[PATCH] landlock: Fix deadlock in restrict_one_thread_callback

Yihan Ding dingyihan at uniontech.com
Tue Feb 24 06:27:29 UTC 2026


syzbot found a deadlock in landlock_restrict_sibling_threads().
When multiple threads concurrently call landlock_restrict_self() with
sibling thread restriction enabled, they can deadlock by mutually
queueing task_works on each other and then blocking in kernel space
(waiting for the other to finish).

Fix this by serializing the TSYNC operations within the same process
using the exec_update_lock. This prevents concurrent invocations
from deadlocking.

Additionally, update the comments in the interrupt recovery path to
clarify that cancel_tsync_works() is an opportunistic cleanup, and
waiting for completion is strictly necessary to prevent a Use-After-Free
of the stack-allocated shared_ctx.

Fixes: 42fc7e6543f6 ("landlock: Multithreading support for landlock_restrict_self()")
Reported-by: syzbot+7ea2f5e9dfd468201817 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7ea2f5e9dfd468201817
Signed-off-by: Yihan Ding <dingyihan at uniontech.com>
---
 security/landlock/tsync.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/landlock/tsync.c b/security/landlock/tsync.c
index de01aa899751..4e91af271f3b 100644
--- a/security/landlock/tsync.c
+++ b/security/landlock/tsync.c
@@ -447,6 +447,12 @@ int landlock_restrict_sibling_threads(const struct cred *old_cred,
 	shared_ctx.new_cred = new_cred;
 	shared_ctx.set_no_new_privs = task_no_new_privs(current);
 
+	/*
+	 * Serialize concurrent TSYNC operations to prevent deadlocks
+	 * when multiple threads call landlock_restrict_self() simultaneously.
+	 */
+	down_write(&current->signal->exec_update_lock);
+
 	/*
 	 * We schedule a pseudo-signal task_work for each of the calling task's
 	 * sibling threads.  In the task work, each thread:
@@ -527,14 +533,17 @@ int landlock_restrict_sibling_threads(const struct cred *old_cred,
 					   -ERESTARTNOINTR);
 
 				/*
-				 * Cancel task works for tasks that did not start running yet,
-				 * and decrement all_prepared and num_unfinished accordingly.
+				 * Opportunistic improvement: try to cancel task works
+				 * for tasks that did not start running yet. We do not
+				 * have a guarantee that it cancels any of the enqueued
+				 * task works (because task_work_run() might already have
+				 * dequeued them).
 				 */
 				cancel_tsync_works(&works, &shared_ctx);
 
 				/*
-				 * The remaining task works have started running, so waiting for
-				 * their completion will finish.
+				 * We must wait for the remaining task works to finish to
+				 * prevent a use-after-free of the local shared_ctx.
 				 */
 				wait_for_completion(&shared_ctx.all_prepared);
 			}
@@ -557,5 +566,7 @@ int landlock_restrict_sibling_threads(const struct cred *old_cred,
 
 	tsync_works_release(&works);
 
+	up_write(&current->signal->exec_update_lock);
+
 	return atomic_read(&shared_ctx.preparation_error);
 }
-- 
2.51.0




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