[PATCH 5.10 06/24] cgroup1: fix leaked context root causing sporadic NULL deref in LTP

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-29T14:01:20Z

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

commit 1e7107c5ef44431bc1ebbd4c353f1d7c22e5f2ec upstream.

Richard reported sporadic (roughly one in 10 or so) null dereferences and
other strange behaviour for a set of automated LTP tests. Things like:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 1516 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.10.0-yocto-standard #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-48-gd9c812dda519-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:kernfs_sop_show_path+0x1b/0x60

...or these others:

RIP: 0010:do_mkdirat+0x6a/0xf0
RIP: 0010:d_alloc_parallel+0x98/0x510
RIP: 0010:do_readlinkat+0x86/0x120

There were other less common instances of some kind of a general scribble
but the common theme was mount and cgroup and a dubious dentry triggering
the NULL dereference. I was only able to reproduce it under qemu by
replicating Richard's setup as closely as possible - I never did get it
to happen on bare metal, even while keeping everything else the same.

In commit 71d883c37e8d ("cgroup_do_mount(): massage calling conventions")
we see this as a part of the overall change:

--------------
struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
- struct dentry *dentry;

[...]

- dentry = cgroup_do_mount(&cgroup_fs_type, fc->sb_flags, root,
- CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC, ns);

[...]

- if (percpu_ref_is_dying(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
- struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;
- dput(dentry);
+ ret = cgroup_do_mount(fc, CGROUP_SUPER_MAGIC, ns);
+ if (!ret && percpu_ref_is_dying(&root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
+ struct super_block *sb = fc->root->d_sb;
+ dput(fc->root);
deactivate_locked_super(sb);
msleep(10);
return restart_syscall();
}
--------------

In changing from the local "*dentry" variable to using fc->root, we now
export/leave that dentry pointer in the file context after doing the dput()
in the unlikely "is_dying" case. With LTP doing a crazy amount of back to
back mount/unmount [testcases/bin/cgroup_regression_5_1.sh] the unlikely
becomes slightly likely and then bad things happen.

A fix would be to not leave the stale reference in fc->root as follows:

--------------
dput(fc->root);
+ fc->root = NULL;
deactivate_locked_super(sb);
--------------

...but then we are just open-coding a duplicate of fc_drop_locked() so we
simply use that instead.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.1+
Reported-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: 71d883c37e8d ("cgroup_do_mount(): massage calling conventions")
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/internal.h | 1 -
include/linux/fs_context.h | 1 +
kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 4 +---
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ extern void __init chrdev_init(void);
*/
extern const struct fs_context_operations legacy_fs_context_ops;
extern int parse_monolithic_mount_data(struct fs_context *, void *);
-extern void fc_drop_locked(struct fs_context *);
extern void vfs_clean_context(struct fs_context *fc);
extern int finish_clean_context(struct fs_context *fc);

--- a/include/linux/fs_context.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs_context.h
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ extern int vfs_parse_fs_string(struct fs
extern int generic_parse_monolithic(struct fs_context *fc, void *data);
extern int vfs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc);
extern void put_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc);
+extern void fc_drop_locked(struct fs_context *fc);

/*
* sget() wrappers to be called from the ->get_tree() op.
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -1225,9 +1225,7 @@ int cgroup1_get_tree(struct fs_context *
ret = cgroup_do_get_tree(fc);

if (!ret && percpu_ref_is_dying(&ctx->root->cgrp.self.refcnt)) {
- struct super_block *sb = fc->root->d_sb;
- dput(fc->root);
- deactivate_locked_super(sb);
+ fc_drop_locked(fc);
ret = 1;
}