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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-04-20 10:18:17 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-04-21 13:55:42 +0200
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kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
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) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YH6WJc825C4P0FCK@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index fcb35ae15619..4a0668acd876 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7667,7 +7667,7 @@ 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)) {
/*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7ea3b93f5268..1d75af1ecfb4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7612,7 +7612,7 @@ int can_migrate_task(struct task_struct *p, struct lb_env *env)
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)) {