[v4,RESEND,2/7] kunit: Fix kthread reference

Commit Message

Mickaël Salaün April 8, 2024, 7:46 a.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 <[e-mail]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
Fixes: adf505457032 ("kunit: fix UAF when run kfence test case test_gfpzero")
Reviewed-by: David Gow <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Rae Moar <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
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Changes since v2:
* Add Fixes tag as suggested by David.
* Add David's and Rae's Reviewed-by.

Changes since v1:
* Add Kees's Reviewed-by.
---
 lib/kunit/try-catch.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

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)