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signal: Fix memory leak for PIDFD_SELF* sentinels
Commit f08d0c3a71 ("pidfd: add PIDFD_SELF* sentinels to refer to own
thread/process") introduced a leak by acquiring a pid reference through
get_task_pid(), which increments pid->count but never drops it with
put_pid().

As a result, kmemleak reports unreferenced pid objects after running
tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd_test, for example:

  unreferenced object 0xff1100206757a940 (size 160):
    comm "pidfd_test", pid 16965, jiffies 4294853028
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fd 57 50 04  .............WP.
      5e 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 de 34 17 01 00 11 ff  ^D........4.....
    backtrace (crc cd8844d4):
      kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2f4/0x3f0
      alloc_pid+0x54/0x3d0
      copy_process+0xd58/0x1740
      kernel_clone+0x99/0x3b0
      __do_sys_clone3+0xbe/0x100
      do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Fix this by calling put_pid() after do_pidfd_send_signal() returns.

Fixes: f08d0c3a71 ("pidfd: add PIDFD_SELF* sentinels to refer to own thread/process")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang (Lenovo) <adrianhuang0701@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250818134310.12273-1-adrianhuang0701@gmail.com
Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-19 13:51:28 +02:00
arch - Fix an interrupt vector setup race which leads to a non-functioning device 2025-08-10 08:15:32 +03:00
block block-6.17-20250808 2025-08-09 08:47:28 +03:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
Documentation module: Rename EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES 2025-08-11 16:16:36 +02:00
drivers module: Rename EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES 2025-08-11 16:16:36 +02:00
fs kernfs: don't fail listing extended attributes 2025-08-19 13:51:28 +02:00
include netfs: Fix unbuffered write error handling 2025-08-15 15:56:49 +02:00
init Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/memmap: cast nr_pages to size_t before shifting 2025-08-08 06:35:14 -06:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel signal: Fix memory leak for PIDFD_SELF* sentinels 2025-08-19 13:51:28 +02:00
lib block-6.17-20250808 2025-08-09 08:47:28 +03:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-05 16:02:07 +03:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 6.17 2025-08-09 07:20:44 +03:00
rust Rust changes for v6.17 2025-08-03 13:49:10 -07:00
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scripts Kbuild updates for v6.17 2025-08-06 07:32:52 +03:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound gpio updates for v6.17-rc1 2025-08-09 08:15:43 +03:00
tools selftests/coredump: Remove the read() that fails the test 2025-08-11 15:43:31 +02:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Kbuild updates for v6.17 2025-08-06 07:32:52 +03:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS spi: Fixes for v6.17 2025-08-09 08:43:24 +03:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc1 2025-08-10 19:41:16 +03:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.