This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RDMA/ucma: Fix use-after-free access in ucma_close to the 4.9-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: rdma-ucma-fix-use-after-free-access-in-ucma_close.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ed65a4dc22083e73bac599ded6a262318cad7baf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:20:15 +0200 Subject: RDMA/ucma: Fix use-after-free access in ucma_close From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ed65a4dc22083e73bac599ded6a262318cad7baf upstream. The error in ucma_create_id() left ctx in the list of contexts belong to ucma file descriptor. The attempt to close this file descriptor causes to use-after-free accesses while iterating over such list. Fixes: 75216638572f ("RDMA/cma: Export rdma cm interface to userspace") Reported-by: <syzbot+dcfd344365a56fbebd0f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c @@ -495,6 +495,9 @@ err1: mutex_lock(&mut); idr_remove(&ctx_idr, ctx->id); mutex_unlock(&mut); + mutex_lock(&file->mut); + list_del(&ctx->list); + mutex_unlock(&file->mut); kfree(ctx); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/rdma-ucma-check-af-family-prior-resolving-address.patch queue-4.9/rdma-ucma-check-that-device-is-connected-prior-to-access-it.patch queue-4.9/rdma-ucma-fix-use-after-free-access-in-ucma_close.patch queue-4.9/rdma-ucma-ensure-that-cm_id-exists-prior-to-access-it.patch queue-4.9/rdma-ucma-check-that-device-exists-prior-to-accessing-it.patch