Commit fc582cd26e upstream.
syzbot reports that defer/local task_work adding via msg_ring can hit
a request that has been freed:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 19356 Comm: iou-wrk-19354 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-00108-g17bbde2e1716 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xd2/0x2b0 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:634
io_req_local_work_add io_uring/io_uring.c:1184 [inline]
__io_req_task_work_add+0x589/0x950 io_uring/io_uring.c:1252
io_msg_remote_post io_uring/msg_ring.c:103 [inline]
io_msg_data_remote io_uring/msg_ring.c:133 [inline]
__io_msg_ring_data+0x820/0xaa0 io_uring/msg_ring.c:151
io_msg_ring_data io_uring/msg_ring.c:173 [inline]
io_msg_ring+0x134/0xa00 io_uring/msg_ring.c:314
__io_issue_sqe+0x17e/0x4b0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1739
io_issue_sqe+0x165/0xfd0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1762
io_wq_submit_work+0x6e9/0xb90 io_uring/io_uring.c:1874
io_worker_handle_work+0x7cd/0x1180 io_uring/io-wq.c:642
io_wq_worker+0x42f/0xeb0 io_uring/io-wq.c:696
ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
which is supposed to be safe with how requests are allocated. But msg
ring requests alloc and free on their own, and hence must defer freeing
to a sane time.
Add an rcu_head and use kfree_rcu() in both spots where requests are
freed. Only the one in io_msg_tw_complete() is strictly required as it
has been visible on the other ring, but use it consistently in the other
spot as well.
This should not cause any other issues outside of KASAN rightfully
complaining about it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/686cd2ea.a00a0220.338033.0007.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: syzbot+54cbbfb4db9145d26fc2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0617bb500b ("io_uring/msg_ring: improve handling of target CQE posting")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
(cherry picked from commit fc582cd26e)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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