From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Kernel stack read with PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and io_uring threads
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 10:06:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtrplugf.fsf@disp2133> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj5cJjpjAmDptmP9u4__6p3Y93SCQHG8Ef4+h=cnLiCsA@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:58:12 -0700")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:32 PM Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had to update ret_from_kernel_thread to pop that state to get Linus's
>> change to boot. Apparently kernel_threads exiting needs to be handled.
>
> You are very right.
>
> That, btw, seems to be a horrible design mistake, but I think it's how
> "kernel_execve()" works - both for the initial "init", but also for
> user-mode helper processes.
>
> Both of those cases do "kernel_thread()" to create a new thread, and
> then that new kernel thread does kernel_execve() to create the user
> space image for that thread. And that act of "execve()" clears
> PF_KTHREAD from the thread, and then the final return from the kernel
> thread function returns to that new user space.
>
> Or something like that. It's been ages since I looked at that code,
> and your patch initially confused the heck out of me because I went
> "that can't _possibly_ be needed".
>
> But yes, I think your patch is right.
>
> And I think our horrible "kernel threads return to user space when
> done" is absolutely horrifically nasty. Maybe of the clever sort, but
> mostly of the historical horror sort.
>
> Or am I mis-rememberting how this ends up working? Did you look at
> exactly what it was that returned from kernel threads?
>
> This might be worth commenting on somewhere. But your patch for alpha
> looks correct to me. Did you have some test-case to verify ptrace() on
> io worker threads?
At this point I just booted an alpha image and on qemu-system-alpha.
I do have gdb in my kernel image so I can test that. I haven't yet but
I can and should.
Sleeping on it I came up with a plan to add TF_SWITCH_STACK_SAVED to
indicate if the registers have been saved. The DO_SWITCH_STACK and
UNDO_SWITCH_STACK helpers (except in alpha_switch_to) can test that.
The ptrace helpers can test that and turn an access of random kernel
stack contents into something well behaved that does WARN_ON_ONCE
because we should not get there.
I suspect adding TF_SWITCH_STACK_SAVED should come first so it
is easy to verify the problem behavior, before I fix it.
My real goal is to find a pattern that architectures whose register
saves are structured like alphas can emulate, to minimize problems in
the future.
Plus I would really like to get the last handful of architectures
updated so we can remove CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK. I think we can
do that on alpha because we save all of the system call arguments
in pt_regs and that is all the other non-ptrace code paths care about.
AKA I am trying to move the old architectures forward so we can get rid
of unnecessary complications in the core code.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-16 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-10 20:57 Kernel stack read with PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and io_uring threads Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-10 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-11 21:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-11 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-13 21:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-13 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-14 2:05 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-14 5:03 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-14 16:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-14 22:26 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-15 19:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-15 19:36 ` [PATCH] alpha: Add extra switch_stack frames in exit, exec, and kernel threads Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-15 22:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16 16:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 18:29 ` [PATCH 0/2] alpha/ptrace: Improved switch_stack handling Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] alpha/ptrace: Record and handle the absence of switch_stack Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16 20:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 21:02 ` Al Viro
2021-06-16 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16 20:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 20:17 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 2:01 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-21 2:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-21 3:18 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-21 3:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-21 4:08 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-21 3:44 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 5:31 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-21 2:27 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 3:36 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-16 18:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] alpha/ptrace: Add missing switch_stack frames Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 20:25 ` Al Viro
2021-06-16 20:28 ` Al Viro
2021-06-16 20:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 20:54 ` Al Viro
2021-06-16 20:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-16 20:55 ` Al Viro
2021-06-16 20:50 ` [PATCH] alpha: Add extra switch_stack frames in exit, exec, and kernel threads Al Viro
2021-06-15 20:56 ` Kernel stack read with PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and io_uring threads Michael Schmitz
2021-06-16 0:23 ` Finn Thain
2021-06-15 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16 15:06 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2021-06-21 13:54 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 14:16 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 16:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-21 23:05 ` Al Viro
2021-06-22 16:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-21 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-21 18:59 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-21 19:45 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-21 23:23 ` Al Viro
2021-06-21 23:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-22 21:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-22 21:48 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-23 5:26 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-23 14:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-22 0:01 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-22 20:04 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-22 20:18 ` Al Viro
2021-06-22 21:57 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-21 20:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-21 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-22 20:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-23 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-23 14:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 18:57 ` [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 18:59 ` [PATCH 1/9] signal/sh: Use force_sig(SIGKILL) instead of do_group_exit(SIGKILL) Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 18:59 ` [PATCH 2/9] signal/seccomp: Refactor seccomp signal and coredump generation Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-26 3:17 ` Kees Cook
2021-06-28 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 19:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] signal/seccomp: Dump core when there is only one live thread Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-26 3:20 ` Kees Cook
2021-06-24 19:01 ` [PATCH 4/9] signal: Factor start_group_exit out of complete_signal Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-26 3:24 ` Kees Cook
2021-06-24 19:01 ` [PATCH 5/9] signal/group_exit: Use start_group_exit in place of do_group_exit Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-26 3:35 ` Kees Cook
2021-06-24 19:02 ` [PATCH 6/9] signal: Fold do_group_exit into get_signal fixing io_uring threads Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-26 3:42 ` Kees Cook
2021-06-28 19:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 19:02 ` [PATCH 7/9] signal: Make individual tasks exiting a first class concept Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 20:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-24 21:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 19:03 ` [PATCH 8/9] signal/task_exit: Use start_task_exit in place of do_exit Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-26 5:56 ` Kees Cook
2021-06-24 19:03 ` [PATCH 9/9] signal: Move PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT into get_signal Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-24 22:45 ` [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit Al Viro
2021-06-27 22:13 ` Al Viro
2021-06-27 22:59 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-28 7:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-28 16:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-28 17:14 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-28 19:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-28 20:13 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-28 21:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-28 23:42 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-29 20:28 ` [CFT][PATCH] exit/bdflush: Remove the deprecated bdflush system call Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-29 21:45 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-30 8:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-30 8:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-30 12:30 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-06-28 19:02 ` [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit Eric W. Biederman
2021-06-21 19:24 ` Kernel stack read with PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and io_uring threads Al Viro
2021-06-21 23:24 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-16 7:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-06-16 19:40 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-12 23:38 ` [PATCH v1] m68k: save extra registers on sys_exit and sys_exit_group syscall entry Michael Schmitz
2021-06-13 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-13 20:07 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-13 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-13 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-13 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-14 7:13 ` Michael Schmitz
2021-06-14 7:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-06-14 8:19 ` Michael Schmitz
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