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Thomas Gleixner authored
syzbot reported a memory leak related to sigqueue caching. The assumption that a task cannot cache a sigqueue after the signal handler has been dropped and exit_task_sigqueue_cache() has been invoked turns out to be wrong. Such a task can still invoke release_task(other_task), which cleans up the signals of 'other_task' and ends up in sigqueue_cache_or_free(), which in turn will cache the signal because task->sigqueue_cache is NULL. That's obviously bogus because nothing will free the cached signal of that task anymore, so the cached item is leaked. This happens when e.g. the last non-leader thread exits and reaps the zombie leader. Prevent this by setting tsk::sigqueue_cache to an error pointer value in exit_task_sigqueue_cache() which forces any subsequent invocation of sigqueue_cache_or_free() from that task to hand the sigqueue back to the kmemcache. Add comments to all relevant places. Fixes: 4bad58eb ("signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct") Reported-by: syzbot+0bac5fec63d4f399ba98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/878s32g6j5.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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