linux-stable.git/kernel/exit.c, branch v6.18.41 Linux kernel stable tree posix-cpu-timers: Prevent UAF caused by non-leader exec() race 2026-07-30T11:05:57+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@kernel.org 2026-07-03T10:02:38+00:00 6a7ecc25abe6f0fecc6e62a05096987200edbd02 commit 920f893f735e92ba3a1cd9256899a186b161928d upstream. Wongi and Jungwoo decoded and reported a non-leader exec() related race which can result in an UAF: sys_timer_delete() exec() posix_cpu_timer_del() // Observes old leader p = pid_task(pid, pid_type); de_thread() switch_leader(); release_task(old_leader) __exit_signal(old_leader) sighand = lock(old_leader, sighand); posix_cpu_timers*_exit(); sighand = lock_task_sighand(p) unhash_task(old_leader); sh = lock(p, sighand) old_leader->sighand = NULL; unlock(sighand); (p->sighand == NULL) unlock(sh) return NULL; // Returns without action if(!sighand) return 0; free_posix_timer(); This is "harmless" unless the deleted timer was armed and enqueued in p->signal because on exec() a TGID targeted timer is inherited. As sys_timer_delete() freed the underlying posix timer object run_posix_cpu_timers() or any timerqueue related add/delete operations on other timers will access the freed object's timerqueue node, which results in an UAF. There is a similar problem vs. posix_cpu_timer_set(). For regular posix timers it just transiently returns -ESRCH to user space, but for the use case in do_cpu_nanosleep() it's the same UAF just that the k_itimer is allocated on the stack. Also posix_cpu_timer_rearm() fails to rearm the timer, which means it stops to expire. While debating solutions Frederic pointed out another problem: posix_cpu_timer_del(tmr) __exit_signal(p) posix_cpu_timers*_exit(p); unhash_task(p); p->sighand = NULL; sh = lock_task_sighand(p) sighand = p->sighand; if (!sighand) return NULL; lock(sighand); if (!sh) WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_queued(tmr)); On weakly ordered architectures it is not guaranteed that posix_cpu_timer_del() will observe the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() when p->sighand is observed as NULL, which means the WARN() can be a false positive. Solve these issues by: 1) Changing the store in __exit_signal() to smp_store_release(). 2) Adding a smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() into the !sighand path of lock_task_sighand(). 3) Creating a helper function for looking up the task and locking sighand which does not return when sighand == NULL. Instead it retries the task lookup and only if that fails it gives up. 4) Using that helper in the three affected functions. observes all preceeding stores, i.e. the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() and the ones in unhash_task(). gracefully. When the task lookup returns the old leader, but sighand == NULL then it retries. In the non-leader exec() case the subsequent task lookup will observe the new leader due to #1/#2. In normal exit() scenarios the subsequent lookup fails. When the task lookup fails, the function also checks whether the timer is still enqueued and issues a warning if that's the case. Unfortunately there is nothing which can be done about it, but as the task is already not longer visible the timer should not be accessed anymore. This check also requires memory ordering, which is not provided when the first lookup fails. To achieve that the check is preceeded by a smp_rmb() which pairs with the smp_wmb() in write_seqlock() in __exit_signal(). That ensures that the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() are visible. The history of the non-leader exec() issue goes back to the early days of posix CPU timers, which stored a pointer to the group leader task in the timer. That obviously fails when a non-leader exec() switches the leader. commit e0a70217107e ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec") added a temporary workaround for that in 2010 which survived about 10 years. The fix for the workaround changed the task pointer to a pid pointer, but failed to see the subtle race described above. So the Fixes tag picks that commit, which seems to be halfways accurate. Thanks to Frederic Weissbecker, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra for review, feedback and suggestions and to Wongi and Jungwoo for the excellent bug report and analysis! Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task") Reported-by: Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
commit 920f893f735e92ba3a1cd9256899a186b161928d upstream.

Wongi and Jungwoo decoded and reported a non-leader exec() related race
which can result in an UAF:

 sys_timer_delete()			exec()
   posix_cpu_timer_del()
   // Observes old leader
   p = pid_task(pid, pid_type);		de_thread()
   					  switch_leader();
					  release_task(old_leader)
					    __exit_signal(old_leader)
					      sighand = lock(old_leader, sighand);
					      posix_cpu_timers*_exit();
   sighand = lock_task_sighand(p)	      unhash_task(old_leader);
     sh = lock(p, sighand)	    	      old_leader->sighand = NULL;
					      unlock(sighand);
     (p->sighand == NULL)
	unlock(sh)
	return NULL;

   // Returns without action
   if(!sighand)
      return 0;
   free_posix_timer();

This is "harmless" unless the deleted timer was armed and enqueued in
p->signal because on exec() a TGID targeted timer is inherited.

As sys_timer_delete() freed the underlying posix timer object
run_posix_cpu_timers() or any timerqueue related add/delete operations on
other timers will access the freed object's timerqueue node, which results
in an UAF.

There is a similar problem vs. posix_cpu_timer_set(). For regular posix
timers it just transiently returns -ESRCH to user space, but for the use
case in do_cpu_nanosleep() it's the same UAF just that the k_itimer is
allocated on the stack.

Also posix_cpu_timer_rearm() fails to rearm the timer, which means it stops
to expire.

While debating solutions Frederic pointed out another problem:

   posix_cpu_timer_del(tmr)
					__exit_signal(p)
					  posix_cpu_timers*_exit(p);
					  unhash_task(p);
					  p->sighand = NULL;
     sh = lock_task_sighand(p)
        sighand = p->sighand;
	if (!sighand)
	    return NULL;
	lock(sighand);

     if (!sh)
	WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_queued(tmr));

On weakly ordered architectures it is not guaranteed that
posix_cpu_timer_del() will observe the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit()
when p->sighand is observed as NULL, which means the WARN() can be a false
positive.

Solve these issues by:

  1) Changing the store in __exit_signal() to smp_store_release().

  2) Adding a smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() into the !sighand path
     of lock_task_sighand().

  3) Creating a helper function for looking up the task and locking sighand
     which does not return when sighand == NULL. Instead it retries the
     task lookup and only if that fails it gives up.

  4) Using that helper in the three affected functions.

observes all preceeding stores, i.e. the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit()
and the ones in unhash_task().

gracefully. When the task lookup returns the old leader, but sighand ==
NULL then it retries. In the non-leader exec() case the subsequent task
lookup will observe the new leader due to #1/#2. In normal exit() scenarios
the subsequent lookup fails.

When the task lookup fails, the function also checks whether the timer is
still enqueued and issues a warning if that's the case. Unfortunately there
is nothing which can be done about it, but as the task is already not
longer visible the timer should not be accessed anymore. This check also
requires memory ordering, which is not provided when the first lookup
fails. To achieve that the check is preceeded by a smp_rmb() which pairs
with the smp_wmb() in write_seqlock() in __exit_signal(). That ensures that
the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() are visible.

The history of the non-leader exec() issue goes back to the early days of
posix CPU timers, which stored a pointer to the group leader task in the
timer. That obviously fails when a non-leader exec() switches the leader.
commit e0a70217107e ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems
with mt exec") added a temporary workaround for that in 2010 which survived
about 10 years. The fix for the workaround changed the task pointer to a
pid pointer, but failed to see the subtle race described above. So the
Fixes tag picks that commit, which seems to be halfways accurate.

Thanks to Frederic Weissbecker, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra for
review, feedback and suggestions and to Wongi and Jungwoo for the excellent
bug report and analysis!

Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c7b ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Reported-by: Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic 2026-05-15T12:52:17+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-05-13T18:37:18+00:00 2a93a4fac7b6051d3be7cd1b015fe7320cd0404d commit 31e62c2ebbfdc3fe3dbdf5e02c92a9dc67087a3a upstream. The 'dumpability' of a task is fundamentally about the memory image of the task - the concept comes from whether it can core dump or not - and makes no sense when you don't have an associated mm. And almost all users do in fact use it only for the case where the task has a mm pointer. But we have one odd special case: ptrace_may_access() uses 'dumpable' to check various other things entirely independently of the MM (typically explicitly using flags like PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS). Including for threads that no longer have a VM (and maybe never did, like most kernel threads). It's not what this flag was designed for, but it is what it is. The ptrace code does check that the uid/gid matches, so you do have to be uid-0 to see kernel thread details, but this means that the traditional "drop capabilities" model doesn't make any difference for this all. Make it all make a *bit* more sense by saying that if you don't have a MM pointer, we'll use a cached "last dumpability" flag if the thread ever had a MM (it will be zero for kernel threads since it is never set), and require a proper CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability to override. Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 31e62c2ebbfdc3fe3dbdf5e02c92a9dc67087a3a upstream.

The 'dumpability' of a task is fundamentally about the memory image of
the task - the concept comes from whether it can core dump or not - and
makes no sense when you don't have an associated mm.

And almost all users do in fact use it only for the case where the task
has a mm pointer.

But we have one odd special case: ptrace_may_access() uses 'dumpable' to
check various other things entirely independently of the MM (typically
explicitly using flags like PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS).  Including for
threads that no longer have a VM (and maybe never did, like most kernel
threads).

It's not what this flag was designed for, but it is what it is.

The ptrace code does check that the uid/gid matches, so you do have to
be uid-0 to see kernel thread details, but this means that the
traditional "drop capabilities" model doesn't make any difference for
this all.

Make it all make a *bit* more sense by saying that if you don't have a
MM pointer, we'll use a cached "last dumpability" flag if the thread
ever had a MM (it will be zero for kernel threads since it is never
set), and require a proper CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability to override.

Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
exit: prevent preemption of oopsing TASK_DEAD task 2026-05-14T13:30:12+00:00 Jann Horn jannh@google.com 2026-05-11T15:55:11+00:00 6f49f94f3b11fe8bff1bf2a054143789e76aaf17 commit c1fa0bb633e4a6b11e83ffc57fa5abe8ebb87891 upstream. When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls do_task_dead() with preemption enabled. That is forbidden: do_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying "WARNING: must be called with preemption disabled!". If an oopsing task is preempted in do_task_dead(), between becoming TASK_DEAD and entering the scheduler explicitly, bad things happen: finish_task_switch() assumes that once the scheduler has switched away from a TASK_DEAD task, the task can never run again and its stack is no longer needed; but that assumption apparently doesn't hold if the dead task was preempted (the SM_PREEMPT case). This means that the scheduler ends up repeatedly dropping references on the dead task's stack, which can lead to use-after-free or double-free of the entire task stack; in other words, two tasks can end up running on the same stack, resulting in various kinds of memory corruption. (This does not just affect "recursively oopsing" tasks; it is enough to oops once during task exit, for example in a file_operations::release handler) Fixes: 7f80a2fd7db9 ("exit: Stop poorly open coding do_task_dead in make_task_dead") Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit c1fa0bb633e4a6b11e83ffc57fa5abe8ebb87891 upstream.

When an already-exiting task oopses, make_task_dead() currently calls
do_task_dead() with preemption enabled.  That is forbidden:
do_task_dead() calls __schedule(), which has a comment saying "WARNING:
must be called with preemption disabled!".

If an oopsing task is preempted in do_task_dead(), between becoming
TASK_DEAD and entering the scheduler explicitly, bad things happen:
finish_task_switch() assumes that once the scheduler has switched away
from a TASK_DEAD task, the task can never run again and its stack is no
longer needed; but that assumption apparently doesn't hold if the dead
task was preempted (the SM_PREEMPT case).

This means that the scheduler ends up repeatedly dropping references on
the dead task's stack, which can lead to use-after-free or double-free
of the entire task stack; in other words, two tasks can end up running
on the same stack, resulting in various kinds of memory corruption.

(This does not just affect "recursively oopsing" tasks; it is enough to
oops once during task exit, for example in a file_operations::release
handler)

Fixes: 7f80a2fd7db9 ("exit: Stop poorly open coding do_task_dead in make_task_dead")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kthread: consolidate kthread exit paths to prevent use-after-free 2026-03-19T15:08:32+00:00 Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org 2026-02-26T09:43:55+00:00 4729c7b00a347fd37d0cbc265b85f2884c3e06b6 commit 28aaa9c39945b7925a1cc1d513c8f21ed38f5e4f upstream. Guillaume reported crashes via corrupted RCU callback function pointers during KUnit testing. The crash was traced back to the pidfs rhashtable conversion which replaced the 24-byte rb_node with an 8-byte rhash_head in struct pid, shrinking it from 160 to 144 bytes. struct kthread (without CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP) is also 144 bytes. With CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT and SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN both round up to 192 bytes and share the same slab cache. struct pid.rcu.func and struct kthread.affinity_node both sit at offset 0x78. When a kthread exits via make_task_dead() it bypasses kthread_exit() and misses the affinity_node cleanup. free_kthread_struct() frees the memory while the node is still linked into the global kthread_affinity_list. A subsequent list_del() by another kthread writes through dangling list pointers into the freed and reused memory, corrupting the pid's rcu.func pointer. Instead of patching free_kthread_struct() to handle the missed cleanup, consolidate all kthread exit paths. Turn kthread_exit() into a macro that calls do_exit() and add kthread_do_exit() which is called from do_exit() for any task with PF_KTHREAD set. This guarantees that kthread-specific cleanup always happens regardless of the exit path - make_task_dead(), direct do_exit(), or kthread_exit(). Replace __to_kthread() with a new tsk_is_kthread() accessor in the public header. Export do_exit() since module code using the kthread_exit() macro now needs it directly. Reported-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io> Tested-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Tested-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224-mittlerweile-besessen-2738831ae7f6@brauner Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Fixes: 4d13f4304fa4 ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 28aaa9c39945b7925a1cc1d513c8f21ed38f5e4f upstream.

Guillaume reported crashes via corrupted RCU callback function pointers
during KUnit testing. The crash was traced back to the pidfs rhashtable
conversion which replaced the 24-byte rb_node with an 8-byte rhash_head
in struct pid, shrinking it from 160 to 144 bytes.

struct kthread (without CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP) is also 144 bytes. With
CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT and SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN both round up to
192 bytes and share the same slab cache. struct pid.rcu.func and
struct kthread.affinity_node both sit at offset 0x78.

When a kthread exits via make_task_dead() it bypasses kthread_exit() and
misses the affinity_node cleanup. free_kthread_struct() frees the memory
while the node is still linked into the global kthread_affinity_list. A
subsequent list_del() by another kthread writes through dangling list
pointers into the freed and reused memory, corrupting the pid's
rcu.func pointer.

Instead of patching free_kthread_struct() to handle the missed cleanup,
consolidate all kthread exit paths. Turn kthread_exit() into a macro
that calls do_exit() and add kthread_do_exit() which is called from
do_exit() for any task with PF_KTHREAD set. This guarantees that
kthread-specific cleanup always happens regardless of the exit path -
make_task_dead(), direct do_exit(), or kthread_exit().

Replace __to_kthread() with a new tsk_is_kthread() accessor in the
public header. Export do_exit() since module code using the
kthread_exit() macro now needs it directly.

Reported-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
Tested-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tested-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224-mittlerweile-besessen-2738831ae7f6@brauner
Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 4d13f4304fa4 ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
task_stack.h: clean-up stack_not_used() implementation 2025-09-21T21:22:00+00:00 Pasha Tatashin pasha.tatashin@soleen.com 2025-08-29T11:44:41+00:00 783dbe472d4af1704febf7c52b0ae9262220bf1b Inside the small stack_not_used() function there are several ifdefs for stack growing-up vs. regular versions. Instead just implement this function two times, one for growing-up and another regular. Add comments like /* !CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE */ to clarify what the ifdefs are doing. [linus.walleij@linaro.org: rebased, function moved elsewhere in the kernel] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829-fork-cleanups-for-dynstack-v1-2-3bbaadce1f00@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240311164638.2015063-13-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Inside the small stack_not_used() function there are several ifdefs for
stack growing-up vs.  regular versions.  Instead just implement this
function two times, one for growing-up and another regular.

Add comments like /* !CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE */ to clarify what the
ifdefs are doing.

[linus.walleij@linaro.org: rebased, function moved elsewhere in the kernel]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829-fork-cleanups-for-dynstack-v1-2-3bbaadce1f00@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240311164638.2015063-13-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 2025-08-03T23:23:09+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-08-03T23:23:09+00:00 e991acf1bce7a428794514cbbe216973c9c0a3c8 Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Significant patch series in this pull request: - "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets us closer to being able to remove page->mapping - "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and minor feature addition work in relayfs - "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first kernel obtains extra memory - "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel splats information at the operator * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits) tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version kho: add test for kexec handover delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances" fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add() scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer" net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer" drm/xe: fix typo "notifer" cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer" KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer" MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below() ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable lib/xxhash: remove unused functions init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage docs: update docs after introducing delaytop ... 
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Significant patch series in this pull request:

   - "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
     us closer to being able to remove page->mapping

   - "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
     minor feature addition work in relayfs

   - "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
     us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
     memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
     estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
     kernel obtains extra memory

   - "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
     kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
     rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
     splats information at the operator

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
  tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
  kho: add test for kexec handover
  delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
  samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances"
  fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
  scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
  xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
  net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
  drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
  cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
  KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
  ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
  ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
  kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
  stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
  lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
  init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
  lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
  docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
  ...
unwind: Finish up unwind when a task exits 2025-07-31T14:20:11+00:00 Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org 2025-07-29T18:23:14+00:00 b3b9cb11aa034cfa9eb880bb9bb3d5aaf732e479 On do_exit() when a task is exiting, if a unwind is requested and the deferred user stacktrace is deferred via the task_work, the task_work callback is called after exit_mm() is called in do_exit(). This means that the user stack trace will not be retrieved and an empty stack is created. Instead, add a function unwind_deferred_task_exit() and call it just before exit_mm() so that the unwinder can call the requested callbacks with the user space stack. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com> Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org> Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250729182406.504259474@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> 
On do_exit() when a task is exiting, if a unwind is requested and the
deferred user stacktrace is deferred via the task_work, the task_work
callback is called after exit_mm() is called in do_exit(). This means that
the user stack trace will not be retrieved and an empty stack is created.

Instead, add a function unwind_deferred_task_exit() and call it just
before exit_mm() so that the unwinder can call the requested callbacks
with the user space stack.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>
Cc: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250729182406.504259474@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
exit: fix misleading comment in forget_original_parent() 2025-07-10T05:57:52+00:00 Fushuai Wang wangfushuai@baidu.com 2025-06-15T03:09:30+00:00 d71b90e5ba83b32b4e3980f8c07ba2012ad9378a The commit 482a3767e508 ("exit: reparent: call forget_original_parent() under tasklist_lock") moved the comment from exit_notify() to forget_original_parent(). However, the forget_original_parent() only handles (A), while (B) is handled in kill_orphaned_pgrp(). So remove the unrelated part. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250615030930.58051-1-wangfushuai@baidu.com Signed-off-by: Fushuai Wang <wangfushuai@baidu.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: wangfushuai <wangfushuai@baidu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
The commit 482a3767e508 ("exit: reparent: call forget_original_parent()
under tasklist_lock") moved the comment from exit_notify() to
forget_original_parent().  However, the forget_original_parent() only
handles (A), while (B) is handled in kill_orphaned_pgrp().  So remove the
unrelated part.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250615030930.58051-1-wangfushuai@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Fushuai Wang <wangfushuai@baidu.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: wangfushuai <wangfushuai@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.16_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2025-06-22T17:11:45+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-06-22T17:11:45+00:00 17ef32ae66b1afc9fa6dbea40eb18a13edba9c31 Pull perf fixes from Borislav Petkov: - Avoid a crash on a heterogeneous machine where not all cores support the same hw events features - Avoid a deadlock when throttling events - Document the perf event states more - Make sure a number of perf paths switching off or rescheduling events call perf_cgroup_event_disable() - Make sure perf does task sampling before its userspace mapping is torn down, and not after * tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.16_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event() perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events perf: Add comment to enum perf_event_state perf/core: Fix WARN in perf_cgroup_switch() perf: Fix dangling cgroup pointer in cpuctx perf: Fix cgroup state vs ERROR perf: Fix sample vs do_exit() 
Pull perf fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Avoid a crash on a heterogeneous machine where not all cores support
   the same hw events features

 - Avoid a deadlock when throttling events

 - Document the perf event states more

 - Make sure a number of perf paths switching off or rescheduling events
   call perf_cgroup_event_disable()

 - Make sure perf does task sampling before its userspace mapping is
   torn down, and not after

* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.16_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel: Fix crash in icl_update_topdown_event()
  perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events
  perf: Add comment to enum perf_event_state
  perf/core: Fix WARN in perf_cgroup_switch()
  perf: Fix dangling cgroup pointer in cpuctx
  perf: Fix cgroup state vs ERROR
  perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()
perf: Fix sample vs do_exit() 2025-06-05T12:37:51+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2025-06-05T10:31:45+00:00 4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39 Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access MMIO in bad ways. The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address space it is trying to access. It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for various reasons. Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit(). Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem. Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample") Reported-by: Baisheng Gao <baisheng.gao@unisoc.com> Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net 
Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a
synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access
MMIO in bad ways.

The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in
exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address
space it is trying to access.

It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a
receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for
various reasons.

Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit().

Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes
sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual
teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample")
Reported-by: Baisheng Gao <baisheng.gao@unisoc.com>
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net