Hi Alexey, On 2018-01-16, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > do_task_stat() accesses IP and SP of a task without bumping reference > count of a stack (which became an entity with independent lifetime at > some point). > > Steps to reproduce: > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <sys/types.h> > #include <sys/stat.h> > #include <fcntl.h> > #include <sys/time.h> > #include <sys/resource.h> > #include <unistd.h> > #include <sys/wait.h> > > int main(void) > { > setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &(struct rlimit){}); > > while (1) { > char buf[64]; > char buf2[4096]; > pid_t pid; > int fd; > > pid = fork(); > if (pid == 0) { > *(volatile int *)0 = 0; > } > > snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/proc/%u/stat", pid); > fd = open(buf, O_RDONLY); > read(fd, buf2, sizeof(buf2)); > close(fd); > > waitpid(pid, NULL, 0); > } > return 0; > } Using the test code I was able to reproduce the problem and verify the patch on x86_64. > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000003fd8 > IP: do_task_stat+0x8b4/0xaf0 > PGD 800000003d73e067 P4D 800000003d73e067 PUD 3d558067 PMD 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI > CPU: 0 PID: 1417 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8-dirty #2 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1.fc27 04/01/2014 > RIP: 0010:do_task_stat+0x8b4/0xaf0 > RSP: 0018:ffffc90000607cc8 EFLAGS: 00010202 > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e0e6680 RCX: ffff88003d6bd500 > RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000000d RDI: ffff88003c1f8000 > RBP: ffff88003c1f8000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000001000 > R10: 00007f4d79555460 R11: ffff88003c325800 R12: ffff88003d7643c0 > R13: ffffffff81a28f80 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001 > FS: 00007f4d79772700(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 0000000000003fd8 CR3: 000000003d9c0000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Call Trace: > ? flush_tlb_mm_range+0x8b/0x100 > proc_single_show+0x43/0x70 > seq_read+0xe6/0x3b0 > __vfs_read+0x1e/0x120 > ? __check_object_size+0xa4/0x180 > vfs_read+0x84/0x110 > SyS_read+0x3d/0xa0 > entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x6c > RIP: 0033:0x7f4d7928cba0 > RSP: 002b:00007ffddb245158 EFLAGS: 00000246 > Code: 03 b7 a0 01 00 00 4c 8b 4c 24 70 4c 8b 44 24 78 4c 89 74 24 18 e9 91 f9 ff ff f6 45 4d 02 0f 84 fd f7 ff ff 48 8b 45 40 48 89 ef <48> 8b 80 d8 3f 00 00 48 89 44 24 20 e8 9b 97 eb ff 48 89 44 24 > RIP: do_task_stat+0x8b4/0xaf0 RSP: ffffc90000607cc8 > CR2: 0000000000003fd8 > > Reported-by: "Kohli, Gaurav" <gkohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > fs/proc/array.c | 7 +++++-- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > --- a/fs/proc/array.c > +++ b/fs/proc/array.c > @@ -430,8 +430,11 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, > * safe because the task has stopped executing permanently. > */ > if (permitted && (task->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)) { > - eip = KSTK_EIP(task); > - esp = KSTK_ESP(task); > + if (try_get_task_stack(task)) { > + eip = KSTK_EIP(task); > + esp = KSTK_ESP(task); > + put_task_stack(task); > + } For my tests I added an else case to verify that the race is hit and correctly mitigated. > } > } John Ogness -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html