linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4] cgroup: fix race condition around termination check in css_task_iter

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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:53:36 +0800
From:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
CC:	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.4] cgroup: fix race condition around
 termination check in css_task_iter_next()

On 2015/10/27 16:45, Tejun Heo wrote:
> css_task_iter_next() checked @it->cur_task before grabbing
> css_set_lock and assumed that the result won't change afterwards;
> however, tasks could leave the cgroup being iterated terminating the
> iterator before css_task_lock is acquired.  If this happens,
> css_task_iter_next() tries to calculate the current task from NULL
> cg_list pointer leading to the following oops.
>
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffff7d0
>   IP: [<ffffffff810d5f22>] css_task_iter_next+0x42/0x80
>   ...
>   CPU: 4 PID: 6391 Comm: JobQDisp2 Not tainted 4.0.9-22_fbk4_rc3_81616_ge8d9cb6 #1
>   Hardware name: Quanta Freedom/Winterfell, BIOS F03_3B08 03/04/2014
>   task: ffff880868e46400 ti: ffff88083404c000 task.ti: ffff88083404c000
>   RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d5f22>]  [<ffffffff810d5f22>] css_task_iter_next+0x42/0x80
>   RSP: 0018:ffff88083404fd28  EFLAGS: 00010246
>   RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88083404fd68 RCX: ffff8804697fb8b0
>   RDX: fffffffffffff7c0 RSI: ffff8803b7dff800 RDI: ffffffff822c0278
>   RBP: ffff88083404fd38 R08: 0000000000017160 R09: ffff88046f4070c0
>   R10: ffffffff810d61f7 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: ffff880863bf8400
>   R13: ffff88046b87fd80 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88083404fe58
>   FS:  00007fa0567e2700(0000) GS:ffff88046f900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>   CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>   CR2: fffffffffffff7d0 CR3: 0000000469568000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
>   Stack:
>    0000000000000246 0000000000000000 ffff88083404fde8 ffffffff810d6248
>    ffff88083404fd68 0000000000000000 ffff8803b7dff800 000001ef000001ee
>    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff880863bf8568 0000000000000000
>   Call Trace:
>    [<ffffffff810d6248>] cgroup_pidlist_start+0x258/0x550
>    [<ffffffff810cf66d>] cgroup_seqfile_start+0x1d/0x20
>    [<ffffffff8121f8ef>] kernfs_seq_start+0x5f/0xa0
>    [<ffffffff811cab76>] seq_read+0x166/0x380
>    [<ffffffff812200fd>] kernfs_fop_read+0x11d/0x180
>    [<ffffffff811a7398>] __vfs_read+0x18/0x50
>    [<ffffffff811a745d>] vfs_read+0x8d/0x150
>    [<ffffffff811a756f>] SyS_read+0x4f/0xb0
>    [<ffffffff818d4772>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
>
> Fix it by moving the termination condition check inside css_set_lock.
> @it->cur_task is now cleared after being put and @it->task_pos is
> tested for termination instead of @it->cset_pos as they indicate the
> same condition and @it->task_pos is what's being dereferenced.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Reported-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
> Fixes: ed27b9f7a17d ("cgroup: don't hold css_set_rwsem across css task iteration")

Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>

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