linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/6] mm, hwpoison: fix possible use-after-free in mf_dax_kill

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Message-ID: <20220823032346.4260-5-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:23:44 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
CC:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/6] mm, hwpoison: fix possible use-after-free in mf_dax_kill_procs()

After kill_procs(), tk will be freed without being removed from the to_kill
list. In the next iteration, the freed list entry in the to_kill list will
be accessed, thus leading to use-after-free issue. Adding list_del() in
kill_procs() to fix the issue.

Fixes: c36e20249571 ("mm: introduce mf_dax_kill_procs() for fsdax case")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 1d79e693f1b9..f8262f577baf 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int forcekill, bool fail,
 {
 	struct to_kill *tk, *next;
 
-	list_for_each_entry_safe (tk, next, to_kill, nd) {
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(tk, next, to_kill, nd) {
 		if (forcekill) {
 			/*
 			 * In case something went wrong with munmapping
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int forcekill, bool fail,
 				pr_err("%#lx: Cannot send advisory machine check signal to %s:%d\n",
 				       pfn, tk->tsk->comm, tk->tsk->pid);
 		}
+		list_del(&tk->nd);
 		put_task_struct(tk->tsk);
 		kfree(tk);
 	}
-- 
2.23.0