This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Take mmap lock in cacheflush syscall to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: take-mmap-lock-in-cacheflush-syscall.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3cc567f67f91469d57e4777720b585e4b8cd0f7a Author: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 19 14:59:35 2021 +0800 Take mmap lock in cacheflush syscall [ Upstream commit c26958cb5a0d9053d1358258827638773f3d36ed ] We need to take the mmap lock around find_vma() and subsequent use of the VMA. Otherwise, we can race with concurrent operations like munmap(), which can lead to use-after-free accesses to freed VMAs. Fixes: 1000197d8013 ("nios2: System calls handling") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/sys_nios2.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/sys_nios2.c index cd390ec4f88bf..b1ca856999521 100644 --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/sys_nios2.c +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/sys_nios2.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ asmlinkage int sys_cacheflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, unsigned int op) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; + struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; if (len == 0) return 0; @@ -34,16 +35,22 @@ asmlinkage int sys_cacheflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, if (addr + len < addr) return -EFAULT; + if (mmap_read_lock_killable(mm)) + return -EINTR; + /* * Verify that the specified address region actually belongs * to this process. */ - vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr); - if (vma == NULL || addr < vma->vm_start || addr + len > vma->vm_end) + vma = find_vma(mm, addr); + if (vma == NULL || addr < vma->vm_start || addr + len > vma->vm_end) { + mmap_read_unlock(mm); return -EFAULT; + } flush_cache_range(vma, addr, addr + len); + mmap_read_unlock(mm); return 0; }