From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: lee@kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Subject: [STABLE v5.15.y 7/8] eventpoll: move epi_fget() up
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:51:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908085113.3960814-7-lee@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908085113.3960814-1-lee@kernel.org>
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 86e87059e6d1fd5115a31949726450ed03c1073b ]
We'll need it when removing files so move it up. No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423-work-epoll-uaf-v1-5-2470f9eec0f5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: a6dc643c6931 ("eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF")
[file_ref_get(&file->f_ref) from original commit left as
atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count) due to v6.12.y missing commit
90ee6ed776c0 ("fs: port files to file_ref") and its dependent commit
08ef26ea9ab3 ("fs: add file_ref")]
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 7859566c519c75965b57ab2caccf8d6268717c9a)
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
fs/eventpoll.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index f6db6621bbee..88a7a8ead9cd 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -708,6 +708,34 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
kfree_rcu(ep, rcu);
}
+/*
+ * The ffd.file pointer may be in the process of being torn down due to
+ * being closed, but we may not have finished eventpoll_release() yet.
+ *
+ * Normally, even with the atomic_long_inc_not_zero, the file may have
+ * been free'd and then gotten re-allocated to something else (since
+ * files are not RCU-delayed, they are SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU).
+ *
+ * But for epoll, users hold the ep->mtx mutex, and as such any file in
+ * the process of being free'd will block in eventpoll_release_file()
+ * and thus the underlying file allocation will not be free'd, and the
+ * file re-use cannot happen.
+ *
+ * For the same reason we can avoid a rcu_read_lock() around the
+ * operation - 'ffd.file' cannot go away even if the refcount has
+ * reached zero (but we must still not call out to ->poll() functions
+ * etc).
+ */
+static struct file *epi_fget(const struct epitem *epi)
+{
+ struct file *file;
+
+ file = epi->ffd.file;
+ if (!atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count))
+ file = NULL;
+ return file;
+}
+
/*
* Called with &file->f_lock held,
* returns with it released
@@ -882,34 +910,6 @@ static __poll_t __ep_eventpoll_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait, int dep
return res;
}
-/*
- * The ffd.file pointer may be in the process of being torn down due to
- * being closed, but we may not have finished eventpoll_release() yet.
- *
- * Normally, even with the atomic_long_inc_not_zero, the file may have
- * been free'd and then gotten re-allocated to something else (since
- * files are not RCU-delayed, they are SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU).
- *
- * But for epoll, users hold the ep->mtx mutex, and as such any file in
- * the process of being free'd will block in eventpoll_release_file()
- * and thus the underlying file allocation will not be free'd, and the
- * file re-use cannot happen.
- *
- * For the same reason we can avoid a rcu_read_lock() around the
- * operation - 'ffd.file' cannot go away even if the refcount has
- * reached zero (but we must still not call out to ->poll() functions
- * etc).
- */
-static struct file *epi_fget(const struct epitem *epi)
-{
- struct file *file;
-
- file = epi->ffd.file;
- if (!atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count))
- file = NULL;
- return file;
-}
-
/*
* Differs from ep_eventpoll_poll() in that internal callers already have
* the ep->mtx so we need to start from depth=1, such that mutex_lock_nested()
--
2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog
next prev 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 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 3/8] eventpoll: split __ep_remove() Lee Jones
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 ` Lee Jones [this message]
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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