[PATCH RFC 27/38] sunrpc: make queue_wait a global wait queue again

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Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date
2026-11-02 14:28:00
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Christian Brauner, 2026-11-02
Since commit 552d0e17ea04 ("sunrpc: convert queue_wait from global to
per-cache-detail waitqueue") poll() and epoll queue their waiters for a
channel file on the queue_wait head in struct cache_detail. But the
cache_detail can be freed while its channel file is still open and
waited on.

The procfs channel files of a network namespace are removed when the
namespace goes away. Removing a procfs file waits for the callers that
are in one of its methods right now and then calls ->release on every
file that is still open (cf. close_pdeo()). The waiters that poll() and
epoll left on the head stay queued until their file is really closed.
So:

  sunrpc_exit_net()
  -> ip_map_cache_destroy()
     -> cache_unregister_net()
        -> remove_cache_proc_entries()
           -> proc_remove()      // ->release, the waiters stay queued
     -> cache_destroy_net()      // kfree(cd)

and when poll() returns remove_wait_queue() writes to the freed
cache_detail:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0xa0
  Read of size 1 at addr ff110001131bb570 by task sunrpc-poll-uaf/242
  Call Trace:
   remove_wait_queue+0x22/0x1c0
   poll_freewait+0xc2/0x230
   do_sys_poll+0x9ba/0xd50
   __x64_sys_poll+0x165/0x470
  Freed by task 12:
   kfree+0x267/0x620
   sunrpc_exit_net+0x34/0x80
   ops_undo_list+0x271/0x8d0
   cleanup_net+0x3f3/0x860

Closing an epoll instance that watches the file gets there through
ep_unregister_pollwait() instead.

The channel files of a network namespace belong to the root of its
user namespace and cache_open() doesn't check for a capability. So an
unprivileged user can open the channel file of a namespace of its own
from the outside, poll it and let the namespace die.

Go back to a single static wait queue that never goes away. A wakeup
for one cache wakes the waiters of all caches again but cache_poll()
reports per cache_detail so that's just a spurious wakeup. procfs
should really own the wait queue of its files like kernfs does but
that's nothing for stable.

Reported-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Fixes: 552d0e17ea04 ("sunrpc: convert queue_wait from global to per-cache-detail waitqueue")
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h |  1 -
 net/sunrpc/cache.c           | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
index 2735c332ddb7..bf4fc543e1e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ struct cache_detail {
 	struct list_head	requests;
 	struct list_head	readers;
 	spinlock_t		queue_lock;
-	wait_queue_head_t	queue_wait;
 	u64			next_seqno;
 
 	atomic_t		writers;		/* how many time is /channel open */
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 1bc04109d213..1ceaea7e01b9 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -404,7 +404,6 @@ void sunrpc_init_cache_detail(struct cache_detail *cd)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cd->requests);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cd->readers);
 	spin_lock_init(&cd->queue_lock);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&cd->queue_wait);
 	cd->next_seqno = 1;
 	spin_lock(&cache_list_lock);
 	cd->nextcheck = 0;
@@ -965,13 +964,20 @@ static ssize_t cache_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Not in struct cache_detail: poll and epoll waiters stay queued until
+ * their file is closed, but a channel file in procfs can stay open after
+ * the cache_detail of its dying network namespace has been freed.
+ */
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(queue_wait);
+
 static __poll_t cache_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait,
 			       struct cache_detail *cd)
 {
 	__poll_t mask;
 	struct cache_reader *rp = filp->private_data;
 
-	poll_wait(filp, &cd->queue_wait, wait);
+	poll_wait(filp, &queue_wait, wait);
 
 	/* alway allow write */
 	mask = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;
@@ -1236,7 +1242,7 @@ static int cache_do_upcall(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h)
 	spin_unlock(&detail->queue_lock);
 	if (ret != -EAGAIN && detail->cache_notify)
 		detail->cache_notify(detail, h);
-	wake_up(&detail->queue_wait);
+	wake_up(&queue_wait);
 	if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
 		kfree(buf);
 		kfree(crq);
-- 
2.53.0
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