Thomas Gleixner
399f8dd9a8
syzbot reported a memory leak related to sigqueue caching.
The assumption that a task cannot cache a sigqueue after the signal handler
has been dropped and exit_task_sigqueue_cache() has been invoked turns out
to be wrong.
Such a task can still invoke release_task(other_task), which cleans up the
signals of 'other_task' and ends up in sigqueue_cache_or_free(), which in
turn will cache the signal because task->sigqueue_cache is NULL. That's
obviously bogus because nothing will free the cached signal of that task
anymore, so the cached item is leaked.
This happens when e.g. the last non-leader thread exits and reaps the
zombie leader.
Prevent this by setting tsk::sigqueue_cache to an error pointer value in
exit_task_sigqueue_cache() which forces any subsequent invocation of
sigqueue_cache_or_free() from that task to hand the sigqueue back to the
kmemcache.
Add comments to all relevant places.
Fixes: 4bad58ebc8 ("signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct")
Reported-by: syzbot+0bac5fec63d4f399ba98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/878s32g6j5.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.