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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] futex fix
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:30:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181221123015.GA66918@gmail.com> (raw)

Linus,

Please pull the latest locking-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git locking-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: da791a667536bf8322042e38ca85d55a78d3c273 futex: Cure exit race

A single fix for a robust futexes race between sys_exit() and 
sys_futex_lock_pi().

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
      futex: Cure exit race


 kernel/futex.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index f423f9b6577e..5cc8083a4c89 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1148,11 +1148,65 @@ static int attach_to_pi_state(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int handle_exit_race(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval,
+			    struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	u32 uval2;
+
+	/*
+	 * If PF_EXITPIDONE is not yet set, then try again.
+	 */
+	if (tsk && !(tsk->flags & PF_EXITPIDONE))
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
+	/*
+	 * Reread the user space value to handle the following situation:
+	 *
+	 * CPU0				CPU1
+	 *
+	 * sys_exit()			sys_futex()
+	 *  do_exit()			 futex_lock_pi()
+	 *                                futex_lock_pi_atomic()
+	 *   exit_signals(tsk)		    No waiters:
+	 *    tsk->flags |= PF_EXITING;	    *uaddr == 0x00000PID
+	 *  mm_release(tsk)		    Set waiter bit
+	 *   exit_robust_list(tsk) {	    *uaddr = 0x80000PID;
+	 *      Set owner died		    attach_to_pi_owner() {
+	 *    *uaddr = 0xC0000000;	     tsk = get_task(PID);
+	 *   }				     if (!tsk->flags & PF_EXITING) {
+	 *  ...				       attach();
+	 *  tsk->flags |= PF_EXITPIDONE;     } else {
+	 *				       if (!(tsk->flags & PF_EXITPIDONE))
+	 *				         return -EAGAIN;
+	 *				       return -ESRCH; <--- FAIL
+	 *				     }
+	 *
+	 * Returning ESRCH unconditionally is wrong here because the
+	 * user space value has been changed by the exiting task.
+	 *
+	 * The same logic applies to the case where the exiting task is
+	 * already gone.
+	 */
+	if (get_futex_value_locked(&uval2, uaddr))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	/* If the user space value has changed, try again. */
+	if (uval2 != uval)
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
+	/*
+	 * The exiting task did not have a robust list, the robust list was
+	 * corrupted or the user space value in *uaddr is simply bogus.
+	 * Give up and tell user space.
+	 */
+	return -ESRCH;
+}
+
 /*
  * Lookup the task for the TID provided from user space and attach to
  * it after doing proper sanity checks.
  */
-static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
+static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
 			      struct futex_pi_state **ps)
 {
 	pid_t pid = uval & FUTEX_TID_MASK;
@@ -1162,12 +1216,15 @@ static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
 	/*
 	 * We are the first waiter - try to look up the real owner and attach
 	 * the new pi_state to it, but bail out when TID = 0 [1]
+	 *
+	 * The !pid check is paranoid. None of the call sites should end up
+	 * with pid == 0, but better safe than sorry. Let the caller retry
 	 */
 	if (!pid)
-		return -ESRCH;
+		return -EAGAIN;
 	p = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
 	if (!p)
-		return -ESRCH;
+		return handle_exit_race(uaddr, uval, NULL);
 
 	if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
 		put_task_struct(p);
@@ -1187,7 +1244,7 @@ static int attach_to_pi_owner(u32 uval, union futex_key *key,
 		 * set, we know that the task has finished the
 		 * cleanup:
 		 */
-		int ret = (p->flags & PF_EXITPIDONE) ? -ESRCH : -EAGAIN;
+		int ret = handle_exit_race(uaddr, uval, p);
 
 		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&p->pi_lock);
 		put_task_struct(p);
@@ -1244,7 +1301,7 @@ static int lookup_pi_state(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval,
 	 * We are the first waiter - try to look up the owner based on
 	 * @uval and attach to it.
 	 */
-	return attach_to_pi_owner(uval, key, ps);
+	return attach_to_pi_owner(uaddr, uval, key, ps);
 }
 
 static int lock_pi_update_atomic(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, u32 newval)
@@ -1352,7 +1409,7 @@ static int futex_lock_pi_atomic(u32 __user *uaddr, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb,
 	 * attach to the owner. If that fails, no harm done, we only
 	 * set the FUTEX_WAITERS bit in the user space variable.
 	 */
-	return attach_to_pi_owner(uval, key, ps);
+	return attach_to_pi_owner(uaddr, newval, key, ps);
 }
 
 /**

             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-21 12:30 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2018-12-21 19:30 ` [GIT PULL] futex fix pr-tracker-bot
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2011-04-16 10:01 Ingo Molnar
2010-01-16 17:01 Ingo Molnar
2009-11-01 15:38 Ingo Molnar

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