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authorJinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>2026-01-28 11:30:07 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-02-27 02:01:13 +0300
commitdd8b13cb4ff1a4545a214ed897fdf2bc341155b6 (patch)
treec76c45ca39c3f4bc002b97a6a6842ad463f6613c /fs/proc/array.c
parentc3659273860bed0c8e573b865e3769abc51225a8 (diff)
downloadlinux-dd8b13cb4ff1a4545a214ed897fdf2bc341155b6.tar.xz
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
[ 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 <alexjlzheng@tencent.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: ruippan <ruippan@tencent.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/array.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/array.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 42932f88141a..5571177e0435 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
}
sid = task_session_nr_ns(task, ns);
- ppid = task_tgid_nr_ns(task->real_parent, ns);
+ ppid = task_ppid_nr_ns(task, ns);
pgid = task_pgrp_nr_ns(task, ns);
unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);