[patch 1/2] locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 06:33:16 EST
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 5 +++--
kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1329,8 +1329,9 @@ static bool rtmutex_spin_on_owner(struct
* 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;
}
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h
@@ -95,6 +95,19 @@ static inline int rt_mutex_has_waiters(s
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);