[PATCH] sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity

From: Tadeusz Struk
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 20:24:47 EST


Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to commit
c85c6fadbef0 ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Looks like after this change there is a time window, when
task_struct->se.cfs_rq can be NULL. This can be exploited to trigger
null-ptr-deref by calling setpriority on that task.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9d9c27adc674e3a7932b22b61c79a02da82cbdc1
Fixes: c85c6fadbef0 ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 095b0aa378df..196f8cee3f9b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3042,6 +3042,9 @@ dequeue_load_avg(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) { }
static void reweight_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se,
unsigned long weight)
{
+ if (!cfs_rq)
+ return;
+
if (se->on_rq) {
/* commit outstanding execution time */
if (cfs_rq->curr == se)
--
2.34.1