user/sven/linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v4.4.265

futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec

2021-02-03T22:16:16Z

commit 150d71584b12809144b8145b817e83b81158ae5f upstream. To allow separate handling of the futex exit state in the futex exit code for exit and exec, split futex_mm_release() into two functions and invoke them from the corresponding exit/exec_mm_release() callsites. Preparatory only, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.332094221@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()

2021-02-03T22:16:16Z

commit 4610ba7ad877fafc0a25a30c6c82015304120426 upstream. mm_release() contains the futex exit handling. mm_release() is called from do_exit()->exit_mm() and from exec()->exec_mm(). In the exit_mm() case PF_EXITING and the futex state is updated. In the exec_mm() case these states are not touched. As the futex exit code needs further protections against exit races, this needs to be split into two functions. Preparatory only, no functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.240518241@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

futex: Move futex exit handling into futex code

2021-02-03T22:16:16Z

commit ba31c1a48538992316cc71ce94fa9cd3e7b427c0 upstream. The futex exit handling is #ifdeffed into mm_release() which is not pretty to begin with. But upcoming changes to address futex exit races need to add more functionality to this exit code. Split it out into a function, move it into futex code and make the various futex exit functions static. Preparatory only and no functional change. Folded build fix from Borislav. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.049705556@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent

2020-11-10T09:22:20Z

commit b4e00444cab4c3f3fec876dc0cccc8cbb0d1a948 upstream. current->group_leader->exit_signal may change during copy_process() if current->real_parent exits. Move the assignment inside tasklist_lock to avoid the race. Signed-off-by: Eddy Wu Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/sysctl.c: do not override max_threads provided by userspace

2019-10-17T20:41:04Z

commit b0f53dbc4bc4c371f38b14c391095a3bb8a0bb40 upstream. Partially revert 16db3d3f1170 ("kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits") because the patch is causing a regression to any workload which needs to override the auto-tuning of the limit provided by kernel. set_max_threads is implementing a boot time guesstimate to provide a sensible limit of the concurrently running threads so that runaways will not deplete all the memory. This is a good thing in general but there are workloads which might need to increase this limit for an application to run (reportedly WebSpher MQ is affected) and that is simply not possible after the mentioned change. It is also very dubious to override an admin decision by an estimation that doesn't have any direct relation to correctness of the kernel operation. Fix this by dropping set_max_threads from sysctl_max_threads so any value is accepted as long as it fits into MAX_THREADS which is important to check because allowing more threads could break internal robust futex restriction. While at it, do not use MIN_THREADS as the lower boundary because it is also only a heuristic for automatic estimation and admin might have a good reason to stop new threads to be created even when below this limit. This became more severe when we switched x86 from 4k to 8k kernel stacks. Starting since 6538b8ea886e ("x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K") (3.16) we use THREAD_SIZE_ORDER = 2 and that halved the auto-tuned value. In the particular case 3.12 kernel.threads-max = 515561 4.4 kernel.threads-max = 200000 Neither of the two values is really insane on 32GB machine. I am not sure we want/need to tune the max_thread value further. If anything the tuning should be removed altogether if proven not useful in general. But we definitely need a way to override this auto-tuning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190922065801.GB18814@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 16db3d3f1170 ("kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/fair: Don't free p->numa_faults with concurrent readers

2019-08-04T07:35:02Z

commit 16d51a590a8ce3befb1308e0e7ab77f3b661af33 upstream. When going through execve(), zero out the NUMA fault statistics instead of freeing them. During execve, the task is reachable through procfs and the scheduler. A concurrent /proc/*/sched reader can read data from a freed ->numa_faults allocation (confirmed by KASAN) and write it back to userspace. I believe that it would also be possible for a use-after-free read to occur through a race between a NUMA fault and execve(): task_numa_fault() can lead to task_numa_compare(), which invokes task_weight() on the currently running task of a different CPU. Another way to fix this would be to make ->numa_faults RCU-managed or add extra locking, but it seems easier to wipe the NUMA fault statistics on execve. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Fixes: 82727018b0d3 ("sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: record start_time late

2019-01-13T09:05:32Z

commit 7b55851367136b1efd84d98fea81ba57a98304cf upstream. This changes the fork(2) syscall to record the process start_time after initializing the basic task structure but still before making the new process visible to user-space. Technically, we could record the start_time anytime during fork(2). But this might lead to scenarios where a start_time is recorded long before a process becomes visible to user-space. For instance, with userfaultfd(2) and TLS, user-space can delay the execution of fork(2) for an indefinite amount of time (and will, if this causes network access, or similar). By recording the start_time late, it much closer reflects the point in time where the process becomes live and can be observed by other processes. Lastly, this makes it much harder for user-space to predict and control the start_time they get assigned. Previously, user-space could fork a process and stall it in copy_thread_tls() before its pid is allocated, but after its start_time is recorded. This can be misused to later-on cycle through PIDs and resume the stalled fork(2) yielding a process that has the same pid and start_time as a process that existed before. This can be used to circumvent security systems that identify processes by their pid+start_time combination. Even though user-space was always aware that start_time recording is flaky (but several projects are known to still rely on start_time-based identification), changing the start_time to be recorded late will help mitigate existing attacks and make it much harder for user-space to control the start_time a process gets assigned. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: David Herrmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails

2018-09-19T20:48:55Z

commit 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e upstream. If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46fa965) but fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting p->set_child_tid, then the value of p->set_child_tid will be inherited from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct(). kthread() - worker_thread() - process_one_work() | - call_usermodehelper_exec_work() | - kernel_thread() | - _do_fork() | - copy_process() | - dup_task_struct() | - arch_dup_task_struct() | - tsk->set_child_tid = current->set_child_tid // implied | - ... | - goto bad_fork_* | - ... | - free_task(tsk) | - free_kthread_struct(tsk) | - kfree(tsk->set_child_tid) - ... - schedule() - __schedule() - wq_worker_sleeping() - kthread_data(task)->flags // UAF The problem started showing up with commit 1da5c46fa965 since it reused ->set_child_tid for the kthread worker data. A better long-term solution might be to get rid of the ->set_child_tid abuse. The comment in set_kthread_struct() also looks slightly wrong. Debugged-by: Jamie Iles Fixes: 1da5c46fa965 ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed") Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jamie Iles Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fork: don't copy inconsistent signal handler state to child

2018-09-15T07:40:38Z

[ Upstream commit 06e62a46bbba20aa5286102016a04214bb446141 ] Before this change, if a multithreaded process forks while one of its threads is changing a signal handler using sigaction(), the memcpy() in copy_sighand() can race with the struct assignment in do_sigaction(). It isn't clear whether this can cause corruption of the userspace signal handler pointer, but it definitely can cause inconsistency between different fields of struct sigaction. Take the appropriate spinlock to avoid this. I have tested that this patch prevents inconsistency between sa_sigaction and sa_flags, which is possible before this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702145108.73189-1-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kaiser: stack map PAGE_SIZE at THREAD_SIZE-PAGE_SIZE

2018-01-05T14:44:23Z

Kaiser only needs to map one page of the stack; and kernel/fork.c did not build on powerpc (no __PAGE_KERNEL). It's all cleaner if linux/kaiser.h provides kaiser_map_thread_stack() and kaiser_unmap_thread_stack() wrappers around asm/kaiser.h's kaiser_add_mapping() and kaiser_remove_mapping(). And use linux/kaiser.h in init/main.c to avoid the #ifdefs there. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman