]> Git Repo - linux.git/commit
sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity
authorTadeusz Struk <[email protected]>
Thu, 3 Feb 2022 16:18:46 +0000 (08:18 -0800)
committerPeter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Sun, 6 Feb 2022 21:37:26 +0000 (22:37 +0100)
commit13765de8148f71fa795e0a6607de37c49ea5915a
treefb0cdc627ea53ea86385b3e6d6aa12e624f7186e
parent26291c54e111ff6ba87a164d85d4a4e134b7315c
sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity

Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to
commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid
sched_task_group")

There is a race between sched_post_fork() and setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)
within a thread group that causes a null-ptr-deref in
reweight_entity() in CFS. The scenario is that the main process spawns
number of new threads, which then call setpriority(PRIO_PGRP, 0, -20),
wait, and exit.  For each of the new threads the copy_process() gets
invoked, which adds the new task_struct and calls sched_post_fork()
for it.

In the above scenario there is a possibility that
setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) and set_one_prio() will be called for a thread
in the group that is just being created by copy_process(), and for
which the sched_post_fork() has not been executed yet. This will
trigger a null pointer dereference in reweight_entity(), as it will
try to access the run queue pointer, which hasn't been set.

Before the mentioned change the cfs_rq pointer for the task  has been
set in sched_fork(), which is called much earlier in copy_process(),
before the new task is added to the thread_group.  Now it is done in
the sched_post_fork(), which is called after that.  To fix the issue
the remove the update_load param from the update_load param() function
and call reweight_task() only if the task flag doesn't have the
TASK_NEW flag set.

Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Reported-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
kernel/sched/core.c
This page took 0.062749 seconds and 4 git commands to generate.