[GIT PULL] kthread cleanups for v5.19
From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Jun 03 2022 - 13:57:17 EST
This set of changes updates init and user mode helper tasks to be
ordinary user mode tasks.
In commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
struct kthread possible.
The commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple enough
to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace thread.
I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code sitting
in linux-next.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mtfu4up3.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Eric W. Biederman (8):
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/csky/kernel/process.c | 15 ++++++-------
arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 10 ++++-----
arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/um/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/sched.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 8 +++----
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 17 ++++++++-------
fs/exec.c | 8 ++++---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 8 +++++--
init/initramfs.c | 2 ++
init/main.c | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
kernel/umh.c | 6 +++---
33 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
p.s. My apologies for this coming in so late. The code has been ready
just everyone in my house has been sick since the start of the merge window.