From 7d1688c6731b0d28aefe520414ae85581cc66725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 17:58:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reported-by: Xogium Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Russell King Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Feng Tang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/panic.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 6a6df23..72e001e 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) * after setting panic_cpu) from invoking panic() again. */ local_irq_disable(); + preempt_disable_notrace(); /* * It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and -- 2.7.4