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cgroup/dmem: avoid pool UAF

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An UAF issue was observed:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in page_counter_uncharge+0x65/0x150
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888106715440 by task insmod/527

CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 527 Comm: insmod    6.19.0-rc7-next-20260129+ #11
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x82/0xd0
kasan_report+0xca/0x100
kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0
page_counter_uncharge+0x65/0x150
dmem_cgroup_uncharge+0x1f/0x260

Allocated by task 527:

Freed by task 0:

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888106715400
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 64 bytes inside of
freed 512-byte region [ffff888106715400, ffff888106715600)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888106715300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888106715380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888106715400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
				     ^
ffff888106715480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888106715500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb

The issue occurs because a pool can still be held by a caller after its
associated memory region is unregistered. The current implementation frees
the pool even if users still hold references to it (e.g., before uncharge
operations complete).

This patch adds a reference counter to each pool, ensuring that a pool is
only freed when its reference count drops to zero.

Fixes: b168ed458d ("kernel/cgroup: Add "dmem" memory accounting cgroup")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14+
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Chen Ridong 2026-02-02 12:27:18 +00:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
commit d3081353ac
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