Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756060AbaBEUZB (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:25:01 -0500 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:55395 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755173AbaBEUHX (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:07:23 -0500 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , CC: Greg Thelen , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Paul Gortmaker Subject: [v2.6.34-stable 161/213] tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:01:56 -0500 Message-ID: <1391630568-49251-162-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.2 In-Reply-To: <1391630568-49251-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1391630568-49251-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg Thelen ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit 5f00110f7273f9ff04ac69a5f85bb535a4fd0987 upstream. The tmpfs remount logic preserves filesystem mempolicy if the mpol=M option is not specified in the remount request. A new policy can be specified if mpol=M is given. Before this patch remounting an mpol bound tmpfs without specifying mpol= mount option in the remount request would set the filesystem's mempolicy object to a freed mempolicy object. To reproduce the problem boot a DEBUG_PAGEALLOC kernel and run: # mkdir /tmp/x # mount -t tmpfs -o size=100M,mpol=interleave nodev /tmp/x # grep /tmp/x /proc/mounts nodev /tmp/x tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k,mpol=interleave:0-3 0 0 # mount -o remount,size=200M nodev /tmp/x # grep /tmp/x /proc/mounts nodev /tmp/x tmpfs rw,relatime,size=204800k,mpol=??? 0 0 # note ? garbage in mpol=... output above # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/x/f count=1 # panic here Panic: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) [...] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Call Trace: mpol_shared_policy_init+0xa5/0x160 shmem_get_inode+0x209/0x270 shmem_mknod+0x3e/0xf0 shmem_create+0x18/0x20 vfs_create+0xb5/0x130 do_last+0x9a1/0xea0 path_openat+0xb3/0x4d0 do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0 do_sys_open+0xfe/0x1e0 compat_sys_open+0x1b/0x20 cstar_dispatch+0x7/0x1f Non-debug kernels will not crash immediately because referencing the dangling mpol will not cause a fault. Instead the filesystem will reference a freed mempolicy object, which will cause unpredictable behavior. The problem boils down to a dropped mpol reference below if shmem_parse_options() does not allocate a new mpol: config = *sbinfo shmem_parse_options(data, &config, true) mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol) sbinfo->mpol = config.mpol /* BUG: saves unreferenced mpol */ This patch avoids the crash by not releasing the mempolicy if shmem_parse_options() doesn't create a new mpol. How far back does this issue go? I see it in both 2.6.36 and 3.3. I did not look back further. Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- mm/shmem.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 0203cda3297a..f24ce93efc15 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2254,6 +2254,7 @@ static int shmem_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) unsigned long inodes; int error = -EINVAL; + config.mpol = NULL; if (shmem_parse_options(data, &config, true)) return error; @@ -2281,8 +2282,13 @@ static int shmem_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) sbinfo->max_inodes = config.max_inodes; sbinfo->free_inodes = config.max_inodes - inodes; - mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol); - sbinfo->mpol = config.mpol; /* transfers initial ref */ + /* + * Preserve previous mempolicy unless mpol remount option was specified. + */ + if (config.mpol) { + mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol); + sbinfo->mpol = config.mpol; /* transfers initial ref */ + } out: spin_unlock(&sbinfo->stat_lock); return error; -- 1.8.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/