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Message-Id: <20210910122917.386721069@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:30:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>,
        Patrick Schaaf <bof@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 06/37] kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

commit 3a7956e25e1d7b3c148569e78895e1f3178122a9 upstream.

The kthread_is_per_cpu() construct relies on only being called on
PF_KTHREAD tasks (per the WARN in to_kthread). This gives rise to the
following usage pattern:

	if ((p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_is_per_cpu(p))

However, as reported by syzcaller, this is broken. The scenario is:

	CPU0				CPU1 (running p)

	(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) // true

					begin_new_exec()
					  me->flags &= ~(PF_KTHREAD|...);
	kthread_is_per_cpu(p)
	  to_kthread(p)
	    WARN(!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) <-- *SPLAT*

Introduce __to_kthread() that omits the WARN and is sure to check both
values.

Use this to remove the problematic pattern for kthread_is_per_cpu()
and fix a number of other kthread_*() functions that have similar
issues but are currently not used in ways that would expose the
problem.

Notably kthread_func() is only ever called on 'current', while
kthread_probe_data() is only used for PF_WQ_WORKER, which implies the
task is from kthread_create*().

Fixes: ac687e6e8c26 ("kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YH6WJc825C4P0FCK@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Patrick Schaaf <bof@....de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/kthread.c    |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 kernel/sched/fair.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -76,6 +76,25 @@ static inline struct kthread *to_kthread
 	return (__force void *)k->set_child_tid;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Variant of to_kthread() that doesn't assume @p is a kthread.
+ *
+ * Per construction; when:
+ *
+ *   (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && p->set_child_tid
+ *
+ * the task is both a kthread and struct kthread is persistent. However
+ * PF_KTHREAD on it's own is not, kernel_thread() can exec() (See umh.c and
+ * begin_new_exec()).
+ */
+static inline struct kthread *__to_kthread(struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	void *kthread = (__force void *)p->set_child_tid;
+	if (kthread && !(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+		kthread = NULL;
+	return kthread;
+}
+
 void free_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *k)
 {
 	struct kthread *kthread;
@@ -176,10 +195,11 @@ void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *t
  */
 void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_struct *task)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(task);
+	struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(task);
 	void *data = NULL;
 
-	probe_kernel_read(&data, &kthread->data, sizeof(data));
+	if (kthread)
+		probe_kernel_read(&data, &kthread->data, sizeof(data));
 	return data;
 }
 
@@ -490,9 +510,9 @@ void kthread_set_per_cpu(struct task_str
 	set_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, &kthread->flags);
 }
 
-bool kthread_is_per_cpu(struct task_struct *k)
+bool kthread_is_per_cpu(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(k);
+	struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(p);
 	if (!kthread)
 		return false;
 
@@ -1272,11 +1292,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_destroy_worker);
  */
 void kthread_associate_blkcg(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread;
+	struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(current);
+
 
-	if (!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
-		return;
-	kthread = to_kthread(current);
 	if (!kthread)
 		return;
 
@@ -1298,13 +1316,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_associate_blkcg);
  */
 struct cgroup_subsys_state *kthread_blkcg(void)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread;
+	struct kthread *kthread = __to_kthread(current);
 
-	if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) {
-		kthread = to_kthread(current);
-		if (kthread)
-			return kthread->blkcg_css;
-	}
+	if (kthread)
+		return kthread->blkcg_css;
 	return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_blkcg);
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -7301,7 +7301,7 @@ int can_migrate_task(struct task_struct
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Disregard pcpu kthreads; they are where they need to be. */
-	if ((p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_is_per_cpu(p))
+	if (kthread_is_per_cpu(p))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(env->dst_cpu, p->cpus_ptr)) {