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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix use-after-free in sys_remap_file_pages
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:24:27 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213062427.GH8167@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131212224118.17a951c2@annuminas.surriel.com>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:41:18PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> If the vma has been freed by the time the code jumps to the
> out label (because it was freed by a function called from
> mmap_region), surely it will also already have been freed
> by the time this patch dereferences it?
> 
> Also, setting vma = NULL to avoid the if (vma) branch at
> the out: label is unnecessarily obfuscated. Lets make things
> clear by documenting what is going on, and having a label
> after that dereference.

This patch is a bit easier to read, at least for me. And if
I understand the code flow right, the issue is due to
remap_file_pages -> mmap_region -> find_vma_links -> do_munmap.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-12 22:07 [PATCH] mm: fix use-after-free in sys_remap_file_pages Kees Cook
2013-12-13  3:41 ` Rik van Riel
2013-12-13  6:24   ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2013-12-13 11:10   ` PaX Team
2013-12-13 14:43     ` [PATCH -v2] " Rik van Riel

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