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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:04:53 +0900
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com>,
linux-am33-list@...hat.com, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task()
The function dup_task() may fail at the following function calls in
the following order.
0) alloc_task_struct_node()
1) alloc_thread_info_node()
2) arch_dup_task_struct()
Error by 0) is not a matter, it can just return. But error by 1)
requires releasing task_struct allocated by 0) before it returns.
Likewise, error by 2) requires releasing task_struct and thread_info
allocated by 0) and 1).
The existing error handling calls free_task_struct() and
free_thread_info() which do not only release task_struct and
thread_info, but also call architecture specific
arch_release_task_struct() and arch_release_thread_info().
The problem is that task_struct and thread_info are not fully
initialized yet at this point, but arch_release_task_struct() and
arch_release_thread_info() are called with them.
For example, x86 defines its own arch_release_task_struct() that
releases a task_xstate. If alloc_thread_info_node() fails in
dup_task(), arch_release_task_struct() is called with task_struct
which is just allocated and filled with garbage in this error handling.
This actually happened with tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh
# env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \
./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \
--min-order=0 --ignore-gfp-wait=0 \
-- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests
In order to fix this issue, make free_{task_struct,thread_info}() not
to call arch_release_{task_struct,thread_info}() and call
arch_release_{task_struct,thread_info}() implicitly where needed.
Default arch_release_task_struct() and arch_release_thread_info() are
defined as empty by default. So this change only affects the
architectures which implement their own arch_release_task_struct() or
arch_release_thread_info() as listed below.
arch_release_task_struct(): x86, sh
arch_release_thread_info(): mn10300, tile
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com>
Cc: linux-am33-list@...hat.com
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc: linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ab5211b..fb4a3e2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ int nr_processes(void)
return total;
}
+void __weak arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+
#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
static struct kmem_cache *task_struct_cachep;
@@ -122,18 +124,16 @@ static inline struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct_node(int node)
return kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL, node);
}
-void __weak arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
-
static inline void free_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
- arch_release_task_struct(tsk);
kmem_cache_free(task_struct_cachep, tsk);
}
#endif
-#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
void __weak arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { }
+#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
+
/*
* Allocate pages if THREAD_SIZE is >= PAGE_SIZE, otherwise use a
* kmemcache based allocator.
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
static inline void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
{
- arch_release_thread_info(ti);
free_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
}
# else
@@ -164,7 +163,6 @@ static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
static void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
{
- arch_release_thread_info(ti);
kmem_cache_free(thread_info_cache, ti);
}
@@ -205,10 +203,12 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct thread_info *ti, int account)
void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
account_kernel_stack(tsk->stack, -1);
+ arch_release_thread_info(tsk->stack);
free_thread_info(tsk->stack);
rt_mutex_debug_task_free(tsk);
ftrace_graph_exit_task(tsk);
put_seccomp_filter(tsk);
+ arch_release_task_struct(tsk);
free_task_struct(tsk);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_task);
@@ -298,14 +298,12 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
return NULL;
ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node);
- if (!ti) {
- free_task_struct(tsk);
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (!ti)
+ goto free_tsk;
err = arch_dup_task_struct(tsk, orig);
if (err)
- goto out;
+ goto free_ti;
tsk->stack = ti;
@@ -333,8 +331,9 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
return tsk;
-out:
+free_ti:
free_thread_info(ti);
+free_tsk:
free_task_struct(tsk);
return NULL;
}
--
1.7.10.4
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