posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup CPU timers before freeing them during exec
authorThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Tue, 9 Aug 2022 17:07:51 +0000 (14:07 -0300)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 9 Aug 2022 18:02:13 +0000 (20:02 +0200)
commite362359ace6f87c201531872486ff295df306d13
tree34ffd7469d2a0cdb545195e7b9f04523a8ea8502
parent46dae32fe625a75f549c3a70edc77b778197bb05
posix-cpu-timers: Cleanup CPU timers before freeing them during exec

Commit 55e8c8eb2c7b ("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: 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220809170751.164716-1-cascardo@canonical.com
fs/exec.c