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Mikulas Patocka 30884a44e0 dm-crypt, dm-verity: disable tasklets 
commit 0a9bab391e upstream.

Tasklets have an inherent problem with memory corruption. The function
tasklet_action_common calls tasklet_trylock, then it calls the tasklet
callback and then it calls tasklet_unlock. If the tasklet callback frees
the structure that contains the tasklet or if it calls some code that may
free it, tasklet_unlock will write into free memory.

The commits 8e14f61015 and d9a02e016a try to fix it for dm-crypt, but
it is not a sufficient fix and the data corruption can still happen [1].
There is no fix for dm-verity and dm-verity will write into free memory
with every tasklet-processed bio.

There will be atomic workqueues implemented in the kernel 6.9 [2]. They
will have better interface and they will not suffer from the memory
corruption problem.

But we need something that stops the memory corruption now and that can be
backported to the stable kernels. So, I'm proposing this commit that
disables tasklets in both dm-crypt and dm-verity. This commit doesn't
remove the tasklet support, because the tasklet code will be reused when
atomic workqueues will be implemented.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/d390d7ee-f142-44d3-822a-87949e14608b@suse.de/T/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240130091300.2968534-1-tj@kernel.org/

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 39d42fa96b ("dm crypt: add flags to optionally bypass kcryptd workqueues")
Fixes: 5721d4e5a9 ("dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-02-23 09:12:32 +01:00
arch scs: add CONFIG_MMU dependency for vfree_atomic() 2024-02-23 09:12:32 +01:00
block block: treat poll queue enter similarly to timeouts 2024-02-16 19:06:31 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names 2024-01-31 16:16:58 -08:00
Documentation net: sysfs: Fix /sys/class/net/<iface> path for statistics 2024-02-23 09:12:31 +01:00
drivers dm-crypt, dm-verity: disable tasklets 2024-02-23 09:12:32 +01:00
fs btrfs: don't drop extent_map for free space inode on write error 2024-02-23 09:12:29 +01:00
include tls: fix race between async notify and socket close 2024-02-23 09:12:31 +01:00
init update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix sr->len for IORING_OP_RECV with MSG_WAITALL and buffers 2024-02-16 19:06:30 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel tracing/trigger: Fix to return error if failed to alloc snapshot 2024-02-23 09:12:32 +01:00
lib debugobjects: Stop accessing objects after releasing hash bucket lock 2024-02-05 20:12:47 +00:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/writeback: fix possible divide-by-zero in wb_dirty_limits(), again 2024-02-23 09:12:32 +01:00
net net: tls: fix returned read length with async decrypt 2024-02-23 09:12:31 +01:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:12:28 +01:00
scripts scripts/get_abi: fix source path leak 2024-01-31 16:17:01 -08:00
security lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook 2024-01-31 16:17:00 -08:00
sound ASoC: rt5645: Fix deadlock in rt5645_jack_detect_work() 2024-02-23 09:12:31 +01:00
tools KVM: selftests: Fix a semaphore imbalance in the dirty ring logging test 2024-02-23 09:12:30 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() 2023-09-13 09:42:46 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS genirq/affinity: Move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/ 2024-01-10 17:10:33 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.78 2024-02-16 19:06:32 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.