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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: lee@kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>,
	Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>
Subject: [STABLE v5.15.y 3/8] eventpoll: split __ep_remove()
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2026 09:50:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908085113.3960814-3-lee@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908085113.3960814-1-lee@kernel.org>

From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 0f7bdfd413000985de09fc39eb9efa1e091a3ce0 ]

Split __ep_remove() to delineate file removal from epoll item removal.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423-work-epoll-uaf-v1-2-2470f9eec0f5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: a6dc643c6931 ("eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 66bc7c8a33df3618e43ce0d0d4a985595ce57861)
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 5945390e352c..693ad9826e32 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -708,6 +708,9 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
 	kfree_rcu(ep, rcu);
 }
 
+static void __ep_remove_file(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, struct file *file);
+static bool __ep_remove_epi(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi);
+
 /*
  * Removes a "struct epitem" from the eventpoll RB tree and deallocates
  * all the associated resources. Must be called with "mtx" held.
@@ -719,8 +722,6 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
 static bool __ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, bool force)
 {
 	struct file *file = epi->ffd.file;
-	struct epitems_head *to_free;
-	struct hlist_head *head;
 
 	lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled();
 
@@ -736,8 +737,21 @@ static bool __ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, bool force)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	to_free = NULL;
-	head = file->f_ep;
+	__ep_remove_file(ep, epi, file);
+	return __ep_remove_epi(ep, epi);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Called with &file->f_lock held,
+ * returns with it released
+ */
+static void __ep_remove_file(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, struct file *file)
+{
+	struct epitems_head *to_free = NULL;
+	struct hlist_head *head = file->f_ep;
+
+	lockdep_assert_held(&ep->mtx);
+
 	if (hlist_is_singular_node(&epi->fllink, head)) {
 		/* See eventpoll_release() for details. */
 		WRITE_ONCE(file->f_ep, NULL);
@@ -751,6 +765,11 @@ static bool __ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi, bool force)
 	hlist_del_rcu(&epi->fllink);
 	spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
 	free_ephead(to_free);
+}
+
+static bool __ep_remove_epi(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
+{
+	lockdep_assert_held(&ep->mtx);
 
 	rb_erase_cached(&epi->rbn, &ep->rbr);
 
-- 
2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08  8:50 [STABLE v5.15.y 1/8] file: add fput() cleanup helper Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:50 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 2/8] eventpoll: use hlist_is_singular_node() in __ep_remove() Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:50 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 4/8] eventpoll: kill __ep_remove() Lee Jones
2026-09-08 22:39   ` Sasha Levin
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 5/8] eventpoll: drop vestigial __ prefix from ep_remove_{file,epi}() Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 6/8] eventpoll: rename ep_remove_safe() back to ep_remove() Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 7/8] eventpoll: move epi_fget() up Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 8/8] eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF Lee Jones

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