From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1266CC6778F for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D2220857 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:07:11 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org C2D2220857 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732016AbeG0AZw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:25:52 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:34352 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731990AbeG0AZv (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:25:51 -0400 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-56-78.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.56.78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 818902089A; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf.local.home with local (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1fipLQ-0006C6-HY; Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:06:52 -0400 Message-Id: <20180726230652.443908662@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:06:14 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , stable@vger.kernel.org, Snild Dolkow Subject: [PATCH 7/7] kthread, tracing: Dont expose half-written comm when creating kthreads MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Snild Dolkow There is a window for racing when printing directly to task->comm, allowing other threads to see a non-terminated string. The vsnprintf function fills the buffer, counts the truncated chars, then finally writes the \0 at the end. creator other vsnprintf: fill (not terminated) count the rest trace_sched_waking(p): ... memcpy(comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN) write \0 The consequences depend on how 'other' uses the string. In our case, it was copied into the tracing system's saved cmdlines, a buffer of adjacent TASK_COMM_LEN-byte buffers (note the 'n' where 0 should be): crash-arm64> x/1024s savedcmd->saved_cmdlines | grep 'evenk' 0xffffffd5b3818640: "irq/497-pwr_evenkworker/u16:12" ...and a strcpy out of there would cause stack corruption: [224761.522292] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffff9bf9783c78 crash-arm64> kbt | grep 'comm\|trace_print_context' #6 0xffffff9bf9783c78 in trace_print_context+0x18c(+396) comm (char [16]) = "irq/497-pwr_even" crash-arm64> rd 0xffffffd4d0e17d14 8 ffffffd4d0e17d14: 2f71726900000000 5f7277702d373934 ....irq/497-pwr_ ffffffd4d0e17d24: 726f776b6e657665 3a3631752f72656b evenkworker/u16: ffffffd4d0e17d34: f9780248ff003231 cede60e0ffffff9b 12..H.x......`.. ffffffd4d0e17d44: cede60c8ffffffd4 00000fffffffffd4 .....`.......... The workaround in e09e28671 (use strlcpy in __trace_find_cmdline) was likely needed because of this same bug. Solved by vsnprintf:ing to a local buffer, then using set_task_comm(). This way, there won't be a window where comm is not terminated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180726071539.188015-1-snild@sony.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bc0c38d139ec7 ("ftrace: latency tracer infrastructure") Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Snild Dolkow Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/kthread.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 750cb8082694..486dedbd9af5 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -325,8 +325,14 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), task = create->result; if (!IS_ERR(task)) { static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; + char name[TASK_COMM_LEN]; - vsnprintf(task->comm, sizeof(task->comm), namefmt, args); + /* + * task is already visible to other tasks, so updating + * COMM must be protected. + */ + vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args); + set_task_comm(task, name); /* * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask. * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties. -- 2.17.1