linux-kernel - [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup CPU timers before freeing them during exec

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Message-Id: <20220809170751.164716-1-cascardo@canonical.com>
Date:   Tue,  9 Aug 2022 14:07:51 -0300
From:   Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup CPU timers before freeing them during exec

Commit 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a
task") started looking up tasks by PID when deleting a CPU timer.

When a non-leader thread calls execve, it will switch PIDs with the leader
process. Then, as it calls exit_itimers, posix_cpu_timer_del cannot find
the task because the timer still points out to the old PID.

That means that armed timers won't be disarmed, that is, they won't be
removed from the timerqueue_list. exit_itimers will still release their
memory, and when that list is later processed, it leads to a
use-after-free.

Clean up the timers from the de-threaded task before freeing them. This
prevents a reported use-after-free.

Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
---
 fs/exec.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 778123259e42..1c6b477dad69 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1301,6 +1301,9 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 	bprm->mm = NULL;

 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
+	spin_lock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
+	posix_cpu_timers_exit(me);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
 	exit_itimers(me);
 	flush_itimer_signals();
 #endif
-- 
2.34.1