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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>2025-09-18 13:09:45 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2025-09-24 07:20:02 +0000
commit4ec3c15462b9f44562f45723a92e2807746ba7d1 (patch)
tree29e9329d7ebbbcbd68d3de77e48c21473a315a18
parentfutex: Prevent use-after-free during requeue-PI (diff)
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futex: Use correct exit on failure from futex_hash_allocate_default()
copy_process() uses the wrong error exit path from futex_hash_allocate_default(). After exiting from futex_hash_allocate_default(), neither tasklist_lock nor siglock has been acquired. The exit label bad_fork_core_free unlocks both of these locks which is wrong. The next exit label, bad_fork_cancel_cgroup, is the correct exit. sched_cgroup_fork() did not allocate any resources that need to freed. Use bad_fork_cancel_cgroup on error exit from futex_hash_allocate_default(). Fixes: 7c4f75a21f636 ("futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash") Reported-by: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c4ada32598bd..6ca8689a83b5 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
if (need_futex_hash_allocate_default(clone_flags)) {
retval = futex_hash_allocate_default();
if (retval)
- goto bad_fork_core_free;
+ goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
/*
* If we fail beyond this point we don't free the allocated
* futex hash map. We assume that another thread will be created