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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2026-06-17 08:46:07 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-07-04 13:41:33 +0200
commit4afda3a1da02129568a3a2f1898aa13e6763bcba (patch)
tree2a46208e52759dc820ec8ecd5cf8f5cc26b13fc6
parent49075fe7e21d2e6eee194b1568a983226d0cbc59 (diff)
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locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued
[ Upstream commit 40a25d59e85b3c8709ac2424d44f65610467871e ] syzbot triggered the following splat in remove_waiter() via FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000a88-0x0000000000000a8f] class_raw_spinlock_constructor remove_waiter+0x159/0x1200 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1561 rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock+0x103/0x120 futex_requeue+0x10e4/0x20d0 __x64_sys_futex+0x34f/0x4d0 task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() does not arm the waiter upon deadlock detection, leaving waiter->task nil, where 3bfdc63936dd ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()") made this fatal. Furthermore, rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() should not be calling into remove_waiter() upon a successfully grabbing the rtmutex. 1a1fb985f2e2 ("futex: Handle early deadlock return correctly"), moved the remove_waiter() out of __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() (where 'ret' was only ever 0 or < 0) into the wrapper. Tighten this check to account for try_to_take_rt_mutex(). Fixes: 3bfdc63936dd ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()") Reported-by: syzbot+78147abe6c524f183ee9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69f114ac.050a0220.ac8b.0003.GAE@google.com/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260507112913.1019537-1-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/rtmutex.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index def1f8fbc85c..6df2f674712a 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1524,6 +1524,9 @@ static void __sched remove_waiter(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
lockdep_assert_held(&lock->wait_lock);
+ if (!waiter_task) /* never enqueued */
+ return;
+
scoped_guard(raw_spinlock, &waiter_task->pi_lock) {
rt_mutex_dequeue(lock, waiter);
waiter_task->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c
index a6974d044593..06c3db9f6cf1 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex_api.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ int __sched rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(struct rt_mutex_base *lock,
raw_spin_lock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);
ret = __rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(lock, waiter, task);
- if (unlikely(ret))
+ if (unlikely(ret < 0))
remove_waiter(lock, waiter);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&lock->wait_lock);