mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and multiple ->release() callouts
authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:35:34 +0000 (16:35 -0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 6 Mar 2013 03:24:12 +0000 (03:24 +0000)
commit09454abba5062d829949a552502220d3666119e1
treea55cb2d869142672d1f2f0d88de04b21ca9dfe74
parent3d2b066c9254c7f03bdc2e8fb1714ed865947b40
mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and multiple ->release() callouts

commit 751efd8610d3d7d67b7bdf7f62646edea7365dd7 upstream.

There is a race condition between mmu_notifier_unregister() and
__mmu_notifier_release().

Assume two tasks, one calling mmu_notifier_unregister() as a result of a
filp_close() ->flush() callout (task A), and the other calling
mmu_notifier_release() from an mmput() (task B).

                A                               B
t1                                              srcu_read_lock()
t2              if (!hlist_unhashed())
t3                                              srcu_read_unlock()
t4              srcu_read_lock()
t5                                              hlist_del_init_rcu()
t6                                              synchronize_srcu()
t7              srcu_read_unlock()
t8              hlist_del_rcu()  <--- NULL pointer deref.

Additionally, the list traversal in __mmu_notifier_release() is not
protected by the by the mmu_notifier_mm->hlist_lock which can result in
callouts to the ->release() notifier from both mmu_notifier_unregister()
and __mmu_notifier_release().

-stable suggestions:

The stable trees prior to 3.7.y need commits 21a92735f660 and
70400303ce0c cherry-picked in that order prior to cherry-picking this
commit.  The 3.7.y tree already has those two commits.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/mmu_notifier.c