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Jann Horn 7877eaa113 mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma->degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse 
commit 2555283eb4 upstream.

anon_vma->degree tracks the combined number of child anon_vmas and VMAs
that use the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma.

anon_vma_clone() then assumes that for any anon_vma attached to
src->anon_vma_chain other than src->anon_vma, it is impossible for it to
be a leaf node of the VMA tree, meaning that for such VMAs ->degree is
elevated by 1 because of a child anon_vma, meaning that if ->degree
equals 1 there are no VMAs that use the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma.

This assumption is wrong because the ->degree optimization leads to leaf
nodes being abandoned on anon_vma_clone() - an existing anon_vma is
reused and no new parent-child relationship is created.  So it is
possible to reuse an anon_vma for one VMA while it is still tied to
another VMA.

This is an issue because is_mergeable_anon_vma() and its callers assume
that if two VMAs have the same ->anon_vma, the list of anon_vmas
attached to the VMAs is guaranteed to be the same.  When this assumption
is violated, vma_merge() can merge pages into a VMA that is not attached
to the corresponding anon_vma, leading to dangling page->mapping
pointers that will be dereferenced during rmap walks.

Fix it by separately tracking the number of child anon_vmas and the
number of VMAs using the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma.

Fixes: 7a3ef208e6 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2022-09-05 10:31:28 +02:00
arch arm64: errata: Add Cortex-A510 to the repeat tlbi list 2022-09-05 10:31:26 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix io hung due to missing commit_rqs 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on x509 parser 2022-07-24 12:53:55 -07:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: enforce SM2 signature use pkey algo 2022-08-17 15:16:17 +02:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Add Cortex-A510 to the repeat tlbi list 2022-09-05 10:31:26 +02:00
drivers fbdev: fb_pm2fb: Avoid potential divide by zero error 2022-09-05 10:31:28 +02:00
fs ocfs2: fix freeing uninitialized resource on ocfs2_dlm_shutdown 2022-08-31 17:18:16 +02:00
include mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma->degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse 2022-09-05 10:31:28 +02:00
init arm64: fix rodata=full 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix issue with io_write() not always undoing sb_start_write() 2022-08-31 17:18:17 +02:00
ipc ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation failed 2022-06-22 17:47:41 -05:00
kernel ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead 2022-09-05 10:31:28 +02:00
lib crypto: lib - remove unneeded selection of XOR_BLOCKS 2022-09-05 10:31:26 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma->degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse 2022-09-05 10:31:28 +02:00
net bpf: Don't redirect packets with invalid pkt_len 2022-09-05 10:31:28 +02:00
samples sample: bpf: xdp_router_ipv4: Allow the kernel to send arp requests 2022-08-17 15:14:25 +02:00
scripts kbuild: dummy-tools: avoid tmpdir leak in dummy gcc 2022-08-29 11:07:58 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix memleak in aa_simple_write_to_buffer() 2022-08-25 11:45:11 +02:00
sound Revert "ALSA: hda: Fix page fault in snd_hda_codec_shutdown()" 2022-08-25 11:45:54 +02:00
tools perf stat: Clear evsel->reset_group for each stat run 2022-08-31 17:18:19 +02:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Unconditionally get a ref to /dev/kvm module when creating a VM 2022-08-25 11:45:05 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes for 5.19, part 4 2022-07-27 09:43:07 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ARM/PALM TREO SUPPORT orphan 2022-07-07 15:17:00 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS io_uring: move to separate directory 2022-08-17 15:14:20 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.19.6 2022-08-31 17:18:21 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.