rcu-tasks: Don't delete holdouts within trc_inspect_reader()
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tue, 25 May 2021 17:12:45 +0000 (10:12 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 31 Jul 2021 06:16:11 +0000 (08:16 +0200)
commit55ddab2bfd7035347765e62748fd1e30cb3528d6
treecd6bb741a54e7740c23129c32508998afcb40897
parent4d972881f8d8e80e0320169e681284785cfe51e2
rcu-tasks: Don't delete holdouts within trc_inspect_reader()

[ Upstream commit 1d10bf55d85d34eb73dd8263635f43fd72135d2d ]

As Yanfei pointed out, although invoking trc_del_holdout() is safe
from the viewpoint of the integrity of the holdout list itself,
the put_task_struct() invoked by trc_del_holdout() can result in
use-after-free errors due to later accesses to this task_struct structure
by the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread.

This commit therefore removes this call to trc_del_holdout() from
trc_inspect_reader() in favor of the grace-period thread's existing call
to trc_del_holdout(), thus eliminating that particular class of
use-after-free errors.

Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/rcu/tasks.h