Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/sve: Fix wrong free for task->thread.sve_state

From: Dave Martin
Date: Fri Sep 27 2019 - 08:52:35 EST


On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 03:08:46PM -0400, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote:
> From: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The system which has SVE feature crashed because of
> the memory pointed by task->thread.sve_state was destroyed
> by someone.
>
> That is because sve_state is freed while the forking the
> child process. The child process has the pointer of sve_state
> which is same as the parent's because the child's task_struct
> is copied from the parent's one. If the copy_process()
> fails as an error on somewhere, for example, copy_creds(),
> then the sve_state is freed even if the parent is alive.
> The flow is as follows.
>
> copy_process
> p = dup_task_struct
> => arch_dup_task_struct
> *dst = *src; // copy the entire region.
> :
> retval = copy_creds
> if (retval < 0)
> goto bad_fork_free;
> :
> bad_fork_free:
> ...
> delayed_free_task(p);
> => free_task
> => arch_release_task_struct
> => fpsimd_release_task
> => __sve_free
> => kfree(task->thread.sve_state);
> // free the parent's sve_state
>
> Add a flag in task->thread which shows the fork is in progress.
> If the fork is in progress, that means the child has the pointer
> to the parent's sve_state, doesn't free the sve_state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 ++++--
> arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> index 5623685c7d13..3ca3e350145a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
> unsigned long fault_address; /* fault info */
> unsigned long fault_code; /* ESR_EL1 value */
> struct debug_info debug; /* debugging */
> + unsigned int fork_in_progress;
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH
> struct ptrauth_keys keys_user;
> #endif
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> index 37d3912cfe06..8641db4cb062 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> @@ -202,8 +202,10 @@ static bool have_cpu_fpsimd_context(void)
> */
> static void __sve_free(struct task_struct *task)
> {
> - kfree(task->thread.sve_state);
> - task->thread.sve_state = NULL;
> + if (!task->thread.fork_in_progress) {
> + kfree(task->thread.sve_state);
> + task->thread.sve_state = NULL;
> + }
> }
>
> static void sve_free(struct task_struct *task)
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> index a47462def04b..8ac0ee4e5f76 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
> if (current->mm)
> fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
> *dst = *src;
> + dst->thread.fork_in_progress = 1;
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -365,6 +366,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
> * and disable discard SVE state for p:
> */
> clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SVE);
> + p->thread.fork_in_progress = 0;
> p->thread.sve_state = NULL;

There's definitely a problem here, but a simpler fix is probably to
NULL sve_state and clear TIF_SVE for dst at the same time.

Once upon a time, I had to cope with the thread_flags not being copied
as part of task_struct here, which is one reason why the code is the
(broken) way it is, but this is ancient history...

Commit c02433dd6de3 ("arm64: split thread_info from task stack") was
merged in v4.10 and predates SVE support anyway.


So can just do the following (untested) and delete the confusing
comments?

Cheers
---Dave

--8<--


diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index f674f28..6937f59 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -323,22 +323,16 @@ void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
fpsimd_release_task(tsk);
}

-/*
- * src and dst may temporarily have aliased sve_state after task_struct
- * is copied. We cannot fix this properly here, because src may have
- * live SVE state and dst's thread_info may not exist yet, so tweaking
- * either src's or dst's TIF_SVE is not safe.
- *
- * The unaliasing is done in copy_thread() instead. This works because
- * dst is not schedulable or traceable until both of these functions
- * have been called.
- */
int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
{
if (current->mm)
fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
*dst = *src;

+ BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK));
+ dst->thread.sve_state = NULL;
+ clear_tsk_thread_flag(dst, TIF_SVE);
+
return 0;
}

@@ -352,13 +346,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
memset(&p->thread.cpu_context, 0, sizeof(struct cpu_context));

/*
- * Unalias p->thread.sve_state (if any) from the parent task
- * and disable discard SVE state for p:
- */
- clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SVE);
- p->thread.sve_state = NULL;
-
- /*
* In case p was allocated the same task_struct pointer as some
* other recently-exited task, make sure p is disassociated from
* any cpu that may have run that now-exited task recently.