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Yipeng Zou 176725f484 timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync() 
commit 20739af073 upstream.

There is a race condition between timer_shutdown_sync() and timer
expiration that can lead to hitting a WARN_ON in expire_timers().

The issue occurs when timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
to NULL while the timer is still running on another CPU. The race
scenario looks like this:

CPU0					CPU1
					<SOFTIRQ>
					lock_timer_base()
					expire_timers()
					base->running_timer = timer;
					unlock_timer_base()
					[call_timer_fn enter]
					mod_timer()
					...
timer_shutdown_sync()
lock_timer_base()
// For now, will not detach the timer but only clear its function to NULL
if (base->running_timer != timer)
	ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
	timer->function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()
					[call_timer_fn exit]
					lock_timer_base()
					base->running_timer = NULL;
					unlock_timer_base()
					...
					// Now timer is pending while its function set to NULL.
					// next timer trigger
					<SOFTIRQ>
					expire_timers()
					WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) // hit
					...
lock_timer_base()
// Now timer will detach
if (base->running_timer != timer)
	ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
	timer->function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()

The problem is that timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
regardless of whether the timer is currently running. This can leave a
pending timer with a NULL function pointer, which triggers the
WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) check in expire_timers().

Fix this by only clearing the timer function when actually detaching the
timer. If the timer is running, leave the function pointer intact, which is
safe because the timer will be properly detached when it finishes running.

Fixes: 0cc04e8045 ("timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions")
Signed-off-by: Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251122093942.301559-1-zouyipeng@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-12-01 11:43:18 +01:00
arch KVM: arm64: Check the untrusted offset in FF-A memory share 2025-12-01 11:43:18 +01:00
block blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy 2025-11-13 15:34:07 -05:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:33:42 +02:00
Documentation dpll: spec: add missing module-name and clock-id to pin-get reply 2025-11-13 15:33:59 -05:00
drivers net: phy: micrel: Fix lan8814_config_init 2025-11-24 10:36:08 +01:00
fs proc: proc_maps_open allow proc_mem_open to return NULL 2025-11-24 10:36:08 +01:00
include Bluetooth: MGMT: fix crash in set_mesh_sync and set_mesh_complete 2025-11-24 10:36:08 +01:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:33:50 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/napi: fix io_napi_entry RCU accesses 2025-11-24 10:36:06 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync() 2025-12-01 11:43:18 +01:00
lib lib/crypto: curve25519-hacl64: Fix older clang KASAN workaround for GCC 2025-11-13 15:34:40 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/huge_memory: preserve PG_has_hwpoisoned if a folio is split to >0 order 2025-11-24 10:36:07 +01:00
net Bluetooth: MGMT: fix crash in set_mesh_sync and set_mesh_complete 2025-11-24 10:36:08 +01:00
rust rust: kbuild: workaround rustdoc doctests modifier bug 2025-11-24 10:36:07 +01:00
samples ftrace/samples: Fix function size computation 2025-09-19 16:35:44 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-10-06 11:17:52 +02:00
security ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr 2025-11-13 15:34:32 -05:00
sound ALSA: hda: Fix missing pointer check in hda_component_manager_init function 2025-11-24 10:36:06 +01:00
tools selftests: mptcp: join: properly kill background tasks 2025-11-24 10:36:05 +01:00
usr kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
virt KVM: guest_memfd: Remove bindings on memslot deletion when gmem is dying 2025-11-24 10:36:06 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.59 2025-11-24 10:36:08 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.