linux-kernel - [ 46/48] mm: Hold a file reference in madvise

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:32:02 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: [ 46/48] mm: Hold a file reference in madvise_remove

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

commit 9ab4233dd08036fe34a89c7dc6f47a8bf2eb29eb upstream.

Otherwise the code races with munmap (causing a use-after-free
of the vma) or with close (causing a use-after-free of the struct
file).

The bug was introduced by commit 90ed52ebe481 ("[PATCH] holepunch: fix
mmap_sem i_mutex deadlock")

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - madvise_remove() calls vmtruncate_range(), not do_fallocate()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/madvise.c |   18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/ksm.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
 
 /*
  * Any behaviour which results in changes to the vma->vm_flags needs to
@@ -197,14 +198,16 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_are
 	struct address_space *mapping;
 	loff_t offset, endoff;
 	int error;
+	struct file *f;
 
 	*prev = NULL;	/* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */
 
 	if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!vma->vm_file || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping
-		|| !vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host) {
+	f = vma->vm_file;
+
+	if (!f || !f->f_mapping || !f->f_mapping->host) {
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
@@ -218,9 +221,16 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_are
 	endoff = (loff_t)(end - vma->vm_start - 1)
 			+ ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
 
-	/* vmtruncate_range needs to take i_mutex */
+	/*
+	 * vmtruncate_range may need to take i_mutex.  We need to
+	 * explicitly grab a reference because the vma (and hence the
+	 * vma's reference to the file) can go away as soon as we drop
+	 * mmap_sem.
+	 */
+	get_file(f);
 	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 	error = vmtruncate_range(mapping->host, offset, endoff);
+	fput(f);
 	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 	return error;
 }


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