The patch titled Subject: ipc/msg.c: fix percpu_counter use after free has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is ipc-msgc-fix-percpu_counter-use-after-free.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ipc-msgc-fix-percpu_counter-use-after-free.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ipc/msg.c: fix percpu_counter use after free Date: Thu Oct 20 09:19:22 PM PDT 2022 These percpu counters are referenced in free_ipcs->freeque, so destroy them later. Fixes: 72d1e611082e ("ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter") Reported-by: syzbot+96e659d35b9d6b541152@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Jiebin Sun <jiebin.sun@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ipc/msg.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/ipc/msg.c~ipc-msgc-fix-percpu_counter-use-after-free +++ a/ipc/msg.c @@ -1329,11 +1329,11 @@ fail_msg_bytes: #ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS void msg_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { - percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes); - percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs); free_ipcs(ns, &msg_ids(ns), freeque); idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].ipcs_idr); rhashtable_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].key_ht); + percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_bytes); + percpu_counter_destroy(&ns->percpu_msg_hdrs); } #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-mmapc-__vma_adjust-suppress-unintialized-var-warning.patch ipc-msgc-fix-percpu_counter-use-after-free.patch mm-memremap_pages-replace-zone_device_page_init-with-pgmap_request_folios-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-convert-free_huge_page-to-folios-fix.patch vmalloc-add-reviewers-for-vmalloc-code-checkpatch-fixes.patch powerpc-ptrace-user_regset_copyin_ignore-always-returns-0-fix.patch minmax-sanity-check-constant-bounds-when-clamping-checkpatch-fixes.patch minmax-sanity-check-constant-bounds-when-clamping-checkpatch-fixes-fix.patch proc-report-open-files-as-size-in-stat-for-proc-pid-fd-v3-fix.patch