From: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- mm/rmap.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 6e3139835e00..91ab22878103 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -1681,10 +1681,9 @@ void __put_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) { 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); } #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION -- 2.0.0 -- 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