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authorTadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>2022-02-03 19:18:46 +0300
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-02-07 00:37:26 +0300
commit13765de8148f71fa795e0a6607de37c49ea5915a (patch)
treefb0cdc627ea53ea86385b3e6d6aa12e624f7186e /kernel
parent26291c54e111ff6ba87a164d85d4a4e134b7315c (diff)
downloadlinux-13765de8148f71fa795e0a6607de37c49ea5915a.tar.xz
sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity
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@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203161846.1160750-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 848eaa0efe0e..fcf0c180617c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1214,8 +1214,9 @@ 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;
@@ -4406,7 +4407,7 @@ 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
@@ -6921,7 +6922,7 @@ 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);
@@ -7212,7 +7213,7 @@ 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);
}
/*
@@ -9445,7 +9446,7 @@ 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: