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| author | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2026-04-23 11:56:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2026-04-24 00:36:50 +0200 |
| commit | 33e92e9ecf48c08cb4807e9a36f9eb01619c1a1e (patch) | |
| tree | 3db1462c972a1b2d704cd4ab21a8b7035a460b78 /include | |
| parent | d30deeb8b0cf6259785c1fb79b87905d281b0a5a (diff) | |
eventpoll: refresh eventpoll_release() fast-path comment
The old comment justified the lockless READ_ONCE(file->f_ep) check
with "False positives simply cannot happen because the file is on
the way to be removed and nobody ( but eventpoll ) has still a
reference to this file." That reasoning was the root of the UAF
fixed in "eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file
UAF": __ep_remove() could clear f_ep while another close raced
past the fast path and freed the watched eventpoll / recycled the
struct file slot.
With ep_remove() now pinning @file via epi_fget() across the f_ep
clear and hlist_del_rcu(), the invariant is re-established for the
right reason: anyone who might clear f_ep holds @file alive for
the duration, so a NULL observation really does mean no
concurrent eventpoll path has work left on this file. Refresh the
comment accordingly so the next reader doesn't inherit the broken
model.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423-work-epoll-uaf-v1-8-2470f9eec0f5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/eventpoll.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/linux/eventpoll.h index ea9ca0e4172a..728fb5dee5ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/eventpoll.h +++ b/include/linux/eventpoll.h @@ -39,12 +39,16 @@ static inline void eventpoll_release(struct file *file) { /* - * Fast check to avoid the get/release of the semaphore. Since - * we're doing this outside the semaphore lock, it might return - * false negatives, but we don't care. It'll help in 99.99% of cases - * to avoid the semaphore lock. False positives simply cannot happen - * because the file in on the way to be removed and nobody ( but - * eventpoll ) has still a reference to this file. + * Fast check to skip the slow path in the common case where the + * file was never attached to an epoll. Safe without file->f_lock + * because every f_ep writer excludes a concurrent __fput() on + * @file: + * - ep_insert() requires the file alive (refcount > 0); + * - ep_remove() holds @file pinned via epi_fget() across the + * write; + * - eventpoll_release_file() runs from __fput() itself. + * We are in __fput() here, so none of those can race us: a NULL + * observation truly means no epoll path has work left on @file. */ if (likely(!READ_ONCE(file->f_ep))) return; |