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From: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:12:23 +0530
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Subject: Re: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _raw_spin_lock_irq next-20240410
To: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, mic@digikod.net, keescook@chromium.org, 
	rmoar@google.com, lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, 
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, 
	longman@redhat.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, anders.roxell@linaro.org, 
	dan.carpenter@linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux@roeck-us.net, 
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On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 09:55, David Gow <davidgow@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 at 23:23, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 03:57:10PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > Following kernel crash noticed on Linux next-20240410 tag while runni=
ng
> > > kunit testing on qemu-arm64 and qemu-x86_64.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> > >

<trim>

> >
> > Ok, so 'task_struct->vfork_done' is NULL. Looks like this code was adde=
d
> > recently, so adding Micka=C3=ABl to cc.
> >
>
> Thanks. This looks like a race condition where the KUnit test kthread
> can terminate before we wait on it.
>
> Micka=C3=ABl, does this seem like a correct fix to you?
> ---
> From: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:07:47 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] kunit: Fix race condition in try-catch completion
>
> KUnit's try-catch infrastructure now uses vfork_done, which is always
> set to a valid completion when a kthread is crated, but which is set to
> NULL once the thread terminates. This creates a race condition, where
> the kthread exits before we can wait on it.
>
> Keep a copy of vfork_done, which is taken before we wake_up_process()
> and so valid, and wait on that instead.
>
> Fixes: 4de2a8e4cca4 ("kunit: Handle test faults")
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>

This patch tested on top of Linux next and reported issues fixed.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

> ---
> lib/kunit/try-catch.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/kunit/try-catch.c b/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
> index fa687278ccc9..fc6cd4d7e80f 100644
> --- a/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
> +++ b/lib/kunit/try-catch.c
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ void kunit_try_catch_run(struct kunit_try_catch
> *try_catch, void *context)
> {
>        struct kunit *test =3D try_catch->test;
>        struct task_struct *task_struct;
> +       struct completion *task_done;
>        int exit_code, time_remaining;
>
>        try_catch->context =3D context;
> @@ -75,13 +76,14 @@ void kunit_try_catch_run(struct kunit_try_catch
> *try_catch, void *context)
>                return;
>        }
>        get_task_struct(task_struct);
> +       task_done =3D task_struct->vfork_done;
>        wake_up_process(task_struct);
>        /*
>         * As for a vfork(2), task_struct->vfork_done (pointing to the
>         * underlying kthread->exited) can be used to wait for the end of =
a
>         * kernel thread.
>         */
> -       time_remaining =3D wait_for_completion_timeout(task_struct->vfork=
_done,
> +       time_remaining =3D wait_for_completion_timeout(task_done,
>                                                     kunit_test_timeout())=
;
>        if (time_remaining =3D=3D 0) {
>                try_catch->try_result =3D -ETIMEDOUT;
> --

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