From: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit cacd9ae4bf801ff4125d8961bb9a3ba955e51680 ]
As the comment above waitqueue_active() explains, it can only be used if both waker and waiter have mb()'s that pair with each other. However __pollwait() is broken in this respect.
This is not pipe-specific, but let's look at pipe_poll() for example:
poll_wait(...); // -> __pollwait() -> add_wait_queue()
LOAD(pipe->head); LOAD(pipe->head);
In theory these LOAD()'s can leak into the critical section inside add_wait_queue() and can happen before list_add(entry, wq_head), in this case pipe_poll() can race with wakeup_pipe_readers/writers which do
smp_mb(); if (waitqueue_active(wq_head)) wake_up_interruptible(wq_head);
There are more __pollwait()-like functions (grep init_poll_funcptr), and it seems that at least ep_ptable_queue_proc() has the same problem, so the patch adds smp_mb() into poll_wait().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250102163320.GA17691@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250107162717.GA18922@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- include/linux/poll.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/poll.h b/include/linux/poll.h index 7e0fdcf905d2..a4af5e14dffe 100644 --- a/include/linux/poll.h +++ b/include/linux/poll.h @@ -43,8 +43,16 @@ typedef struct poll_table_struct {
static inline void poll_wait(struct file * filp, wait_queue_head_t * wait_address, poll_table *p) { - if (p && p->_qproc && wait_address) + if (p && p->_qproc && wait_address) { p->_qproc(filp, wait_address, p); + /* + * This memory barrier is paired in the wq_has_sleeper(). + * See the comment above prepare_to_wait(), we need to + * ensure that subsequent tests in this thread can't be + * reordered with __add_wait_queue() in _qproc() paths. + */ + smp_mb(); + } }
/*