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locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless

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The new rt_mutex_spin_on_onwer() loop checks whether the spinning waiter is
still the top waiter on the lock by utilizing rt_mutex_top_waiter(), which
is broken because that function contains a sanity check which dereferences
the top waiter pointer to check whether the waiter belongs to the
lock. That's wrong in the lockless spinwait case:

 CPU 0							CPU 1
 rt_mutex_lock(lock)					rt_mutex_lock(lock);
   queue(waiter0)
   waiter0 == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock)
   rt_mutex_spin_on_onwer(lock, waiter0) {		queue(waiter1)
   					 		waiter1 == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock)
   							...
     top_waiter = rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock)
       leftmost = rb_first_cached(&lock->waiters);
							-> signal
							dequeue(waiter1)
							destroy(waiter1)
       w = rb_entry(leftmost, ....)
       BUG_ON(w->lock != lock)	 <- UAF

The BUG_ON() is correct for the case where the caller holds lock->wait_lock
which guarantees that the leftmost waiter entry cannot vanish. For the
lockless spinwait case it's broken.

Create a new helper function which avoids the pointer dereference and just
compares the leftmost entry pointer with current's waiter pointer to
validate that currrent is still elegible for spinning.

Fixes: 992caf7f1724 ("locking/rtmutex: Add adaptive spinwait mechanism")
Reported-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210825102453.981720644@linutronix.de
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Thomas Gleixner 2021-08-25 12:33:12 +02:00 committed by Peter Zijlstra
parent 99409b935c
commit c3123c4314
2 changed files with 16 additions and 2 deletions
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kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
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@ -1329,8 +1329,9 @@ static bool rtmutex_spin_on_owner(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
* for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y)
* - the VCPU on which owner runs is preempted
*/
if (!owner->on_cpu || waiter != rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock) ||
need_resched() || vcpu_is_preempted(task_cpu(owner))) {
if (!owner->on_cpu || need_resched() ||
rt_mutex_waiter_is_top_waiter(lock, waiter) ||
vcpu_is_preempted(task_cpu(owner))) {
res = false;
break;
}

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kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h
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@ -95,6 +95,19 @@ static inline int rt_mutex_has_waiters(struct rt_mutex_base *lock)
return !RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&lock->waiters.rb_root);
}
/*
* Lockless speculative check whether @waiter is still the top waiter on
* @lock. This is solely comparing pointers and not derefencing the
* leftmost entry which might be about to vanish.
*/
static inline bool rt_mutex_waiter_is_top_waiter(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter)
{
struct rb_node *leftmost = rb_first_cached(&lock->waiters);
return rb_entry(leftmost, struct rt_mutex_waiter, tree_entry) == waiter;
}
static inline struct rt_mutex_waiter *rt_mutex_top_waiter(struct rt_mutex_base *lock)
{
struct rb_node *leftmost = rb_first_cached(&lock->waiters);