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authorRichard Patel <ripatel@wii.dev>2026-10-09 14:58:42 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>2026-10-16 00:18:40 +0200
commit89a9e003a2ef73f67dff03dfd59e0a5474b56b0b (patch)
tree1ca7993255d9a075d3f34815657fb73646e645e0 /kernel
parentd04adff6860587e843948b0c31174f8ae11b8dfe (diff)
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genirq: Move interrupt thread exit_work object to irqaction
irq_thread() registers irq_thread_dtor() as exit task_work using a stack-allocated callback_head. On normal interrupt thread exit, this work gets cancelled and never runs. On x86, an abnormal interrupt thread exit (e.g. handler oops) discards the stack, including the callback_head, while that callback_head is still pending. By the time exit_task_work() runs, the stack memory formerly backing callback_head is already clobbered. irq_thread() <-- on_exit_work allocated ** IRQ handler faults ** oops_end() rewind_stack_and_make_dead() <-- on_exit_work freed make_task_dead() do_exit(SIGSEGV) ... exit_shm() <-- on_exit_work clobbered ... exit_task_work() <-- stack use-after-free exit_shm()+0x30 <-- wild jump to return addr Thus, a benign threaded IRQ oops (e.g. a NULL pointer deref) is turned into a wild jump. This is caught by kernel IBT: ** first fault ** Oops: general protection fault, kernel NULL pointer dereference 0x3c0: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... ** second fault ** Missing ENDBR: exit_shm+0x30/0x1c0 kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/cet.c:133! ... ? task_work_run+0x5c/0x90 ? do_exit+0x209/0x460 ? rewind_stack_and_make_dead+0x16/0x20 ... note: irq/165-AudioDS[1427] exited with irqs disabled Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! Fix this by storing the callback_head in struct irqaction. The irqaction is only freed once irq_thread_dtor() finishes. Fixes: 2deb4be28077 ("x86/dumpstack: When OOPSing, rewind the stack before do_exit()") Signed-off-by: Richard Patel <ripatel@wii.dev> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009145842.1616117-3-ripatel@wii.dev
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/manage.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 87a2476ea259..3b647d9b458a 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -1201,9 +1201,9 @@ static void __irq_thread_dtor(struct irqaction *action)
irq_finalize_oneshot(desc, action);
}
-static void irq_thread_dtor(struct callback_head *unused)
+static void irq_thread_dtor(struct callback_head *work)
{
- struct irqaction *action = kthread_data(current);
+ struct irqaction *action = container_of(work, struct irqaction, thread_dtor);
__irq_thread_dtor(action);
clear_and_wake_up_bit(IRQTF_EXIT_WORK, &action->thread_flags);
@@ -1250,7 +1250,6 @@ static void wake_up_and_wait_for_irq_thread_ready(struct irq_desc *desc,
*/
static int irq_thread(void *data)
{
- struct callback_head on_exit_work;
struct irqaction *action = data;
struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(action->irq);
irqreturn_t (*handler_fn)(struct irq_desc *desc,
@@ -1270,8 +1269,8 @@ static int irq_thread(void *data)
handler_fn = irq_thread_fn;
set_bit(IRQTF_EXIT_WORK, &action->thread_flags);
- init_task_work(&on_exit_work, irq_thread_dtor);
- task_work_add(current, &on_exit_work, TWA_NONE);
+ init_task_work(&action->thread_dtor, irq_thread_dtor);
+ task_work_add(current, &action->thread_dtor, TWA_NONE);
while (!irq_wait_for_interrupt(desc, action)) {
irqreturn_t action_ret;