linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] sched/autogroup: autogroup_move_group() must never skip sched_move

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:46:09 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:     hartsjc@...hat.com, vbendel@...hat.com, vlovejoy@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sched/autogroup: autogroup_move_group() must never skip
 sched_move_task()

The PF_EXITING check in task_wants_autogroup() is no longer needed. Remove
it, but see the next patch.

However the comment is correct in that autogroup_move_group() must always
change task_group() for every thread so the sysctl_ check is very wrong;
we can race with cgroups and even sys_setsid() is not safe because a task
running with task_group() == ag->tg must participate in refcounting:

	int main(void)
	{
		int sctl = open("/proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled", O_WRONLY);

		assert(sctl > 0);
		if (fork()) {
			wait(NULL); // destroy the child's ag/tg
			pause();
		}

		assert(pwrite(sctl, "1\n", 2, 0) == 2);
		assert(setsid() > 0);
		if (fork())
			pause();

		kill(getppid(), SIGKILL);
		sleep(1);

		// The child has gone, the grandchild runs with kref == 1
		assert(pwrite(sctl, "0\n", 2, 0) == 2);
		assert(setsid() > 0);

		// runs with the freed ag/tg
		for (;;)
			sleep(1);

		return 0;
	}

crashes the kernel. It doesn't really need sleep(1), it doesn't matter if
autogroup_move_group() actually frees the task_group or this happens later.

Reported-by: Vern Lovejoy <vlovejoy@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 kernel/sched/auto_group.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
index a5d966c..ad2b19a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/auto_group.c
@@ -111,14 +111,11 @@ bool task_wants_autogroup(struct task_struct *p, struct task_group *tg)
 {
 	if (tg != &root_task_group)
 		return false;
-
 	/*
-	 * We can only assume the task group can't go away on us if
-	 * autogroup_move_group() can see us on ->thread_group list.
+	 * If we race with autogroup_move_group() the caller can use the old
+	 * value of signal->autogroup but in this case sched_move_task() will
+	 * be called again before autogroup_kref_put().
 	 */
-	if (p->flags & PF_EXITING)
-		return false;
-
 	return true;
 }
 
@@ -138,13 +135,17 @@ autogroup_move_group(struct task_struct *p, struct autogroup *ag)
 	}
 
 	p->signal->autogroup = autogroup_kref_get(ag);
-
-	if (!READ_ONCE(sysctl_sched_autogroup_enabled))
-		goto out;
-
+	/*
+	 * We can't avoid sched_move_task() after we changed signal->autogroup,
+	 * this process can already run with task_group() == prev->tg or we can
+	 * race with cgroup code which can read autogroup = prev under rq->lock.
+	 * In the latter case for_each_thread() can not miss a migrating thread,
+	 * cpu_cgroup_attach() must not be possible after cgroup_exit() and it
+	 * can't be removed from thread list, we hold ->siglock.
+	 */
 	for_each_thread(p, t)
 		sched_move_task(t);
-out:
+
 	unlock_task_sighand(p, &flags);
 	autogroup_kref_put(prev);
 }
-- 
2.5.0