On 2022/8/21 4:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:33:04 +0800 Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+ if (IS_ERR(t)) {
/* failure at boot is fatal */
BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING);
pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid);
- pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
+ WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd, NULL);
+ } else {
+ WRITE_ONCE(pgdat->kswapd, t);
}
}
IIUC, the race is like the followings:
CPU 0: CPU 1:
kswapd_run()
pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run()
if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd))
kswapd_is_running
// load pgdat->kswapd and it is NOT NULL.
pgdat->kswapd = NULL
task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd); // NULL pointer dereference
But don't we still have a bug? Sure, kswapd_is_running() will no
longer deref a null pointer. But it now runs kswapd_is_running()
against a task which has exited - a use-after-free?
we could add get/put_task_struct() to avoid the UAF， will update， thanks.
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