The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: lock VMA in dup_anon_vma() before setting ->anon_vma
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-lock-vma-in-dup_anon_vma-before-setting-anon_vma.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: lock VMA in dup_anon_vma() before setting ->anon_vma
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 05:46:43 +0200
When VMAs are merged, dup_anon_vma() is called with `dst` pointing to the
VMA that is being expanded to cover the area previously occupied by
another VMA. This currently happens while `dst` is not write-locked.
This means that, in the `src->anon_vma && !dst->anon_vma` case, as soon as
the assignment `dst->anon_vma = src->anon_vma` has happened, concurrent
page faults can happen on `dst` under the per-VMA lock. This is already
icky in itself, since such page faults can now install pages into `dst`
that are attached to an `anon_vma` that is not yet tied back to the
`anon_vma` with an `anon_vma_chain`. But if `anon_vma_clone()` fails due
to an out-of-memory error, things get much worse: `anon_vma_clone()` then
reverts `dst->anon_vma` back to NULL, and `dst` remains completely
unconnected to the `anon_vma`, even though we can have pages in the area
covered by `dst` that point to the `anon_vma`.
This means the `anon_vma` of such pages can be freed while the pages are
still mapped into userspace, which leads to UAF when a helper like
folio_lock_anon_vma_read() tries to look up the anon_vma of such a page.
This theoretically is a security bug, but I believe it is really hard to
actually trigger as an unprivileged user because it requires that you can
make an order-0 GFP_KERNEL allocation fail, and the page allocator tries
pretty hard to prevent that.
I think doing the vma_start_write() call inside dup_anon_vma() is the most
straightforward fix for now.
For a kernel-assisted reproducer, see the notes section of the patch mail.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230721034643.616851-1-jannh@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 5e31275cc997 ("mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmap.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-lock-vma-in-dup_anon_vma-before-setting-anon_vma
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ static inline int dup_anon_vma(struct vm
* anon pages imported.
*/
if (src->anon_vma && !dst->anon_vma) {
+ vma_start_write(dst);
dst->anon_vma = src->anon_vma;
return anon_vma_clone(dst, src);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jannh@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-dont-drop-vma-locks-in-mm_drop_all_locks.patch
