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eventpoll: defer struct eventpoll free to RCU grace period

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In certain situations, ep_free() in eventpoll.c will kfree the epi->ep
eventpoll struct while it still being used by another concurrent thread.
Defer the kfree() to an RCU callback to prevent UAF.

Fixes: f2e467a482 ("eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Carlini <nicholas@carlini.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Nicholas Carlini
2026-03-31 15:25:32 +02:00
committed by Christian Brauner
parent 1635c2acdd
commit 07712db808
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ struct eventpoll {
*/
refcount_t refcount;
/* used to defer freeing past ep_get_upwards_depth_proc() RCU walk */
struct rcu_head rcu;
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
/* used to track busy poll napi_id */
unsigned int napi_id;
@@ -819,7 +822,8 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
mutex_destroy(&ep->mtx);
free_uid(ep->user);
wakeup_source_unregister(ep->ws);
kfree(ep);
/* ep_get_upwards_depth_proc() may still hold epi->ep under RCU */
kfree_rcu(ep, rcu);
}
/*