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cgroup1: fix leaked context root causing sporadic NULL deref in LTP

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commit 1e7107c5ef44431bc1ebbd4c353f1d7c22e5f2ec upstream.

Richard reported sporadic (roughly one in 10 or so) null dereferences and
other strange behaviour for a set of automated LTP tests.  Things like:

   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
   #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
   #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
   PGD 0 P4D 0
   Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
   CPU: 0 PID: 1516 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-yocto-standard #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-48-gd9c812dda519-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
   RIP: 0010:kernfs_sop_show_path+0x1b/0x60

...or these others:

   RIP: 0010:do_mkdirat+0x6a/0xf0
   RIP: 0010:d_alloc_parallel+0x98/0x510
   RIP: 0010:do_readlinkat+0x86/0x120

There were other less common instances of some kind of a general scribble
but the common theme was mount and cgroup and a dubious dentry triggering
the NULL dereference.  I was only able to reproduce it under qemu by
replicating Richard's setup as closely as possible - I never did get it
to happen on bare metal, even while keeping everything else the same.

In commit 71d883c37e ("cgroup_do_mount(): massage calling conventions")
we see this as a part of the overall change:

   --------------
           struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
   -       struct dentry *dentry;

   [...]

   -       dentry = cgroup_do_mount(&cgroup_fs_type, fc->sb_flags, root,
   -                                CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC, ns);

   [...]

   -       if (percpu_ref_is_dying(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
   -               struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;
   -               dput(dentry);
   +       ret = cgroup_do_mount(fc, CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC, ns);
   +       if (!ret && percpu_ref_is_dying(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
   +               struct super_block *sb = fc->root->d_sb;
   +               dput(fc->root);
                   deactivate_locked_super(sb);
                   msleep(10);
                   return restart_syscall();
           }
   --------------

In changing from the local "*dentry" variable to using fc->root, we now
export/leave that dentry pointer in the file context after doing the dput()
in the unlikely "is_dying" case.   With LTP doing a crazy amount of back to
back mount/unmount [testcases/bin/cgroup_regression_5_1.sh] the unlikely
becomes slightly likely and then bad things happen.

A fix would be to not leave the stale reference in fc->root as follows:

   --------------
                  dput(fc->root);
  +               fc->root = NULL;
                  deactivate_locked_super(sb);
   --------------

...but then we are just open-coding a duplicate of fc_drop_locked() so we
simply use that instead.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # v5.1+
Reported-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: 71d883c37e ("cgroup_do_mount(): massage calling conventions")
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Paul Gortmaker 2021-06-16 08:51:57 -04:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 7f0365b4da
commit eef99860c6
3 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
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fs/internal.h
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@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
*/
extern const struct fs_context_operations legacy_fs_context_ops;
extern int parse_monolithic_mount_data(struct fs_context *, void *);
extern void fc_drop_locked(struct fs_context *);
extern void vfs_clean_context(struct fs_context *fc);
extern int finish_clean_context(struct fs_context *fc);

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include/linux/fs_context.h
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@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ extern int vfs_parse_fs_string(struct fs_context *fc, const char *key,
extern int generic_parse_monolithic(struct fs_context *fc, void *data);
extern int vfs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc);
extern void put_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc);
extern void fc_drop_locked(struct fs_context *fc);
/*
* sget() wrappers to be called from the ->get_tree() op.

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kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
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@ -1228,9 +1228,7 @@ int cgroup1_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
ret = cgroup_do_get_tree(fc);
if (!ret && percpu_ref_is_dying(&ctx->root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
struct super_block *sb = fc->root->d_sb;
dput(fc->root);
deactivate_locked_super(sb);
fc_drop_locked(fc);
ret = 1;
}