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mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning

Message ID 1476266223-14325-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
State Accepted
Commit 37df49f433bc3a11f5716fe65aaec5189c6402cb
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Catalin Marinas Oct. 12, 2016, 9:57 a.m. UTC
Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if
CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed
during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer
fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed
memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that
the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.

Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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This was reported in a subsequent comment here:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173901

However, the original bugzilla entry doesn't look related to task stack
freeing as it was first reported on 4.8-rc8. Andy, sorry for cc'ing you
to bugzilla, please feel free to remove your email from the bug above (I
can't seem to be able to do it).

 mm/kmemleak.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Catalin Marinas Oct. 12, 2016, 10:47 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:16:46PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > @@ -1453,8 +1453,11 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)

> > 

> >  		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);

> >  		do_each_thread(g, p) {

> 

> Take a look at this commit please.

> 	1da4db0cd5 ("oom_kill: change oom_kill.c to use for_each_thread()")


Thanks. Isn't holding tasklist_lock here enough to avoid such races?

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Catalin
Catalin Marinas Oct. 12, 2016, 4:14 p.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:54:17AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----

> > From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

> > To: linux-mm@kvack.org

> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,

> > "CAI Qian" <caiqian@redhat.com>

> > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5:57:03 AM

> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning

> > 

> > Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if

> > CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed

> > during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer

> > fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed

> > memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that

> > the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.

> > 

> > Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if

> > CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")

> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

> > Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>

> > Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>

> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

> 

> Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>


Thanks.

BTW, I noticed a few false positives reported by kmemleak with the
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK enabled caused by the fact that kmemleak requires two
references (instead of one) to a vmalloc'ed object because of the
vm_struct already containing the address. The cached_stack[] array only
stores the vm_struct rather than the stack address, hence the kmemleak
report. I'll work on a fix/annotation.

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Catalin
Andrew Morton Oct. 19, 2016, 6:33 p.m. UTC | #3
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:57:03 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:

> Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if

> CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed

> during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer

> fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed

> memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that

> the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.

> 

> Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")

> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

> Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>

> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>

> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>


I'll add

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>    [4.8.x]
Catalin Marinas Oct. 20, 2016, 10:02 a.m. UTC | #4
Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:33:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:57:03 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:

> > Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if

> > CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed

> > during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer

> > fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed

> > memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that

> > the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.

> > 

> > Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")

> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

> > Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>

> > Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>

> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

> 

> I'll add

> 

> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>    [4.8.x]


This should be 4.9.x. The commit that introduces try_get_task_stack()
was merged in 4.9-rc1: c6c314a613cd ("sched/core: Add
try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()").

-- 
Catalin
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index a5e453cf05c4..e5355a5b423f 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1453,8 +1453,11 @@  static void kmemleak_scan(void)
 
 		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		do_each_thread(g, p) {
-			scan_block(task_stack_page(p), task_stack_page(p) +
-				   THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
+			void *stack = try_get_task_stack(p);
+			if (stack) {
+				scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
+				put_task_stack(p);
+			}
 		} while_each_thread(g, p);
 		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	}