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From:   "wanghai (M)" <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Subject: epoll: Does anyone know about CVE-2021-39634
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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:16:55 +0800
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I've spent a long time and can't figure out the details of the following 
CVE, can anyone help me?

CVE-2021-39634 [1]
In fs/eventpoll.c, there is a possible use after free.

I have two questions:
1. How does the UAF problem happen?
2. Why it can be fixed by commit f8d4f44df056 ("epoll: do not insert 
into poll queues until all sanity checks are done") [2]

I'm guessing that patch [3] solved a problem similar to [4], is this 
correct?

Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39634
[2] https://www.linuxkernelcves.com/cves/CVE-2021-39634
[3] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=f8d4f44df056c5b504b0d49683fb7279218fd207
[4] 
https://cloudfuzz.github.io/android-kernel-exploitation/chapters/root-cause-analysis.html

-- 
Wang Hai