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| author | Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> | 2026-09-21 17:37:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2026-09-22 10:50:43 +0200 |
| commit | b636fef85bda7d1bab9c0a45067ab1508d79d946 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ec4ab3249c034a2a23d2809fcdcc379f89b9881 /fs | |
| parent | 28f9c0e0a0b94c5d3e1b634db545f6e1f94858c5 (diff) | |
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sched/cache: Introduce task_struct->sched_cache_grp to fix UAF
Add a sched_cache_grp pointer to task_struct so that scheduler code
can access the cache group directly via the task, without going
through mm->sched_cache_grp. This decouples the scheduler's hot-path
accesses from the mm_struct.
Each task holds its own refcount on the sched_cache_group, separate
from the reference held by its mm_struct. The reference is acquired
in copy_mm() (fork) and exec_mmap() (exec), and released in exit_mm().
This fixes the use-after-free when account_mm_sched() reaches the group
through a task whose mm is being switched, as reported by Hyunwoo:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/apPb-Dr4nPYuHQOK@v4bel/
Convert all scheduler code in fair.c and exit.c to use
p->sched_cache_grp instead of p->mm->sched_cache_grp.
Keep the fork/exec/exit reference management out of the generic mm
paths: add sched_cache_fork(), sched_cache_fork_cleanup(),
sched_cache_exec_mmap() and sched_cache_exit_mm() in
kernel/sched/cache_sched.c (with empty stubs for !CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE),
so fs/exec.c, kernel/fork.c and kernel/exit.c each call one helper
instead of open-coding the refcounting under #ifdef. Also add
sched_cache_group_get() and task_cache_group_get().
Fixes: df0d98475954 ("sched/cache: Introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load balancing")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/apPb-Dr4nPYuHQOK@v4bel/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/343a7e07-7fad-4979-9c9b-82ec038c293c@linux.dev/
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> #7.2.x
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ae7081dc54736bf115215f9867abb2711a7403fb.1790035273.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/exec.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 819643408e6d..a5269b5e00df 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -882,6 +882,7 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct linux_binprm *bprm) active_mm = tsk->active_mm; tsk->active_mm = mm; tsk->mm = mm; + sched_cache_exec_mmap(tsk, mm); mm_init_cid(mm, tsk); exec_state = task_exec_state_replace(tsk, exec_state); /* |