From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] kthread cleanups for v5.19
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:48:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8th7i58.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
This set of changes updates init and user mode helper tasks to be
ordinary user mode tasks.
In commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
struct kthread possible.
The commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple enough
to be backportable.
The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
up and cause the code to make sense.
In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace thread.
I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code sitting
in linux-next.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mtfu4up3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Eric W. Biederman (8):
kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh
fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arc/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/csky/kernel/process.c | 15 ++++++-------
arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 10 ++++-----
arch/hexagon/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/microblaze/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 13 ++++++------
arch/nios2/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/s390/kernel/process.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sh/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_32.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 12 ++++++-----
arch/um/kernel/process.c | 15 +++++++------
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/sched.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h | 8 +++----
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 4 ++--
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 18 +++++++++-------
arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c | 17 ++++++++-------
fs/exec.c | 8 ++++---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 8 +++++--
init/initramfs.c | 2 ++
init/main.c | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
kernel/umh.c | 6 +++---
33 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
p.s. My apologies for this coming in so late. The code has been ready
just everyone in my house has been sick since the start of the merge window.
next reply other threads:[~2022-06-03 17:57 UTC|newest]
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2022-06-03 17:48 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2022-06-03 17:51 ` [GIT PULL v2] " Eric W. Biederman
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