[SRU][N:linux-hwe-6.17][PATCH 1/2] rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
Fedor Veselovskii
asetium at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 23:19:50 UTC 2026
From: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000 at gmail.com>
commit 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 upstream.
remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().
In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:
1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held
2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
dangling pointer primed for UAF around.
3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
task
Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.
[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
changelog ]
Fixes: 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098 at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird at lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at kernel.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit d8cce4773c2b23d819baf5abedc62f7b430e8745 linux-6.18.y)
CVE-2026-43499
Signed-off-by: Fedor Veselovskii <asetium at gmail.com>
---
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index c80902eac..e6c6dd086 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1535,20 +1535,23 @@ static bool rtmutex_spin_on_owner(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
*
* Must be called with lock->wait_lock held and interrupts disabled. It must
* have just failed to try_to_take_rt_mutex().
+ *
+ * When invoked from rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() waiter::task != current !
*/
static void __sched remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter)
{
bool is_top_waiter = (waiter == rt_mutex_top_waiter(lock));
struct task_struct *owner = rt_mutex_owner(lock);
+ struct task_struct *waiter_task = waiter->task;
struct rt_mutex_base *next_lock;
lockdep_assert_held(&lock->wait_lock);
- raw_spin_lock(¤t->pi_lock);
- rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
- current->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
- raw_spin_unlock(¤t->pi_lock);
+ scoped_guard(raw_spinlock, &waiter_task->pi_lock) {
+ rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
+ waiter_task->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
+ }
/*
* Only update priority if the waiter was the highest priority
@@ -1584,7 +1587,7 @@ static void __sched remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(owner, RT_MUTEX_MIN_CHAINWALK, lock,
- next_lock, NULL, current);
+ next_lock, NULL, waiter_task);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
}
--
2.43.0
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