When adjacent vmas are being merged it can result in the vma that was originally passed to madvise_update_vma being destroyed. In the current implementation, the name parameter passed to madvise_update_vma points directly to vma->anon_name and it is used after the call to vma_merge. In the cases when vma_merge merges the original vma and destroys it, this might result in UAF. For that the original vma would have to hold the anon_vma_name with the last reference. The following vma would need to contain a different anon_vma_name object with the same string. Such scenario is shown below: madvise_vma_behavior(vma) madvise_update_vma(vma, ..., anon_name == vma->anon_name) vma_merge(vma) __vma_adjust(vma) <-- merges vma with adjacent one vm_area_free(vma) <-- frees the original vma replace_vma_anon_name(anon_name) <-- UAF of vma->anon_name Fix this by raising the name refcount and stabilizing it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220223153613.835563-3-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 9a10064f5625 ("mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory") Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+aa7b3d4b35f9dc46a366@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- changes in v6: - Updated description clarifying the last reference requirement, per Michal Hocko - Added Ack, per Michal Hocko mm/madvise.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 1f2693dccf7b..38d0f515d548 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma, /* * Update the vm_flags on region of a vma, splitting it or merging it as * necessary. Must be called with mmap_sem held for writing; + * Caller should ensure anon_name stability by raising its refcount even when + * anon_name belongs to a valid vma because this function might free that vma. */ static int madvise_update_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start, @@ -945,6 +947,7 @@ static int madvise_vma_behavior(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long behavior) { int error; + struct anon_vma_name *anon_name; unsigned long new_flags = vma->vm_flags; switch (behavior) { @@ -1010,8 +1013,11 @@ static int madvise_vma_behavior(struct vm_area_struct *vma, break; } + anon_name = anon_vma_name(vma); + anon_vma_name_get(anon_name); error = madvise_update_vma(vma, prev, start, end, new_flags, - anon_vma_name(vma)); + anon_name); + anon_vma_name_put(anon_name); out: /* -- 2.35.1.574.g5d30c73bfb-goog