From 74e144274af39935b0f410c0ee4d2b91c3730414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ji'an Zhou Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 09:12:04 +0000 Subject: futex/requeue: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove_waiter() on self-deadlock When FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI requeues a non-top waiter that already owns the target PI futex, task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() returns -EDEADLK before setting waiter->task. The subsequent remove_waiter() in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() dereferences the NULL waiter->task, causing a kernel crash. Add a self-deadlock check for non-top waiters before calling rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(), analogous to the top-waiter check in futex_lock_pi_atomic(). Fixes: 3bfdc63936dd4773109b7b8c280c0f3b5ae7d349 ("rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()") Signed-off-by: Ji'an Zhou Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/futex/requeue.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/futex/requeue.c b/kernel/futex/requeue.c index b597cb3d17fc..1d99a84dc9ad 100644 --- a/kernel/futex/requeue.c +++ b/kernel/futex/requeue.c @@ -643,6 +643,12 @@ retry_private: continue; } + /* Self-deadlock: non-top waiter already owns the PI futex. */ + if (rt_mutex_owner(&pi_state->pi_mutex) == this->task) { + ret = -EDEADLK; + break; + } + ret = rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock(&pi_state->pi_mutex, this->rt_waiter, this->task); -- cgit v1.2.3