linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] sigqueue cache fix

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Message-ID: <YNQwgTR3n3mSO9+3@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:13:05 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] sigqueue cache fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest core/urgent git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-urgent-2021-06-24

   # HEAD: 399f8dd9a866e107639eabd3c1979cd526ca3a98 signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released

Fix a memory leak in the recently introduced sigqueue cache.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
      signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released


 kernel/signal.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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);