[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 439/671] fork,memcg: alloc_thread_stack_node needs to set tsk->stack

Sasha Levin
2020-01-16T18:50:02Z

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 1bf4580e00a248a2c86269125390eb3648e1877c ]

Commit 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on
memcg charge fail") corrected two instances, but there was a third
instance of this bug.

Without setting tsk->stack, if memcg_charge_kernel_stack fails, it'll
execute free_thread_stack() on a dangling pointer.

Enterprise kernels are compiled with VMAP_STACK=y so this isn't
critical, but custom VMAP_STACK=n builds should have some performance
advantage, with the drawback of risking to fail fork because compaction
didn't succeed. So as long as VMAP_STACK=n is a supported option it's
worth fixing it upstream.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190619011450.28048-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Fixes: 9b6f7e163cd0 ("mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/fork.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1bd119530a49..1a2d18e98bf9 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -240,7 +240,11 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, THREADINFO_GFP,
THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);

- return page ? page_address(page) : NULL;
+ if (likely(page)) {
+ tsk->stack = page_address(page);
+ return tsk->stack;
+ }
+ return NULL;
#endif
}

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