This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma to the 3.14-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: mm-rmap-fix-use-after-free-in-__put_anon_vma.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 624483f3ea82598ab0f62f1bdb9177f531ab1892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 19:09:30 +0400 Subject: mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 624483f3ea82598ab0f62f1bdb9177f531ab1892 upstream. While working address sanitizer for kernel I've discovered use-after-free bug in __put_anon_vma. For the last anon_vma, anon_vma->root freed before child anon_vma. Later in anon_vma_free(anon_vma) we are referencing to already freed anon_vma->root to check rwsem. This fixes it by freeing the child anon_vma before freeing anon_vma->root. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/rmap.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -1554,10 +1554,9 @@ void __put_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *ano { struct anon_vma *root = anon_vma->root; + anon_vma_free(anon_vma); if (root != anon_vma && atomic_dec_and_test(&root->refcount)) anon_vma_free(root); - - anon_vma_free(anon_vma); } static struct anon_vma *rmap_walk_anon_lock(struct page *page, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/mm-rmap-fix-use-after-free-in-__put_anon_vma.patch queue-3.14/arm-8051-1-put_user-fix-possible-data-corruption-in-put_user.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html