linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning

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Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:57:03 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning

Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if
CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed
during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer
fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed
memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that
the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.

Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
---

This was reported in a subsequent comment here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173901

However, the original bugzilla entry doesn't look related to task stack
freeing as it was first reported on 4.8-rc8. Andy, sorry for cc'ing you
to bugzilla, please feel free to remove your email from the bug above (I
can't seem to be able to do it).

 mm/kmemleak.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index a5e453cf05c4..e5355a5b423f 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1453,8 +1453,11 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)

 		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		do_each_thread(g, p) {
-			scan_block(task_stack_page(p), task_stack_page(p) +
-				   THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
+			void *stack = try_get_task_stack(p);
+			if (stack) {
+				scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
+				put_task_stack(p);
+			}
 		} while_each_thread(g, p);
 		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	}