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kthread: zero the kthread data structure

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kthread() could bail out early before we initialize blkcg_css (if the
kthread is killed very early. Please see xchg() statement in kthread()),
which confuses free_kthread_struct. Instead of moving the blkcg_css
initialization early, we simply zero the whole 'self' data structure,
which doesn't sound much overhead.

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Fixes: 05e3db95ebfc ("kthread: add a mechanism to store cgroup info")
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Shaohua Li 2017-11-07 11:09:50 -08:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 18c53e4048
commit e10237cc76
1 changed files with 1 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
struct kthread *self;
int ret;
self = kmalloc(sizeof(*self), GFP_KERNEL);
self = kzalloc(sizeof(*self), GFP_KERNEL);
set_kthread_struct(self);
/* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */
@ -220,13 +220,9 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
do_exit(-ENOMEM);
}
self->flags = 0;
self->data = data;
init_completion(&self->exited);
init_completion(&self->parked);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
self->blkcg_css = NULL;
#endif
current->vfork_done = &self->exited;
/* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */