• Reinette Chatre's avatar
    x86/resctrl: Fix invalid attempt at removing the default resource group · b0151da5
    Reinette Chatre authored
    The default resource group ("rdtgroup_default") is associated with the
    root of the resctrl filesystem and should never be removed. New resource
    groups can be created as subdirectories of the resctrl filesystem and
    they can be removed from user space.
    
    There exists a safeguard in the directory removal code
    (rdtgroup_rmdir()) that ensures that only subdirectories can be removed
    by testing that the directory to be removed has to be a child of the
    root directory.
    
    A possible deadlock was recently fixed with
    
      334b0f4e ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference").
    
    This fix involved associating the private data of the "mon_groups"
    and "mon_data" directories to the resource group to which they belong
    instead of NULL as before. A consequence of this change was that
    the original safeguard code preventing removal of "mon_groups" and
    "mon_data" found in the root directory failed resulting in attempts to
    remove the default resource group that ends in a BUG:
    
      kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3969!
      invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
    
      Call Trace:
      rdtgroup_rmdir+0x16b/0x2c0
      kernfs_iop_rmdir+0x5c/0x90
      vfs_rmdir+0x7a/0x160
      do_rmdir+0x17d/0x1e0
      do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1d0
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
    
    Fix this by improving the directory removal safeguard to ensure that
    subdirectories of the resctrl root directory can only be removed if they
    are a child of the resctrl filesystem's root _and_ not associated with
    the default resource group.
    
    Fixes: 334b0f4e ("x86/resctrl: Fix a deadlock due to inaccurate reference")
    Reported-by: default avatarSai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarSai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/884cbe1773496b5dbec1b6bd11bb50cffa83603d.1584461853.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
    b0151da5
rdtgroup.c 78.3 KB