linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:06:39 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+0bac5fec63d4f399ba98@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        axboe@...nel.dk, christian@...uner.io, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        elver@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oleg@...hat.com,
        pcc@...gle.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:08:30AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> syzbot reported a memory leak related to sigqueue caching. This happens
> when a thread group leader with child tasks is reaped.
> 
> The group leader's sigqueue_cache is correctly freed. The group leader then
> reaps the child tasks and if any of them has a signal pending it caches
> that signal. That's obviously bogus because nothing will free the cached
> signal of the reaped group leader anymore.
> 
> Prevent this by setting tsk::sigqueue_cache to an error pointer value in
> exit_task_sigqueue_cache().
> 
> Add comments to all relevant places.
> 
> Fixes: 4bad58ebc8bc ("signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct")
> Reported-by: syzbot+0bac5fec63d4f399ba98@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> ---

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>