[PATCH 3.16 330/366] fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

Ben Hutchings
2018-11-12T05:48:36Z

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit b18cb64ead400c01bf1580eeba330ace51f8087d upstream.

This reverts more of:

b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps")

... which was partially reverted by:

65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc/<pid>/maps [stack:TID] annotation")

Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps.

In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for
threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range.

In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the
target thread's stack's VMA. This is racy, probably returns garbage
and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone:
KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running
ordinary process-context kernel code.

This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs
in the mm's stack range. This is IMO much more sensible -- the
actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code,
and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs
that frequently switch stacks on their own.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Squash in the earlier commits 58cb65487e92
"proc/maps: make vm_is_stack() logic namespace-friendly" and
65376df58217 "proc: revert /proc/<pid>/maps [stack:TID] annotation",
which would introduce build failures if applied separately.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -250,13 +250,28 @@ static int do_maps_open(struct inode *in
return ret;
}

+/*
+ * Indicate if the VMA is a stack for the given task; for
+ * /proc/PID/maps that is the stack of the main task.
+ */
+static int is_stack(struct proc_maps_private *priv,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ /*
+ * We make no effort to guess what a given thread considers to be
+ * its "stack". It's not even well-defined for programs written
+ * languages like Go.
+ */
+ return vma->vm_start <= vma->vm_mm->start_stack &&
+ vma->vm_end >= vma->vm_mm->start_stack;
+}
+
static void
show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int is_pid)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
struct proc_maps_private *priv = m->private;
- struct task_struct *task = priv->task;
vm_flags_t flags = vma->vm_flags;
unsigned long ino = 0;
unsigned long long pgoff = 0;
@@ -304,8 +319,6 @@ show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct

name = arch_vma_name(vma);
if (!name) {
- pid_t tid;
-
if (!mm) {
name = "[vdso]";
goto done;
@@ -317,22 +330,8 @@ show_map_vma(struct seq_file *m, struct
goto done;
}

- tid = vm_is_stack(task, vma, is_pid);
-
- if (tid != 0) {
- /*
- * Thread stack in /proc/PID/task/TID/maps or
- * the main process stack.
- */
- if (!is_pid || (vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
- vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack)) {
- name = "[stack]";
- } else {
- /* Thread stack in /proc/PID/maps */
- seq_pad(m, ' ');
- seq_printf(m, "[stack:%d]", tid);
- }
- }
+ if (is_stack(priv, vma))
+ name = "[stack]";
}

done:
@@ -1433,19 +1432,8 @@ static int show_numa_map(struct seq_file
seq_path(m, &file->f_path, "\n\t= ");
} else if (vma->vm_start <= mm->brk && vma->vm_end >= mm->start_brk) {
seq_puts(m, " heap");
- } else {
- pid_t tid = vm_is_stack(task, vma, is_pid);
- if (tid != 0) {
- /*
- * Thread stack in /proc/PID/task/TID/maps or
- * the main process stack.
- */
- if (!is_pid || (vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
- vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack))
- seq_puts(m, " stack");
- else
- seq_printf(m, " stack:%d", tid);
- }
+ } else if (is_stack(proc_priv, vma)) {
+ seq_puts(m, " stack");
}

if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
--- a/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_nommu.c
@@ -123,6 +123,20 @@ unsigned long task_statm(struct mm_struc
return size;
}

+static int is_stack(struct proc_maps_private *priv,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+
+ /*
+ * We make no effort to guess what a given thread considers to be
+ * its "stack". It's not even well-defined for programs written
+ * languages like Go.
+ */
+ return vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
+ vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack;
+}
+
/*
* display a single VMA to a sequenced file
*/
@@ -162,21 +176,9 @@ static int nommu_vma_show(struct seq_fil
if (file) {
seq_pad(m, ' ');
seq_path(m, &file->f_path, "");
- } else if (mm) {
- pid_t tid = vm_is_stack(priv->task, vma, is_pid);
-
- if (tid != 0) {
- seq_pad(m, ' ');
- /*
- * Thread stack in /proc/PID/task/TID/maps or
- * the main process stack.
- */
- if (!is_pid || (vma->vm_start <= mm->start_stack &&
- vma->vm_end >= mm->start_stack))
- seq_printf(m, "[stack]");
- else
- seq_printf(m, "[stack:%d]", tid);
- }
+ } else if (mm && is_stack(priv, vma)) {
+ seq_pad(m, ' ');
+ seq_printf(m, "[stack]");
}

seq_putc(m, '\n');
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1239,8 +1239,7 @@ int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *pag
int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page);
int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen);

-extern pid_t
-vm_is_stack(struct task_struct *task, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int in_group);
+int vma_is_stack_for_task(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct task_struct *t);

extern unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long old_addr, struct vm_area_struct *new_vma,
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -255,43 +255,11 @@ void __vma_link_list(struct mm_struct *m
}

/* Check if the vma is being used as a stack by this task */
-static int vm_is_stack_for_task(struct task_struct *t,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+int vma_is_stack_for_task(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct task_struct *t)
{
return (vma->vm_start <= KSTK_ESP(t) && vma->vm_end >= KSTK_ESP(t));
}

-/*
- * Check if the vma is being used as a stack.
- * If is_group is non-zero, check in the entire thread group or else
- * just check in the current task. Returns the pid of the task that
- * the vma is stack for.
- */
-pid_t vm_is_stack(struct task_struct *task,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma, int in_group)
-{
- pid_t ret = 0;
-
- if (vm_is_stack_for_task(task, vma))
- return task->pid;
-
- if (in_group) {
- struct task_struct *t;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
- for_each_thread(task, t) {
- if (vm_is_stack_for_task(t, vma)) {
- ret = t->pid;
- goto done;
- }
- }
-done:
- rcu_read_unlock();
- }
-
- return ret;
-}
-
#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && !defined(HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT)
void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ address perms offset dev in
a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1001]
+a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
@@ -367,40 +367,11 @@ is not associated with a file:

[heap] = the heap of the program
[stack] = the stack of the main process
- [stack:1001] = the stack of the thread with tid 1001
[vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object",
the kernel system call handler

or if empty, the mapping is anonymous.

-The /proc/PID/task/TID/maps is a view of the virtual memory from the viewpoint
-of the individual tasks of a process. In this file you will see a mapping marked
-as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. This is a key difference from the
-content of /proc/PID/maps, where you will see all mappings that are being used
-as stack by all of those tasks. Hence, for the example above, the task-level
-map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this:
-
-08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/test
-08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test
-0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
-a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
-a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
-a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
-a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
-a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
-a800b000-a800e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
-a800e000-a8022000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0
-a8022000-a8023000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0
-a8023000-a8024000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0
-a8024000-a8027000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
-a8027000-a8043000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
-a8043000-a8044000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
-a8044000-a8045000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
-aff35000-aff4a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
-ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
-
The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each of mappings there
is a series of lines such as the following: