[PATCH] kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group

From: Zhang Qiao
Date: Thu Aug 26 2021 - 07:26:38 EST


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:

[89249.732198] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at 0000000000000000
[89249.732701] PGD 8000001fa0a86067 P4D 8000001fa0a86067 PUD
2029955067 PMD 0
[89249.733005] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[89249.733288] CPU: 7 PID: 648398 Comm: ebizzy Kdump: loaded
Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0.x86_64+ #1
[89249.734318] RIP: 0010:sched_slice+0x84/0xc0
....
[89249.737910] Call Trace:
[89249.738181] task_fork_fair+0x81/0x120
[89249.738457] sched_fork+0x132/0x240
[89249.738732] copy_process.part.5+0x675/0x20e0
[89249.739010] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x63f/0x690
[89249.739286] _do_fork+0xcd/0x3b0
[89249.739558] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x1d0
[89249.739830] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
[89249.740107] RIP: 0033:0x7f04418cd7e1

When a new process is forked, cgroup_post_fork() associates it
with the cgroup of its parent. Therefore this commit move the
__set_task_cpu() and task_fork() that access some cgroup-related
fields(sched_task_group and cfs_rq) to sched_post_fork() and
call sched_post_fork() after cgroup_post_fork().

Fixes: 8323f26ce342 ("sched: Fix race in task_group")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched/core.c | 33 +++++++++++++--------------------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index bc94b2cc5995..a4acd87f00f9 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2330,8 +2330,8 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);

proc_fork_connector(p);
- sched_post_fork(p);
cgroup_post_fork(p, args);
+ sched_post_fork(p);
perf_event_fork(p);

trace_task_newtask(p, clone_flags);
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 20ffcc044134..041f21e8b266 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4069,8 +4069,6 @@ int sysctl_schedstats(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer,
*/
int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
{
- unsigned long flags;
-
__sched_fork(clone_flags, p);
/*
* We mark the process as NEW here. This guarantees that
@@ -4116,24 +4114,6 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)

init_entity_runnable_average(&p->se);

- /*
- * The child is not yet in the pid-hash so no cgroup attach races,
- * and the cgroup is pinned to this child due to cgroup_fork()
- * is ran before sched_fork().
- *
- * Silence PROVE_RCU.
- */
- raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
- rseq_migrate(p);
- /*
- * We're setting the CPU for the first time, we don't migrate,
- * so use __set_task_cpu().
- */
- __set_task_cpu(p, smp_processor_id());
- if (p->sched_class->task_fork)
- p->sched_class->task_fork(p);
- raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_INFO
if (likely(sched_info_on()))
memset(&p->sched_info, 0, sizeof(p->sched_info));
@@ -4151,6 +4131,19 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)

void sched_post_fork(struct task_struct *p)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
+ rseq_migrate(p);
+ /*
+ * We're setting the CPU for the first time, we don't migrate,
+ * so use __set_task_cpu().
+ */
+ __set_task_cpu(p, smp_processor_id());
+ if (p->sched_class->task_fork)
+ p->sched_class->task_fork(p);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags);
+
uclamp_post_fork(p);
}

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2.17.1