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[v1,3/8] kunit: Fix kthread reference

Message ID 20240229170409.365386-4-mic@digikod.net (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere
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Series Run KUnit tests late and handle faults | expand

Commit Message

Mickaël Salaün Feb. 29, 2024, 5:04 p.m. UTC 
There is a race condition when a kthread finishes after the deadline and
before the call to kthread_stop(), which may lead to use after free.

Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
---
 lib/kunit/try-catch.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Kees Cook Feb. 29, 2024, 6:22 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 06:04:04PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> There is a race condition when a kthread finishes after the deadline and
> before the call to kthread_stop(), which may lead to use after free.
> 
> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
> Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
> Cc: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/lib/kunit/try-catch.c b/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
index a5cb2ef70a25..73f5007f20ea 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/sched/task.h>
 
 #include "try-catch-impl.h"
 
@@ -65,14 +66,15 @@  void kunit_try_catch_run(struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch, void *context)
 	try_catch->context = context;
 	try_catch->try_completion = &try_completion;
 	try_catch->try_result = 0;
-	task_struct = kthread_run(kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter,
-				  try_catch,
-				  "kunit_try_catch_thread");
+	task_struct = kthread_create(kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter,
+				     try_catch, "kunit_try_catch_thread");
 	if (IS_ERR(task_struct)) {
 		try_catch->try_result = PTR_ERR(task_struct);
 		try_catch->catch(try_catch->context);
 		return;
 	}
+	get_task_struct(task_struct);
+	wake_up_process(task_struct);
 
 	time_remaining = wait_for_completion_timeout(&try_completion,
 						     kunit_test_timeout());
@@ -82,6 +84,7 @@  void kunit_try_catch_run(struct kunit_try_catch *try_catch, void *context)
 		kthread_stop(task_struct);
 	}
 
+	put_task_struct(task_struct);
 	exit_code = try_catch->try_result;
 
 	if (!exit_code)