Re: [PATCH v3] mm: hugetlb: fix UAF in hugetlb_handle_userfault

From: Liu Shixin
Date: Fri Sep 23 2022 - 23:34:56 EST




On 2022/9/24 8:05, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:21:13 +0800 Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The vma_lock and hugetlb_fault_mutex are dropped before handling
>> userfault and reacquire them again after handle_userfault(), but
>> reacquire the vma_lock could lead to UAF[1,2] due to the following
>> race,
...
> Patch is against mm-unstable, which isn't appropriate for a backport.
> Could you please something against current -linus (which will be more
> backportable), then I'll figure out the fallout on mm-unstable.
>
> Thanks.
> .
I resend v4 rebased on current -linus.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220924034905.2694686-1-liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks,