The patch titled Subject: mm/z3fold.c: fix z3fold_buddy_slots use after free has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_buddy_slots-use-after-free.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_buddy_slots-use-after-free.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_buddy_slots-use-after-free.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Henry Burns <henryburns@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/z3fold.c: fix z3fold_buddy_slots use after free Running z3fold stress testing with address sanitization showed zhdr->slots was being used after it was freed. z3fold_free(z3fold_pool, handle) free_handle(handle) kmem_cache_free(pool->c_handle, zhdr->slots) release_z3fold_page_locked_list(kref) __release_z3fold_page(zhdr, true) zhdr_to_pool(zhdr) slots_to_pool(zhdr->slots) *BOOM* Instead we split free_handle into two functions, release_handle() and free_slots(). We use release_handle() in place of free_handle(), and use free_slots() to call kmem_cache_free() after __release_z3fold_page() is done. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701173042.221453-1-henryburns@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 7c2b8baa61fe ("mm/z3fold.c: add structure for buddy handles") Signed-off-by: Henry Burns <henryburns@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vitaly Vul <vitaly.vul@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xidong Wang <wangxidong_97@xxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Adams <jwadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/z3fold.c | 33 ++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) --- a/mm/z3fold.c~mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_buddy_slots-use-after-free +++ a/mm/z3fold.c @@ -214,31 +214,24 @@ static inline struct z3fold_buddy_slots return (struct z3fold_buddy_slots *)(handle & ~(SLOTS_ALIGN - 1)); } -static inline void free_handle(unsigned long handle) +static inline void release_handle(unsigned long handle) { - struct z3fold_buddy_slots *slots; - int i; - bool is_free; - if (handle & (1 << PAGE_HEADLESS)) return; WARN_ON(*(unsigned long *)handle == 0); *(unsigned long *)handle = 0; - slots = handle_to_slots(handle); - is_free = true; - for (i = 0; i <= BUDDY_MASK; i++) { - if (slots->slot[i]) { - is_free = false; - break; - } - } +} - if (is_free) { - struct z3fold_pool *pool = slots_to_pool(slots); +/* At this point all of the slots should be empty */ +static inline void free_slots(struct z3fold_buddy_slots *slots) +{ + struct z3fold_pool *pool = slots_to_pool(slots); + int i; - kmem_cache_free(pool->c_handle, slots); - } + for (i = 0; i <= BUDDY_MASK; i++) + VM_BUG_ON(slots->slot[i]); + kmem_cache_free(pool->c_handle, slots); } static struct dentry *z3fold_do_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, @@ -432,7 +425,8 @@ static inline struct z3fold_pool *zhdr_t static void __release_z3fold_page(struct z3fold_header *zhdr, bool locked) { struct page *page = virt_to_page(zhdr); - struct z3fold_pool *pool = zhdr_to_pool(zhdr); + struct z3fold_buddy_slots *slots = zhdr->slots; + struct z3fold_pool *pool = slots_to_pool(slots); WARN_ON(!list_empty(&zhdr->buddy)); set_bit(PAGE_STALE, &page->private); @@ -443,6 +437,7 @@ static void __release_z3fold_page(struct spin_unlock(&pool->lock); if (locked) z3fold_page_unlock(zhdr); + free_slots(slots); spin_lock(&pool->stale_lock); list_add(&zhdr->buddy, &pool->stale); queue_work(pool->release_wq, &pool->work); @@ -1010,7 +1005,7 @@ static void z3fold_free(struct z3fold_po return; } - free_handle(handle); + release_handle(handle); if (kref_put(&zhdr->refcount, release_z3fold_page_locked_list)) { atomic64_dec(&pool->pages_nr); return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from henryburns@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_buddy_slots-use-after-free.patch