2022-12-15 20:14:26

by Mathieu Desnoyers

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Subject: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: Fix memory leak in set_mempolicy_home_node system call

When encountering any vma in the range with policy other than MPOL_BIND
or MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, an error is returned without issuing a mpol_put
on the policy just allocated with mpol_dup().

This allows arbitrary users to leak kernel memory.

Fixes: c6018b4b2549 ("mm/mempolicy: add set_mempolicy_home_node syscall")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] # 5.17+
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 61aa9aedb728..02c8a712282f 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1540,6 +1540,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(set_mempolicy_home_node, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, le
* the home node for vmas we already updated before.
*/
if (new->mode != MPOL_BIND && new->mode != MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY) {
+ mpol_put(new);
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
break;
}
--
2.25.1