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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2022-05-11 12:16:21 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2022-05-11 12:41:48 -0500
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parentfork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve (diff)
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sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com> wrote: > Reverting the last 3 commits of the series fixed a boot crash. > > 1b2552cbdbe0 fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve > 753550eb0ce1 fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD > 68d85f0a33b0 init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process > > BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in task_nr_scan_windows.isra.0 > arch_atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:29 > (inlined by) atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1266 > (inlined by) get_mm_counter at ./include/linux/mm.h:1996 > (inlined by) get_mm_rss at ./include/linux/mm.h:2049 > (inlined by) task_nr_scan_windows at kernel/sched/fair.c:1123 > Read of size 8 at addr 00000000000003d0 by task swapper/0/1 With the change to init and the user mode helper processes to not have PF_KTHREAD set before they call kernel_execve the PF_KTHREAD test in task_tick_numa became insufficient to detect all tasks that have "->mm == NULL". Correct that by testing for "->mm == NULL" directly. Reported-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com> Tested-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com> Fixes: 1b2552cbdbe0 ("fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r150ug1l.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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