x86/resctrl: Fix invalid attempt at removing the default resource group
authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:26:45 +0000 (09:26 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:05:04 +0000 (09:05 +0200)
commit4b3380e007b219879c4e65dafae9bbbec2bea344
tree2970b422a13cb313175a615f3fefae4deb969ad5
parent3652782e3a87984efd24adf8efcb33e89778acc9
x86/resctrl: Fix invalid attempt at removing the default resource group

commit b0151da52a6d4f3951ea24c083e7a95977621436 upstream.

The default resource group ("rdtgroup_default") is associated with the
root of the resctrl filesystem and should never be removed. New resource
groups can be created as subdirectories of the resctrl filesystem and
they can be removed from user space.

There exists a safeguard in the directory removal code
(rdtgroup_rmdir()) that ensures that only subdirectories can be removed
by testing that the directory to be removed has to be a child of the
root directory.

A possible deadlock was recently fixed with

  334b0f4e9b1b ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference").

This fix involved associating the private data of the "mon_groups"
and "mon_data" directories to the resource group to which they belong
instead of NULL as before. A consequence of this change was that
the original safeguard code preventing removal of "mon_groups" and
"mon_data" found in the root directory failed resulting in attempts to
remove the default resource group that ends in a BUG:

  kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3969!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI

  Call Trace:
  rdtgroup_rmdir+0x16b/0x2c0
  kernfs_iop_rmdir+0x5c/0x90
  vfs_rmdir+0x7a/0x160
  do_rmdir+0x17d/0x1e0
  do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1d0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fix this by improving the directory removal safeguard to ensure that
subdirectories of the resctrl root directory can only be removed if they
are a child of the resctrl filesystem's root _and_ not associated with
the default resource group.

Fixes: 334b0f4e9b1b ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference")
Reported-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/884cbe1773496b5dbec1b6bd11bb50cffa83603d.1584461853.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c