Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: fix use-after-free bug when mm->mmap is reused after being freed

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:19:22 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After exit_mmap frees all vmas in the mm, mm->mmap needs to be reset,
> otherwise it points to a vma that was freed and when reused leads to
> a use-after-free bug.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -3186,6 +3186,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  		vma = remove_vma(vma);
>  		cond_resched();
>  	}
> +	mm->mmap = NULL;
>  	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
>  	vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
>  }

After the Maple tree patches, mm_struct.mmap doesn't exist.  So I'll
revert this fix as part of merging the maple-tree parts of linux-next.
I'll be sending this fix to Linus this week.

All of which means that the thusly-resolved Maple tree patches might
reintroduce this use-after-free bug.