posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del()

oleg-nesterov · gregkh · commit 2f3daa04a932 · 2025-06-27T11:05:21.000+01:00
commit f90fff1 upstream. If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand(). If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or lock_task_sighand() will fail. Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this. This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail anyway in this case. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Benoît Sevens <bsevens@google.com> Fixes: 0bdd2ed ("sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1431,6 +1431,15 @@ void run_posix_cpu_timers(void)
 
 	lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
 
+	/*
+	 * Ensure that release_task(tsk) can't happen while
+	 * handle_posix_cpu_timers() is running. Otherwise, a concurrent
+	 * posix_cpu_timer_del() may fail to lock_task_sighand(tsk) and
+	 * miss timer->it.cpu.firing != 0.
+	 */
+	if (tsk->exit_state)
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * If the actual expiry is deferred to task work context and the
 	 * work is already scheduled there is no point to do anything here.
