Re: arm64/v4.16-rc1: KASAN: use-after-free Read in finish_task_switch

[Peter Zijlstra]

Please trim..

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:02:42AM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > My current theory: do_exit() gets preempted after having set current->mm
> > to NULL, and after having issued mmput(), which brings the mm_count down
> > to 0.

No it doesn't..

remember, the last thread of a process enters with:

  mm_count == 1 && mm_users == 1

exit_mm() then does mmgrab():

  mm_count == 2 && mm_users == 1

we then do mmput(), which results in:

  mm_count == 1 && mm_users == 0

That last mm_count is for ->active_mm, and will be dropped once we
schedule to a next user task.