kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/array.c, branch v5.10.257

procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()

2026-03-04T12:19:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 76149d53502cf17ef3ae454ff384551236fba867 ] When reading /proc/[pid]/stat, do_task_stat() accesses task->real_parent without proper RCU protection, which leads to: cpu 0 cpu 1 ----- ----- do_task_stat var = task->real_parent release_task call_rcu(delayed_put_task_struct) task_tgid_nr_ns(var) rcu_read_lock <--- Too late to protect task->real_parent! task_pid_ptr <--- UAF! rcu_read_unlock This patch uses task_ppid_nr_ns() instead of task_tgid_nr_ns() to add proper RCU protection for accessing task->real_parent. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260128083007.3173016-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com Fixes: 06fffb1267c9 ("do_task_stat: don't take rcu_read_lock()") Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: ruippan Cc: Usama Arif Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs/proc: do_task_stat: use __for_each_thread()

2025-07-17T16:27:54+00:00

commit 7904e53ed5a20fc678c01d5d1b07ec486425bb6a upstream. do/while_each_thread should be avoided when possible. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230909164501.GA11581@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Stable-dep-of: 7601df8031fd ("fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [ mheyne: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats

2025-05-02T05:41:09+00:00

commit 7601df8031fd67310af891897ef6cc0df4209305 upstream. lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads call do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time. Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics outside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will run lockless. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153357.GA21857@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: David Sauerwein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

seccomp: Fix CONFIG tests for Seccomp_filters

2021-05-14T07:50:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 64bdc0244054f7d4bb621c8b4455e292f4e421bc ] Strictly speaking, seccomp filters are only used when CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER. This patch fixes the condition to enable "Seccomp_filters" in /proc/$pid/status. Signed-off-by: Kenta Tada Fixes: c818c03b661c ("seccomp: Report number of loaded filters in /proc/$pid/status") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/OSBPR01MB26772D245E2CF4F26B76A989F5669@OSBPR01MB2677.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

seccomp: Report number of loaded filters in /proc/$pid/status

2020-07-10T23:01:51+00:00

A common question asked when debugging seccomp filters is "how many filters are attached to your process?" Provide a way to easily answer this question through /proc/$pid/status with a "Seccomp_filters" line. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included

2020-06-09T16:39:13+00:00

Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2. The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once. For instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported architectures. Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils down to, e.g. static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address) { return (address >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1); } static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address) { return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address); } These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined. For architectures that really need a custom version there is always possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic. These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table accessors to the new header. This patch (of 12): The linux/mm.h header includes to allow inlining of the functions involving page table manipulations, e.g. pte_alloc() and pmd_alloc(). So, there is no point to explicitly include in the files that include . The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop: for f in $(git grep -l "include ") ; do sed -i -e '/include / d' $f done Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nick Hu Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Vincent Chen Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-06-05T02:18:29+00:00

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - More MM work. 100ish more to go. Mike Rapoport's "mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK" series should fix the current ppc issue - Various other little subsystems * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (127 commits) lib/ubsan.c: fix gcc-10 warnings tools/testing/selftests/vm: remove duplicate headers selftests: vm: pkeys: fix multilib builds for x86 selftests: vm: pkeys: use the correct page size on powerpc selftests/vm/pkeys: override access right definitions on powerpc selftests/vm/pkeys: test correct behaviour of pkey-0 selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce a sub-page allocator selftests/vm/pkeys: detect write violation on a mapped access-denied-key page selftests/vm/pkeys: associate key on a mapped page and detect write violation selftests/vm/pkeys: associate key on a mapped page and detect access violation selftests/vm/pkeys: improve checks to determine pkey support selftests/vm/pkeys: fix assertion in test_pkey_alloc_exhaust() selftests/vm/pkeys: fix number of reserved powerpc pkeys selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce powerpc support selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce generic pkey abstractions selftests: vm: pkeys: use the correct huge page size selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really random selftests/vm/pkeys: fix assertion in pkey_disable_set/clear() selftests/vm/pkeys: fix pkey_disable_clear() selftests: vm: pkeys: add helpers for pkey bits ...

proc: rename "catch" function argument

2020-06-05T02:06:24+00:00

"catch" is reserved keyword in C++, rename it to something both gcc and g++ accept. Rename "ign" for symmetry. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200331210905.GA31680@avx2 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: proc_pid_ns takes super_block as an argument

2020-05-19T12:07:50+00:00

syzbot found that touch /proc/testfile causes NULL pointer dereference at tomoyo_get_local_path() because inode of the dentry is NULL. Before c59f415a7cb6, Tomoyo received pid_ns from proc's s_fs_info directly. Since proc_pid_ns() can only work with inode, using it in the tomoyo_get_local_path() was wrong. To avoid creating more functions for getting proc_ns, change the argument type of the proc_pid_ns() function. Then, Tomoyo can use the existing super_block to get pid_ns. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000002f0c7505a5b0e04c@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200518180738.2939611-1-gladkov.alexey@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+c1af344512918c61362c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: c59f415a7cb6 ("Use proc_pid_ns() to get pid_namespace from the proc superblock") Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

proc: speed up /proc/*/statm

2020-04-07T17:43:42+00:00

top(1) reads all /proc/*/statm files but kernel threads will always have zeros. Print those zeroes directly without going through seq_put_decimal_ull(). Speed up reading /proc/2/statm (which is kthreadd) is like 3%. My system has more kernel threads than normal processes after booting KDE. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200307154435.GA2788@avx2 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds