4ef0c5c6b5
There is a small race between copy_process() and sched_fork()
where child->sched_task_group point to an already freed pointer.
parent doing fork() | someone moving the parent
| to another cgroup
-------------------------------+-------------------------------
copy_process()
+ dup_task_struct()<1>
parent move to another cgroup,
and free the old cgroup. <2>
+ sched_fork()
+ __set_task_cpu()<3>
+ task_fork_fair()
+ sched_slice()<4>
In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and
cause panic as shown above:
(1) parent copy its sched_task_group to child at <1>;
(2) someone move the parent to another cgroup and free the old
cgroup at <2>;
(3) the sched_task_group and cfs_rq that belong to the old cgroup
will be accessed at <3> and <4>, which cause a panic:
[] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
[] PGD 8000001fa0a86067 P4D 8000001fa0a86067 PUD 2029955067 PMD 0
[] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[] CPU: 7 PID: 648398 Comm: ebizzy Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0.x86_64+ #1
[] RIP: 0010:sched_slice+0x84/0xc0
[] Call Trace:
[] task_fork_fair+0x81/0x120
[] sched_fork+0x132/0x240
[] copy_process.part.5+0x675/0x20e0
[] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x63f/0x690
[] _do_fork+0xcd/0x3b0
[] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x1d0
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
[] RIP: 0033:0x7f04418cd7e1
Between cgroup_can_fork() and cgroup_post_fork(), the cgroup
membership and thus sched_task_group can't change. So update child's
sched_task_group at sched_post_fork() and move task_fork() and
__set_task_cpu() (where accees the sched_task_group) from sched_fork()
to sched_post_fork().
Fixes: 8323f26ce342 ("sched: Fix race in task_group")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210915064030.2231-1-zhangqiao22@huawei.com
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