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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-06-22 02:08:30 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-06-22 16:55:41 +0300
commit399f8dd9a866e107639eabd3c1979cd526ca3a98 (patch)
tree5e9cfbb7c122d0216fbbcadf9dcd5f4ee32864f3
parent13311e74253fe64329390df80bed3f07314ddd61 (diff)
downloadlinux-399f8dd9a866e107639eabd3c1979cd526ca3a98.tar.xz
signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released
syzbot reported a memory leak related to sigqueue caching. The assumption that a task cannot cache a sigqueue after the signal handler has been dropped and exit_task_sigqueue_cache() has been invoked turns out to be wrong. Such a task can still invoke release_task(other_task), which cleans up the signals of 'other_task' and ends up in sigqueue_cache_or_free(), which in turn will cache the signal because task->sigqueue_cache is NULL. That's obviously bogus because nothing will free the cached signal of that task anymore, so the cached item is leaked. This happens when e.g. the last non-leader thread exits and reaps the zombie leader. Prevent this by setting tsk::sigqueue_cache to an error pointer value in exit_task_sigqueue_cache() which forces any subsequent invocation of sigqueue_cache_or_free() from that task to hand the sigqueue back to the kmemcache. Add comments to all relevant places. Fixes: 4bad58ebc8bc ("signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct") Reported-by: syzbot+0bac5fec63d4f399ba98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/878s32g6j5.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index f7c6ffcbd044..f1ecd8f0c11d 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -435,6 +435,12 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t gfp_flags,
* Preallocation does not hold sighand::siglock so it can't
* use the cache. The lockless caching requires that only
* one consumer and only one producer run at a time.
+ *
+ * For the regular allocation case it is sufficient to
+ * check @q for NULL because this code can only be called
+ * if the target task @t has not been reaped yet; which
+ * means this code can never observe the error pointer which is
+ * written to @t->sigqueue_cache in exit_task_sigqueue_cache().
*/
q = READ_ONCE(t->sigqueue_cache);
if (!q || sigqueue_flags)
@@ -463,13 +469,18 @@ void exit_task_sigqueue_cache(struct task_struct *tsk)
struct sigqueue *q = tsk->sigqueue_cache;
if (q) {
- tsk->sigqueue_cache = NULL;
/*
* Hand it back to the cache as the task might
* be self reaping which would leak the object.
*/
kmem_cache_free(sigqueue_cachep, q);
}
+
+ /*
+ * Set an error pointer to ensure that @tsk will not cache a
+ * sigqueue when it is reaping it's child tasks
+ */
+ tsk->sigqueue_cache = ERR_PTR(-1);
}
static void sigqueue_cache_or_free(struct sigqueue *q)
@@ -481,6 +492,10 @@ static void sigqueue_cache_or_free(struct sigqueue *q)
* is intentional when run without holding current->sighand->siglock,
* which is fine as current obviously cannot run __sigqueue_free()
* concurrently.
+ *
+ * The NULL check is safe even if current has been reaped already,
+ * in which case exit_task_sigqueue_cache() wrote an error pointer
+ * into current->sigqueue_cache.
*/
if (!READ_ONCE(current->sigqueue_cache))
WRITE_ONCE(current->sigqueue_cache, q);