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From: steiner@sgi.com
To: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Patch 09/12] GRU - fix potential use-after-free when purging GRU tlbs
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:16:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090608172016.208698000@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090608171648.988318000@sgi.com

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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>

Fix potential SGI GRU bug that could cause a use-after-free. If one
thread in a task is flushing the GRU and another thread destroys the GRU context,
there is the potential to access a table after it has been freed.

Copy the gms pointer to a local variable before unlocking the gts table.
Note that no refcnt is needed for the gms - the reference is held indirectly
by the task's mm_struct.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>

---
 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c	2009-06-05 15:33:05.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c	2009-06-05 15:33:05.000000000 -0500
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ int gru_user_flush_tlb(unsigned long arg
 {
 	struct gru_thread_state *gts;
 	struct gru_flush_tlb_req req;
+	struct gru_mm_struct *gms;
 
 	STAT(user_flush_tlb);
 	if (copy_from_user(&req, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(req)))
@@ -718,8 +719,9 @@ int gru_user_flush_tlb(unsigned long arg
 	if (!gts)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	gru_flush_tlb_range(gts->ts_gms, req.vaddr, req.len);
+	gms = gts->ts_gms;
 	gru_unlock_gts(gts);
+	gru_flush_tlb_range(gms, req.vaddr, req.len);
 
 	return 0;
 }


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 17:16 [Patch 00/12] GRU - GRU Driver Updates steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 01/12] GRU - fix cache coherency issues with instruction retry steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 02/12] GRU - add user request to explicitly unload a gru context steiner
2009-06-08 23:05   ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-12 17:51     ` Jack Steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 03/12] GRU - fix automatic retry of gru instruction failures steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 04/12] GRU - collect per-context user statistics steiner
2009-06-08 23:07   ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-10  3:08     ` Jack Steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 05/12] GRU - delete user request for fetching chiplet status steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 06/12] GRU - cleanup gru inline functions steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 07/12] GRU - generic infrastructure for context options steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 08/12] GRU - add user request to specify gru slice steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` steiner [this message]
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 10/12] GRU - fixes to grudump utility steiner
2009-06-08 17:16 ` [Patch 11/12] GRU - remove references to the obsolete global status handle steiner
2009-06-08 17:17 ` [Patch 12/12] GRU - copyright fixes steiner

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