From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754171AbcGKUzB (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:55:01 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:35312 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932559AbcGKUyx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:54:53 -0400 From: Andy Lutomirski To: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov , Nadav Amit , Kees Cook , Brian Gerst , "kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com" , Linus Torvalds , Josh Poimboeuf , Jann Horn , Heiko Carstens , Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH v5 28/32] sched: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack() Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:54:01 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code paths to pin the stack. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- include/linux/sched.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ init/Kconfig | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4108b4880b86..18bef18fef88 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -3063,11 +3063,19 @@ static inline struct thread_info *task_thread_info(struct task_struct *task) { return &task->thread_info; } + +/* + * When accessing the stack of a non-current task that might exit, use + * try_get_task_stack() instead. task_stack_page will return a pointer + * that could get freed out from under you. + */ static inline void *task_stack_page(const struct task_struct *task) { return task->stack; } + #define setup_thread_stack(new,old) do { } while(0) + static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(const struct task_struct *task) { return task->stack; @@ -3103,6 +3111,14 @@ static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(struct task_struct *p) } #endif + +static inline void *try_get_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + return task_stack_page(tsk); +} + +static inline void put_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk) {} + #define task_stack_end_corrupted(task) \ (*(end_of_stack(task)) != STACK_END_MAGIC) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 2cdf20e03b1f..8823df60d312 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields except flags and fix any runtime bugs. + One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() + and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk(). + menu "General setup" config BROKEN -- 2.7.4