3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e6c42c295e071dd74a66b5a9fcf4f44049888ed8 upstream. The trinity fuzzer triggered a task_struct reference leak via clock_nanosleep with CPU_TIMERs. do_cpu_nanosleep() calls posic_cpu_timer_create(), but misses a corresponding posix_cpu_timer_del() which leads to the task_struct reference leak. Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130215100810.GF4392@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1401,8 +1401,10 @@ static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clocki while (!signal_pending(current)) { if (timer.it.cpu.expires.sched == 0) { /* - * Our timer fired and was reset. + * Our timer fired and was reset, below + * deletion can not fail. */ + posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer); spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock); return 0; } @@ -1420,9 +1422,26 @@ static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clocki * We were interrupted by a signal. */ sample_to_timespec(which_clock, timer.it.cpu.expires, rqtp); - posix_cpu_timer_set(&timer, 0, &zero_it, it); + error = posix_cpu_timer_set(&timer, 0, &zero_it, it); + if (!error) { + /* + * Timer is now unarmed, deletion can not fail. + */ + posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer); + } spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock); + while (error == TIMER_RETRY) { + /* + * We need to handle case when timer was or is in the + * middle of firing. In other cases we already freed + * resources. + */ + spin_lock_irq(&timer.it_lock); + error = posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer); + spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock); + } + if ((it->it_value.tv_sec | it->it_value.tv_nsec) == 0) { /* * It actually did fire already. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html