linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/7] sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm

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Message-ID: <87r150ug1l.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>
Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 12:37:10 -0500
From:   "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:     <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 8/7] sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm


Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com> wrote:
> Reverting the last 3 commits of the series fixed a boot crash.
>
> 1b2552cbdbe0 fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
> 753550eb0ce1 fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
> 68d85f0a33b0 init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
>
>  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in task_nr_scan_windows.isra.0
>  arch_atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:29
>  (inlined by) atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1266
>  (inlined by) get_mm_counter at ./include/linux/mm.h:1996
>  (inlined by) get_mm_rss at ./include/linux/mm.h:2049
>  (inlined by) task_nr_scan_windows at kernel/sched/fair.c:1123
>  Read of size 8 at addr 00000000000003d0 by task swapper/0/1

With the change to init and the user mode helper processes to not have
PF_KTHREAD set before they call kernel_execve the PF_KTHREAD test in
task_tick_numa became insufficient to detect all tasks that have
"->mm == NULL".  Correct that by testing for "->mm == NULL" directly.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@...cinc.com>
Fixes: 1b2552cbdbe0 ("fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d4bd299d67ab..db6f0df9d43e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@ static void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
 	/*
 	 * We don't care about NUMA placement if we don't have memory.
 	 */
-	if ((curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work)
+	if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work)
 		return;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.35.3