The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x f90fff1e152dedf52b932240ebbd670d83330eca # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025061744-precinct-rubble-45c9@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From f90fff1e152dedf52b932240ebbd670d83330eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:26:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: fix race between handle_posix_cpu_timers() and posix_cpu_timer_del() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

If an exiting non-autoreaping task has already passed exit_notify() and calls handle_posix_cpu_timers() from IRQ, it can be reaped by its parent or debugger right after unlock_task_sighand().

If a concurrent posix_cpu_timer_del() runs at that moment, it won't be able to detect timer->it.cpu.firing != 0: cpu_timer_task_rcu() and/or lock_task_sighand() will fail.

Add the tsk->exit_state check into run_posix_cpu_timers() to fix this.

This fix is not needed if CONFIG_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK=y, because exit_task_work() is called before exit_notify(). But the check still makes sense, task_work_add(&tsk->posix_cputimers_work.work) will fail anyway in this case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Benoît Sevens bsevens@google.com Fixes: 0bdd2ed4138e ("sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c index 50e8d04ab661..2e5b89d7d866 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -1405,6 +1405,15 @@ void run_posix_cpu_timers(void)

lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();

+ /* + * Ensure that release_task(tsk) can't happen while + * handle_posix_cpu_timers() is running. Otherwise, a concurrent + * posix_cpu_timer_del() may fail to lock_task_sighand(tsk) and + * miss timer->it.cpu.firing != 0. + */ + if (tsk->exit_state) + return; + /* * If the actual expiry is deferred to task work context and the * work is already scheduled there is no point to do anything here.