From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,zwisler@google.com,yury.khrustalev@arm.com,vbabka@kernel.org,usama.anjum@collabora.com,surenb@google.com,shuah@kernel.org,rppt@kernel.org,mhocko@suse.com,ljs@kernel.org,liam@infradead.org,kevin.brodsky@arm.com,keith.lucas@oracle.com,joey.gouly@arm.com,jhubbard@nvidia.com,david@kernel.org,lihongfu@kylinos.cn,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] selftests-mm-fix-clone-cleartid-race-in-pkey-sighandler-tests.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:42:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731024228.E96121F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: selftests/mm: fix clone cleartid race in pkey sighandler tests
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
selftests-mm-fix-clone-cleartid-race-in-pkey-sighandler-tests.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>
Subject: selftests/mm: fix clone cleartid race in pkey sighandler tests
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0800
Passing a stack-local child_pid to clone() with CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID is
unsafe: the kernel clears that address when the child exits, which may
happen after the test function has returned and the stack slot has been
reused.
Neither testcase uses the settid/cleartid pointers for synchronization.
Drop CLONE_PARENT_SETTID and CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID and pass NULL for the
clone tid arguments. Wait for the clone child to exit via tkill in
test_sigsegv_handler_with_different_pkey_for_stack(), matching
test_pkru_sigreturn(), so the detached thread cannot overlap with the next
testcase.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260706081600.3570203-7-lihongfu@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@kylinos.cn>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Keith Lucas <keith.lucas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey_sighandler_tests.c | 20 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey_sighandler_tests.c~selftests-mm-fix-clone-cleartid-race-in-pkey-sighandler-tests
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey_sighandler_tests.c
@@ -290,7 +290,6 @@ static void test_sigsegv_handler_with_di
static stack_t sigstack;
void *stack;
int pkey;
- int parent_pid = 0;
int child_pid = 0;
u64 pkey_reg;
long ret;
@@ -330,11 +329,10 @@ static void test_sigsegv_handler_with_di
/* Use clone to avoid newer glibcs using rseq on new threads */
ret = clone_raw(CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES |
CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SYSVSEM |
- CLONE_PARENT_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID |
CLONE_DETACHED,
stack + STACK_SIZE,
- &parent_pid,
- &child_pid);
+ NULL,
+ NULL);
if (ret < 0) {
errno = -ret;
@@ -344,11 +342,19 @@ static void test_sigsegv_handler_with_di
syscall_raw(SYS_exit, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
}
+ child_pid = ret;
+
pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex);
while (siginfo.si_signo == 0)
pthread_cond_wait(&cond, &mutex);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
+ /* Wait for child to exit before returning */
+ do {
+ sched_yield();
+ ret = syscall_raw(SYS_tkill, child_pid, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+ } while (ret != -ESRCH && ret != -EINVAL);
+
ksft_test_result(siginfo.si_signo == SIGSEGV &&
siginfo.si_code == SEGV_MAPERR &&
siginfo.si_addr == NULL,
@@ -445,7 +451,6 @@ static void test_pkru_sigreturn(void)
static stack_t sigstack;
void *stack;
int pkey;
- int parent_pid = 0;
int child_pid = 0;
u64 pkey_reg;
long ret;
@@ -504,11 +509,10 @@ static void test_pkru_sigreturn(void)
/* Use clone to avoid newer glibcs using rseq on new threads */
ret = clone_raw(CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES |
CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SYSVSEM |
- CLONE_PARENT_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID |
CLONE_DETACHED,
stack + STACK_SIZE,
- &parent_pid,
- &child_pid);
+ NULL,
+ NULL);
if (ret < 0) {
errno = -ret;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from lihongfu@kylinos.cn are
selftests-mm-fix-memleak-in-migration-benchmark.patch
selftests-mm-factor-out-hmm_buffer_alloc-to-consolidate-buffer-setup.patch
selftests-mm-fix-bug_on-checking-wrong-variable-in-mremap_dontunmap.patch
mm-swap-fix-swap_cluster_lock-config_swap-stub-signature-mismatch.patch
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