From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932301AbdL1R2C (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:28:02 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:59071 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754389AbdL1ROD (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:14:03 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Lai Jiangshan" , "Li Bin" , "Xiaofei Tan" , "Tejun Heo" Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:05:44 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 150/204] workqueue: Fix NULL pointer dereference In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.52-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Li Bin commit cef572ad9bd7f85035ba8272e5352040e8be0152 upstream. When queue_work() is used in irq (not in task context), there is a potential case that trigger NULL pointer dereference. ---------------------------------------------------------------- worker_thread() |-spin_lock_irq() |-process_one_work() |-worker->current_pwq = pwq |-spin_unlock_irq() |-worker->current_func(work) |-spin_lock_irq() |-worker->current_pwq = NULL |-spin_unlock_irq() //interrupt here |-irq_handler |-__queue_work() //assuming that the wq is draining |-is_chained_work(wq) |-current_wq_worker() //Here, 'current' is the interrupted worker! |-current->current_pwq is NULL here! |-schedule() ---------------------------------------------------------------- Avoid it by checking for task context in current_wq_worker(), and if not in task context, we shouldn't use the 'current' to check the condition. Reported-by: Xiaofei Tan Signed-off-by: Li Bin Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Fixes: 8d03ecfe4718 ("workqueue: reimplement is_chained_work() using current_wq_worker()") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/workqueue_internal.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/workqueue_internal.h +++ b/kernel/workqueue_internal.h @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ #include #include +#include struct worker_pool; @@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ struct worker { */ static inline struct worker *current_wq_worker(void) { - if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) + if (in_task() && (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)) return kthread_data(current); return NULL; }