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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2025-09-15 14:09:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-09-22 20:10:59 -0700 |
| commit | a15f37a40145c986cdf289a4b88390f35efdecc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 32d31a54fe73bfe72fc7e82d4393d94045a79e05 | |
| parent | 39f17c707454290900b608ee5a200b5db9245626 (diff) | |
kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
The usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64()->do_prlimit()
path is very broken.
sys_prlimit64() does get_task_struct(tsk) but this only protects task_struct
itself. If tsk != current and tsk is not a leader, this process can exit/exec
and task_lock(tsk->group_leader) may use the already freed task_struct.
Another problem is that sys_prlimit64() can race with mt-exec which changes
->group_leader. In this case do_prlimit() may take the wrong lock, or (worse)
->group_leader may change between task_lock() and task_unlock().
Change sys_prlimit64() to take tasklist_lock when necessary. This is not
nice, but I don't see a better fix for -stable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250915120917.GA27702@redhat.com
Fixes: 18c91bb2d872 ("prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock")
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 1e28b40053ce..36d66ff41611 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(prlimit64, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, resource, struct rlimit old, new; struct task_struct *tsk; unsigned int checkflags = 0; + bool need_tasklist; int ret; if (old_rlim) @@ -1760,8 +1761,25 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(prlimit64, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, resource, get_task_struct(tsk); rcu_read_unlock(); - ret = do_prlimit(tsk, resource, new_rlim ? &new : NULL, - old_rlim ? &old : NULL); + need_tasklist = !same_thread_group(tsk, current); + if (need_tasklist) { + /* + * Ensure we can't race with group exit or de_thread(), + * so tsk->group_leader can't be freed or changed until + * read_unlock(tasklist_lock) below. + */ + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + if (!pid_alive(tsk)) + ret = -ESRCH; + } + + if (!ret) { + ret = do_prlimit(tsk, resource, new_rlim ? &new : NULL, + old_rlim ? &old : NULL); + } + + if (need_tasklist) + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); if (!ret && old_rlim) { rlim_to_rlim64(&old, &old64); |