This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled epoll: fix use-after-free in eventpoll_release_file 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: epoll-fix-use-after-free-in-eventpoll_release_file.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 ebe06187bf2aec10d537ce4595e416035367d703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 06:58:05 +0400 Subject: epoll: fix use-after-free in eventpoll_release_file From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> commit ebe06187bf2aec10d537ce4595e416035367d703 upstream. This fixes use-after-free of epi->fllink.next inside list loop macro. This loop actually releases elements in the body. The list is rcu-protected but here we cannot hold rcu_read_lock because we need to lock mutex inside. The obvious solution is to use list_for_each_entry_safe(). RCU-ness isn't essential because nobody can change this list under us, it's final fput for this file. The bug was introduced by ae10b2b4eb01 ("epoll: optimize EPOLL_CTL_DEL using rcu") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ static const struct file_operations even void eventpoll_release_file(struct file *file) { struct eventpoll *ep; - struct epitem *epi; + struct epitem *epi, *next; /* * We don't want to get "file->f_lock" because it is not @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ void eventpoll_release_file(struct file * Besides, ep_remove() acquires the lock, so we can't hold it here. */ mutex_lock(&epmutex); - list_for_each_entry_rcu(epi, &file->f_ep_links, fllink) { + list_for_each_entry_safe(epi, next, &file->f_ep_links, fllink) { ep = epi->ep; mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, 0); ep_remove(ep, epi); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from koct9i@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/epoll-fix-use-after-free-in-eventpoll_release_file.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