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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 2/8] exec: Cleanup POSIX timers right after de_thread()
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:22:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904112202.131242426@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260904112100.683893401@kernel.org

From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>

A per-thread CPU timer holds a reference to the PID of the thread it is
attached to and, while it is armed, its node is queued in that thread's
posix_cputimers. The task is looked up by that PID.

When a non-leader thread exec()s, de_thread() changes which task owns
that PID. pid_task(timer->it.cpu.pid, PIDTYPE_PID) then returns NULL,
but the node is still queued on tsk, which is alive. timer_lock_sighand()
takes a failed lookup to mean that the node is already dequeued, so it
has nothing to undo.

begin_new_exec() calls posix_cpu_timers_exit(me) right after
exec_task_namespaces() and that removes the leftover node, so the state
normally stays invisible. But bprm->point_of_no_return is set before
de_thread(), so if unshare_files(), set_mm_exe_file(), exec_mmap() or
exec_task_namespaces() fails, the task dies before it gets there.
exit_itimers() then frees the k_itimer while its node is still queued,
and reaping tsk later erases that freed node from the rbtree.

In short:

      the non-leader thread B           the parent

  timer_create(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)
  timer_settime()
    arm_timer()            // the node is queued on B
  execve()
    de_thread(B)
      exchange_tids(B, leader)  // B's PID now belongs to the leader
      release_task(leader)
        __exit_signal(leader)
          posix_cpu_timers_exit(leader)  // cleans leader's queue, not B's
          __unhash_process(leader)  // that PID has no task anymore
    exec_mmap()
      mmap_read_lock_killable(old_mm)
                                kill(B, SIGKILL)
      // -EINTR
  get_signal()
    do_exit()
      exit_itimers()
        posix_timer_delete()
          posix_cpu_timer_del()
        posix_timer_unhash_and_free()  // freed while still queued
                                wait4()
                                  release_task(B)
                                    posix_cpu_timers_exit(B)
                                      cleanup_timerqueue()
                                        timerqueue_del()  // use-after-free

Move the POSIX timer cleanup right after de_thread() before any of the
later failure conditions brings the task into do_exit().

[ tglx: Move the cleanup right after de_thread() ]

Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ao7Q8miiuLAPVnWv@v4bel
---
Changes in v3:
  Move the cleanup right after de_thread() - Oleg
  Rework change log

Changes in v2:
- Add the trigger sequence and the KASAN log to the commit message.
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/anfgrsPlUdwBhdrp@v4bel/
---
 fs/exec.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1115,6 +1115,17 @@ static struct file *bprm_identity_file(c
 	return bprm->file;
 }
 
+static void posixtimer_exec(struct task_struct *me)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
+	spin_lock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
+	posix_cpu_timers_exit(me);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
+	exit_itimers(me);
+	flush_itimer_signals();
+#endif
+}
+
 /*
  * Calling this is the point of no return. None of the failures will be
  * seen by userspace since either the process is already taking a fatal
@@ -1152,6 +1163,16 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm *
 	retval = de_thread(me);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
+
+	/*
+	 * This must be done here to ensure that POSIX CPU timers which were
+	 * armed on the current task are dequeued from me::posix_cputimers.
+	 * That ensures that in case of a TID switch the deletion of the related
+	 * POSIX timer will not free an enqueued timer because the TID lookup
+	 * failed as the original target TID was the old leader.
+	 */
+	posixtimer_exec(me);
+
 	/* see the comment in check_unsafe_exec() */
 	current->fs->in_exec = 0;
 	/*
@@ -1192,14 +1213,6 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm *
 	if (retval)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
-	spin_lock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
-	posix_cpu_timers_exit(me);
-	spin_unlock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
-	exit_itimers(me);
-	flush_itimer_signals();
-#endif
-
 	/*
 	 * Make the signal table private.
 	 */


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-04 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-04 11:22 [patch 0/8] exec/exit: POSIX timer related bugfixes and related cleanups Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 1/8] signal: Prevent exec() race Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:35   ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-09-05  7:34     ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-05  7:50       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2026-09-05 11:22         ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 3/8] posix-timers: Move posixtimer_exec_cleanup() out of exec.c Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 4/8] posix-timers: Move POSIX timer group exit related code out of do_exit() Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 5/8] posix-cpu-timers: Move inlines out of public header Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 6/8] posix-cpu-timers: Use PF_EXITING to indicate exit Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 7/8] posix-cpu-timers: Prevent enqueueing when PF_EXITING is set Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 12:06   ` Eric W. Biederman
2026-09-04 15:47     ` Eric W. Biederman
2026-09-05  7:50       ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-09-04 11:22 ` [patch 8/8] posix-timers: Handle exit in do_exit() completely Thomas Gleixner

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