6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de
[ Upstream commit afe16653e05db07d658b55245c7a2e0603f136c0 ]
vhost_task_create() creates a task and keeps a reference to its task_struct. That task may exit early via a signal and its task_struct will be released. A pending vhost_task_wake() will then attempt to wake the task and access a task_struct which is no longer there.
Acquire a reference on the task_struct while creating the thread and release the reference while the struct vhost_task itself is removed. If the task exits early due to a signal, then the vhost_task_wake() will still access a valid task_struct. The wake is safe and will be skipped in this case.
Fixes: f9010dbdce911 ("fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression") Reported-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aKkLEtoDXKxAAWju@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Message-Id: 20250918181144.Ygo8BZ-R@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com Tested-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/vhost_task.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c index 2f844c279a3e0..7f24ccc896c64 100644 --- a/kernel/vhost_task.c +++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ void vhost_task_stop(struct vhost_task *vtsk) * freeing it below. */ wait_for_completion(&vtsk->exited); + put_task_struct(vtsk->task); kfree(vtsk); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_task_stop); @@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(bool (*fn)(void *), return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(tsk)); }
- vtsk->task = tsk; + vtsk->task = get_task_struct(tsk); return vtsk; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_task_create);