LGTM
Reviewed-by: Vasileios Almpanis <[email protected]>

On 7/7/26 4:20 PM, Eva Kurchatova wrote:
From: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 6474353a5e3d0b2cf610153cea0c61f576a36d0a ]

Epoll relies on a racy fastpath check during __fput() in
eventpoll_release() to avoid the hit of pointlessly acquiring a
semaphore. Annotate that race by using WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925-fungieren-anbauen-79b334b00542@brauner
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reported-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit d222934627b9a9fbd943386988c5f923c95f0773)
Signed-off-by: Eva Kurchatova <[email protected]>

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-137490
Feature: fix epoll cve
---
  fs/eventpoll.c            | 6 ++++--
  include/linux/eventpoll.h | 2 +-
  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index f4efb5b19e78..a3c01bba3654 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -852,7 +852,8 @@ static bool __ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem 
*epi, bool force)
        to_free = NULL;
        head = file->f_ep;
        if (head->first == &epi->fllink && !epi->fllink.next) {
-               file->f_ep = NULL;
+               /* See eventpoll_release() for details. */
+               WRITE_ONCE(file->f_ep, NULL);
                if (!is_file_epoll(file)) {
                        struct epitems_head *v;
                        v = container_of(head, struct epitems_head, epitems);
@@ -1630,7 +1631,8 @@ static int attach_epitem(struct file *file, struct epitem 
*epi)
                        spin_unlock(&file->f_lock);
                        goto allocate;
                }
-               file->f_ep = head;
+               /* See eventpoll_release() for details. */
+               WRITE_ONCE(file->f_ep, head);
                to_free = NULL;
        }
        hlist_add_head_rcu(&epi->fllink, file->f_ep);
diff --git a/include/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
index 3337745d81bd..0c0d00fcd131 100644
--- a/include/linux/eventpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline void eventpoll_release(struct file *file)
         * because the file in on the way to be removed and nobody ( but
         * eventpoll ) has still a reference to this file.
         */
-       if (likely(!file->f_ep))
+       if (likely(!READ_ONCE(file->f_ep)))
                return;
/*

--
Best regards, Vasileios Almpanis
Software Developer, Virtuozzo.

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