Fix a memory leak in the recently introduced sigqueue cache.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'core-urgent-2021-06-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull sigqueue cache fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a memory leak in the recently introduced sigqueue cache"

* tag 'core-urgent-2021-06-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released
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Linus Torvalds 2021-06-24 09:06:19 -07:00
commit 7749b0337b

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@ -435,6 +435,12 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t gfp_flags,
* Preallocation does not hold sighand::siglock so it can't
* use the cache. The lockless caching requires that only
* one consumer and only one producer run at a time.
*
* For the regular allocation case it is sufficient to
* check @q for NULL because this code can only be called
* if the target task @t has not been reaped yet; which
* means this code can never observe the error pointer which is
* written to @t->sigqueue_cache in exit_task_sigqueue_cache().
*/
q = READ_ONCE(t->sigqueue_cache);
if (!q || sigqueue_flags)
@ -463,13 +469,18 @@ void exit_task_sigqueue_cache(struct task_struct *tsk)
struct sigqueue *q = tsk->sigqueue_cache;
if (q) {
tsk->sigqueue_cache = NULL;
/*
* Hand it back to the cache as the task might
* be self reaping which would leak the object.
*/
kmem_cache_free(sigqueue_cachep, q);
}
/*
* Set an error pointer to ensure that @tsk will not cache a
* sigqueue when it is reaping it's child tasks
*/
tsk->sigqueue_cache = ERR_PTR(-1);
}
static void sigqueue_cache_or_free(struct sigqueue *q)
@ -481,6 +492,10 @@ static void sigqueue_cache_or_free(struct sigqueue *q)
* is intentional when run without holding current->sighand->siglock,
* which is fine as current obviously cannot run __sigqueue_free()
* concurrently.
*
* The NULL check is safe even if current has been reaped already,
* in which case exit_task_sigqueue_cache() wrote an error pointer
* into current->sigqueue_cache.
*/
if (!READ_ONCE(current->sigqueue_cache))
WRITE_ONCE(current->sigqueue_cache, q);