Merge tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull kthread updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This updates init and user mode helper tasks to be ordinary user mode
  tasks.

  Commit 40966e316f86 ("kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for
  all kthreads") caused init and the user mode helper threads that call
  kernel_execve to have struct kthread allocated for them. This struct
  kthread going away during execve in turned made a use after free of
  struct kthread possible.

  Here, commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for
  init and umh") is enough to fix the use after free and is simple
  enough to be backportable.

  The rest of the changes pass struct kernel_clone_args to clean things
  up and cause the code to make sense.

  In making init and the user mode helpers tasks purely user mode tasks
  I ran into two complications. The function task_tick_numa was
  detecting tasks without an mm by testing for the presence of
  PF_KTHREAD. The initramfs code in populate_initrd_image was using
  flush_delayed_fput to ensuere the closing of all it's file descriptors
  was complete, and flush_delayed_fput does not work in a userspace
  thread.

  I have looked and looked and more complications and in my code review
  I have not found any, and neither has anyone else with the code
  sitting in linux-next"

* tag 'kthread-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
  fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
  fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
  init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
  fork: Generalize PF_IO_WORKER handling
  fork: Explicity test for idle tasks in copy_thread
  fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread
  kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 58fb48d3004f..9b2772b7e1f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -131,9 +131,11 @@ static int set_new_tls(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls)
 		return do_set_thread_area_64(p, ARCH_SET_FS, tls);
 }
 
-int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
-		struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls)
+int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
 {
+	unsigned long clone_flags = args->flags;
+	unsigned long sp = args->stack;
+	unsigned long tls = args->tls;
 	struct inactive_task_frame *frame;
 	struct fork_frame *fork_frame;
 	struct pt_regs *childregs;
@@ -171,13 +173,13 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
 	frame->flags = X86_EFLAGS_FIXED;
 #endif
 
-	fpu_clone(p, clone_flags);
+	fpu_clone(p, clone_flags, args->fn);
 
 	/* Kernel thread ? */
 	if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
 		p->thread.pkru = pkru_get_init_value();
 		memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
-		kthread_frame_init(frame, sp, arg);
+		kthread_frame_init(frame, args->fn, args->fn_arg);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -193,10 +195,10 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
 	if (sp)
 		childregs->sp = sp;
 
-	if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_IO_WORKER)) {
+	if (unlikely(args->fn)) {
 		/*
-		 * An IO thread is a user space thread, but it doesn't
-		 * return to ret_after_fork().
+		 * A user space thread, but it doesn't return to
+		 * ret_after_fork().
 		 *
 		 * In order to indicate that to tools like gdb,
 		 * we reset the stack and instruction pointers.
@@ -206,7 +208,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
 		 */
 		childregs->sp = 0;
 		childregs->ip = 0;
-		kthread_frame_init(frame, sp, arg);
+		kthread_frame_init(frame, args->fn, args->fn_arg);
 		return 0;
 	}