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Tadeusz Struk authored
Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to commit 4ef0c5c6 ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group") There is a race between sched_post_fork() and setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) within a thread group that causes a null-ptr-deref in reweight_entity() in CFS. The scenario is that the main process spawns number of new threads, which then call setpriority(PRIO_PGRP, 0, -20), wait, and exit. For each of the new threads the copy_process() gets invoked, which adds the new task_struct and calls sched_post_fork() for it. In the above scenario there is a possibility that setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) and set_one_prio() will be called for a thread in the group that is just being created by copy_process(), and for which the sched_post_fork() has not been executed yet. This will trigger a null pointer dereference in reweight_entity(), as it will try to access the run queue pointer, which hasn't been set. Before the mentioned change the cfs_rq pointer for the task has been set in sched_fork(), which is called much earlier in copy_process(), before the new task is added to the thread_group. Now it is done in the sched_post_fork(), which is called after that. To fix the issue the remove the update_load param from the update_load param() function and call reweight_task() only if the task flag doesn't have the TASK_NEW flag set. Fixes: 4ef0c5c6 ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group") Reported-by: syzbot+af7a719bc92395ee41b3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by:
Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by:
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203161846.1160750-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org
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