exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:51:10 +0000 (10:51 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2023 07:27:22 +0000 (08:27 +0100)
commit 7535b832c6399b5ebfc5b53af5c51dd915ee2538 upstream.

Use a temporary variable to take full advantage of READ_ONCE() behavior.
Without this, the report (and even the test) might be out of sync with
the initial test.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5x7GXeluFmZ8E0E@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Fixes: 9fc9e278a5c0 ("panic: Introduce warn_limit")
Fixes: d4ccd54d28d3 ("exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops")
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: tangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/exit.c
kernel/panic.c

index f6c8510..80efdfd 100644 (file)
@@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
         * Take the task off the cpu after something catastrophic has
         * happened.
         */
+       unsigned int limit;
 
        /*
         * Every time the system oopses, if the oops happens while a reference
@@ -941,8 +942,9 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
         * To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the
         * kernel may oops without panic().
         */
-       if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit)
-               panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit);
+       limit = READ_ONCE(oops_limit);
+       if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= limit && limit)
+               panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", limit);
 
        do_exit(signr);
 }
index 4aef355..47933d4 100644 (file)
@@ -223,12 +223,15 @@ static void panic_print_sys_info(void)
 
 void check_panic_on_warn(const char *origin)
 {
+       unsigned int limit;
+
        if (panic_on_warn)
                panic("%s: panic_on_warn set ...\n", origin);
 
-       if (atomic_inc_return(&warn_count) >= READ_ONCE(warn_limit) && warn_limit)
+       limit = READ_ONCE(warn_limit);
+       if (atomic_inc_return(&warn_count) >= limit && limit)
                panic("%s: system warned too often (kernel.warn_limit is %d)",
-                     origin, warn_limit);
+                     origin, limit);
 }
 
 /**