linux/arch/s390
Heiko Carstens a35021b416 s390/pfault: fix task state race
commit d5e50a51cc upstream.

When setting the current task state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE this can
race with a different cpu. The other cpu could set the task state after
it inspected it (while it was still TASK_RUNNING) to TASK_RUNNING which
would change the state from TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE to TASK_RUNNING again.

This race was always present in the pfault interrupt code but didn't
cause anything harmful before commit f2db2e6c "[S390] pfault: cpu hotplug
vs missing completion interrupts" which relied on the fact that after
setting the task state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE the task would really
sleep.
Since this is not necessarily the case the result may be a list corruption
of the pfault_list or, as observed, a use-after-free bug while trying to
access the task_struct of a task which terminated itself already.

To fix this, we need to get a reference of the affected task when receiving
the initial pfault interrupt and add special handling if we receive yet
another initial pfault interrupt when the task is already enqueued in the
pfault list.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-01 15:12:53 +08:00
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appldata [S390] mm: add ZONE_DMA to 31-bit config again 2011-05-26 09:48:25 +02:00
boot Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6 2011-03-20 18:14:55 -07:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2011-05-20 17:24:14 -07:00
hypfs treewide: remove extra semicolons 2011-04-10 17:01:05 +02:00
include/asm S390: fix tlb flushing for page table pages 2012-04-22 16:21:45 -07:00
kernel compat: Re-add missing asm/compat.h include to fix compile breakage on s390 2012-03-19 08:57:58 -07:00
kvm KVM: s390: check cpu_id prior to using it 2011-11-11 09:36:08 -08:00
lib [S390] delay: implement ndelay 2011-05-26 09:48:25 +02:00
math-emu s390: change to new flag variable 2011-03-17 14:02:57 +01:00
mm s390/pfault: fix task state race 2012-06-01 15:12:53 +08:00
oprofile oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs 2012-01-06 14:13:51 -08:00
defconfig [S390] Update default configuration 2011-01-12 09:55:24 +01:00
Kbuild [S390] standardize Kbuild rules 2010-10-25 16:10:14 +02:00
Kconfig S390: fix tlb flushing for page table pages 2012-04-22 16:21:45 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [S390] Write protect module text and RO data 2011-03-15 17:08:23 +01:00
Makefile [S390] remove redundant stack check option 2011-03-15 17:08:22 +01:00