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Yao Kai a3b8d46fe4 futex: Prevent rcuwait use-after-free during requeue PI
On PREEMPT_RT, FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI can trigger a KASAN report
(slab-out-of-bounds) in futex_requeue_pi_complete() invocation of
rcuwait_wake_up().

The futex_q used by futex_wait_requeue_pi() is allocated on the waiter's
stack. An early wakeup can race with a PI requeue as follows:

        waiter                          requeue task
        ------                          ------------
futex_wait_requeue_pi()
  futex_do_wait()
    schedule()
                                       futex_requeue
                                         futex_proxy_trylock_atomic()
                                           futex_requeue_pi_prepare()
                                            Q_REQUEUE_PI_NONE -> Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS
* timeout/ signal wakes waiter *
  futex_requeue_pi_wakeup_sync()
   Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS -> Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT
                                           requeue_pi_wake_futex
                                             futex_requeue_pi_complete()
                                               cmpxchg Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT -> Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED
    rcuwait_wait_event()
      if (atomic_read(&q->requeue_state) != Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT)
       break /* no schedule() */

 /* q.pi_state->owner == current */
 futex_private_hash_put()
 /* return from syscall */
                                              rcuwait_wake_up(&q->requeue_wait)
                                                /* q is gone */

futex_requeue_pi_complete() publishes Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED before
calling rcuwait_wake_up(). The waiter observes this state in
rcuwait_wait_event() before invoking schedule() in rcuwait_wait_event().
Here, the waiter is free leave the syscall before requeue task can
complete the wake.

To address this race skip rcuwait_wake_up() in the Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED
case.
This state is only published by requeue_pi_wake_futex(), which saves
q->task before futex_requeue_pi_complete() and wakes the waiter via
wake_up_state().

This wake is intended to wake the waiter from its futex_do_wait() sleep.
If the waiter is still sleeping there, it can not get into the
Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT state (and require this removed wake).
Should the waiter be woken up from futex_do_wait() by other means (as in
this example) and sleep in futex_requeue_pi_wakeup_sync() then the
wake_up_state() from requeue_pi_wake_futex() will wake it, too.
Should the waiter task terminate before wake_up_state() had a chance to
wake the task then the task pointer does not become invalid because the
futex_hash_bucket::lock is held and the task pointer is RCU protected.

[bigeasy: Updated comment and commit message]

Fixes: 07d91ef510 ("futex: Prevent requeue_pi() lock nesting issue on RT")
Signed-off-by: Yao Kai <yaokai34@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901135453.3121948-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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