FAILED: patch "[PATCH] sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 13765de8148f71fa795e0a6607de37c49ea5915a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 08:18:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity
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Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to
commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid
sched_task_group")

There is a race between sched_post_fork() and setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)
within a thread group that causes a null-ptr-deref in
reweight_entity() in CFS. The scenario is that the main process spawns
number of new threads, which then call setpriority(PRIO_PGRP, 0, -20),
wait, and exit.  For each of the new threads the copy_process() gets
invoked, which adds the new task_struct and calls sched_post_fork()
for it.

In the above scenario there is a possibility that
setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) and set_one_prio() will be called for a thread
in the group that is just being created by copy_process(), and for
which the sched_post_fork() has not been executed yet. This will
trigger a null pointer dereference in reweight_entity(), as it will
try to access the run queue pointer, which hasn't been set.

Before the mentioned change the cfs_rq pointer for the task  has been
set in sched_fork(), which is called much earlier in copy_process(),
before the new task is added to the thread_group.  Now it is done in
the sched_post_fork(), which is called after that.  To fix the issue
the remove the update_load param from the update_load param() function
and call reweight_task() only if the task flag doesn't have the
TASK_NEW flag set.

Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Reported-by: syzbot+af7a719bc92395ee41b3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203161846.1160750-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 848eaa0efe0e..fcf0c180617c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1214,8 +1214,9 @@ int tg_nop(struct task_group *tg, void *data)
 }
 #endif
 
-static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p, bool update_load)
+static void set_load_weight(struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	bool update_load = !(READ_ONCE(p->__state) & TASK_NEW);
 	int prio = p->static_prio - MAX_RT_PRIO;
 	struct load_weight *load = &p->se.load;
 
@@ -4406,7 +4407,7 @@ int sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p)
 			p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(0);
 
 		p->prio = p->normal_prio = p->static_prio;
-		set_load_weight(p, false);
+		set_load_weight(p);
 
 		/*
 		 * We don't need the reset flag anymore after the fork. It has
@@ -6921,7 +6922,7 @@ void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice)
 		put_prev_task(rq, p);
 
 	p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(nice);
-	set_load_weight(p, true);
+	set_load_weight(p);
 	old_prio = p->prio;
 	p->prio = effective_prio(p);
 
@@ -7212,7 +7213,7 @@ static void __setscheduler_params(struct task_struct *p,
 	 */
 	p->rt_priority = attr->sched_priority;
 	p->normal_prio = normal_prio(p);
-	set_load_weight(p, true);
+	set_load_weight(p);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -9445,7 +9446,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 #endif
 	}
 
-	set_load_weight(&init_task, false);
+	set_load_weight(&init_task);
 
 	/*
 	 * The boot idle thread does lazy MMU switching as well: