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    taskstats: fix data-race · 0b8d616f
    Christian Brauner authored
    
    
    When assiging and testing taskstats in taskstats_exit() there's a race
    when setting up and reading sig->stats when a thread-group with more
    than one thread exits:
    
    write to 0xffff8881157bbe10 of 8 bytes by task 7951 on cpu 0:
     taskstats_tgid_alloc kernel/taskstats.c:567 [inline]
     taskstats_exit+0x6b7/0x717 kernel/taskstats.c:596
     do_exit+0x2c2/0x18e0 kernel/exit.c:864
     do_group_exit+0xb4/0x1c0 kernel/exit.c:983
     get_signal+0x2a2/0x1320 kernel/signal.c:2734
     do_signal+0x3b/0xc00 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:815
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x250/0x2c0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:159
     prepare_exit_to_usermode arch/x86/entry/common.c:194 [inline]
     syscall_return_slowpath arch/x86/entry/common.c:274 [inline]
     do_syscall_64+0x2d7/0x2f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:299
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
    
    read to 0xffff8881157bbe10 of 8 bytes by task 7949 on cpu 1:
     taskstats_tgid_alloc kernel/taskstats.c:559 [inline]
     taskstats_exit+0xb2/0x717 kernel/taskstats.c:596
     do_exit+0x2c2/0x18e0 kernel/exit.c:864
     do_group_exit+0xb4/0x1c0 kernel/exit.c:983
     __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:994 [inline]
     __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:992 [inline]
     __x64_sys_exit_group+0x2e/0x30 kernel/exit.c:992
     do_syscall_64+0xcf/0x2f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:296
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
    
    Fix this by using smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release().
    
    Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+c5d03165a1bd1dead0c1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
    Fixes: 34ec1234
    
     ("taskstats: cleanup ->signal->stats allocation")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191009114809.8643-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
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