Syzbot reported a handful of occurrences where an sd->nr_balance_failed can
grow to much higher values than one would expect.
A successful load_balance() resets it to 0; a failed one increments
it. Once it gets to sd->cache_nice_tries + 3, this *should* trigger an
active balance, which will either set it to sd->cache_nice_tries+1 or reset
it to 0. However, in case the to-be-active-balanced task is not allowed to
run on env->dst_cpu, then the increment is done without any further
modification.
This could then be repeated ad nauseam, and would explain the absurdly high
values reported by syzbot (86, 149). VincentG noted there is value in
letting sd->cache_nice_tries grow, so the shift itself should be
fixed. That means preventing:
"""
If the value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal
to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is undefined.
"""
Thus we need to cap the shift exponent to
BITS_PER_TYPE(typeof(lefthand)) - 1.
I had a look around for other similar cases via coccinelle:
@expr@
position pos;
expression E1;
expression E2;
@@
(
E1 >> E2@pos
|
E1 >> E2@pos
)
@cst depends on expr@
position pos;
expression expr.E1;
constant cst;
@@
(
E1 >> cst@pos
|
E1 << cst@pos
)
@script:python depends on !cst@
pos << expr.pos;
exp << expr.E2;
@@
# Dirty hack to ignore constexpr
if exp.upper() != exp:
coccilib.report.print_report(pos[0], "Possible UB shift here")
The only other match in kernel/sched is rq_clock_thermal() which employs
sched_thermal_decay_shift, and that exponent is already capped to 10, so
that one is fine.
Fixes:
5a7f55590467 ("sched/fair: Relax constraint on task's load during load balance")
Reported-by: syzbot+d7581744d5fd27c9fbe1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000ffac1205b9a2112f@google.com
* scheduler fails to find a good waiting task to
* migrate.
*/
-
- if ((load >> env->sd->nr_balance_failed) > env->imbalance)
+ if (shr_bound(load, env->sd->nr_balance_failed) > env->imbalance)
goto next;
env->imbalance -= load;
*avg += diff / 8;
}
+/*
+ * Shifting a value by an exponent greater *or equal* to the size of said value
+ * is UB; cap at size-1.
+ */
+#define shr_bound(val, shift) \
+ (val >> min_t(typeof(shift), shift, BITS_PER_TYPE(typeof(val)) - 1))
+
/*
* !! For sched_setattr_nocheck() (kernel) only !!
*