[RFC PATCH for tip] sched: Fix concurrency ID handling of usermodehelper kthreads

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Mon Jan 02 2023 - 10:13:45 EST


sched_mm_cid_after_execve does not expect NULL t->mm, but it may happen
if a usermodehelper kthread fails when attempting to execute a binary.

sched_mm_cid_fork can be issued from a usermodehelper kthread, which has
t->flags PF_KTHREAD set.

Fixes: af7f588d8f73 ("sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202212301353.5c959d72-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 048ec2417990..f99ee69867e3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -11343,8 +11343,8 @@ void sched_mm_cid_after_execve(struct task_struct *t)
struct mm_struct *mm = t->mm;
unsigned long flags;

- WARN_ON_ONCE((t->flags & PF_KTHREAD) || !t->mm);
-
+ if (!mm)
+ return;
local_irq_save(flags);
t->mm_cid = mm_cid_get(mm);
t->mm_cid_active = 1;
@@ -11354,7 +11354,7 @@ void sched_mm_cid_after_execve(struct task_struct *t)

void sched_mm_cid_fork(struct task_struct *t)
{
- WARN_ON_ONCE((t->flags & PF_KTHREAD) || !t->mm || t->mm_cid != -1);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!t->mm || t->mm_cid != -1);
t->mm_cid_active = 1;
}
#endif
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2.25.1