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, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
index 7e38292dd07a..68e0e2f06d66 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c
@@ -263,10 +263,11 @@ int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
  * involved.  Much simpler to just not copy those live frames across.
  */
 
-int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp_thread_fn,
-		unsigned long thread_fn_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 usp_thread_fn = args->stack;
+	unsigned long tls = args->tls;
 	struct pt_regs *childregs = task_pt_regs(p);
 
 #if (XTENSA_HAVE_COPROCESSORS || XTENSA_HAVE_IO_PORTS)
@@ -286,7 +287,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp_thread_fn,
 #error Unsupported Xtensa ABI
 #endif
 
-	if (!(p->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER))) {
+	if (!args->fn) {
 		struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
 		unsigned long usp = usp_thread_fn ?
 			usp_thread_fn : regs->areg[1];
@@ -338,15 +339,15 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp_thread_fn,
 		 * Window underflow will load registers from the
 		 * spill slots on the stack on return from _switch_to.
 		 */
-		SPILL_SLOT(childregs, 2) = usp_thread_fn;
-		SPILL_SLOT(childregs, 3) = thread_fn_arg;
+		SPILL_SLOT(childregs, 2) = (unsigned long)args->fn;
+		SPILL_SLOT(childregs, 3) = (unsigned long)args->fn_arg;
 #elif defined(__XTENSA_CALL0_ABI__)
 		/*
 		 * a12 = thread_fn, a13 = thread_fn arg.
 		 * _switch_to epilogue will load registers from the stack.
 		 */
-		((unsigned long *)p->thread.sp)[0] = usp_thread_fn;
-		((unsigned long *)p->thread.sp)[1] = thread_fn_arg;
+		((unsigned long *)p->thread.sp)[0] = (unsigned long)args->fn;
+		((unsigned long *)p->thread.sp)[1] = (unsigned long)args->fn_arg;
 #else
 #error Unsupported Xtensa ABI
 #endif