From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: paulmck@kernel.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
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Subject: [PATCH v9 4/6] sched/debug: Protect p->mm access in sched_show_numa()
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:18:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827221809.988394-5-atomlin@atomlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260827221809.988394-1-atomlin@atomlin.com>
In sched_show_numa(), p->mm is checked locklessly and then passed to the
P(mm->numa_scan_seq) macro. This presents both a time-of-change to
time-of-use race and a potential use-after-free vulnerability.
If a task exits concurrently via exit_mm(p), another CPU can set p->mm
to NULL and call mmput(mm) to free the struct mm_struct. Dereferencing
mm->numa_scan_seq without holding task_lock(p) can access freed memory if
mmput() runs immediately after the check.
Fix this by wrapping the p->mm check and macro dereference in
task_lock(p) and task_unlock(p). In exit_mm(), current->mm is set to
NULL under task_lock(p) before mmput() is called, guaranteeing that
p->mm cannot be set to NULL or freed while task_lock(p) is held.
Fixes: b32e86b4301e ("sched/numa: Add debugging")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
---
kernel/sched/debug.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index 3d6248c50dad..1b6d2a83d50f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -1395,8 +1395,10 @@ void print_numa_stats(struct seq_file *m, int node, unsigned long tsf,
static void sched_show_numa(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+ task_lock(p);
if (p->mm)
P(mm->numa_scan_seq);
+ task_unlock(p);
P(numa_pages_migrated);
P(numa_preferred_nid);
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-27 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-27 22:18 [PATCH v9 0/6] Introduce per-CPU debugfs files Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-27 22:18 ` [PATCH v9 1/6] sched: Annotate rq->rd with __rcu and update lockless readers Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-27 22:18 ` [PATCH v9 2/6] sched/debug: Protect lockless rq->rd access in print_dl_rq() Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-27 22:18 ` [PATCH v9 3/6] sched/debug: Protect lockless rq->curr access in print_cpu() Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-27 22:18 ` Aaron Tomlin [this message]
2026-08-27 22:18 ` [PATCH v9 5/6] sched/fair: Use list_for_each_entry_rcu() in print_cfs_stats() Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-27 22:18 ` [PATCH v9 6/6] sched/debug: Introduce per-CPU debugfs files Aaron Tomlin
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