linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.16 194/203] sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight

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Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:27:18 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+af7a719bc92395ee41b3@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.16 194/203] sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity

From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>

commit 13765de8148f71fa795e0a6607de37c49ea5915a upstream.

Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to
commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid
sched_task_group")

There is a race between sched_post_fork() and setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)
within a thread group that causes a null-ptr-deref in
reweight_entity() in CFS. The scenario is that the main process spawns
number of new threads, which then call setpriority(PRIO_PGRP, 0, -20),
wait, and exit.  For each of the new threads the copy_process() gets
invoked, which adds the new task_struct and calls sched_post_fork()
for it.

In the above scenario there is a possibility that
setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) and set_one_prio() will be called for a thread
in the group that is just being created by copy_process(), and for
which the sched_post_fork() has not been executed yet. This will
trigger a null pointer dereference in reweight_entity(), as it will
try to access the run queue pointer, which hasn't been set.

Before the mentioned change the cfs_rq pointer for the task  has been
set in sched_fork(), which is called much earlier in copy_process(),
before the new task is added to the thread_group.  Now it is done in
the sched_post_fork(), which is called after that.  To fix the issue
the remove the update_load param from the update_load param() function
and call reweight_task() only if the task flag doesn't have the
TASK_NEW flag set.

Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Reported-by: syzbot+af7a719bc92395ee41b3@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203161846.1160750-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1203,8 +1203,9 @@ int tg_nop(struct task_group *tg, void *
 }
 #endif

-static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p, bool update_load)
+static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	bool update_load = !(READ_ONCE(p->__state) & TASK_NEW);
 	int prio = p->static_prio - MAX_RT_PRIO;
 	struct load_weight *load = &p->se.load;

@@ -4392,7 +4393,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags
 			p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(0);

 		p->prio = p->normal_prio = p->static_prio;
-		set_load_weight(p, false);
+		set_load_weight(p);

 		/*
 		 * We don't need the reset flag anymore after the fork. It has
@@ -6879,7 +6880,7 @@ void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p
 		put_prev_task(rq, p);

 	p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(nice);
-	set_load_weight(p, true);
+	set_load_weight(p);
 	old_prio = p->prio;
 	p->prio = effective_prio(p);

@@ -7170,7 +7171,7 @@ static void __setscheduler_params(struct
 	 */
 	p->rt_priority = attr->sched_priority;
 	p->normal_prio = normal_prio(p);
-	set_load_weight(p, true);
+	set_load_weight(p);
 }

 /*
@@ -9409,7 +9410,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 #endif
 	}

-	set_load_weight(&init_task, false);
+	set_load_weight(&init_task);

 	/*
 	 * The boot idle thread does lazy MMU switching as well: