This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/vdso: Plug race between mapping and ELF header setup to the 4.4-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: x86-vdso-plug-race-between-mapping-and-elf-header-setup.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6fdc6dd90272ce7e75d744f71535cfbd8d77da81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:14:28 +0200 Subject: x86/vdso: Plug race between mapping and ELF header setup From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6fdc6dd90272ce7e75d744f71535cfbd8d77da81 upstream. The vsyscall32 sysctl can racy against a concurrent fork when it switches from disabled to enabled: arch_setup_additional_pages() if (vdso32_enabled) --> No mapping sysctl.vsysscall32() --> vdso32_enabled = true create_elf_tables() ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 if (vdso32_enabled) { --> Add VDSO entry with NULL pointer Make ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 check whether the VDSO mapping has been set up for the newly forked process or not. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170410151723.602367196@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ struct task_struct; #define ARCH_DLINFO_IA32 \ do { \ - if (vdso32_enabled) { \ + if (VDSO_CURRENT_BASE) { \ NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SYSINFO, VDSO_ENTRY); \ NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, VDSO_CURRENT_BASE); \ } \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/x86-vdso-ensure-vdso32_enabled-gets-set-to-valid-values-only.patch queue-4.4/x86-vdso-plug-race-between-mapping-and-elf-header-setup.patch queue-4.4/cgroup-kthread-close-race-window-where-new-kthreads-can-be-migrated-to-non-root-cgroups.patch queue-4.4/perf-x86-avoid-exposing-wrong-stale-data-in-intel_pmu_lbr_read_32.patch