Patch "pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     pids-make-task_tgid_nr_ns-safe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From dd1c1f2f2028a7b851f701fc6a8ebe39dcb95e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:35:02 +0200
Subject: pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

commit dd1c1f2f2028a7b851f701fc6a8ebe39dcb95e7c upstream.

This was reported many times, and this was even mentioned in commit
52ee2dfdd4f5 ("pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe") but
somehow nobody bothered to fix the obvious problem: task_tgid_nr_ns() is
not safe because task->group_leader points to nowhere after the exiting
task passes exit_notify(), rcu_read_lock() can not help.

We really need to change __unhash_process() to nullify group_leader,
parent, and real_parent, but this needs some cleanups.  Until then we
can turn task_tgid_nr_ns() into another user of __task_pid_nr_ns() and
fix the problem.

Reported-by: Troy Kensinger <tkensinger@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/pid.h   |    4 +++-
 include/linux/sched.h |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 kernel/pid.c          |   11 ++++-------
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ enum pid_type
 	PIDTYPE_PID,
 	PIDTYPE_PGID,
 	PIDTYPE_SID,
-	PIDTYPE_MAX
+	PIDTYPE_MAX,
+	/* only valid to __task_pid_nr_ns() */
+	__PIDTYPE_TGID
 };
 
 /*
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1949,31 +1949,8 @@ static inline pid_t task_tgid_nr(struct
 	return tsk->tgid;
 }
 
-pid_t task_tgid_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns);
-
-static inline pid_t task_tgid_vnr(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-	return pid_vnr(task_tgid(tsk));
-}
-
 
 static inline int pid_alive(const struct task_struct *p);
-static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr_ns(const struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
-{
-	pid_t pid = 0;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	if (pid_alive(tsk))
-		pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(rcu_dereference(tsk->real_parent), ns);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	return pid;
-}
-
-static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr(const struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-	return task_ppid_nr_ns(tsk, &init_pid_ns);
-}
 
 static inline pid_t task_pgrp_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk,
 					struct pid_namespace *ns)
@@ -1998,6 +1975,33 @@ static inline pid_t task_session_vnr(str
 	return __task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, PIDTYPE_SID, NULL);
 }
 
+static inline pid_t task_tgid_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+	return __task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, __PIDTYPE_TGID, ns);
+}
+
+static inline pid_t task_tgid_vnr(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	return __task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, __PIDTYPE_TGID, NULL);
+}
+
+static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr_ns(const struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+	pid_t pid = 0;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	if (pid_alive(tsk))
+		pid = task_tgid_nr_ns(rcu_dereference(tsk->real_parent), ns);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return pid;
+}
+
+static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr(const struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	return task_ppid_nr_ns(tsk, &init_pid_ns);
+}
+
 /* obsolete, do not use */
 static inline pid_t task_pgrp_nr(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -526,8 +526,11 @@ pid_t __task_pid_nr_ns(struct task_struc
 	if (!ns)
 		ns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
 	if (likely(pid_alive(task))) {
-		if (type != PIDTYPE_PID)
+		if (type != PIDTYPE_PID) {
+			if (type == __PIDTYPE_TGID)
+				type = PIDTYPE_PID;
 			task = task->group_leader;
+		}
 		nr = pid_nr_ns(rcu_dereference(task->pids[type].pid), ns);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -536,12 +539,6 @@ pid_t __task_pid_nr_ns(struct task_struc
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__task_pid_nr_ns);
 
-pid_t task_tgid_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
-{
-	return pid_nr_ns(task_tgid(tsk), ns);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(task_tgid_nr_ns);
-
 struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	return ns_of_pid(task_pid(tsk));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/pids-make-task_tgid_nr_ns-safe.patch