[SRU][Utopic][PATCH 1/2] sched/numa: Fix unsafe get_task_struct() in task_numa_assign()

[Gavin Guo]

From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at parallels.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527643

Unlocked access to dst_rq->curr in task_numa_compare() is racy.
If curr task is exiting this may be a reason of use-after-free:

task_numa_compare()                    do_exit()
    ...                                        current->flags |= PF_EXITING;
    ...                                    release_task()
    ...                                        ~~delayed_put_task_struct()~~
    ...                                    schedule()
    rcu_read_lock()                        ...
    cur = ACCESS_ONCE(dst_rq->curr)        ...
        ...                                rq->curr = next;
        ...                                    context_switch()
        ...                                        finish_task_switch()
        ...                                            put_task_struct()
        ...                                                __put_task_struct()
        ...                                                    free_task_struct()
        task_numa_assign()                                     ...
            get_task_struct()                                  ...

As noted by Oleg:

  <<The lockless get_task_struct(tsk) is only safe if tsk == current
    and didn't pass exit_notify(), or if this tsk was found on a rcu
    protected list (say, for_each_process() or find_task_by_vpid()).
    IOW, it is only safe if release_task() was not called before we
    take rcu_read_lock(), in this case we can rely on the fact that
    delayed_put_pid() can not drop the (potentially) last reference
    until rcu_read_unlock().

    And as Kirill pointed out task_numa_compare()->task_numa_assign()
    path does get_task_struct(dst_rq->curr) and this is not safe. The
    task_struct itself can't go away, but rcu_read_lock() can't save
    us from the final put_task_struct() in finish_task_switch(); this
    reference goes away without rcu gp>>

The patch provides simple check of PF_EXITING flag. If it's not set,
this guarantees that call_rcu() of delayed_put_task_struct() callback
hasn't happened yet, so we can safely do get_task_struct() in
task_numa_assign().

Locked dst_rq->lock protects from concurrency with the last schedule().
Reusing or unmapping of cur's memory may happen without it.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1413962231.19914.130.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1effd9f19324efb05fccc7421530e11a52db0278)
Signed-off-by: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 123078569a96..ca3829734199 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1142,9 +1142,19 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 	long imp = (groupimp > 0) ? groupimp : taskimp;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	cur = ACCESS_ONCE(dst_rq->curr);
-	if (cur->pid == 0) /* idle */
+
+	raw_spin_lock_irq(&dst_rq->lock);
+	cur = dst_rq->curr;
+	/*
+	 * No need to move the exiting task, and this ensures that ->curr
+	 * wasn't reaped and thus get_task_struct() in task_numa_assign()
+	 * is safe under RCU read lock.
+	 * Note that rcu_read_lock() itself can't protect from the final
+	 * put_task_struct() after the last schedule().
+	 */
+	if ((cur->flags & PF_EXITING) || is_idle_task(cur))
 		cur = NULL;
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&dst_rq->lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * "imp" is the fault differential for the source task between the
-- 
2.0.0