shmem_show_options() uses sbinfo->mpol without adding it's refcnt. This may lead to race with replacement of the mpol by remount. The execution sequence is as follows. CPU0 CPU1 shmem_show_options() shmem_reconfigure() shmem_show_mpol(seq, sbinfo->mpol) mpol = sbinfo->mpol mpol_put(mpol) mpol->mode The KASAN report is as follows. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in shmem_show_options+0x21b/0x340 Read of size 2 at addr ffff888124324004 by task mount/2388 CPU: 2 PID: 2388 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.4.0-rc3-00017-g9d646009f65d-dirty #8 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x37/0x50 print_report+0xd0/0x620 ? shmem_show_options+0x21b/0x340 ? __virt_addr_valid+0xf4/0x180 ? shmem_show_options+0x21b/0x340 kasan_report+0xb8/0xe0 ? shmem_show_options+0x21b/0x340 shmem_show_options+0x21b/0x340 ? __pfx_shmem_show_options+0x10/0x10 ? strchr+0x2c/0x50 ? strlen+0x23/0x40 ? seq_puts+0x7d/0x90 show_vfsmnt+0x1e6/0x260 ? __pfx_show_vfsmnt+0x10/0x10 ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x7f/0x90 seq_read_iter+0x57a/0x740 vfs_read+0x2e2/0x4a0 ? __pfx_vfs_read+0x10/0x10 ? down_write_killable+0xb8/0x140 ? __pfx_down_write_killable+0x10/0x10 ? __fget_light+0xa9/0x1e0 ? up_write+0x3f/0x80 ksys_read+0xb8/0x150 ? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10 ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x55/0x60 ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x2d/0x120 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc </TASK> Allocated by task 2387: kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x59/0x70 kmem_cache_alloc+0xdd/0x220 mpol_new+0x83/0x150 mpol_parse_str+0x280/0x4a0 shmem_parse_one+0x364/0x520 vfs_parse_fs_param+0xf8/0x1a0 vfs_parse_fs_string+0xc9/0x130 shmem_parse_options+0xb2/0x110 path_mount+0x597/0xdf0 do_mount+0xcd/0xf0 __x64_sys_mount+0xbd/0x100 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc Freed by task 2389: kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 __kasan_slab_free+0x10e/0x1a0 kmem_cache_free+0x9c/0x350 shmem_reconfigure+0x278/0x370 reconfigure_super+0x383/0x450 path_mount+0xcc5/0xdf0 do_mount+0xcd/0xf0 __x64_sys_mount+0xbd/0x100 do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888124324000 which belongs to the cache numa_policy of size 32 The buggy address is located 4 bytes inside of freed 32-byte region [ffff888124324000, ffff888124324020) ================================================================== To fix the bug, shmem_get_sbmpol() / mpol_put() needs to be called before / after shmem_show_mpol() call. Signed-off-by: Tu Jinjiang <tujinjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index e40a08c5c6d7..5e54ab5f61f2 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -3726,6 +3726,7 @@ static int shmem_reconfigure(struct fs_context *fc) static int shmem_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root) { struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(root->d_sb); + struct mempolicy *mpol; if (sbinfo->max_blocks != shmem_default_max_blocks()) seq_printf(seq, ",size=%luk", @@ -3768,7 +3769,9 @@ static int shmem_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root) if (sbinfo->huge) seq_printf(seq, ",huge=%s", shmem_format_huge(sbinfo->huge)); #endif - shmem_show_mpol(seq, sbinfo->mpol); + mpol = shmem_get_sbmpol(sbinfo); + shmem_show_mpol(seq, mpol); + mpol_put(mpol); if (sbinfo->noswap) seq_printf(seq, ",noswap"); return 0; -- 2.25.1