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From 7535b832c6399b5ebfc5b53af5c51dd915ee2538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:26:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] exit: Use READ_ONCE() for all oops/warn limit reads
Git-commit: 7535b832c6399b5ebfc5b53af5c51dd915ee2538
Patch-mainline: v6.2-rc1
References: bsc#1207328

Use a temporary variable to take full advantage of READ_ONCE() behavior.
Without this, the report (and even the test) might be out of sync with
the initial test.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5x7GXeluFmZ8E0E@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Fixes: 9fc9e278a5c0 ("panic: Introduce warn_limit")
Fixes: d4ccd54d28d3 ("exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops")
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: tangmeng <tangmeng@uniontech.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

---
 kernel/exit.c  |    8 +++++---
 kernel/panic.c |    8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -880,6 +880,7 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
 	do_task_dead();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_exit);
+static atomic_t oops_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
 void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr)
 {
@@ -893,7 +894,7 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr
 	 * Then do everything else.
 	 */
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
-	static atomic_t oops_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+	unsigned int limit;
 
 	if (unlikely(in_interrupt()))
 		panic("Aiee, killing interrupt handler!");
@@ -917,8 +918,9 @@ void __noreturn make_task_dead(int signr
 	 * To make sure this can't happen, place an upper bound on how often the
 	 * kernel may oops without panic().
 	 */
-	if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= READ_ONCE(oops_limit) && oops_limit)
-		panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", oops_limit);
+	limit = READ_ONCE(oops_limit);
+	if (atomic_inc_return(&oops_count) >= limit && limit)
+		panic("Oopsed too often (kernel.oops_limit is %d)", limit);
 
 	/*
 	 * We're taking recursive faults here in make_task_dead. Safest is to just
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -168,16 +168,18 @@ static void panic_print_sys_info(void)
 		ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
 }
 
+static atomic_t warn_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 void check_panic_on_warn(const char *origin)
 {
-	static atomic_t warn_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+	unsigned int limit;
 
 	if (panic_on_warn)
 		panic("%s: panic_on_warn set ...\n", origin);
 
-	if (atomic_inc_return(&warn_count) >= READ_ONCE(warn_limit) && warn_limit)
+	limit = READ_ONCE(warn_limit);
+	if (atomic_inc_return(&warn_count) >= limit && limit)
 		panic("%s: system warned too often (kernel.warn_limit is %d)",
-		      origin, warn_limit);
+		      origin, limit);
 }
 
 /**