posix-timers: Add a refcount to struct k_itimer

To cure the SIG_IGN handling for posix interval timers, the preallocated
sigqueue needs to be embedded into struct k_itimer to prevent life time
races of all sorts.

To make that work correctly it needs reference counting so that timer
deletion does not free the timer prematuraly when there is a signal queued
or delivered concurrently.

Add a rcuref to the posix timer part.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241105064213.304756440@linutronix.de

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/posix-timers.h b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
index bcd01208d795..9740fd0c2933 100644
--- a/include/linux/posix-timers.h
+++ b/include/linux/posix-timers.h
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/posix-timers_types.h>
+#include <linux/rcuref.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/timerqueue.h>
 
 struct kernel_siginfo;
 struct task_struct;
+struct k_itimer;
 
 static inline clockid_t make_process_cpuclock(const unsigned int pid,
 		const clockid_t clock)
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ static inline void posix_cputimers_rt_watchdog(struct posix_cputimers *pct,
 
 void posixtimer_rearm_itimer(struct task_struct *p);
 bool posixtimer_deliver_signal(struct kernel_siginfo *info);
+void posixtimer_free_timer(struct k_itimer *timer);
 
 /* Init task static initializer */
 #define INIT_CPU_TIMERBASE(b) {						\
@@ -129,6 +132,7 @@ static inline void posix_cputimers_group_init(struct posix_cputimers *pct,
 					      u64 cpu_limit) { }
 static inline void posixtimer_rearm_itimer(struct task_struct *p) { }
 static inline bool posixtimer_deliver_signal(struct kernel_siginfo *info) { return false; }
+static inline void posixtimer_free_timer(struct k_itimer *timer) { }
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
@@ -156,6 +160,7 @@ static inline void posix_cputimers_init_work(void) { }
  * @it_signal:		Pointer to the creators signal struct
  * @it_pid:		The pid of the process/task targeted by the signal
  * @it_process:		The task to wakeup on clock_nanosleep (CPU timers)
+ * @rcuref:		Reference count for life time management
  * @sigq:		Pointer to preallocated sigqueue
  * @it:			Union representing the various posix timer type
  *			internals.
@@ -180,6 +185,7 @@ struct k_itimer {
 		struct task_struct	*it_process;
 	};
 	struct sigqueue		*sigq;
+	rcuref_t		rcuref;
 	union {
 		struct {
 			struct hrtimer	timer;
@@ -200,4 +206,12 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int clock_idx,
 
 int update_rlimit_cpu(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long rlim_new);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
+static inline void posixtimer_putref(struct k_itimer *tmr)
+{
+	if (rcuref_put(&tmr->rcuref))
+		posixtimer_free_timer(tmr);
+}
+#endif /* !CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS */
+
 #endif
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index 66ed49efc02f..53bd3c4de92c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -417,10 +417,11 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	clear_siginfo(&tmr->sigq->info);
+	rcuref_init(&tmr->rcuref, 1);
 	return tmr;
 }
 
-static void posix_timer_free(struct k_itimer *tmr)
+void posixtimer_free_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr)
 {
 	put_pid(tmr->it_pid);
 	sigqueue_free(tmr->sigq);
@@ -432,7 +433,7 @@ static void posix_timer_unhash_and_free(struct k_itimer *tmr)
 	spin_lock(&hash_lock);
 	hlist_del_rcu(&tmr->t_hash);
 	spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
-	posix_timer_free(tmr);
+	posixtimer_putref(tmr);
 }
 
 static int common_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
@@ -467,7 +468,7 @@ static int do_timer_create(clockid_t which_clock, struct sigevent *event,
 	 */
 	new_timer_id = posix_timer_add(new_timer);
 	if (new_timer_id < 0) {
-		posix_timer_free(new_timer);
+		posixtimer_free_timer(new_timer);
 		return new_timer_id;
 	}