From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de,
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
syzbot+bbe6b99feefc3a0842de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Deepanshu Kartikey <Kartikey406@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/fork: validate exit_signal in clone() syscall
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 12:12:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260307064202.353405-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)
When a child process exits, it sends exit_signal to its parent via
do_notify_parent(). The clone() syscall constructs exit_signal as:
(lower_32_bits(clone_flags) & CSIGNAL)
CSIGNAL is 0xff, so values in the range 65-255 are possible. However,
valid_signal() only accepts signals up to _NSIG (64 on x86_64), causing
a WARN_ON in do_notify_parent() when the process exits:
WARNING: kernel/signal.c:2174 do_notify_parent+0xc7e/0xd70
The syzkaller reproducer triggers this by calling clone() with
flags=0x80, resulting in exit_signal = (0x80 & CSIGNAL) = 128, which
exceeds _NSIG and is not a valid signal.
The comment above kernel_clone() states that callers are expected to
validate exit_signal. clone3() correctly does this:
if (unlikely((args.exit_signal & ~((u64)CSIGNAL)) ||
!valid_signal(args.exit_signal)))
return -EINVAL;
The clone() syscall has no such check. Add the missing valid_signal()
check to clone(), consistent with the existing validation in clone3().
Fixes: 3f2c788a1314 ("fork: prevent accidental access to clone3 features")
Reported-by: syzbot+bbe6b99feefc3a0842de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bbe6b99feefc3a0842de
Tested-by: syzbot+bbe6b99feefc3a0842de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <Kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 947a8dbce06a..dbe26ac6ca10 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2845,7 +2845,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
.stack = newsp,
.tls = tls,
};
-
+ if (!valid_signal(args.exit_signal))
+ return -EINVAL;
return kernel_clone(&args);
}
#endif
--
2.43.0
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