linux.git/fs/proc, branch v6.6.132

procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()

2026-03-04T12:19:52+00:00

[ Upstream commit 76149d53502cf17ef3ae454ff384551236fba867 ]

When reading /proc/[pid]/stat, do_task_stat() accesses task->real_parent
without proper RCU protection, which leads to:

  cpu 0                               cpu 1
  -----                               -----
  do_task_stat
    var = task->real_parent
                                      release_task
                                        call_rcu(delayed_put_task_struct)
    task_tgid_nr_ns(var)
      rcu_read_lock   <--- Too late to protect task->real_parent!
      task_pid_ptr    <--- UAF!
      rcu_read_unlock

This patch uses task_ppid_nr_ns() instead of task_tgid_nr_ns() to add
proper RCU protection for accessing task->real_parent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260128083007.3173016-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com
Fixes: 06fffb1267c9 ("do_task_stat: don't take rcu_read_lock()")
Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Mateusz Guzik 
Cc: ruippan 
Cc: Usama Arif 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()

2025-11-24T09:30:07+00:00

commit 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 upstream.

Pde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node
to EMPTY, which may result in uaf access.  We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE()
set the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to
avoid uaf access.

We found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase
getdent and tun in the same time.  The steps of the issue is as follows:

1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current
   pde is tun3;

2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase
   them from rbtree.  erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2.  the
   pde(tun2) will be released to slab;

3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return
   pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access.

CPU 0                                      |    CPU 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/      |   unregister_netdevice(tun->dev)   //tun3 tun2
sys_getdents64()                           |
  iterate_dir()                            |
    proc_readdir()                         |
      proc_readdir_de()                    |     snmp6_unregister_dev()
        pde_get(de);                       |       proc_remove()
        read_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);    |         remove_proc_subtree()
                                           |           write_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
        [time window]                      |           rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir);
                                           |           write_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
        read_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);      |
        next = pde_subdir_next(de);        |
        pde_put(de);                       |
        de = next;    //UAF                |

rbtree of dev_snmp6
                        |
                    pde(tun3)
                     /    \
                  NULL  pde(tun2)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251025024233.158363-1-albin_yang@163.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: wangzijie 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: fix type confusion in pde_set_flags()

2025-09-19T14:32:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0ce9398aa0830f15f92bbed73853f9861c3e74ff ]

Commit 2ce3d282bd50 ("proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc
files") missed a key part in the definition of proc_dir_entry:

union {
	const struct proc_ops *proc_ops;
	const struct file_operations *proc_dir_ops;
};

So dereference of ->proc_ops assumes it is a proc_ops structure results in
type confusion and make NULL check for 'proc_ops' not work for proc dir.

Add !S_ISDIR(dp->mode) test before calling pde_set_flags() to fix it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250904135715.3972782-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Fixes: 2ce3d282bd50 ("proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files")
Signed-off-by: wangzijie 
Reported-by: Brad Spengler 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250903065758.3678537-1-wangzijie1@honor.com/
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Stefano Brivio 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files

2025-09-09T16:56:26+00:00

commit 2ce3d282bd5050fca8577defeff08ada0d55d062 upstream.

To avoid potential UAF issues during module removal races, we use
pde_set_flags() to save proc_ops flags in PDE itself before
proc_register(), and then use pde_has_proc_*() helpers instead of directly
dereferencing pde->proc_ops->*.

However, the pde_set_flags() call was missing when creating net related
proc files.  This omission caused incorrect behavior which FMODE_LSEEK was
being cleared inappropriately in proc_reg_open() for net proc files.  Lars
reported it in this link[1].

Fix this by ensuring pde_set_flags() is called when register proc entry,
and add NULL check for proc_ops in pde_set_flags().

[wangzijie1@honor.com: stash pde->proc_ops in a local const variable, per Christian]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250821105806.1453833-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818123102.959595-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250815195616.64497967@chagall.paradoxon.rec/ [1]
Fixes: ff7ec8dc1b64 ("proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al")
Signed-off-by: wangzijie 
Reported-by: Lars Wendler 
Tested-by: Stefano Brivio 
Tested-by: Petr Vaněk 
Tested by: Lars Wendler 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: wangzijie 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al

2025-08-15T10:08:54+00:00

[ Upstream commit ff7ec8dc1b646296f8d94c39339e8d3833d16c05 ]

Check pde->proc_ops->proc_lseek directly may cause UAF in rmmod scenario.
It's a gap in proc_reg_open() after commit 654b33ada4ab("proc: fix UAF in
proc_get_inode()").  Followed by AI Viro's suggestion, fix it in same
manner.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250607021353.1127963-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Fixes: 3f61631d47f1 ("take care to handle NULL ->proc_lseek()")
Signed-off-by: wangzijie 
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" 
Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: fix the inaccurate memory statistics issue for users

2025-07-17T16:35:14+00:00

commit 82241a83cd15aaaf28200a40ad1a8b480012edaf upstream.

On some large machines with a high number of CPUs running a 64K pagesize
kernel, we found that the 'RES' field is always 0 displayed by the top
command for some processes, which will cause a lot of confusion for users.

    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 875525 root      20   0   12480      0      0 R   0.3   0.0   0:00.08 top
      1 root      20   0  172800      0      0 S   0.0   0.0   0:04.52 systemd

The main reason is that the batch size of the percpu counter is quite
large on these machines, caching a significant percpu value, since
converting mm's rss stats into percpu_counter by commit f1a7941243c1 ("mm:
convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter").  Intuitively, the batch
number should be optimized, but on some paths, performance may take
precedence over statistical accuracy.  Therefore, introducing a new
interface to add the percpu statistical count and display it to users,
which can remove the confusion.  In addition, this change is not expected
to be on a performance-critical path, so the modification should be
acceptable.

In addition, the 'mm->rss_stat' is updated by using add_mm_counter() and
dec/inc_mm_counter(), which are all wrappers around
percpu_counter_add_batch().  In percpu_counter_add_batch(), there is
percpu batch caching to avoid 'fbc->lock' contention.  This patch changes
task_mem() and task_statm() to get the accurate mm counters under the
'fbc->lock', but this should not exacerbate kernel 'mm->rss_stat' lock
contention due to the percpu batch caching of the mm counters.  The
following test also confirm the theoretical analysis.

I run the stress-ng that stresses anon page faults in 32 threads on my 32
cores machine, while simultaneously running a script that starts 32
threads to busy-loop pread each stress-ng thread's /proc/pid/status
interface.  From the following data, I did not observe any obvious impact
of this patch on the stress-ng tests.

w/o patch:
stress-ng: info:  [6848]          4,399,219,085,152 CPU Cycles          67.327 B/sec
stress-ng: info:  [6848]          1,616,524,844,832 Instructions          24.740 B/sec (0.367 instr. per cycle)
stress-ng: info:  [6848]          39,529,792 Page Faults Total           0.605 M/sec
stress-ng: info:  [6848]          39,529,792 Page Faults Minor           0.605 M/sec

w/patch:
stress-ng: info:  [2485]          4,462,440,381,856 CPU Cycles          68.382 B/sec
stress-ng: info:  [2485]          1,615,101,503,296 Instructions          24.750 B/sec (0.362 instr. per cycle)
stress-ng: info:  [2485]          39,439,232 Page Faults Total           0.604 M/sec
stress-ng: info:  [2485]          39,439,232 Page Faults Minor           0.604 M/sec

On comparing a very simple app which just allocates & touches some
memory against v6.1 (which doesn't have f1a7941243c1) and latest Linus
tree (4c06e63b9203) I can see that on latest Linus tree the values for
VmRSS, RssAnon and RssFile from /proc/self/status are all zeroes while
they do report values on v6.1 and a Linus tree with this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f4586b17f66f97c174f7fd1f8647374fdb53de1c.1749119050.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang 
Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan 
Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan 
Tested-by Donet Tom 
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt 
Acked-by: SeongJae Park 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fix proc_sys_compare() handling of in-lookup dentries

2025-07-17T16:35:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit b969f9614885c20f903e1d1f9445611daf161d6d ]

There's one case where ->d_compare() can be called for an in-lookup
dentry; usually that's nothing special from ->d_compare() point of
view, but... proc_sys_compare() is weird.

The thing is, /proc/sys subdirectories can look differently for
different processes.  Up to and including having the same name
resolve to different dentries - all of them hashed.

The way it's done is ->d_compare() refusing to admit a match unless
this dentry is supposed to be visible to this caller.  The information
needed to discriminate between them is stored in inode; it is set
during proc_sys_lookup() and until it's done d_splice_alias() we really
can't tell who should that dentry be visible for.

Normally there's no negative dentries in /proc/sys; we can run into
a dying dentry in RCU dcache lookup, but those can be safely rejected.

However, ->d_compare() is also called for in-lookup dentries, before
they get positive - or hashed, for that matter.  In case of match
we will wait until dentry leaves in-lookup state and repeat ->d_compare()
afterwards.  In other words, the right behaviour is to treat the
name match as sufficient for in-lookup dentries; if dentry is not
for us, we'll see that when we recheck once proc_sys_lookup() is
done with it.

While we are at it, fix the misspelled READ_ONCE and WRITE_ONCE there.

Fixes: d9171b934526 ("parallel lookups machinery, part 4 (and last)")
Reported-by: NeilBrown 
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()

2025-04-10T12:37:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6287fbad1cd91f0c25cdc3a580499060828a8f30 ]

proc_pid_wchan() used to report kernel addresses to user space but that is
no longer the case today.  Bring the comment above proc_pid_wchan() in
sync with the implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250319210222.1518771-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Fixes: b2f73922d119 ("fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()

2025-03-28T20:59:55+00:00

commit 654b33ada4ab5e926cd9c570196fefa7bec7c1df upstream.

Fix race between rmmod and /proc/XXX's inode instantiation.

The bug is that pde->proc_ops don't belong to /proc, it belongs to a
module, therefore dereferencing it after /proc entry has been registered
is a bug unless use_pde/unuse_pde() pair has been used.

use_pde/unuse_pde can be avoided (2 atomic ops!) because pde->proc_ops
never changes so information necessary for inode instantiation can be
saved _before_ proc_register() in PDE itself and used later, avoiding
pde->proc_ops->...  dereference.

      rmmod                         lookup
sys_delete_module
                         proc_lookup_de
			   pde_get(de);
			   proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, de);
  mod->exit()
    proc_remove
      remove_proc_subtree
       proc_entry_rundown(de);
  free_module(mod);

                               if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
	                         if (de->proc_ops->proc_read_iter)
                           --> As module is already freed, will trigger UAF

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff80a702b
PGD 817fc4067 P4D 817fc4067 PUD 817fc0067 PMD 102ef4067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 2667 Comm: ls Tainted: G
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:proc_get_inode+0x302/0x6e0
RSP: 0018:ffff88811c837998 EFLAGS: 00010a06
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffc0538140 RCX: 0000000000000007
RDX: 1ffffffff80a702b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffffc0538158
RBP: ffff8881299a6000 R08: 0000000067bbe1e5 R09: 1ffff11023906f20
R10: ffffffffb560ca07 R11: ffffffffb2b43a58 R12: ffff888105bb78f0
R13: ffff888100518048 R14: ffff8881299a6004 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f95b9686840(0000) GS:ffff8883af100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffbfff80a702b CR3: 0000000117dd2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 
 proc_lookup_de+0x11f/0x2e0
 __lookup_slow+0x188/0x350
 walk_component+0x2ab/0x4f0
 path_lookupat+0x120/0x660
 filename_lookup+0x1ce/0x560
 vfs_statx+0xac/0x150
 __do_sys_newstat+0x96/0x110
 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

[adobriyan@gmail.com: don't do 2 atomic ops on the common path]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d25ded0-1739-447e-812b-e34da7990dcf@p183
Fixes: 778f3dd5a13c ("Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hrtimer: Use and report correct timerslack values for realtime tasks

2025-03-22T19:50:37+00:00

commit ed4fb6d7ef68111bb539283561953e5c6e9a6e38 upstream.

The timerslack_ns setting is used to specify how much the hardware
timers should be delayed, to potentially dispatch multiple timers in a
single interrupt. This is a performance optimization. Timers of
realtime tasks (having a realtime scheduling policy) should not be
delayed.

This logic was inconsitently applied to the hrtimers, leading to delays
of realtime tasks which used timed waits for events (e.g. condition
variables). Due to the downstream override of the slack for rt tasks,
the procfs reported incorrect (non-zero) timerslack_ns values.

This is changed by setting the timer_slack_ns task attribute to 0 for
all tasks with a rt policy. By that, downstream users do not need to
specially handle rt tasks (w.r.t. the slack), and the procfs entry
shows the correct value of "0". Setting non-zero slack values (either
via procfs or PR_SET_TIMERSLACK) on tasks with a rt policy is ignored,
as stated in "man 2 PR_SET_TIMERSLACK":

  Timer slack is not applied to threads that are scheduled under a
  real-time scheduling policy (see sched_setscheduler(2)).

The special handling of timerslack on rt tasks in downstream users
is removed as well.

Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240814121032.368444-2-felix.moessbauer@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman