When starting a kthread, the __kthread_create_on_node() function, as called
from kthread_run(), waits for a completion to indicate that the task_struct
(or failure state) of the new kernel thread is available before continuing.
This does not wait, however, for the thread function to be invoked and,
indeed, will skip it if kthread_stop() gets called before it gets there.
If this happens, though, kthread_run() will have returned successfully,
indicating that the thread was started and returning the task_struct
pointer. The actual error indication is returned by kthread_stop().
Note that this is ambiguous, as the caller cannot tell whether the -EINTR
error code came from kthread() or from the thread function.
This was encountered in the new rxrpc I/O thread, where if the system is
being pounded hard by, say, syzbot, the check of KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP can be
delayed long enough for kthread_stop() to get called when rxrpc releases a
socket - and this causes an oops because the I/O thread function doesn't
get started and thus doesn't remove the rxrpc_local struct from the
local_endpoints list.
Fix this by using a completion to wait for the thread to actually enter
rxrpc_io_thread(). This makes sure the thread can't be prematurely
stopped and makes sure the relied-upon cleanup is done.
Fixes: a275da62e8 ("rxrpc: Create a per-local endpoint receive queue and I/O thread")
Reported-by: syzbot+3538a6a72efa8b059c38@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000229f1505ef2b6159@google.com/
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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