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Commit 06ab134c authored by Dave Marchevsky's avatar Dave Marchevsky Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: Refcount task stack in bpf_get_task_stack


On x86 the struct pt_regs * grabbed by task_pt_regs() points to an
offset of task->stack. The pt_regs are later dereferenced in
__bpf_get_stack (e.g. by user_mode() check). This can cause a fault if
the task in question exits while bpf_get_task_stack is executing, as
warned by task_stack_page's comment:

* When accessing the stack of a non-current task that might exit, use
* try_get_task_stack() instead.  task_stack_page will return a pointer
* that could get freed out from under you.

Taking the comment's advice and using try_get_task_stack() and
put_task_stack() to hold task->stack refcount, or bail early if it's
already 0. Incrementing stack_refcount will ensure the task's stack
sticks around while we're using its data.

I noticed this bug while testing a bpf task iter similar to
bpf_iter_task_stack in selftests, except mine grabbed user stack, and
getting intermittent crashes, which resulted in dumps like:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000003fe0
  \#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  \#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  RIP: 0010:__bpf_get_stack+0xd0/0x230
  <snip...>
  Call Trace:
  bpf_prog_0a2be35c092cb190_get_task_stacks+0x5d/0x3ec
  bpf_iter_run_prog+0x24/0x81
  __task_seq_show+0x58/0x80
  bpf_seq_read+0xf7/0x3d0
  vfs_read+0x91/0x140
  ksys_read+0x59/0xd0
  do_syscall_64+0x48/0x120
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fixes: fa28dcb8 ("bpf: Introduce helper bpf_get_task_stack()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210401000747.3648767-1-davemarchevsky@fb.com
parent 861de02e
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