0x560 inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340 __run_hrtimer+0x8a/0x1a0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x91/0x130 hrtimer_interrupt+0x10f/0x220 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xd0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0xd0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 RIP: 0033:0x7fff196bf6f5 Instead of calling __put_task_struct() directly, we defer it using call_rcu(). A more natural approach would use a workqueue, but since in PREEMPT_RT, we can't allocate dynamic memory from atomic context, the code would become more complex because we would need to put the work_struct instance in the task_struct and initialize it when we allocate a new task_struct. The issue is reproducible with stress-ng: while true; do stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \ --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \ 1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20 done Reported-by: Hu Chunyu Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614122323.37957-2-wander@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: Move mm_cachep initialization to mm_init()

2023-08-08T17:57:39+00:00

commit af80602799681c78f14fbe20b6185a56020dedee upstream. In order to allow using mm_alloc() much earlier, move initializing mm_cachep into mm_init(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.751153381@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/mm: Use mm_alloc() in poking_init()

2023-08-08T17:57:39+00:00

commit 3f4c8211d982099be693be9aa7d6fc4607dff290 upstream. Instead of duplicating init_mm, allocate a fresh mm. The advantage is that mm_alloc() has much simpler dependencies. Additionally it makes more conceptual sense, init_mm has no (and must not have) user state to duplicate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221025201057.816175235@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Add and use make_task_dead.

2023-02-01T07:23:19+00:00

commit 0e25498f8cd43c1b5aa327f373dd094e9a006da7 upstream. There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new concept. Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code is doing. As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit rewind_stack_and_make_dead. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kernel: provide create_io_thread() helper

2023-01-04T10:39:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit cc440e8738e5c875297ac0e90316745093be7e28 ] Provide a generic helper for setting up an io_uring worker. Returns a task_struct so that the caller can do whatever setup is needed, then call wake_up_new_task() to kick it into gear. Add a kernel_clone_args member, io_thread, which tells copy_process() to mark the task with PF_IO_WORKER. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers

2022-07-21T19:19:59+00:00

commit d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 upstream. As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct, we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held. Cc: Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses

2021-12-01T08:19:10+00:00

commit 85b6d24646e4125c591639841169baa98a2da503 upstream. Currently, the exit_shm() function not designed to work properly when task->sysvshm.shm_clist holds shm objects from different IPC namespaces. This is a real pain when sysctl kernel.shm_rmid_forced = 1, because it leads to use-after-free (reproducer exists). This is an attempt to fix the problem by extending exit_shm mechanism to handle shm's destroy from several IPC ns'es. To achieve that we do several things: 1. add a namespace (non-refcounted) pointer to the struct shmid_kernel 2. during new shm object creation (newseg()/shmget syscall) we initialize this pointer by current task IPC ns 3. exit_shm() fully reworked such that it traverses over all shp's in task->sysvshm.shm_clist and gets IPC namespace not from current task as it was before but from shp's object itself, then call shm_destroy(shp, ns). Note: We need to be really careful here, because as it was said before (1), our pointer to IPC ns non-refcnt'ed. To be on the safe side we using special helper get_ipc_ns_not_zero() which allows to get IPC ns refcounter only if IPC ns not in the "state of destruction". Q/A Q: Why can we access shp->ns memory using non-refcounted pointer? A: Because shp object lifetime is always shorther than IPC namespace lifetime, so, if we get shp object from the task->sysvshm.shm_clist while holding task_lock(task) nobody can steal our namespace. Q: Does this patch change semantics of unshare/setns/clone syscalls? A: No. It's just fixes non-covered case when process may leave IPC namespace without getting task->sysvshm.shm_clist list cleaned up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/67bb03e5-f79c-1815-e2bf-949c67047418@colorfullife.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109151501.4921-1-manfred@colorfullife.com Fixes: ab602f79915 ("shm: make exit_shm work proportional to task activity") Co-developed-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Greg KH Cc: Andrei Vagin Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov Cc: Vasily Averin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group

2021-11-18T13:04:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba1f38f0ea1cedad0cad722f00c14a ] There is a small race between copy_process() and sched_fork() where child->sched_task_group point to an already freed pointer. parent doing fork() | someone moving the parent | to another cgroup -------------------------------+------------------------------- copy_process() + dup_task_struct()<1> parent move to another cgroup, and free the old cgroup. <2> + sched_fork() + __set_task_cpu()<3> + task_fork_fair() + sched_slice()<4> In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause panic as shown above: (1) parent copy its sched_task_group to child at <1>; (2) someone move the parent to another cgroup and free the old cgroup at <2>; (3) the sched_task_group and cfs_rq that belong to the old cgroup will be accessed at <3> and <4>, which cause a panic: [] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 [] PGD 8000001fa0a86067 P4D 8000001fa0a86067 PUD 2029955067 PMD 0 [] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI [] CPU: 7 PID: 648398 Comm: ebizzy Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0.x86_64+ #1 [] RIP: 0010:sched_slice+0x84/0xc0 [] Call Trace: [] task_fork_fair+0x81/0x120 [] sched_fork+0x132/0x240 [] copy_process.part.5+0x675/0x20e0 [] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x63f/0x690 [] _do_fork+0xcd/0x3b0 [] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x1d0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca [] RIP: 0033:0x7f04418cd7e1 Between cgroup_can_fork() and cgroup_post_fork(), the cgroup membership and thus sched_task_group can't change. So update child's sched_task_group at sched_post_fork() and move task_fork() and __set_task_cpu() (where accees the sched_task_group) from sched_fork() to sched_post_fork(). Fixes: 8323f26ce342 ("sched: Fix race in task_group") Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Tejun Heo Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210915064030.2231-1-zhangqiao22@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sched: remove _do_fork()

2020-08-20T11:12:59+00:00

Now that all callers of _do_fork() have been switched to kernel_clone() remove the _do_fork() helper. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-12-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com