Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: fix use-after-free bug when mm->mmap is reused after being freed

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:19 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After exit_mmap frees all vmas in the mm, mm->mmap needs to be reset,
> otherwise it points to a vma that was freed and when reused leads to
> a use-after-free bug.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+2ccf63a4bd07cf39cab0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/mmap.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 1e8fdb0b51ed..d445c1b9d606 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -3186,6 +3186,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>                 vma = remove_vma(vma);
>                 cond_resched();
>         }
> +       mm->mmap = NULL;
>         mmap_write_unlock(mm);
>         vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
>  }
> --
> 2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog
>




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