This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
taskstats: fix data-race
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
taskstats-fix-data-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 746d34d701547cef99f01b060e1782f8a67e07f0
Author: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 9 13:48:09 2019 +0200
taskstats: fix data-race
[ Upstream commit 0b8d616fb5a8ffa307b1d3af37f55c15dae14f28 ]
When assiging and testing taskstats in taskstats_exit() there's a race
when setting up and reading sig->stats when a thread-group with more
than one thread exits:
write to 0xffff8881157bbe10 of 8 bytes by task 7951 on cpu 0:
taskstats_tgid_alloc kernel/taskstats.c:567 [inline]
taskstats_exit+0x6b7/0x717 kernel/taskstats.c:596
do_exit+0x2c2/0x18e0 kernel/exit.c:864
do_group_exit+0xb4/0x1c0 kernel/exit.c:983
get_signal+0x2a2/0x1320 kernel/signal.c:2734
do_signal+0x3b/0xc00 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:815
exit_to_usermode_loop+0x250/0x2c0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:159
prepare_exit_to_usermode arch/x86/entry/common.c:194 [inline]
syscall_return_slowpath arch/x86/entry/common.c:274 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2d7/0x2f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:299
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
read to 0xffff8881157bbe10 of 8 bytes by task 7949 on cpu 1:
taskstats_tgid_alloc kernel/taskstats.c:559 [inline]
taskstats_exit+0xb2/0x717 kernel/taskstats.c:596
do_exit+0x2c2/0x18e0 kernel/exit.c:864
do_group_exit+0xb4/0x1c0 kernel/exit.c:983
__do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:994 [inline]
__se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:992 [inline]
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x2e/0x30 kernel/exit.c:992
do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x2f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:296
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Fix this by using smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release().
Reported-by: syzbot+c5d03165a1bd1dead0c1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 34ec12349c8a ("taskstats: cleanup ->signal->stats allocation")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191009114809.8643-1-christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index 13a0f2e6ebc2..e2ac0e37c4ae 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -554,25 +554,33 @@ static int taskstats_user_cmd(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
static struct taskstats *taskstats_tgid_alloc(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal;
- struct taskstats *stats;
+ struct taskstats *stats_new, *stats;
- if (sig->stats || thread_group_empty(tsk))
- goto ret;
+ /* Pairs with smp_store_release() below. */
+ stats = smp_load_acquire(&sig->stats);
+ if (stats || thread_group_empty(tsk))
+ return stats;
/* No problem if kmem_cache_zalloc() fails */
- stats = kmem_cache_zalloc(taskstats_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ stats_new = kmem_cache_zalloc(taskstats_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
- if (!sig->stats) {
- sig->stats = stats;
- stats = NULL;
+ stats = sig->stats;
+ if (!stats) {
+ /*
+ * Pairs with smp_store_release() above and order the
+ * kmem_cache_zalloc().
+ */
+ smp_store_release(&sig->stats, stats_new);
+ stats = stats_new;
+ stats_new = NULL;
}
spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
- if (stats)
- kmem_cache_free(taskstats_cache, stats);
-ret:
- return sig->stats;
+ if (stats_new)
+ kmem_cache_free(taskstats_cache, stats_new);
+
+ return stats;
}
/* Send pid data out on exit */
