[PATCH 4.9 07/70] kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17T22:53:09Z

From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

commit b0f5a8f32e8bbdaae1abb8abe2d3cbafaba57e08 upstream.

This fixes a regression in commit 4d6501dce079 where I didn't notice
that MIPS and OpenRISC were reinitialising p->{set,clear}_child_tid to
NULL after our initialisation in copy_process().

We can simply get rid of the arch-specific initialisation here since it
is now always done in copy_process() before hitting copy_thread{,_tls}().

Review notes:

- As far as I can tell, copy_process() is the only user of
copy_thread_tls(), which is the only caller of copy_thread() for
architectures that don't implement copy_thread_tls().

- After this patch, there is no arch-specific code touching
p->set_child_tid or p->clear_child_tid whatsoever.

- It may look like MIPS/OpenRISC wanted to always have these fields be
NULL, but that's not true, as copy_process() would unconditionally
set them again _after_ calling copy_thread_tls() before commit
4d6501dce079.

Fixes: 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e ("kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> # MIPS only
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 1 -
arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag
struct thread_info *ti = task_thread_info(p);
struct pt_regs *childregs, *regs = current_pt_regs();
unsigned long childksp;
- p->set_child_tid = p->clear_child_tid = NULL;

childksp = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p) + THREAD_SIZE - 32;

--- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
@@ -152,8 +152,6 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, u

top_of_kernel_stack = sp;

- p->set_child_tid = p->clear_child_tid = NULL;
-
/* Locate userspace context on stack... */
sp -= STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD; /* redzone */
sp -= sizeof(struct pt_regs);