kernel/linux.git/include/linux/sched/task.h, branch v5.18.16

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

2022-07-22T08:21:18+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

kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh

2022-06-09T08:29:30+00:00

commit 343f4c49f2438d8920f1f76fa823ee59b91f02e4 upstream. If kthread_is_per_cpu runs concurrently with free_kthread_struct the kthread_struct that was just freed may be read from. This bug was introduced by commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads"). When kthread_struct started to be allocated for all tasks that have PF_KTHREAD set. This in turn required the kthread_struct to be freed in kernel_execve and violated the assumption that kthread_struct will have the same lifetime as the task. Looking a bit deeper this only applies to callers of kernel_execve which is just the init process and the user mode helper processes. These processes really don't want to be kernel threads but are for historical reasons. Mostly that copy_thread does not know how to take a kernel mode function to the process with for processes without PF_KTHREAD or PF_IO_WORKER set. Solve this by not allocating kthread_struct for the init process and the user mode helper processes. This is done by adding a kthread member to struct kernel_clone_args. Setting kthread in fork_idle and kernel_thread. Adding user_mode_thread that works like kernel_thread except it does not set kthread. In fork only allocating the kthread_struct if .kthread is set. I have looked at kernel/kthread.c and since commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") there have been no assumptions added that to_kthread or __to_kthread will not return NULL. There are a few callers of to_kthread or __to_kthread that assume a non-NULL struct kthread pointer will be returned. These functions are kthread_data(), kthread_parmme(), kthread_exit(), kthread(), kthread_park(), kthread_unpark(), kthread_stop(). All of those functions can reasonably expected to be called when it is know that a task is a kthread so that assumption seems reasonable. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") Reported-by: Максим Кутявин Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-1-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit: Mark do_group_exit() __noreturn

2022-03-15T09:32:43+00:00

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: get_signal()+0x108: unreachable instruction 0000 000000000007f930 : ... 0103 7fa33: e8 00 00 00 00 call 7fa38 7fa34: R_X86_64_PLT32 do_group_exit-0x4 0108 7fa38: 41 8b 45 74 mov 0x74(%r13),%eax Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308154319.351270711@infradead.org

sched: Fix yet more sched_fork() races

2022-02-19T10:11:05+00:00

Where commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group") fixed a fork race vs cgroup, it opened up a race vs syscalls by not placing the task on the runqueue before it gets exposed through the pidhash. Commit 13765de8148f ("sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity") is trying to fix a single instance of this, instead fix the whole class of issues, effectively reverting this commit. Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Tadeusz Struk Tested-by: Zhang Qiao Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YgoeCbwj5mbCR0qA@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00

Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman: "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found along the way. The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on the stack. Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task are the big successes for dead code removal this round. A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes they were fixing. There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some rebasing. Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is removed. Issues where task->exit_code was examined with signal->group_exit_code should been examined were fixed. There are several loosely related changes included because I am cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost. The original postings of these changes can be found at: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped" * 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits) ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach taskstats: Cleanup the use of task->exit_code exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc//stat exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit exit: Remove profile_handoff_task exit: Remove profile_task_exit & profile_munmap signal: clean up kernel-doc comments signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task coredump: Stop setting signal->group_exit_task signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal->core_state signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal->core_state exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit ...

exit: Add and use make_task_dead.

2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00

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"

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

2021-11-20T18:35:54+00:00

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

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

2021-10-14T11:09:58+00:00

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

kernel: provide create_io_thread() helper

2021-03-04T22:45:03+00:00

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

sched: Un-hide lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held() for !LOCKDEP

2020-11-03T01:09:59+00:00

Currently, variables used only within lockdep expressions are flagged as unused, requiring that these variables' declarations be decorated with either #ifdef or __maybe_unused. This results in ugly code. This commit therefore causes the lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held() function to be visible even when lockdep is not enabled, thus removing the need for these decorations. This approach further relies on dead-code elimination to remove any references to functions or variables that are not available in non-lockdep kernels. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney