This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity
to the 5.15-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:
sched-fair-fix-fault-in-reweight_entity.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 745c9d155f63932f6311f847398f710ba18fa16d
Author: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 3 08:18:46 2022 -0800
sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity
[ Upstream commit 13765de8148f71fa795e0a6607de37c49ea5915a ]
Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to
commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid
sched_task_group")
There is a race between sched_post_fork() and setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)
within a thread group that causes a null-ptr-deref in
reweight_entity() in CFS. The scenario is that the main process spawns
number of new threads, which then call setpriority(PRIO_PGRP, 0, -20),
wait, and exit. For each of the new threads the copy_process() gets
invoked, which adds the new task_struct and calls sched_post_fork()
for it.
In the above scenario there is a possibility that
setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) and set_one_prio() will be called for a thread
in the group that is just being created by copy_process(), and for
which the sched_post_fork() has not been executed yet. This will
trigger a null pointer dereference in reweight_entity(), as it will
try to access the run queue pointer, which hasn't been set.
Before the mentioned change the cfs_rq pointer for the task has been
set in sched_fork(), which is called much earlier in copy_process(),
before the new task is added to the thread_group. Now it is done in
the sched_post_fork(), which is called after that. To fix the issue
the remove the update_load param from the update_load param() function
and call reweight_task() only if the task flag doesn't have the
TASK_NEW flag set.
Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Reported-by: syzbot+af7a719bc92395ee41b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203161846.1160750-1-tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c2dec6ce98091..57e5c79142964 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1199,8 +1199,9 @@ int tg_nop(struct task_group *tg, void *data)
}
#endif
-static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p, bool update_load)
+static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p)
{
+ bool update_load = !(READ_ONCE(p->__state) & TASK_NEW);
int prio = p->static_prio - MAX_RT_PRIO;
struct load_weight *load = &p->se.load;
@@ -4358,7 +4359,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(0);
p->prio = p->normal_prio = p->static_prio;
- set_load_weight(p, false);
+ set_load_weight(p);
/*
* We don't need the reset flag anymore after the fork. It has
@@ -6902,7 +6903,7 @@ void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice)
put_prev_task(rq, p);
p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(nice);
- set_load_weight(p, true);
+ set_load_weight(p);
old_prio = p->prio;
p->prio = effective_prio(p);
@@ -7193,7 +7194,7 @@ static void __setscheduler_params(struct task_struct *p,
*/
p->rt_priority = attr->sched_priority;
p->normal_prio = normal_prio(p);
- set_load_weight(p, true);
+ set_load_weight(p);
}
/*
@@ -9431,7 +9432,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
#endif
}
- set_load_weight(&init_task, false);
+ set_load_weight(&init_task);
/*
* The boot idle thread does lazy MMU switching as well:
