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exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task
When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls do_task_dead() with preemption enabled. That is forbidden: do_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying "WARNING: must be called with preemption disabled!". If an oopsing task is preempted in do_task_dead(), between becoming TASK_DEAD and entering the scheduler explicitly, bad things happen: finish_task_switch() assumes that once the scheduler has switched away from a TASK_DEAD task, the task can never run again and its stack is no longer needed; but that assumption apparently doesn't hold if the dead task was preempted (the SM_PREEMPT case). This means that the scheduler ends up repeatedly dropping references on the dead task's stack, which can lead to use-after-free or double-free of the entire task stack; in other words, two tasks can end up running on the same stack, resulting in various kinds of memory corruption. (This does not just affect "recursively oopsing" tasks; it is enough to oops once during task exit, for example in a file_operations::release handler) Fixes: 7f80a2f ("exit: Stop poorly open coding do_task_dead in make_task_dead") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -1073,6 +1073,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
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futex_exit_recursive(tsk);
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tsk->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD;
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refcount_inc(&tsk->rcu_users);
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preempt_disable();
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do_task_dead();
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}
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