CVE-2026-74594: sched/psi: Shut down rtpoll_timer in psi_cgroup_free()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/psi: Shut down rtpoll_timer in psi_cgroup_free()
psi_schedule_rtpoll_work() is called locklessly from the scheduler hotpath
and can race psi_trigger_destroy() taking down the last rtpoll trigger under
rtpoll_trigger_lock:
psi_schedule_rtpoll_work() psi_trigger_destroy()
rcu_read_lock();
task = rcu_dereference(rtpoll_task);
rcu_assign_pointer(rtpoll_task, NULL);
timer_delete(&rtpoll_timer);
mod_timer(&rtpoll_timer, ...);
rcu_read_unlock();
synchronize_rcu();
kthread_stop(task_to_destroy);
The group can then be freed with the re-armed timer still pending, and
poll_timer_fn() runs on freed memory.
461daba06bdc ("psi: eliminate kthread_worker from psi trigger scheduling
mechanism") deleted the timer synchronously after the synchronize_rcu(),
which prevented this but raced trigger creation instead: the deletion could
cancel the timer that a new trigger set armed during the grace period and,
as creation also reinitialized the timer at the time, corrupt it.
8f91efd870ea ("psi: Fix race between psi_trigger_create/destroy") moved the
initialization into group_init() and the deletion into the locked section,
trading the creation races for the window above.
Neither placement in the destruction path works. A pending timer firing
while the group is alive is harmless though. poll_timer_fn() just wakes the
rtpoll waitqueue and doesn't re-arm itself. Bind the timer to the group's
lifetime instead and shut it down in psi_cgroup_free(). Nothing can arm it
by then. timer_shutdown_sync() because the timer is never armed again.
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