From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tglx@kernel.org
Subject: [patch 5.10.y 1/2] rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:14:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722153354.731490680@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260722152737.461825448@kernel.org
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 ]
[ tglx: Backport for 5.10.y and 5.15.y. The commit has not been backported
yet because the Fixes tag is wrong. Fixes: points now to the real
culprit. ]
Fixes: a1fb985f2e2 ("futex: Handle early deadlock return correctly") ]
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
---
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
---
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1059,22 +1059,25 @@ static void mark_wakeup_next_waiter(stru
/*
* Remove a waiter from a lock and give up
*
- * Must be called with lock->wait_lock held and interrupts disabled. I must
+ * Must be called with lock->wait_lock held and interrupts disabled. It 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(¤t->pi_lock);
+ raw_spin_lock(&waiter_task->pi_lock);
rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
- current->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
- raw_spin_unlock(¤t->pi_lock);
+ waiter_task->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
+ raw_spin_lock(&waiter_task->pi_lock);
/*
* Only update priority if the waiter was the highest priority
@@ -1110,7 +1113,7 @@ static void remove_waiter(struct rt_mute
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);
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-22 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-21 15:13 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] futex/requeue: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-22 15:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-07-22 16:14 ` [patch 5.10.y 0/2] rtmutex/futex: Backport of rejecting fixes Thomas Gleixner
2026-07-22 16:14 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2026-07-22 16:14 ` [patch 5.10.y 2/2] locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued Thomas Gleixner
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