The patch titled Subject: mm, mempolicy: task->mempolicy must be NULL before dropping final reference has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, mempolicy: task->mempolicy must be NULL before dropping final reference KASAN allocates memory from the page allocator as part of kmem_cache_free(), and that can reference current->mempolicy through any number of allocation functions. It needs to be NULL'd out before the final reference is dropped to prevent a use-after-free bug: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in alloc_pages_current+0x363/0x370 at addr ffff88010b48102c CPU: 0 PID: 15425 Comm: trinity-c2 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc2+ #140 ... Call Trace: dump_stack kasan_object_err kasan_report_error __asan_report_load2_noabort alloc_pages_current <-- use after free depot_save_stack save_stack kasan_slab_free kmem_cache_free __mpol_put <-- free do_exit This patch sets current->mempolicy to NULL before dropping the final reference. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1608301442180.63329@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: cd11016e5f52 ("mm, kasan: stackdepot implementation. Enable stackdepot for SLAB") Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.6+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mempolicy.h | 4 ++++ kernel/exit.c | 7 +------ mm/mempolicy.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/mempolicy.h~mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference include/linux/mempolicy.h --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h~mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference +++ a/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ static inline bool vma_migratable(struct } extern int mpol_misplaced(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long); +extern void mpol_put_task_policy(struct task_struct *); #else @@ -297,5 +298,8 @@ static inline int mpol_misplaced(struct return -1; /* no node preference */ } +static inline void mpol_put_task_policy(struct task_struct *task) +{ +} #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */ #endif diff -puN kernel/exit.c~mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -848,12 +848,7 @@ void do_exit(long code) TASKS_RCU(preempt_enable()); exit_notify(tsk, group_dead); proc_exit_connector(tsk); -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - task_lock(tsk); - mpol_put(tsk->mempolicy); - tsk->mempolicy = NULL; - task_unlock(tsk); -#endif + mpol_put_task_policy(tsk); #ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX if (unlikely(current->pi_state_cache)) kfree(current->pi_state_cache); diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference mm/mempolicy.c --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-task-mempolicy-must-be-null-before-dropping-final-reference +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2336,6 +2336,23 @@ out: return ret; } +/* + * Drop the (possibly final) reference to task->mempolicy. It needs to be + * dropped after task->mempolicy is set to NULL so that any allocation done as + * part of its kmem_cache_free(), such as by KASAN, doesn't reference a freed + * policy. + */ +void mpol_put_task_policy(struct task_struct *task) +{ + struct mempolicy *pol; + + task_lock(task); + pol = task->mempolicy; + task->mempolicy = NULL; + task_unlock(task); + mpol_put(pol); +} + static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n) { pr_debug("deleting %lx-l%lx\n", n->start, n->end); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are -- 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