This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fix-race-between-exit_itimers-and-proc-pid-timers.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:16:25 +0200 Subject: fix race between exit_itimers() and /proc/pid/timers From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d5b36a4dbd06c5e8e36ca8ccc552f679069e2946 upstream. As Chris explains, the comment above exit_itimers() is not correct, we can race with proc_timers_seq_ops. Change exit_itimers() to clear signal->posix_timers with ->siglock held. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 2 +- include/linux/sched/task.h | 2 +- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm->mm = NULL; #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS - exit_itimers(me->signal); + exit_itimers(me); flush_itimer_signals(); #endif --- a/include/linux/sched/task.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static inline void exit_thread(struct ta extern void do_group_exit(int); extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *); -extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *); +extern void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *); extern pid_t kernel_clone(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs); struct task_struct *fork_idle(int); --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code) #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer); - exit_itimers(tsk->signal); + exit_itimers(tsk); #endif if (tsk->mm) setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&tsk->signal->maxrss, tsk->mm); --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -1051,15 +1051,24 @@ retry_delete: } /* - * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when there are no more - * references to the shared signal_struct. + * This is called by do_exit or de_thread, only when nobody else can + * modify the signal->posix_timers list. Yet we need sighand->siglock + * to prevent the race with /proc/pid/timers. */ -void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *sig) +void exit_itimers(struct task_struct *tsk) { + struct list_head timers; struct k_itimer *tmr; - while (!list_empty(&sig->posix_timers)) { - tmr = list_entry(sig->posix_timers.next, struct k_itimer, list); + if (list_empty(&tsk->signal->posix_timers)) + return; + + spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + list_replace_init(&tsk->signal->posix_timers, &timers); + spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock); + + while (!list_empty(&timers)) { + tmr = list_first_entry(&timers, struct k_itimer, list); itimer_delete(tmr); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/fix-race-between-exit_itimers-and-proc-pid-timers.patch