Commit e362359a authored by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo's avatar Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Committed by Thomas Gleixner

posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup CPU timers before freeing them during exec

Commit 55e8c8eb ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a
task") started looking up tasks by PID when deleting a CPU timer.

When a non-leader thread calls execve, it will switch PIDs with the leader
process. Then, as it calls exit_itimers, posix_cpu_timer_del cannot find
the task because the timer still points out to the old PID.

That means that armed timers won't be disarmed, that is, they won't be
removed from the timerqueue_list. exit_itimers will still release their
memory, and when that list is later processed, it leads to a
use-after-free.

Clean up the timers from the de-threaded task before freeing them. This
prevents a reported use-after-free.

Fixes: 55e8c8eb ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220809170751.164716-1-cascardo@canonical.com
parent 46dae32f
......@@ -1304,6 +1304,9 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
bprm->mm = NULL;
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
spin_lock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
posix_cpu_timers_exit(me);
spin_unlock_irq(&me->sighand->siglock);
exit_itimers(me);
flush_itimer_signals();
#endif
......
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