From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: stackdepot: fix mempolicy use-after-free This patch fixes the following: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in alloc_pages_current+0x363/0x370 at addr ffff88010b48102c Read of size 2 by task trinity-c2/15425 CPU: 0 PID: 15425 Comm: trinity-c2 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc2+ #140 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-proje ct.org 04/01/2014 ffff88010b481040 ffff88010b557650 ffffffff81f08d11 ffff88011a40d380 ffff88010b481028 ffff88010b557678 ffffffff815dac7c ffff88010b557708 ffff88010b481028 ffff88011a40d380 ffff88010b5576f8 ffffffff815daf15 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81f08d11>] dump_stack+0x65/0x84 [<ffffffff815dac7c>] kasan_object_err+0x1c/0x70 [<ffffffff815daf15>] kasan_report_error+0x1f5/0x4c0 [<ffffffff815db2fe>] __asan_report_load2_noabort+0x3e/0x40 [<ffffffff815cb903>] alloc_pages_current+0x363/0x370 <---- use-after-free [<ffffffff81fa9954>] depot_save_stack+0x3f4/0x490 [<ffffffff815d9bb5>] save_stack+0xb5/0xd0 [<ffffffff815da211>] kasan_slab_free+0x71/0xb0 [<ffffffff815d6643>] kmem_cache_free+0xa3/0x290 [<ffffffff815c8149>] __mpol_put+0x19/0x20 <---- free [<ffffffff81260635>] do_exit+0x1515/0x2b70 [<ffffffff81261dc4>] do_group_exit+0xf4/0x2f0 [<ffffffff81281c5d>] get_signal+0x53d/0x1120 [<ffffffff8119e993>] do_signal+0x83/0x1e20 [<ffffffff810027af>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0xaf/0x140 [<ffffffff810051e4>] syscall_return_slowpath+0x144/0x170 [<ffffffff83ae406f>] ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x40 Read of size 2 by task trinity-c2/15425 The problem is that we may be calling alloc_pages() in a code path where current->mempolicy has already been freed. By passing __GFP_THISNODE we will always use default_mempolicy (which cannot be freed). Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/29/277 Link: https://github.com/google/kasan/issues/35 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471603265-31804-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/stackdepot.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN lib/stackdepot.c~stackdepot-fix-mempolicy-use-after-free lib/stackdepot.c --- a/lib/stackdepot.c~stackdepot-fix-mempolicy-use-after-free +++ a/lib/stackdepot.c @@ -243,6 +243,12 @@ depot_stack_handle_t depot_save_stack(st alloc_flags &= ~GFP_ZONEMASK; alloc_flags &= (GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_KERNEL); alloc_flags |= __GFP_NOWARN; + /* + * Avoid using current->mempolicy which may already have + * been freed -- we may be in the process of saving the + * stack for exactly that __mpol_put() call. + */ + alloc_flags |= __GFP_THISNODE; page = alloc_pages(alloc_flags, STACK_ALLOC_ORDER); if (page) prealloc = page_address(page); _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html