[PATCH RT 1/5] signal: Prevent double-free of user struct
From: zanussi@kernel.org
Date: 2020-08-21 19:47:17
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Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Matt Fleming <redacted>
v4.19.135-rt61-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upsteam commit 9567db2ebe566a93485e1a27d8759969d0002d7a ]
The way user struct reference counting works changed significantly with,
fda31c50292a ("signal: avoid double atomic counter increments for user accounting")
Now user structs are only freed once the last pending signal is
dequeued. Make sigqueue_free_current() follow this new convention to
avoid freeing the user struct multiple times and triggering this
warning:
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6794 at lib/refcount.c:288 refcount_dec_not_one+0x45/0x50
Call Trace:
refcount_dec_and_lock_irqsave+0x16/0x60
free_uid+0x31/0xa0
__dequeue_signal+0x17c/0x190
dequeue_signal+0x5a/0x1b0
do_sigtimedwait+0x208/0x250
__x64_sys_rt_sigtimedwait+0x6f/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x72/0x200
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <redacted>
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
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kernel/signal.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 45748993f777..05c9b5a6b3ae 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c@@ -488,8 +488,8 @@ static void sigqueue_free_current(struct sigqueue *q) up = q->user; if (rt_prio(current->normal_prio) && !put_task_cache(current, q)) { - atomic_dec(&up->sigpending); - free_uid(up); + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&up->sigpending)) + free_uid(up); } else __sigqueue_free(q); }
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