The patch titled posix-timers: fix creation race has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was posix-timers-fix-creation-race.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: posix-timers: fix creation race From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> sys_timer_create() sets ->it_process and unlocks ->siglock, then checks tmr->it_sigev_notify to define if get_task_struct() is needed. We already passed ->it_id to the caller, another thread can delete this timer and free its memory in between. As a minimal fix, move this code under ->siglock, sys_timer_delete() takes it too before calling release_posix_timer(). A proper serialization would be to take ->it_lock, we add a partly initialized timer on posix_timers_id, not good. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-timers.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/posix-timers.c~posix-timers-fix-creation-race kernel/posix-timers.c --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c~posix-timers-fix-creation-race +++ a/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -547,9 +547,9 @@ sys_timer_create(const clockid_t which_c new_timer->it_process = process; list_add(&new_timer->list, &process->signal->posix_timers); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags); if (new_timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID)) get_task_struct(process); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags); } else { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags); process = NULL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch setpgidchild-fails-if-the-child-was-forked-by-sub-thread.patch sigqueue_free-fix-the-race-with-collect_signal.patch git-dvb.patch rt-ptracer-can-monopolize-cpu-was-cpu-hotplug-and-real-time.patch clone-flag-clone_parent_tidptr-leaves-invalid-results-in-memory.patch do_sys_poll-simplify-playing-with-on-stack-data.patch do_sys_poll-simplify-playing-with-on-stack-data-fix.patch do_poll-return-eintr-when-signalled.patch pi-futex-set-pf_exiting-without-taking-pi_lock.patch do_sigaction-remove-now-unneeded-recalc_sigpending.patch handle-the-multi-threaded-inits-exit-properly.patch wait_task_zombie-remove-unneeded-child-signal-check.patch wait_task_zombie-fix-2-3-races-vs-forget_original_parent.patch exit_notify-dont-take-tasklist-for-tif_sigpending-re-targeting.patch zap_other_threads-dont-optimize-thread_group_empty-case.patch wait_task_zombie-dont-fight-with-non-existing-race-with-a-dying-ptracee.patch __group_complete_signal-eliminate-unneeded-wakeup-of-group_exit_task.patch use-erestart_restartblock-if-poll-is-interrupted-by-a-signal.patch exec-simplify-sighand-switching.patch exec-simplify-the-new-sighand-allocation.patch exec-consolidate-2-fast-paths.patch exec-rt-sub-thread-can-livelock-and-monopolize-cpu-on-exec.patch do_sigaction-dont-worry-about-signal_pending.patch cpu-hotplug-slab-cleanup-cpuup_callback.patch cpu-hotplug-slab-fix-memory-leak-in-cpu-hotplug-error-path.patch cpu-hotplug-cpu-deliver-cpu_up_canceled-only-to-notify_oked-callbacks-with-cpu_up_prepare.patch cpu-hotplug-topology-remove-topology_dev_map.patch cpu-hotplug-thermal_throttle-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch cpu-hotplug-msr-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch cpu-hotplug-cpuid-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch cpu-hotplug-mce-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch cpu-hotplug-intel_cacheinfo-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling.patch cpu-hotplug-intel_cacheinfo-fix-cpu-hotplug-error-handling-fix-a-section-mismatch-warning.patch make-access-to-tasks-nsproxy-lighter.patch workqueue-debug-flushing-deadlocks-with-lockdep.patch workqueue-debug-work-related-deadlocks-with-lockdep.patch pid-namespaces-rework-forget_original_parent.patch pid-namespaces-move-exit_task_namespaces.patch pid-namespaces-introduce-ms_kernmount-flag.patch pid-namespaces-prepare-proc_flust_task-to-flush-entries-from-multiple-proc-trees.patch pid-namespaces-introduce-struct-upid.patch pid-namespaces-add-support-for-pid-namespaces-hierarchy.patch pid-namespaces-make-alloc_pid-free_pid-and-put_pid-work-with-struct-upid.patch pid-namespaces-helpers-to-obtain-pid-numbers.patch pid-namespaces-helpers-to-find-the-task-by-its-numerical-ids.patch pid-namespaces-helpers-to-find-the-task-by-its-numerical-ids-fix.patch pid-namespaces-move-alloc_pid-lower-in-copy_process.patch pid-namespaces-make-proc-have-multiple-superblocks-one-for-each-namespace.patch pid-namespaces-miscelaneous-preparations-for-pid-namespaces.patch pid-namespaces-allow-cloning-of-new-namespace.patch pid-namespaces-allow-cloning-of-new-namespace-fix-check-for-return-value-of-create_pid_namespace.patch pid-namespaces-make-proc_flush_task-actually-from-entries-from-multiple-namespaces.patch pid-namespaces-initialize-the-namespaces-proc_mnt.patch pid-namespaces-create-a-slab-cache-for-struct-pid_namespace.patch pid-namespaces-allow-signalling-container-init.patch pid-namespaces-destroy-pid-namespace-on-inits-death.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user-fix-the-return-value-of-sys_set_tid_address.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user-use-find_task_by_pid_ns-in-places-that-operate-with-virtual.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user-use-find_task_by_pid_ns-in-places-that-operate-with-virtual-fix.patch pid-namespaces-changes-to-show-virtual-ids-to-user-use-find_task_by_pid_ns-in-places-that-operate-with-virtual-fix-2.patch 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