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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2009-02-27 17:03:04 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-27 19:26:21 -0500
commitcbb766766f3f2f6d9326c561b1020590642c6e39 (patch)
tree0caaf23286211653ac03b04570914d19521e0e5d /mm/vmalloc.c
parent7766970cc13e9071b356b1f2a48a9eb8675bfcce (diff)
mm: fix lazy vmap purging (use-after-free error)
I just got this new warning from kmemcheck: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from freed memory (c7806a60) a06a80c7ecde70c1a04080c700000000a06709c1000000000000000000000000 f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f ^ Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc4 #230) EIP: 0060:[<c1096df7>] EFLAGS: 00000286 CPU: 0 EIP is at __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x117/0x140 EAX: 00070f43 EBX: c7806a40 ECX: c1677080 EDX: 00027b66 ESI: 00002001 EDI: c170df0c EBP: c170df00 ESP: c178830c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 CR0: 80050033 CR2: c7806b14 CR3: 01775000 CR4: 00000690 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: 00004000 DR7: 00000000 [<c1096f3e>] free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush+0x6e/0x70 [<c1096f6a>] remove_vm_area+0x2a/0x70 [<c1097025>] __vunmap+0x45/0xe0 [<c10970de>] vunmap+0x1e/0x30 [<c1008ba5>] text_poke+0x95/0x150 [<c1008ca9>] alternatives_smp_unlock+0x49/0x60 [<c171ef47>] alternative_instructions+0x11b/0x124 [<c171f991>] check_bugs+0xbd/0xdc [<c17148c5>] start_kernel+0x2ed/0x360 [<c171409e>] __init_begin+0x9e/0xa9 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff It happened here: $ addr2line -e vmlinux -i c1096df7 mm/vmalloc.c:540 Code: list_for_each_entry(va, &valist, purge_list) __free_vmap_area(va); It's this instruction: mov 0x20(%ebx),%edx Which corresponds to a dereference of va->purge_list.next: (gdb) p ((struct vmap_area *) 0)->purge_list.next Cannot access memory at address 0x20 It seems that we should use "safe" list traversal here, as the element is freed inside the loop. Please verify that this is the right fix. Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index ed3705e4b83f..520a75980269 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end,
505 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(purge_lock); 505 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(purge_lock);
506 LIST_HEAD(valist); 506 LIST_HEAD(valist);
507 struct vmap_area *va; 507 struct vmap_area *va;
508 struct vmap_area *n_va;
508 int nr = 0; 509 int nr = 0;
509 510
510 /* 511 /*
@@ -544,7 +545,7 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end,
544 545
545 if (nr) { 546 if (nr) {
546 spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); 547 spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
547 list_for_each_entry(va, &valist, purge_list) 548 list_for_each_entry_safe(va, n_va, &valist, purge_list)
548 __free_vmap_area(va); 549 __free_vmap_area(va);
549 spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock); 550 spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
550 } 551 }