linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RT V2] sched: Prevent task state corruption by spurious lock wakeup

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2017 22:18:12 +0200
From:   Sebastian Sewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mathias Koehrer <mathias.koehrer@...s.com>,
        David Hauck <davidh@...acquire.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT V2] sched: Prevent task state corruption by spurious
 lock wakeup

On 2017-06-06 14:20:37 [+0200], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Mathias and others reported GDB failures on RT.
> 
> The following scenario leads to task state corruption:
> 
> CPU0						CPU1
> 
> T1->state = TASK_XXX;
> spin_lock(&lock)
>   rt_spin_lock_slowlock(&lock->rtmutex)
>     raw_spin_lock(&rtm->wait_lock);
>     T1->saved_state = current->state;
>     T1->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE;
> 						spin_unlock(&lock)
>     task_blocks_on_rt_mutex(rtm)  		  rt_spin_lock_slowunlock(&lock->rtmutex)
>       queue_waiter(rtm)				    raw_spin_lock(&rtm->wait_lock);
>       pi_chain_walk(rtm)
>         raw_spin_unlock(&rtm->wait_lock);
> 						    wake_top_waiter(T1)
> 
>       raw_spin_lock(&rtm->wait_lock);
>     
> 
>     for (;;) {
>       if (__try_to_take_rt_mutex())  <- Succeeds
>         break;
>       ...
>     }
> 	
>     T1->state = T1->saved_state;
> 						     try_to_wake_up(T1)
> 						       ttwu_do_wakeup(T1)
> 						         T1->state = TASK_RUNNING;
> 
> In most cases this is harmless because waiting for some event, which is the
> usual reason for TASK_[UN]INTERRUPTIBLE has to be safe against other forms
> of spurious wakeups anyway.
> 
> But in case of TASK_TRACED this is actually fatal, because the task loses
> the TASK_TRACED state. In consequence it fails to consume SIGSTOP which was
> sent from the debugger and actually delivers SIGSTOP to the task which
> breaks the ptrace mechanics and brings the debugger into an unexpected
> state.
> 
> The TASK_TRACED state should prevent getting there due to the state
> matching logic in try_to_wake_up(). But that's not true because
> wake_up_lock_sleeper() uses TASK_ALL as state mask. That's bogus because
> lock sleepers always use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so the wakeup should use
> that as well.
> 
> The cure is way simpler as figuring it out:
> 
> Change the mask used in wake_up_lock_sleeper() from TASK_ALL to
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.
> 
> Reported-by: Mathias Koehrer <mathias.koehrer@...s.com>
> Reported-by: David Hauck <davidh@...acquire.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: stable-rt@...r.kernel.org

Applied

Sebastian