This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled taskstats: fix data-race to the 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5a25101e0b360c469a07facba60fa90aac9a0dec 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 4e62a4a8fa91..82393952683c 100644 --- a/kernel/taskstats.c +++ b/kernel/taskstats.c @@ -564,25 +564,33 @@ 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 */