Re: [PATCH] io_uring: Don't set affinity on a dying sqpoll thread

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Tue Aug 29 2023 - 09:28:11 EST


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Jens,

I'm not sure I got the whole story on this one, but it seems fairly
trivial to reproduce and I can't see another way it could be
triggered. What do you think?

Right, it can be null and that should be checked. I haven't taken
a look at the report but the patch looks good regardless, thanks


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Subject: [PATCH] io_uring: Don't set affinity on a dying sqpoll thread

Syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref of sqd->thread inside
io_sqpoll_wq_cpu_affinity. It turns out the sqd->thread can go away
from under us during io_uring_register, in case the process gets a
fatal signal during io_uring_register.

It is not particularly hard to hit the race, and while I am not sure
this is the exact case hit by syzbot, it solves it. Finally, checking
->thread is enough to close the race because we locked sqd while
"parking" the thread, thus preventing it from going away.

I reproduced it fairly consistently with a program that does:

int main(void) {
...
io_uring_queue_init(RING_LEN, &ring1, IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL);
while (1) {
io_uring_register_iowq_aff(ring, 1, &mask);
}
}

Executed in a loop with timeout to trigger SIGTERM:
while true; do timeout 1 /a.out ; done

This will hit the following BUG() in very few attempts.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000007a8
PGD 800000010e949067 P4D 800000010e949067 PUD 10e46e067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 15715 Comm: dead-sqpoll Not tainted 6.5.0-rc7-next-20230825-g193296236fa0-dirty #23
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:io_sqpoll_wq_cpu_affinity+0x27/0x70
Code: 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 53 48 8b 9f 98 03 00 00 48 85 db 74 4f
48 89 df 48 89 f5 e8 e2 f8 ff ff 48 8b 43 38 48 85 c0 74 22 <48> 8b b8
a8 07 00 00 48 89 ee e8 ba b1 00 00 48 89 df 89 c5 e8 70
RSP: 0018:ffffb04040ea7e70 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff93c010749e40 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffa7653331 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffb04040ea7eb8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffdfff
R10: ffff93c01141b600 R11: ffffb04040ea7d18 R12: ffff93c00ea74840
R13: 0000000000000011 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff93c00ea74800
FS: 00007fb7c276ab80(0000) GS:ffff93c36f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000007a8 CR3: 0000000111634003 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die_body+0x1a/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x154/0x440
? do_user_addr_fault+0x174/0x7b0
? exc_page_fault+0x63/0x140
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? io_sqpoll_wq_cpu_affinity+0x27/0x70
__io_register_iowq_aff+0x2b/0x60
__io_uring_register+0x614/0xa70
__x64_sys_io_uring_register+0xaa/0x1a0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
RIP: 0033:0x7fb7c226fec9
Code: 2e 00 b8 ca 00 00 00 0f 05 eb a5 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89
f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01
f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 97 7f 2d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe2c0674f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001ab
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fb7c226fec9
RDX: 00007ffe2c067530 RSI: 0000000000000011 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe2c0675d0 R08: 00007ffe2c067550 R09: 00007ffe2c067550
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffe2c067750 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
CR2: 00000000000007a8
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Reported-by: syzbot+c74fea926a78b8a91042@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: ebdfefc09c6d ("io_uring/sqpoll: fix io-wq affinity when IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL is used")
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxx>
---
io_uring/sqpoll.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/sqpoll.c b/io_uring/sqpoll.c
index ee2d2c687fda..bd6c2c7959a5 100644
--- a/io_uring/sqpoll.c
+++ b/io_uring/sqpoll.c
@@ -430,7 +430,9 @@ __cold int io_sqpoll_wq_cpu_affinity(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
if (sqd) {
io_sq_thread_park(sqd);
- ret = io_wq_cpu_affinity(sqd->thread->io_uring, mask);
+ /* Don't set affinity for a dying thread */
+ if (sqd->thread)
+ ret = io_wq_cpu_affinity(sqd->thread->io_uring, mask);
io_sq_thread_unpark(sqd);
}

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Pavel Begunkov