From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Benoît Sevens" <bsevens@google.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Frederic Weisbecker" <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Zander Work <zdw@google.com>,
security@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:26:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250613172650.GA26022@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGCho0V0x_Y2+vg5G8-r45Xc6uftLbZK5K1=vpavd_4783fogQ@mail.gmail.com>
If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and
calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent
or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand().
If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be
able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or
lock_task_sighand() will fail.
Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this.
This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because
exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still
makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail
anyway in this case.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Benoît Sevens <bsevens@google.com>
Fixes: 0bdd2ed4138e ("sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 50e8d04ab661..2e5b89d7d866 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1405,6 +1405,15 @@ void run_posix_cpu_timers(void)
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
+ /*
+ * Ensure that release_task(tsk) can't happen while
+ * handle_posix_cpu_timers() is running. Otherwise, a concurrent
+ * posix_cpu_timer_del() may fail to lock_task_sighand(tsk) and
+ * miss timer->it.cpu.firing != 0.
+ */
+ if (tsk->exit_state)
+ return;
+
/*
* If the actual expiry is deferred to task work context and the
* work is already scheduled there is no point to do anything here.
--
2.25.1.362.g51ebf55
next parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-13 17:27 UTC|newest]
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2025-06-13 17:26 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2025-06-13 17:55 ` [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() Linus Torvalds
2025-06-13 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-06-13 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
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