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posix-timers: fix creation race
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sys_timer_create() sets ->it_process and unlocks ->siglock, then checks
tmr->it_sigev_notify to define if get_task_struct() is needed.

We already passed ->it_id to the caller, another thread can delete this timer
and free its memory in between.

As a minimal fix, move this code under ->siglock, sys_timer_delete() takes it
too before calling release_posix_timer().  A proper serialization would be to
take ->it_lock, we add a partly initialized timer on posix_timers_id, not
good.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Aug 23, 2007
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/posix-timers.c
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Expand Up @@ -547,9 +547,9 @@ sys_timer_create(const clockid_t which_clock,
new_timer->it_process = process;
list_add(&new_timer->list,
&process->signal->posix_timers);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags);
if (new_timer->it_sigev_notify == (SIGEV_SIGNAL|SIGEV_THREAD_ID))
get_task_struct(process);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags);
} else {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&process->sighand->siglock, flags);
process = NULL;
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