From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0AB2330B11; Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760715609; cv=none; b=c1pYkpDBoFEiOgVyGWpwgXSYkB86Z2VL6lCi4H619VWDFF1UT7RbiYdTqx+I8RnrIRGp/LNq7WFUOlOoBH7IHiaW2G6jXnfV8Hd+wxnLcl8+dUEV816ccSLDO34hORi2NEwTZKzP+0Ydld+CE9ecUBJvHFVRl5B1rfD1VWOMpHw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760715609; c=relaxed/simple; bh=FQx8TTPCSgCvuqg+rb+8/xHAnB/mNW4/jx5RMnZSlZw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=YhXdej/YrRyBp57Wu9hMTHddGwRdNDTTvVbNFsflnB47QNXtkn59GTt8Vv/s+wp+i/ASlaogiT8uPJNOIU+FWd4U8YUhBaiIaTy6MqVf4S1FJjdxYt2r6bPcxYWXEo6BgR778UrrjQnFNtPoPEWs1CGA1Z3WhGAy1D53bB5YA3w= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=T1qt68NT; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="T1qt68NT" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 63F49C4CEE7; Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1760715608; bh=FQx8TTPCSgCvuqg+rb+8/xHAnB/mNW4/jx5RMnZSlZw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=T1qt68NTENlXjTgioLLe0uPVwBCXCN1rZCp+niXK40Ul2E7pE1Zii6IAzuns2oydk K2irE+VYW6HNj4Ed1F5jD+qyWmqXCnGi6XJn5Aogca63lePmPsdGh0vGAuAm1W0feA lrwh69oOI/l5mT7HCpzZDkEbOzv7JqlypscB9zpQ= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Oleg Nesterov , Christian Brauner , Jiri Slaby , Mateusz Guzik , Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 6.17 232/371] kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:53:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20251017145210.478088669@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 In-Reply-To: <20251017145201.780251198@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20251017145201.780251198@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov commit a15f37a40145c986cdf289a4b88390f35efdecc4 upstream. The usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64()->do_prlimit() path is very broken. sys_prlimit64() does get_task_struct(tsk) but this only protects task_struct itself. If tsk != current and tsk is not a leader, this process can exit/exec and task_lock(tsk->group_leader) may use the already freed task_struct. Another problem is that sys_prlimit64() can race with mt-exec which changes ->group_leader. In this case do_prlimit() may take the wrong lock, or (worse) ->group_leader may change between task_lock() and task_unlock(). Change sys_prlimit64() to take tasklist_lock when necessary. This is not nice, but I don't see a better fix for -stable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250915120917.GA27702@redhat.com Fixes: 18c91bb2d872 ("prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sys.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(prlimit64, pid_t, pid, u struct rlimit old, new; struct task_struct *tsk; unsigned int checkflags = 0; + bool need_tasklist; int ret; if (old_rlim) @@ -1760,8 +1761,25 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(prlimit64, pid_t, pid, u get_task_struct(tsk); rcu_read_unlock(); - ret = do_prlimit(tsk, resource, new_rlim ? &new : NULL, - old_rlim ? &old : NULL); + need_tasklist = !same_thread_group(tsk, current); + if (need_tasklist) { + /* + * Ensure we can't race with group exit or de_thread(), + * so tsk->group_leader can't be freed or changed until + * read_unlock(tasklist_lock) below. + */ + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + if (!pid_alive(tsk)) + ret = -ESRCH; + } + + if (!ret) { + ret = do_prlimit(tsk, resource, new_rlim ? &new : NULL, + old_rlim ? &old : NULL); + } + + if (need_tasklist) + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); if (!ret && old_rlim) { rlim_to_rlim64(&old, &old64);