Re: io_uring: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 08:10:27AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I think the odd part here is that task_tick_numa() checks for a
> valid mm, and queues work if the task has it. But for the sqpoll
> kthread, the mm can come and go. By the time the task work is run,
> the mm is gone and we oops on current->mm == NULL.
> 
> I think the below should fix it:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 538ba5d94e99..24a8557f001f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2908,7 +2908,8 @@ 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->mm || (curr->flags & PF_EXITING) || work->next != work)
> +	if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) ||
> +	    work->next != work)
>  		return;

Ah, I think that's one more instance of '!p->mm' != is_kthread(). A
while ago someone went and cleaned a bunch of them up. Clearly this one
was missed.

I'm thinking just:

	if ((curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work)

should be enough.