[PATCH v6 5/5] sched: Fix sched_setaffinity() and fork/clone() race

From: Waiman Long
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 21:02:23 EST


sched_setaffinity() can also race with a concurrent fork/clone() syscall
calling dup_user_cpus_ptr(). That may lead to a use after free problem.
Fix that by protecting the cpumask copying using pi_lock of the source
task.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 6cd1177fbcea..71a3fdcb6b6b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2593,6 +2593,8 @@ void do_set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask)
int dup_user_cpus_ptr(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src,
int node)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
if (!src->user_cpus_ptr)
return 0;

@@ -2600,7 +2602,10 @@ int dup_user_cpus_ptr(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src,
if (!dst->user_cpus_ptr)
return -ENOMEM;

+ /* Use pi_lock to protect content of user_cpus_ptr */
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&src->pi_lock, flags);
cpumask_copy(dst->user_cpus_ptr, src->user_cpus_ptr);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&src->pi_lock, flags);
return 0;
}

--
2.31.1