From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:03:52 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160623170352.GA17372@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwBL5ArLXZ0+YggTbp6Qon+OM+Foihe0yrQOmRRvu96VQ@mail.gmail.com> On 06/23, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But that does bring up another possibility: do it at wait() time, when > we do release_thread(). That's when we *used* to synchronously free > it, before we did the lockless RCU walks. Let me quote my previous email ;) And we can't free/nullify it when the parent/debuger reaps a zombie, say, mark_oom_victim() expects that get_task_struct() protects thread_info as well. probably we can fix all such users though... > At that point, it has been removed from all the thread lists. So the > only way to find it is through the RCU walks. Do any of *those* touch > ti->flags? I'm not seeing it, Neither me, although I didn't try to grep too much. > and it sounds fixable if any do probably yes, but this would mean that tasklist_lock protects task->stack, doesn't look really nice... Oleg.
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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:03:52 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20160623170352.GA17372@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwBL5ArLXZ0+YggTbp6Qon+OM+Foihe0yrQOmRRvu96VQ@mail.gmail.com> On 06/23, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But that does bring up another possibility: do it at wait() time, when > we do release_thread(). That's when we *used* to synchronously free > it, before we did the lockless RCU walks. Let me quote my previous email ;) And we can't free/nullify it when the parent/debuger reaps a zombie, say, mark_oom_victim() expects that get_task_struct() protects thread_info as well. probably we can fix all such users though... > At that point, it has been removed from all the thread lists. So the > only way to find it is through the RCU walks. Do any of *those* touch > ti->flags? I'm not seeing it, Neither me, although I didn't try to grep too much. > and it sounds fixable if any do probably yes, but this would mean that tasklist_lock protects task->stack, doesn't look really nice... Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-23 17:04 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 269+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-06-20 23:43 [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in remove_pagetable() Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] x86/cpa: In populate_pgd, don't set the pgd entry until it's populated Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] x86/mm: Remove kernel_unmap_pages_in_pgd() and efi_cleanup_page_tables() Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 9:53 ` Matt Fleming 2016-06-21 9:53 ` [kernel-hardening] " Matt Fleming 2016-06-21 9:53 ` Matt Fleming 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] mm: Track NR_KERNEL_STACK in KiB instead of number of stacks Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 9:46 ` Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-21 9:46 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-21 9:46 ` Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-21 9:46 ` Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-22 7:35 ` Michal Hocko 2016-06-22 7:35 ` [kernel-hardening] " Michal Hocko 2016-06-22 7:35 ` Michal Hocko 2016-06-22 7:35 ` Michal Hocko 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] mm: Fix memcg stack accounting for sub-page stacks Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 9:54 ` Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-21 9:54 ` [kernel-hardening] " Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-21 9:54 ` Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-21 9:54 ` Vladimir Davydov 2016-06-22 7:38 ` Michal Hocko 2016-06-22 7:38 ` [kernel-hardening] " Michal Hocko 2016-06-22 7:38 ` Michal Hocko 2016-06-22 7:38 ` Michal Hocko 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] fork: Add generic vmalloced stack support Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 7:30 ` Jann Horn 2016-06-21 7:30 ` [kernel-hardening] " Jann Horn 2016-06-21 7:30 ` Jann Horn 2016-06-21 16:59 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 16:59 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 16:59 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 17:13 ` Kees Cook 2016-06-21 17:13 ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook 2016-06-21 17:13 ` Kees Cook 2016-06-21 17:28 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 17:28 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 17:28 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 18:32 ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel 2016-06-21 18:32 ` Rik van Riel 2016-06-21 19:44 ` [kernel-hardening] " Arnd Bergmann 2016-06-21 19:44 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-06-21 19:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 19:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 19:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-07-11 17:00 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andrey Ryabinin 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] x86/die: Don't try to recover from an OOPS on a non-default stack Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] x86/dumpstack: When OOPSing, rewind the stack before do_exit Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] x86/dumpstack: When dumping stack bytes due to OOPS, start with regs->sp Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] x86/dumpstack: Try harder to get a call trace on stack overflow Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] x86/dumpstack/64: Handle faults when printing the "Stack:" part of an OOPS Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] x86/mm/64: Enable vmapped stacks Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] x86/mm: Improve stack-overflow #PF handling Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-20 23:43 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 4:01 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds 2016-06-21 4:01 ` [kernel-hardening] " Linus Torvalds 2016-06-21 4:01 ` Linus Torvalds 2016-06-21 16:45 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 16:45 ` [kernel-hardening] " Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 16:45 ` Andy Lutomirski 2016-06-21 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds 2016-06-21 17:16 ` 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