This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cgroup: fix css_task_iter crash on CSS_TASK_ITER_PROC to the 4.14-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: cgroup-fix-css_task_iter-crash-on-css_task_iter_proc.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 74d0833c659a8a54735e5efdd44f4b225af68586 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 07:09:19 -0800 Subject: cgroup: fix css_task_iter crash on CSS_TASK_ITER_PROC From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 74d0833c659a8a54735e5efdd44f4b225af68586 upstream. While teaching css_task_iter to handle skipping over tasks which aren't group leaders, bc2fb7ed089f ("cgroup: add @flags to css_task_iter_start() and implement CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS") introduced a silly bug. CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS is implemented by repeating css_task_iter_advance() while the advanced cursor is pointing to a non-leader thread. However, the cursor variable, @l, wasn't updated when the iteration has to advance to the next css_set and the following repetition would operate on the terminal @l from the previous iteration which isn't pointing to a valid task leading to oopses like the following or infinite looping. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000254 IP: __task_pid_nr_ns+0xc7/0xf0 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP ... CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.14.4-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/PRIME B350M-A, BIOS 3203 11/09/2017 task: ffff88c4baee8000 task.stack: ffff96d5c3158000 RIP: 0010:__task_pid_nr_ns+0xc7/0xf0 RSP: 0018:ffff96d5c315bd50 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88c4b68c6000 RCX: 0000000000000250 RDX: ffffffffa5e47960 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88c490f6ab00 RBP: ffff96d5c315bd50 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000000005 R10: ffff88c4be006b80 R11: ffff88c42f1b8004 R12: ffff96d5c315bf18 R13: ffff88c42d7dd200 R14: ffff88c490f6a510 R15: ffff88c4b68c6000 FS: 00007f9446f8ea00(0000) GS:ffff88c4be680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000254 CR3: 00000007f956f000 CR4: 00000000003406e0 Call Trace: cgroup_procs_show+0x19/0x30 cgroup_seqfile_show+0x4c/0xb0 kernfs_seq_show+0x21/0x30 seq_read+0x2ec/0x3f0 kernfs_fop_read+0x134/0x180 __vfs_read+0x37/0x160 ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0 vfs_read+0x8e/0x130 SyS_read+0x55/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5 RIP: 0033:0x7f94455f942d RSP: 002b:00007ffe81ba2d00 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005574e2233f00 RCX: 00007f94455f942d RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00005574e2321a90 RDI: 000000000000002b RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00005574e2321a90 R09: 00005574e231de60 R10: 00007f94458c8b38 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00007f94458c8ae0 R13: 00007ffe81ba3800 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00005574e2116560 Code: 04 74 0e 89 f6 48 8d 04 76 48 8d 04 c5 f0 05 00 00 48 8b bf b8 05 00 00 48 01 c7 31 c0 48 8b 0f 48 85 c9 74 18 8b b2 30 08 00 00 <3b> 71 04 77 0d 48 c1 e6 05 48 01 f1 48 3b 51 38 74 09 5d c3 8b RIP: __task_pid_nr_ns+0xc7/0xf0 RSP: ffff96d5c315bd50 Fix it by moving the initialization of the cursor below the repeat label. While at it, rename it to @next for readability. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: bc2fb7ed089f ("cgroup: add @flags to css_task_iter_start() and implement CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS") Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Bronek Kozicki <brok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: George Amanakis <gamanakis@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -4059,26 +4059,24 @@ static void css_task_iter_advance_css_se static void css_task_iter_advance(struct css_task_iter *it) { - struct list_head *l = it->task_pos; + struct list_head *next; lockdep_assert_held(&css_set_lock); - WARN_ON_ONCE(!l); - repeat: /* * Advance iterator to find next entry. cset->tasks is consumed * first and then ->mg_tasks. After ->mg_tasks, we move onto the * next cset. */ - l = l->next; + next = it->task_pos->next; - if (l == it->tasks_head) - l = it->mg_tasks_head->next; + if (next == it->tasks_head) + next = it->mg_tasks_head->next; - if (l == it->mg_tasks_head) + if (next == it->mg_tasks_head) css_task_iter_advance_css_set(it); else - it->task_pos = l; + it->task_pos = next; /* if PROCS, skip over tasks which aren't group leaders */ if ((it->flags & CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS) && it->task_pos && Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/cgroup-fix-css_task_iter-crash-on-css_task_iter_proc.patch