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* [STABLE v5.10 1/2] rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
@ 2026-07-21  7:54 Lee Jones
  2026-07-21  7:54 ` [STABLE v5.10 2/2] locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued Lee Jones
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lee Jones @ 2026-07-21  7:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lee, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Will Deacon, Steven Rostedt,
	Lai Jiangshan, Thomas Gleixner, Keenan Dong, linux-kernel
  Cc: stable, Yuan Tan, Yifan Wu, Juefei Pu, Xin Liu,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>

commit 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 upstream.

remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().

In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:

  1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held

  2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
     dangling pointer primed for UAF around.

  3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
     task

Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.

[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
  	changelog ]

Fixes: 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit d8cce4773c2b23d819baf5abedc62f7b430e8745)
[Lee: Backported to linux-5.10.y from linux-6.1.y]
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index c6a2dafd4a3b..2ab2d6cce004 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1061,20 +1061,23 @@ static void mark_wakeup_next_waiter(struct wake_q_head *wake_q,
  *
  * Must be called with lock->wait_lock held and interrupts disabled. I must
  * have just failed to try_to_take_rt_mutex().
+ *
+ * When invoked from rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() waiter::task != current !
  */
 static void remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 			  struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter)
 {
 	bool is_top_waiter = (waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock));
 	struct task_struct *owner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
+	struct task_struct *waiter_task = waiter->task;
 	struct rt_mutex *next_lock;
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&lock->wait_lock);
 
-	raw_spin_lock(&current->pi_lock);
+	raw_spin_lock(&waiter_task->pi_lock);
 	rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
-	current->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
-	raw_spin_unlock(&current->pi_lock);
+	waiter_task->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
+	raw_spin_unlock(&waiter_task->pi_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Only update priority if the waiter was the highest priority
@@ -1110,7 +1113,7 @@ static void remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex *lock,
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
 
 	rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(owner, RT_MUTEX_MIN_CHAINWALK, lock,
-				   next_lock, NULL, current);
+				   next_lock, NULL, waiter_task);
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
 }
-- 
2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog


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