linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 05/17] rcu-tasks: Don't delete holdouts within trc_inspect

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Message-Id: <20210723035748.531594-5-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:57:36 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@...driver.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 05/17] rcu-tasks: Don't delete holdouts within trc_inspect_reader()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

[ Upstream commit 1d10bf55d85d34eb73dd8263635f43fd72135d2d ]

As Yanfei pointed out, although invoking trc_del_holdout() is safe
from the viewpoint of the integrity of the holdout list itself,
the put_task_struct() invoked by trc_del_holdout() can result in
use-after-free errors due to later accesses to this task_struct structure
by the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread.

This commit therefore removes this call to trc_del_holdout() from
trc_inspect_reader() in favor of the grace-period thread's existing call
to trc_del_holdout(), thus eliminating that particular class of
use-after-free errors.

Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@...driver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index 73bbe792fe1e..208acb286ec2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -879,10 +879,9 @@ static bool trc_inspect_reader(struct task_struct *t, void *arg)
 		in_qs = likely(!t->trc_reader_nesting);
 	}
 
-	// Mark as checked.  Because this is called from the grace-period
-	// kthread, also remove the task from the holdout list.
+	// Mark as checked so that the grace-period kthread will
+	// remove it from the holdout list.
 	t->trc_reader_checked = true;
-	trc_del_holdout(t);
 
 	if (in_qs)
 		return true;  // Already in quiescent state, done!!!
-- 
2.30.2