Patch "cgroup: fix css_task_iter crash on CSS_TASK_ITER_PROC" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    cgroup: fix css_task_iter crash on CSS_TASK_ITER_PROC

to the 4.14-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:
     cgroup-fix-css_task_iter-crash-on-css_task_iter_proc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 74d0833c659a8a54735e5efdd44f4b225af68586 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 07:09:19 -0800
Subject: cgroup: fix css_task_iter crash on CSS_TASK_ITER_PROC

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

commit 74d0833c659a8a54735e5efdd44f4b225af68586 upstream.

While teaching css_task_iter to handle skipping over tasks which
aren't group leaders, bc2fb7ed089f ("cgroup: add @flags to
css_task_iter_start() and implement CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS") introduced a
silly bug.

CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS is implemented by repeating
css_task_iter_advance() while the advanced cursor is pointing to a
non-leader thread.  However, the cursor variable, @l, wasn't updated
when the iteration has to advance to the next css_set and the
following repetition would operate on the terminal @l from the
previous iteration which isn't pointing to a valid task leading to
oopses like the following or infinite looping.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000254
  IP: __task_pid_nr_ns+0xc7/0xf0
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ...
  CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.14.4-200.fc26.x86_64 #1
  Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/PRIME B350M-A, BIOS 3203 11/09/2017
  task: ffff88c4baee8000 task.stack: ffff96d5c3158000
  RIP: 0010:__task_pid_nr_ns+0xc7/0xf0
  RSP: 0018:ffff96d5c315bd50 EFLAGS: 00010206
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88c4b68c6000 RCX: 0000000000000250
  RDX: ffffffffa5e47960 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88c490f6ab00
  RBP: ffff96d5c315bd50 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000000005
  R10: ffff88c4be006b80 R11: ffff88c42f1b8004 R12: ffff96d5c315bf18
  R13: ffff88c42d7dd200 R14: ffff88c490f6a510 R15: ffff88c4b68c6000
  FS:  00007f9446f8ea00(0000) GS:ffff88c4be680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000254 CR3: 00000007f956f000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
  Call Trace:
   cgroup_procs_show+0x19/0x30
   cgroup_seqfile_show+0x4c/0xb0
   kernfs_seq_show+0x21/0x30
   seq_read+0x2ec/0x3f0
   kernfs_fop_read+0x134/0x180
   __vfs_read+0x37/0x160
   ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
   vfs_read+0x8e/0x130
   SyS_read+0x55/0xc0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5
  RIP: 0033:0x7f94455f942d
  RSP: 002b:00007ffe81ba2d00 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00005574e2233f00 RCX: 00007f94455f942d
  RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00005574e2321a90 RDI: 000000000000002b
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00005574e2321a90 R09: 00005574e231de60
  R10: 00007f94458c8b38 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00007f94458c8ae0
  R13: 00007ffe81ba3800 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00005574e2116560
  Code: 04 74 0e 89 f6 48 8d 04 76 48 8d 04 c5 f0 05 00 00 48 8b bf b8 05 00 00 48 01 c7 31 c0 48 8b 0f 48 85 c9 74 18 8b b2 30 08 00 00 <3b> 71 04 77 0d 48 c1 e6 05 48 01 f1 48 3b 51 38 74 09 5d c3 8b
  RIP: __task_pid_nr_ns+0xc7/0xf0 RSP: ffff96d5c315bd50

Fix it by moving the initialization of the cursor below the repeat
label.  While at it, rename it to @next for readability.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: bc2fb7ed089f ("cgroup: add @flags to css_task_iter_start() and implement CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS")
Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Bronek Kozicki <brok@incorrekt.com>
Reported-by: George Amanakis <gamanakis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -4059,26 +4059,24 @@ static void css_task_iter_advance_css_se
 
 static void css_task_iter_advance(struct css_task_iter *it)
 {
-	struct list_head *l = it->task_pos;
+	struct list_head *next;
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&css_set_lock);
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!l);
-
 repeat:
 	/*
 	 * Advance iterator to find next entry.  cset->tasks is consumed
 	 * first and then ->mg_tasks.  After ->mg_tasks, we move onto the
 	 * next cset.
 	 */
-	l = l->next;
+	next = it->task_pos->next;
 
-	if (l == it->tasks_head)
-		l = it->mg_tasks_head->next;
+	if (next == it->tasks_head)
+		next = it->mg_tasks_head->next;
 
-	if (l == it->mg_tasks_head)
+	if (next == it->mg_tasks_head)
 		css_task_iter_advance_css_set(it);
 	else
-		it->task_pos = l;
+		it->task_pos = next;
 
 	/* if PROCS, skip over tasks which aren't group leaders */
 	if ((it->flags & CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS) && it->task_pos &&


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@kernel.org are

queue-4.14/cgroup-fix-css_task_iter-crash-on-css_task_iter_proc.patch