The patch titled Subject: mm: slub: fix slab walking for init_on_free has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slub-fix-slab-walking-for-init_on_free.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-slab-walking-for-init_on_free.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-slab-walking-for-init_on_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: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: slub: fix slab walking for init_on_free To properly clear the slab on free with slab_want_init_on_free, we walk the list of free objects using get_freepointer/set_freepointer. The value we get from get_freepointer may not be valid. This isn't an issue since an actual value will get written later but this means there's a chance of triggering a bug if we use this value with set_freepointer: [ 4.478342] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:306! [ 4.482437] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT PTI [ 4.485750] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.2.0-05754-g6471384a #4 [ 4.490635] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x58a/0x5c0 [ 4.493679] Code: 48 83 05 78 37 51 02 01 0f 0b 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d6 37 51 02 01 <0f> 0b 48 83 05 d4 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d4 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d4 [ 4.506827] RSP: 0000:ffffffff82603d90 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 4.510475] RAX: ffff8c3976c04320 RBX: ffff8c3976c04300 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4.515420] RDX: ffff8c3976c04300 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8c3976c04320 [ 4.520331] RBP: ffffffff82603db8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 4.525288] R10: ffff8c3976c04320 R11: ffffffff8289e1e0 R12: ffffd52cc8db0100 [ 4.530180] R13: ffff8c3976c01a00 R14: ffffffff810f10d4 R15: ffff8c3976c04300 [ 4.535079] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8266b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 4.540628] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 4.544593] CR2: ffff8c397ffff000 CR3: 0000000125020000 CR4: 00000000000406b0 [ 4.549558] Call Trace: [ 4.551266] apply_wqattrs_prepare+0x154/0x280 [ 4.554357] apply_workqueue_attrs_locked+0x4e/0xe0 [ 4.557728] apply_workqueue_attrs+0x36/0x60 [ 4.560654] alloc_workqueue+0x25a/0x6d0 [ 4.563381] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1e3/0x500 [ 4.566628] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x44/0x3f0 [ 4.569875] workqueue_init_early+0x246/0x348 [ 4.573025] start_kernel+0x3c7/0x7ec [ 4.575558] x86_64_start_reservations+0x40/0x49 [ 4.578738] x86_64_start_kernel+0xda/0xe4 [ 4.581600] secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 [ 4.584473] Modules linked in: [ 4.586620] ---[ end trace f67eb9af4d8d492b ]--- Fix this by ensuring the value we set with set_freepointer is either NULL or another value in the chain. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190731193240.29477-1-labbott@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 6471384af2a6 ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options") Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-fix-slab-walking-for-init_on_free +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -1432,7 +1432,9 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_ho void *old_tail = *tail ? *tail : *head; int rsize; - if (slab_want_init_on_free(s)) + if (slab_want_init_on_free(s)) { + void *p = NULL; + do { object = next; next = get_freepointer(s, object); @@ -1445,8 +1447,10 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_ho : 0; memset((char *)object + s->inuse, 0, s->size - s->inuse - rsize); - set_freepointer(s, object, next); + set_freepointer(s, object, p); + p = object; } while (object != old_tail); + } /* * Compiler cannot detect this function can be removed if slab_free_hook() _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from labbott@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-slub-fix-slab-walking-for-init_on_free.patch