Commit 20bb759a authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Linus Torvalds

panic: ensure preemption is disabled during panic()

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@dragonstoneSigned-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarXogium <contact@xogium.me>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2abb7d3b
......@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ 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
......
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