While working on the futex code, I stumbled over this potential use-after-free scenario. pi_mutex is a pointer into pi_state, which we drop the reference on in unqueue_me_pi(). So any access to that pointer after that is bad. Since other sites already do rt_mutex_unlock() with hb->lock held, see for example futex_lock_pi(), simply move the unlock before unqueue_me_pi(). Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Darren Hart Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- kernel/futex.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -2813,7 +2813,6 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __u { struct hrtimer_sleeper timeout, *to = NULL; struct rt_mutex_waiter rt_waiter; - struct rt_mutex *pi_mutex = NULL; struct futex_hash_bucket *hb; union futex_key key2 = FUTEX_KEY_INIT; struct futex_q q = futex_q_init; @@ -2905,6 +2904,8 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __u spin_unlock(q.lock_ptr); } } else { + struct rt_mutex *pi_mutex; + /* * We have been woken up by futex_unlock_pi(), a timeout, or a * signal. futex_unlock_pi() will not destroy the lock_ptr nor @@ -2928,18 +2929,19 @@ static int futex_wait_requeue_pi(u32 __u if (res) ret = (res < 0) ? res : 0; + /* + * If fixup_pi_state_owner() faulted and was unable to handle + * the fault, unlock the rt_mutex and return the fault to + * userspace. + */ + if (ret && rt_mutex_owner(pi_mutex) == current) + rt_mutex_unlock(pi_mutex); + /* Unqueue and drop the lock. */ unqueue_me_pi(&q); } - /* - * If fixup_pi_state_owner() faulted and was unable to handle the - * fault, unlock the rt_mutex and return the fault to userspace. - */ - if (ret == -EFAULT) { - if (pi_mutex && rt_mutex_owner(pi_mutex) == current) - rt_mutex_unlock(pi_mutex); - } else if (ret == -EINTR) { + if (ret == -EINTR) { /* * We've already been requeued, but cannot restart by calling * futex_lock_pi() directly. We could restart this syscall, but