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<updated>2026-06-19T11:37:15+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>ipc/shm: serialize orphan cleanup with shm_nattch updates</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T11:37:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yilin Zhu</name>
<email>zylzyl2333@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-30T05:21:34+00:00</published>
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commit 2e5c6f4fd4001562781e99bbfc7f1f0127187542 upstream.

shm_destroy_orphaned() walks the shm idr under shm_ids(ns).rwsem, but that
does not serialize all fields tested by shm_may_destroy().  In particular,
shm_nattch is updated while holding shm_perm.lock, and attach paths can do
that without holding the rwsem.

Do not decide that an orphaned segment is unused before taking the object
lock.  Move the shm_may_destroy() check under shm_perm.lock, matching the
other destroy paths, and unlock the segment when it no longer qualifies
for removal.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/9d97cc1031de2d0bace0edf3a668818aa2f4eca6.1777410234.git.zylzyl2333@gmail.com
Fixes: 4c677e2eefdb ("shm: optimize locking and ipc_namespace getting")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yilin Zhu &lt;zylzyl2333@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jeongjun Park &lt;aha310510@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;sergeh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range</title>
<updated>2026-06-19T11:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linpu Yu</name>
<email>linpu5433@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-10T05:43:30+00:00</published>
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commit fa0b9b2b7ae3539908d69c2b9ac0d144d9bc5139 upstream.

The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id
through ids-&gt;next_id.  ipc_idr_alloc() currently forwards that request to
idr_alloc() with an open-ended upper bound.

If the valid tail of the SysV IPC id space is full, the allocation can
spill beyond ipc_mni.  The returned SysV IPC id still uses the normal
index encoding, so later lookup and removal can target the wrong slot.
This leaves the real IDR entry behind and breaks the IDR state for the
object.

The bug is in ipc_idr_alloc() in the checkpoint/restore path.

1. ids-&gt;next_id is passed to:

       idr_alloc(&amp;ids-&gt;ipcs_idr, new, ipcid_to_idx(next_id), 0, ...)

2. The zero upper bound makes the allocation effectively open-ended.
   Once the valid SysV IPC tail is occupied, idr_alloc() can spill past
   ipc_mni and allocate an entry beyond the valid IPC id range.

3. The new object id is still encoded with the narrower SysV IPC index
   width:

       new-&gt;id = (new-&gt;seq &lt;&lt; ipcmni_seq_shift()) + idx

4. Later removal goes through ipc_rmid(), which uses:

       ipcid_to_idx(ipcp-&gt;id)

   That truncates the real IDR index. An object actually stored at a
   high index can then be removed as if it lived at a low in-range
   index.

5. For shared memory, shm_destroy() frees the current object anyway, but
   the real high IDR slot is left behind as a dangling pointer.

6. A subsequent walk of /proc/sysvipc/shm reaches the stale IDR entry
   and dereferences freed memory.

Prevent this by bounding the requested allocation to ipc_mni so the
checkpoint/restore path fails once the valid range is exhausted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1778336914.git.linpu5433@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2eebe949bfa7d1f6e13b5be6a92c64c850ce9d45.1778336914.git.linpu5433@gmail.com
Fixes: 03f595668017 ("ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id")
Signed-off-by: Linpu Yu &lt;linpu5433@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei &lt;n05ec@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Yuan Tan &lt;yuantan098@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yifan Wu &lt;yifanwucs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Juefei Pu &lt;tomapufckgml@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Xin Liu &lt;bird@lzu.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc: don't audit capability check in ipc_permissions()</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:19:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-22T14:13:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 071588136007482d70fd2667b827036bc60b1f8f ]

The IPC sysctls implement the ctl_table_root::permissions hook and
they override the file access mode based on the CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
capability, which is being checked regardless of whether any access is
actually denied or not, so if an LSM denies the capability, an audit
record may be logged even when access is in fact granted.

It wouldn't be viable to restructure the sysctl permission logic to only
check the capability when the access would be actually denied if it's
not granted. Thus, do the same as in net_ctl_permissions()
(net/sysctl_net.c) - switch from ns_capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(),
so that the check never emits an audit record.

Fixes: 0889f44e2810 ("ipc: Check permissions for checkpoint_restart sysctls at open time")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;sergeh@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 8924336531e2 ("ipc: don't audit capability check in ipc_permissions()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU</title>
<updated>2025-06-27T10:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeongjun Park</name>
<email>aha310510@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-24T14:33:22+00:00</published>
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commit d66adabe91803ef34a8b90613c81267b5ded1472 upstream.

syzbot reported that it discovered a use-after-free vulnerability, [0]

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67af13f8.050a0220.21dd3.0038.GAE@google.com/

idr_for_each() is protected by rwsem, but this is not enough.  If it is
not protected by RCU read-critical region, when idr_for_each() calls
radix_tree_node_free() through call_rcu() to free the radix_tree_node
structure, the node will be freed immediately, and when reading the next
node in radix_tree_for_each_slot(), the already freed memory may be read.

Therefore, we need to add code to make sure that idr_for_each() is
protected within the RCU read-critical region when we call it in
shm_destroy_orphaned().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424143322.18830-1-aha310510@gmail.com
Fixes: b34a6b1da371 ("ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park &lt;aha310510@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+a2b84e569d06ca3a949c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Jeongjun Park &lt;aha310510@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:54:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ma Wupeng</name>
<email>mawupeng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-23T09:31:29+00:00</published>
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commit bc8f5921cd69188627c08041276238de222ab466 upstream.

Percpu memory allocation may failed during create_ipc_ns however this
fail is not handled properly since ipc sysctls and mq sysctls is not
released properly. Fix this by release these two resource when failure.

Here is the kmemleak stack when percpu failed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88819de2a600 (size 512):
  comm "shmem_2nstest", pid 120711, jiffies 4300542254
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    60 aa 9d 84 ff ff ff ff fc 18 48 b2 84 88 ff ff  `.........H.....
    04 00 00 00 a4 01 00 00 20 e4 56 81 ff ff ff ff  ........ .V.....
  backtrace (crc be7cba35):
    [&lt;ffffffff81b43f83&gt;] __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x333/0x420
    [&lt;ffffffff81a52e56&gt;] kmemdup_noprof+0x26/0x50
    [&lt;ffffffff821b2f37&gt;] setup_mq_sysctls+0x57/0x1d0
    [&lt;ffffffff821b29cc&gt;] copy_ipcs+0x29c/0x3b0
    [&lt;ffffffff815d6a10&gt;] create_new_namespaces+0x1d0/0x920
    [&lt;ffffffff815d7449&gt;] copy_namespaces+0x2e9/0x3e0
    [&lt;ffffffff815458f3&gt;] copy_process+0x29f3/0x7ff0
    [&lt;ffffffff8154b080&gt;] kernel_clone+0xc0/0x650
    [&lt;ffffffff8154b6b1&gt;] __do_sys_clone+0xa1/0xe0
    [&lt;ffffffff843df8ff&gt;] do_syscall_64+0xbf/0x1c0
    [&lt;ffffffff846000b0&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023093129.3074301-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Fixes: 72d1e611082e ("ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter")
Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng &lt;mawupeng1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)</title>
<updated>2024-08-11T10:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T18:11:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 520713a93d550406dae14d49cdb8778d70cecdfd ]

Remove the 'table' argument from set_ownership as it is never used. This
change is a step towards putting "struct ctl_table" into .rodata and
eventually having sysctl core only use "const struct ctl_table".

The patch was created with the following coccinelle script:

  @@
  identifier func, head, table, uid, gid;
  @@

  void func(
    struct ctl_table_header *head,
  - struct ctl_table *table,
    kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
  { ... }

No additional occurrences of 'set_ownership' were found after doing a
tree-wide search.

Reviewed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 98ca62ba9e2b ("sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: allow to change limits for posix messages queues</title>
<updated>2024-08-11T10:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-15T15:46:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f9436a5d0497f759330d07e1189565edd4456be8 ]

All parameters of posix messages queues (queues_max/msg_max/msgsize_max)
end up being limited by RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE.  The code in mqueue_get_inode is
where that limiting happens.

The RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE is bound to the user namespace and is counted
hierarchically.

We can allow root in the user namespace to modify the posix messages
queues parameters.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ad67f23d1459a4f4339f74aa73bac0ecf3995e1.1705333426.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7eb21211c8622e91d226e63416b1b93c079f60ee.1663756794.git.legion@kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 98ca62ba9e2b ("sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysctl: allow change system v ipc sysctls inside ipc namespace</title>
<updated>2024-08-11T10:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-15T15:46:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 50ec499b9a43e46200c9f7b7d723ab2e4af540b3 ]

Patch series "Allow to change ipc/mq sysctls inside ipc namespace", v3.

Right now ipc and mq limits count as per ipc namespace, but only real root
can change them.  By default, the current values of these limits are such
that it can only be reduced.  Since only root can change the values, it is
impossible to reduce these limits in the rootless container.

We can allow limit changes within ipc namespace because mq parameters are
limited by RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE and ipc parameters are not limited to anything
other than cgroups.

This patch (of 3):

Rootless containers are not allowed to modify kernel IPC parameters.

All default limits are set to such high values that in fact there are no
limits at all.  All limits are not inherited and are initialized to
default values when a new ipc_namespace is created.

For new ipc_namespace:

size_t       ipc_ns.shm_ctlmax = SHMMAX; // (ULONG_MAX - (1UL &lt;&lt; 24))
size_t       ipc_ns.shm_ctlall = SHMALL; // (ULONG_MAX - (1UL &lt;&lt; 24))
int          ipc_ns.shm_ctlmni = IPCMNI; // (1 &lt;&lt; 15)
int          ipc_ns.shm_rmid_forced = 0;
unsigned int ipc_ns.msg_ctlmax = MSGMAX; // 8192
unsigned int ipc_ns.msg_ctlmni = MSGMNI; // 32000
unsigned int ipc_ns.msg_ctlmnb = MSGMNB; // 16384

The shm_tot (total amount of shared pages) has also ceased to be global,
it is located in ipc_namespace and is not inherited from anywhere.

In such conditions, it cannot be said that these limits limit anything.
The real limiter for them is cgroups.

If we allow rootless containers to change these parameters, then it can
only be reduced.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1705333426.git.legion@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2f4603305cbfed58a24755aa61d027314b73a45.1705333426.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2d84d3ec0172cfff759e6065da84ce0cc2736f8.1663756794.git.legion@kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 98ca62ba9e2b ("sysctl: always initialize i_uid/i_gid")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()</title>
<updated>2022-12-31T12:32:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhengchao Shao</name>
<email>shaozhengchao@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-09T09:29:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 12b677f2c697d61e5ddbcb6c1650050a39392f54 ]

When setup_mq_sysctls() failed in init_mqueue_fs(), mqueue_inode_cachep is
not released.  In order to fix this issue, the release path is reordered.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221209092929.1978875-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com
Fixes: dc55e35f9e81 ("ipc: Store mqueue sysctls in the ipc namespace")
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao &lt;shaozhengchao@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Jingyu Wang &lt;jingyuwang_vip@163.com&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yongjun &lt;weiyongjun1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Yu Zhe &lt;yuzhe@nfschina.com&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race</title>
<updated>2022-12-05T18:54:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-05T16:59:27+00:00</published>
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When __do_semtimedop() goes to sleep because it has to wait for a
semaphore value becoming zero or becoming bigger than some threshold, it
links the on-stack sem_queue to the sem_array, then goes to sleep
without holding a reference on the sem_array.

When __do_semtimedop() comes back out of sleep, one of two things must
happen:

 a) We prove that the on-stack sem_queue has been disconnected from the
    (possibly freed) sem_array, making it safe to return from the stack
    frame that the sem_queue exists in.

 b) We stabilize our reference to the sem_array, lock the sem_array, and
    detach the sem_queue from the sem_array ourselves.

sem_array has RCU lifetime, so for case (b), the reference can be
stabilized inside an RCU read-side critical section by locklessly
checking whether the sem_queue is still connected to the sem_array.

However, the current code does the lockless check on sem_queue before
starting an RCU read-side critical section, so the result of the
lockless check immediately becomes useless.

Fix it by doing rcu_read_lock() before the lockless check.  Now RCU
ensures that if we observe the object being on our queue, the object
can't be freed until rcu_read_unlock().

This bug is only hittable on kernel builds with full preemption support
(either CONFIG_PREEMPT or PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with preempt=full).

Fixes: 370b262c896e ("ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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