From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: arm64/v4.16-rc1: KASAN: use-after-free Read in finish_task_switch
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:33:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180215153307.GA11712@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180215142239.GF16623@arm.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 02:22:39PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Assuming others agree with this diagnosis, I'm not sure how to fix it.
> It's basically not safe to set current->mm = NULL with preemption enabled.
One thing we could try would be to leave current->mm alone and just do the
mmdrop in finish_task_switch at the point where we put the task_struct for
DEAD tasks. mm_update_next_owner might need updating so that it doesn't
re-assign current as the owner and run into a BUG_ON.
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-15 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 12:02 arm64/v4.16-rc1: KASAN: use-after-free Read in finish_task_switch Mark Rutland
2018-02-14 15:07 ` Will Deacon
2018-02-14 16:51 ` Mark Rutland
2018-02-14 18:53 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-02-15 11:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-15 13:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-02-15 14:22 ` Will Deacon
2018-02-15 15:33 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-02-15 16:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-15 18:21 ` Will Deacon
2018-02-15 22:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-02-16 0:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-02-16 8:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-16 16:53 ` Mark Rutland
2018-02-16 17:17 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-02-16 18:33 ` Mark Rutland
2018-02-19 11:26 ` Catalin Marinas
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