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.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025112019-mantra-unwind-1db7@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yang albinwyang@tencent.com Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:42:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()

Pde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node to EMPTY, which may result in uaf access. We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE() set the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to avoid uaf access.

We found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase getdent and tun in the same time. The steps of the issue is as follows:

1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current pde is tun3;

2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase them from rbtree. erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2. the pde(tun2) will be released to slab;

3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access.

CPU 0 | CPU 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/ | unregister_netdevice(tun->dev) //tun3 tun2 sys_getdents64() | iterate_dir() | proc_readdir() | proc_readdir_de() | snmp6_unregister_dev() pde_get(de); | proc_remove() read_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); | remove_proc_subtree() | write_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [time window] | rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); | write_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); read_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); | next = pde_subdir_next(de); | pde_put(de); | de = next; //UAF |

rbtree of dev_snmp6 | pde(tun3) / \ NULL pde(tun2)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251025024233.158363-1-albin_yang@163.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang albinwyang@tencent.com Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: wangzijie wangzijie1@honor.com Cc: Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c index 176281112273..501889856461 100644 --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -698,6 +698,12 @@ void pde_put(struct proc_dir_entry *pde) } }

+static void pde_erase(struct proc_dir_entry *pde, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) +{ + rb_erase(&pde->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); + RB_CLEAR_NODE(&pde->subdir_node); +} + /* * Remove a /proc entry and free it if it's not currently in use. */ @@ -720,7 +726,7 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) WARN(1, "removing permanent /proc entry '%s'", de->name); de = NULL; } else { - rb_erase(&de->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); + pde_erase(de, parent); if (S_ISDIR(de->mode)) parent->nlink--; } @@ -764,7 +770,7 @@ int remove_proc_subtree(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) root->parent->name, root->name); return -EINVAL; } - rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); + pde_erase(root, parent);

de = root; while (1) { @@ -776,7 +782,7 @@ int remove_proc_subtree(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) next->parent->name, next->name); return -EINVAL; } - rb_erase(&next->subdir_node, &de->subdir); + pde_erase(next, de); de = next; continue; }