linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched/task.h, branch v5.17-rc5

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

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

fork: introduce kernel_clone()

2020-08-20T11:12:57+00:00

The old _do_fork() helper doesn't follow naming conventions of in-kernel
helpers for syscalls. The process creation cleanup in [1] didn't change the
name to something more reasonable mainly because _do_fork() was used in quite a
few places. So sending this as a separate series seemed the better strategy.

This commit does two things:
1. renames _do_fork() to kernel_clone() but keeps _do_fork() as a simple static
   inline wrapper around kernel_clone().
2. Changes the return type from long to pid_t. This aligns kernel_thread() and
   kernel_clone(). Also, the return value from kernel_clone that is surfaced in
   fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() is taken from pid_vrn() which returns
   a pid_t too.

Follow-up patches will switch each caller of _do_fork() and each place where it
is referenced over to kernel_clone(). After all these changes are done, we can
remove _do_fork() completely and will only be left with kernel_clone().

[1]: 9ba27414f2ec ("Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux")

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

kernel: add a kernel_wait helper

2020-08-12T17:57:59+00:00

Add a helper that waits for a pid and stores the status in the passed in
kernel pointer.  Use it to fix the usage of kernel_wait4 in
call_usermodehelper_exec_sync that only happens to work due to the
implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for kernel threads.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721130449.5008-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds