[PATCH v3 0/2] landlock: Fix TSYNC deadlock and clean up error path

Yihan Ding dingyihan at uniontech.com
Thu Feb 26 01:52:48 UTC 2026


Hello,

This patch series fixes a deadlock in the Landlock TSYNC multithreading 
support, originally reported by syzbot, and cleans up the associated 
interrupt recovery path.

The deadlock occurs when multiple threads concurrently call 
landlock_restrict_self() with sibling thread restriction enabled, 
causing them to mutually queue task_works on each other and block 
indefinitely.

* Patch 1 fixes the root cause by serializing the TSYNC operations 
  within the same process using the exec_update_lock.
* Patch 2 cleans up the interrupt recovery path by replacing an 
  unnecessary wait_for_completion() with a straightforward loop break, 
  avoiding Use-After-Free while unblocking remaining task_works.

Changes in v3:
- Patch 1: Changed down_write_killable() to down_write_trylock() and
  return -ERESTARTNOINTR on failure. This avoids a secondary deadlock 
  where a blocking wait prevents a sibling thread from waking up to 
  execute the requested TSYNC task_work. (Noted by Günther Noack. 
  down_write_interruptible() was also suggested but is not implemented 
  for rw_semaphores in the kernel).
- Patch 2: No changes.

Changes in v2:
- Split the changes into a 2-patch series.
- Patch 1: Adopted down_write_killable() instead of down_write().
- Patch 2: Removed wait_for_completion(&shared_ctx.all_prepared) and 
  replaced it with a `break` to prevent UAF.

Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260225024734.3024732-1-dingyihan@uniontech.com/
Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224062729.2908692-1-dingyihan@uniontech.com/

Yihan Ding (2):
  landlock: Serialize TSYNC thread restriction
  landlock: Clean up interrupted thread logic in TSYNC

 security/landlock/tsync.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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2.51.0



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