From 343f4c49f2438d8920f1f76fa823ee59b91f02e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:40:14 -0500 Subject: kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If kthread_is_per_cpu runs concurrently with free_kthread_struct the kthread_struct that was just freed may be read from. This bug was introduced by commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads"). When kthread_struct started to be allocated for all tasks that have PF_KTHREAD set. This in turn required the kthread_struct to be freed in kernel_execve and violated the assumption that kthread_struct will have the same lifetime as the task. Looking a bit deeper this only applies to callers of kernel_execve which is just the init process and the user mode helper processes. These processes really don't want to be kernel threads but are for historical reasons. Mostly that copy_thread does not know how to take a kernel mode function to the process with for processes without PF_KTHREAD or PF_IO_WORKER set. Solve this by not allocating kthread_struct for the init process and the user mode helper processes. This is done by adding a kthread member to struct kernel_clone_args. Setting kthread in fork_idle and kernel_thread. Adding user_mode_thread that works like kernel_thread except it does not set kthread. In fork only allocating the kthread_struct if .kthread is set. I have looked at kernel/kthread.c and since commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") there have been no assumptions added that to_kthread or __to_kthread will not return NULL. There are a few callers of to_kthread or __to_kthread that assume a non-NULL struct kthread pointer will be returned. These functions are kthread_data(), kthread_parmme(), kthread_exit(), kthread(), kthread_park(), kthread_unpark(), kthread_stop(). All of those functions can reasonably expected to be called when it is know that a task is a kthread so that assumption seems reasonable. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads") Reported-by: Максим Кутявин Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220506141512.516114-1-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- include/linux/sched/task.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched') diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h index 719c9a6cac8d..4492266935dd 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/task.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct kernel_clone_args { size_t set_tid_size; int cgroup; int io_thread; + int kthread; struct cgroup *cgrp; struct css_set *cset; }; @@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node); struct task_struct *fork_idle(int); struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void); extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags); +extern pid_t user_mode_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags); extern long kernel_wait4(pid_t, int __user *, int, struct rusage *); int kernel_wait(pid_t pid, int *stat); -- cgit v1.3-18-gd494