fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

This reverts more of:

  b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps")

... which was partially reverted by:

  65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc/<pid>/maps [stack:TID] annotation")

Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps.

In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for
threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range.

In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the
target thread's stack's VMA.  This is racy, probably returns garbage
and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone:
KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running
ordinary process-context kernel code.

This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs
in the mm's stack range.  This is IMO much more sensible -- the
actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code,
and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs
that frequently switch stacks on their own.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
index faacb0c0d857..37175621e890 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
@@ -124,25 +124,17 @@ unsigned long task_statm(struct mm_struct *mm,
 }
 
 static int is_stack(struct proc_maps_private *priv,
-		    struct vm_area_struct *vma, int is_pid)
+		    struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-	int stack = 0;
-
-	if (is_pid) {
-		stack = vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
-			vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack;
-	} else {
-		struct inode *inode = priv->inode;
-		struct task_struct *task;
-
-		rcu_read_lock();
-		task = pid_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID);
-		if (task)
-			stack = vma_is_stack_for_task(vma, task);
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-	}
-	return stack;
+
+	/*
+	 * We make no effort to guess what a given thread considers to be
+	 * its "stack".  It's not even well-defined for programs written
+	 * languages like Go.
+	 */
+	return vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
+		vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -184,7 +176,7 @@ static int nommu_vma_show(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (file) {
 		seq_pad(m, ' ');
 		seq_file_path(m, file, "");
-	} else if (mm && is_stack(priv, vma, is_pid)) {
+	} else if (mm && is_stack(priv, vma)) {
 		seq_pad(m, ' ');
 		seq_printf(m, "[stack]");
 	}