panic: ensure preemption is disabled during panic()
authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Mon, 7 Oct 2019 00:58:00 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:44:46 +0000 (13:44 -0700)
commit7d1688c6731b0d28aefe520414ae85581cc66725
treef30bcb848c3b10c480b34aefacfcd588f6999d32
parentdafd634415a7f9892a6fcc99c540fe567ab42c92
panic: ensure preemption is disabled during panic()

commit 20bb759a66be52cf4a9ddd17fddaf509e11490cd upstream.

Calling 'panic()' on a kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y can leave the
calling CPU in an infinite loop, but with interrupts and preemption
enabled.  From this state, userspace can continue to be scheduled,
despite the system being "dead" as far as the kernel is concerned.

This is easily reproducible on arm64 when booting with "nosmp" on the
command line; a couple of shell scripts print out a periodic "Ping"
message whilst another triggers a crash by writing to
/proc/sysrq-trigger:

  | sysrq: Trigger a crash
  | Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash
  | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.2.15 #1
  | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  | Call trace:
  |  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x148
  |  show_stack+0x14/0x20
  |  dump_stack+0xa0/0xc4
  |  panic+0x140/0x32c
  |  sysrq_handle_reboot+0x0/0x20
  |  __handle_sysrq+0x124/0x190
  |  write_sysrq_trigger+0x64/0x88
  |  proc_reg_write+0x60/0xa8
  |  __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
  |  vfs_write+0xa4/0x1b8
  |  ksys_write+0x64/0xf0
  |  __arm64_sys_write+0x14/0x20
  |  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb0/0x168
  |  el0_svc_handler+0x28/0x78
  |  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
  | Kernel Offset: disabled
  | CPU features: 0x0002,24002004
  | Memory Limit: none
  | ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash ]---
  |  Ping 2!
  |  Ping 1!
  |  Ping 1!
  |  Ping 2!

The issue can also be triggered on x86 kernels if CONFIG_SMP=n,
otherwise local interrupts are disabled in 'smp_send_stop()'.

Disable preemption in 'panic()' before re-enabling interrupts.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191002123538.22609-1-will@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/BX1W47JXPMR8.58IYW53H6M5N@dragonstone
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Xogium <contact@xogium.me>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/panic.c