linux-kernel - Re: arm64/v4.16-rc1: KASAN: use-after-free Read in finish_task

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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:11:27 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: arm64/v4.16-rc1: KASAN: use-after-free Read in finish_task_switch


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.