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    signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released · 399f8dd9
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    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: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/878s32g6j5.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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