[PATCH] fuse: clear stale intr_entry in fuse_remove_pending_req()
Baokun Li <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:16:41 +0800
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.fuse-devel,org.kernel.vger.stable |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Commit f8fce75fedf7 ("fuse: clear intr_entry in fuse_resend and
fuse_remove_pending_req") removes stale interrupt entries in
fuse_chan_resend() when requests are moved back to fiq->pending.
However, that cleanup only covers interrupt entries that are already
linked at scan time. It can race with a concurrent queue_interrupt()
from the request holder:
CPU 0 (holder thread) CPU 1 (resend)
--------------------- --------------
req in processing (FR_SENT=1)
signal arrives
set_bit(FR_INTERRUPTED)
test_bit(FR_SENT) -> true
queue_interrupt():
spins on fiq->lock ...
fuse_chan_resend():
set_bit(FR_PENDING)
clear_bit(FR_SENT)
spin_lock(&fiq->lock)
cleanup scan:
intr_entry not linked yet
-> list_del_init is a no-op
list_splice -> fiq->pending
spin_unlock(&fiq->lock)
... acquires fiq->lock
list_empty(&req->intr_entry) -> true
FR_FINISHED not set
-> intr_entry added to fiq->interrupts
AFTER the cleanup already ran
fatal signal arrives
fuse_remove_pending_req():
test_bit(FR_PENDING) -> true
list_del(&req->list)
__fuse_put_request
fuse_put_request (refcount -> 0)
-> req freed, intr_entry dangling
on fiq->interrupts
fuse_dev_queue_interrupt() only checks list_empty() and FR_FINISHED
before linking intr_entry -- it does not check FR_PENDING, so a
request already spliced back to fiq->pending can still be added to
fiq->interrupts. The lock contention itself produces the bad
ordering: while the resend holds fiq->lock to scan the queued
requests, the holder spins in queue_interrupt() and links intr_entry
right after the scan finishes.
The dangling entry then causes the same use-after-free that the
above commit describes: fuse_read_interrupt() writes to the freed
slab object via list_del_init() and leaks req->in.h.unique to
userspace. Once the freed memory is reused, INIT_LIST_HEAD() turns
the entry into a self-loop and list_empty(&fiq->interrupts) returns
false forever, so the daemon reads the same phantom FUSE_INTERRUPT
in an infinite loop and never consumes fiq->pending.
Close the race in fuse_remove_pending_req(), which is the common
bail-out path for both the legacy and the io_uring transport: after
the request is removed from the pending queue, also unlink intr_entry
under fiq->lock before the reference is dropped. fiq->lock must be
taken explicitly since the lock argument is the ring queue lock in
the io_uring case, while fiq->interrupts is always protected by
fiq->lock. This runs on the holder thread after any
queue_interrupt() it issued, and no other path can re-link the entry
once the request is off the queues (re-queueing an interrupt from
FUSE_INTERRUPT's -EAGAIN reply requires finding the request in the
processing queue first).
Fixes: 760eac73f9f6 ("fuse: Introduce a new notification type for resend pending requests")
Cc: [email protected] # 6.9
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <[email protected]>
---
fs/fuse/dev.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index 5763a7cd3b37..87891162985c 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -678,6 +678,8 @@ static int queue_interrupt(struct fuse_req *req)
bool fuse_remove_pending_req(struct fuse_req *req, spinlock_t *lock)
{
+ struct fuse_iqueue *fiq = &req->chan->iq;
+
spin_lock(lock);
if (test_bit(FR_PENDING, &req->flags)) {
/*
@@ -686,6 +688,18 @@ bool fuse_remove_pending_req(struct fuse_req *req, spinlock_t *lock)
*/
list_del(&req->list);
spin_unlock(lock);
+
+ /*
+ * Remove stale intr_entry queued by queue_interrupt() before
+ * the request was requeued, which would otherwise dangle on
+ * fiq->interrupts once the request is freed.
+ */
+ if (test_bit(FR_INTERRUPTED, &req->flags)) {
+ spin_lock(&fiq->lock);
+ list_del_init(&req->intr_entry);
+ spin_unlock(&fiq->lock);
+ }
+
__fuse_put_request(req);
req->out.h.error = -EINTR;
return true;
--
2.43.7