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posix-timers: Plug potential memory leak in do_timer_create()
authorEslam Khafagy <eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com>
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:27:39 +0000 (14:27 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:58:31 +0000 (16:58 +0100)
commite0fd4d42e27f761e9cc82801b3f183e658dc749d
treeb126039c7d23c004fc60b1d58e15f6f0e79c2a33
parente9a6fb0bcdd7609be6969112f3fbfcce3b1d4a7c
posix-timers: Plug potential memory leak in do_timer_create()

When posix timer creation is set to allocate a given timer ID and the
access to the user space value faults, the function terminates without
freeing the already allocated posix timer structure.

Move the allocation after the user space access to cure that.

[ tglx: Massaged change log ]

Fixes: ec2d0c04624b3 ("posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer ID")
Reported-by: syzbot+9c47ad18f978d4394986@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eslam Khafagy <eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114122739.994326-1-eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69155df4.a70a0220.3124cb.0017.GAE@google.com/T/
kernel/time/posix-timers.c