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locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock()
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:52:08 +0000 (14:52 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:51:13 +0000 (11:51 +0200)
commit89038cc87d80c77e7aa6f42a64b2573b74af339f
treed0e6a0b39468fe3611681810a860121ea708c7c9
parenta552c81ff4a16738ca5a44a177d552eb38d552ce
locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock()

rt_spin_unlock() releases the RCU protection before unlocking the
lock. That opens the door for the following UAF scenario:

 T1 T2
 spin_lock(&p->lock); rcu_read_lock();
 invalidate(p); p = rcu_dereference(ptr);
 rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, NULL); if (!p) return;
 spin_unlock(&p->lock); spin_lock(&p->lock)
     lock(&lock->lock);
   rcu_read_lock();
 kfree_rcu(p); rcu_read_unlock();
....
spin_unlock(&p->lock)
  rcu_read_unlock(); // Ends grace period
 rcu_do_batch()
   kfree(p);
    UAF ->   rt_mutex_cmpxchg_release(&lock->lock...)

Regular spinlocks keep preemption disabled accross the unlock operation,
which provides full RCU protection, but the RT substitution fails to
resemble that. Same applies for the rwlock substitution.

Move the rcu_read_unlock() invocation past the unlock operations to match
the non-RT semantics. This makes it asymmetric vs. rt_xxx_lock(), but
that's harmless as the caller needs to hold RCU read lock across the lock
operation. The migrate_enable() call stays before the unlock operation
because there is no per CPU operation in the unlock path which would
require migration to be kept disabled.

Fixes: 0f383b6dc96e ("locking/spinlock: Provide RT variant")
Reported-by: syzbot+000c800a02097aaa10ed@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Decoded-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87jyrud75z.ffs@fw13
kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c