From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:26:50 +0000 (+0200) Subject: posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() X-Git-Tag: v6.16-rc2~14 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f90fff1e152dedf52b932240ebbd670d83330eca;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand(). If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or lock_task_sighand() will fail. Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this. This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail anyway in this case. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Benoît Sevens Fixes: 0bdd2ed4138e ("sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 50e8d04ab661..2e5b89d7d866 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1405,6 +1405,15 @@ void run_posix_cpu_timers(void) lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); + /* + * Ensure that release_task(tsk) can't happen while + * handle_posix_cpu_timers() is running. Otherwise, a concurrent + * posix_cpu_timer_del() may fail to lock_task_sighand(tsk) and + * miss timer->it.cpu.firing != 0. + */ + if (tsk->exit_state) + return; + /* * If the actual expiry is deferred to task work context and the * work is already scheduled there is no point to do anything here.