[PATCH] futex: Use correct exit on failure from futex_hash_allocate_default()
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Sep 18 2025 - 09:09:49 EST
copy_process() uses the wrong error exit path from
futex_hash_allocate_default().
After exiting from futex_hash_allocate_default(), neither tasklist_lock
nor siglock has been acquired. The exit label bad_fork_core_free unlocks
both of these locks which is wrong.
The previous label, bad_fork_cancel_cgroup, is the correct exit.
sched_cgroup_fork() did not allocate any resources that need to freed.
Use bad_fork_cancel_cgroup on error exit from
futex_hash_allocate_default().
Fixes: 7c4f75a21f636 ("futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash")
Reported-by: syzbot+80cb3cc5c14fad191a10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68cb1cbd.050a0220.2ff435.0599.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
That private-futex code was marked BROKEN in v6.16 and re-enabled in
v6.17. It could use
56180dd20c19e ("futex: Use RCU-based per-CPU reference counting instead of rcuref_t")
as Fixes: instead to avoid backporting to v6.16.
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c4ada32598bd5..6ca8689a83b5b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
if (need_futex_hash_allocate_default(clone_flags)) {
retval = futex_hash_allocate_default();
if (retval)
- goto bad_fork_core_free;
+ goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
/*
* If we fail beyond this point we don't free the allocated
* futex hash map. We assume that another thread will be created
--
2.51.0