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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:02:49 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe_file causing
 use-after-free

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:14:08PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Commit 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for
> write killable") made it possible to kill a forking task while it is
> waiting to acquire its ->mmap_sem for write, in dup_mmap().  However, it
> was overlooked that this introduced an new error path before a reference
> is taken on the mm_struct's ->exe_file.  Since the ->exe_file of the new
> mm_struct was already set to the old ->exe_file by the memcpy() in
> dup_mm(), it was possible for the mmput() in the error path of dup_mm()
> to drop a reference to ->exe_file which was never taken.  This caused
> the struct file to later be freed prematurely.
> 
> Fix it by updating mm_init() to NULL out the ->exe_file, in the same
> place it clears other things like the list of mmaps.

> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index e075b7780421..cbbea277b3fb 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -806,6 +806,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
>  	mm_init_cpumask(mm);
>  	mm_init_aio(mm);
>  	mm_init_owner(mm, p);
> +	RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->exe_file, NULL);
>  	mmu_notifier_mm_init(mm);
>  	init_tlb_flush_pending(mm);
>  #if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && !USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS

I've been seeing similar issues on arm64 with use-after-free of a file
and other memory corruption [1].

This patch seems to fix that; a test that normally fired in a few
minutes has been happily running for hours with this applied.

Thanks,
Mark.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824113743.GA14737@leverpostej