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author | Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> | 2012-07-30 23:42:33 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 02:25:20 +0200 |
commit | f19b9f74b7ea3b21ddcee55d852a6488239608a4 (patch) | |
tree | d57515cb110bc8b30043e1ab67c962ab78898e2f /kernel | |
parent | revert "sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash" (diff) | |
download | linux-f19b9f74b7ea3b21ddcee55d852a6488239608a4.tar.xz linux-f19b9f74b7ea3b21ddcee55d852a6488239608a4.zip |
fork: fix error handling in dup_task()
The function dup_task() may fail at the following function calls in the
following order.
0) alloc_task_struct_node()
1) alloc_thread_info_node()
2) arch_dup_task_struct()
Error by 0) is not a matter, it can just return. But error by 1) requires
releasing task_struct allocated by 0) before it returns. Likewise, error
by 2) requires releasing task_struct and thread_info allocated by 0) and
1).
The existing error handling calls free_task_struct() and
free_thread_info() which do not only release task_struct and thread_info,
but also call architecture specific arch_release_task_struct() and
arch_release_thread_info().
The problem is that task_struct and thread_info are not fully initialized
yet at this point, but arch_release_task_struct() and
arch_release_thread_info() are called with them.
For example, x86 defines its own arch_release_task_struct() that releases
a task_xstate. If alloc_thread_info_node() fails in dup_task(),
arch_release_task_struct() is called with task_struct which is just
allocated and filled with garbage in this error handling.
This actually happened with tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh
# env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \
./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \
--min-order=0 --ignore-gfp-wait=0 \
-- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests
In order to fix this issue, make free_{task_struct,thread_info}() not to
call arch_release_{task_struct,thread_info}() and call
arch_release_{task_struct,thread_info}() implicitly where needed.
Default arch_release_task_struct() and arch_release_thread_info() are
defined as empty by default. So this change only affects the
architectures which implement their own arch_release_task_struct() or
arch_release_thread_info() as listed below.
arch_release_task_struct(): x86, sh
arch_release_thread_info(): mn10300, tile
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 088025bd1925..8efac1fe56bc 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ int nr_processes(void) return total; } +void __weak arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ +} + #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR static struct kmem_cache *task_struct_cachep; @@ -122,17 +126,17 @@ static inline struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct_node(int node) return kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL, node); } -void __weak arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) { } - static inline void free_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) { - arch_release_task_struct(tsk); kmem_cache_free(task_struct_cachep, tsk); } #endif +void __weak arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) +{ +} + #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR -void __weak arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { } /* * Allocate pages if THREAD_SIZE is >= PAGE_SIZE, otherwise use a @@ -150,7 +154,6 @@ static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk, static inline void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { - arch_release_thread_info(ti); free_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER); } # else @@ -164,7 +167,6 @@ static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk, static void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { - arch_release_thread_info(ti); kmem_cache_free(thread_info_cache, ti); } @@ -205,10 +207,12 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct thread_info *ti, int account) void free_task(struct task_struct *tsk) { account_kernel_stack(tsk->stack, -1); + arch_release_thread_info(tsk->stack); free_thread_info(tsk->stack); rt_mutex_debug_task_free(tsk); ftrace_graph_exit_task(tsk); put_seccomp_filter(tsk); + arch_release_task_struct(tsk); free_task_struct(tsk); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_task); @@ -298,14 +302,12 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig) return NULL; ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node); - if (!ti) { - free_task_struct(tsk); - return NULL; - } + if (!ti) + goto free_tsk; err = arch_dup_task_struct(tsk, orig); if (err) - goto out; + goto free_ti; tsk->stack = ti; @@ -333,8 +335,9 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig) return tsk; -out: +free_ti: free_thread_info(ti); +free_tsk: free_task_struct(tsk); return NULL; } |