From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,usamaarif642@gmail.com,ruippan@tencent.com,oleg@redhat.com,mjguzik@gmail.com,mingo@kernel.org,lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,david@kernel.org,alexjlzheng@tencent.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-nonmm-stable] procfs-fix-missing-rcu-protection-when-reading-real_parent-in-do_task_stat.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:14:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260208081420.64DBAC4CEF7@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
procfs-fix-missing-rcu-protection-when-reading-real_parent-in-do_task_stat.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Subject: procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:30:07 +0800
When reading /proc/[pid]/stat, do_task_stat() accesses task->real_parent
without proper RCU protection, which leads to:
cpu 0 cpu 1
----- -----
do_task_stat
var = task->real_parent
release_task
call_rcu(delayed_put_task_struct)
task_tgid_nr_ns(var)
rcu_read_lock <--- Too late to protect task->real_parent!
task_pid_ptr <--- UAF!
rcu_read_unlock
This patch uses task_ppid_nr_ns() instead of task_tgid_nr_ns() to add
proper RCU protection for accessing task->real_parent.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260128083007.3173016-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com
Fixes: 06fffb1267c9 ("do_task_stat: don't take rcu_read_lock()")
Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: ruippan <ruippan@tencent.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/proc/array.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/proc/array.c~procfs-fix-missing-rcu-protection-when-reading-real_parent-in-do_task_stat
+++ a/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file
}
sid = task_session_nr_ns(task, ns);
- ppid = task_tgid_nr_ns(task->real_parent, ns);
+ ppid = task_ppid_nr_ns(task, ns);
pgid = task_pgrp_nr_ns(task, ns);
unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from alexjlzheng@tencent.com are
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