The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:16:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers
As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct, we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: chris@accessvector.net Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index 0989fb8472a1..778123259e42 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) bprm->mm = NULL;
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS - exit_itimers(me->signal); + exit_itimers(me); flush_itimer_signals(); #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h index 505aaf9fe477..81cab4b01edc 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/task.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static inline void exit_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) extern __noreturn void do_group_exit(int);
extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *); -extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *); +extern void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *);
extern pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs); struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node); diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index f072959fcab7..64c938ce36fe 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer); - exit_itimers(tsk->signal); + exit_itimers(tsk); #endif if (tsk->mm) setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&tsk->signal->maxrss, tsk->mm); diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index 1cd10b102c51..5dead89308b7 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -1051,15 +1051,24 @@ static void itimer_delete(struct k_itimer *timer) }
/* - * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when there are no more - * references to the shared signal_struct. + * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when nobody else can + * modify the signal->posix_timers list. Yet we need sighand->siglock + * to prevent the race with /proc/pid/timers. */ -void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *sig) +void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *tsk) { + struct list_head timers; struct k_itimer *tmr;
- while (!list_empty(&sig->posix_timers)) { - tmr = list_entry(sig->posix_timers.next, struct k_itimer, list); + if (list_empty(&tsk->signal->posix_timers)) + return; + + spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + list_replace_init(&tsk->signal->posix_timers, &timers); + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + + while (!list_empty(&timers)) { + tmr = list_first_entry(&timers, struct k_itimer, list); itimer_delete(tmr); } }