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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>
Cc: tkjos@google.com, arve@android.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maco@google.com,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binder: fix race between munmap() and direct reclaim
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 08:57:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190302075720.GA18046@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190301230606.8302-1-tkjos@google.com>

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 03:06:06PM -0800, Todd Kjos wrote:
> An munmap() on a binder device causes binder_vma_close() to be called
> which clears the alloc->vma pointer.
> 
> If direct reclaim causes binder_alloc_free_page() to be called, there
> is a race where alloc->vma is read into a local vma pointer and then
> used later after the mm->mmap_sem is acquired. This can result in
> calling zap_page_range() with an invalid vma which manifests as a
> use-after-free in zap_page_range().
> 
> The fix is to check alloc->vma after acquiring the mmap_sem (which we
> were acquiring anyway) and skip zap_page_range() if it has changed
> to NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
> ---

Any specific commit that this fixes?  And should it be marked for
stable releases?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-02  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-01 23:06 [PATCH] binder: fix race between munmap() and direct reclaim Todd Kjos
2019-03-02  7:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-02 16:27   ` Todd Kjos
2019-03-05 19:35     ` Joel Fernandes

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