[PATCH v3 4/5] liveupdate: fix TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve()

Pasha Tatashin pasha.tatashin at soleen.com
Thu May 14 17:37:21 PDT 2026


Extend the scope of the rwsem_read lock in luo_session_retrieve() to
overlap with the acquisition of the session mutex. This prevents a
concurrent thread from releasing and freeing the session between the
lookup and the mutex lock.

Fixes: 0153094d03df ("liveupdate: luo_session: add sessions support")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin at soleen.com>
---
 kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
index 5aa0011d9643..f99a82517e51 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
@@ -426,12 +426,11 @@ int luo_session_retrieve(const char *name, struct file **filep)
 	int err;
 
 	guard(rwsem_read)(&luo_session_serialize_rwsem);
-	scoped_guard(rwsem_read, &sh->rwsem) {
-		list_for_each_entry(it, &sh->list, list) {
-			if (!strncmp(it->name, name, sizeof(it->name))) {
-				session = it;
-				break;
-			}
+	guard(rwsem_read)(&sh->rwsem);
+	list_for_each_entry(it, &sh->list, list) {
+		if (!strncmp(it->name, name, sizeof(it->name))) {
+			session = it;
+			break;
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.53.0




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