This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled exec: Copy oldsighand->action under spin-lock to the 5.15-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: exec-copy-oldsighand-action-under-spin-lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5bf2fedca8f59379025b0d52f917b9ddb9bfe17e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 15:54:27 +0200 Subject: exec: Copy oldsighand->action under spin-lock From: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5bf2fedca8f59379025b0d52f917b9ddb9bfe17e upstream. unshare_sighand should only access oldsighand->action while holding oldsighand->siglock, to make sure that newsighand->action is in a consistent state. Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/AM8PR10MB470871DEBD1DED081F9CC391E4389@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -1198,11 +1198,11 @@ static int unshare_sighand(struct task_s return -ENOMEM; refcount_set(&newsighand->count, 1); - memcpy(newsighand->action, oldsighand->action, - sizeof(newsighand->action)); write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); spin_lock(&oldsighand->siglock); + memcpy(newsighand->action, oldsighand->action, + sizeof(newsighand->action)); rcu_assign_pointer(me->sighand, newsighand); spin_unlock(&oldsighand->siglock); write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bernd.edlinger@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/exec-copy-oldsighand-action-under-spin-lock.patch