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kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:18:17 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:56:39 +0000 (08:56 +0200)
commitf6c3cdf0671ffc49a2c004de8405e7e8f190dd99
tree07e9b10c87b75365c1f963d4740c1da1b4c49b97
parent708c597fafe4fe74412759241902c46d4b7a2ecd
kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race

commit 3a7956e25e1d7b3c148569e78895e1f3178122a9 upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/kthread.c
kernel/sched/fair.c