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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tglx@kernel.org, Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>,
	Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>,
	Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>, Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>,
	Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>
Subject: [patch 5.15.y 1/2] rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:14:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722155238.973818077@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260722155049.973195593@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 |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
---
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1500,20 +1500,23 @@ static bool rtmutex_spin_on_owner(struct
  *
  * 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 __sched remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex_base *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_base *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_lock(&waiter_task->pi_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Only update priority if the waiter was the highest priority
@@ -1549,7 +1552,7 @@ static void __sched remove_waiter(struct
 	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);
 }


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-22 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ 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 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-22 16:14 ` [patch 5.15.y 0/2] rtmutex/futex: Backport of rejecting fixes Thomas Gleixner
2026-07-22 16:14   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2026-07-22 16:15   ` [patch 5.15.y 2/2] locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued Thomas Gleixner

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