* [PATCH] uprobes: use kzalloc to allocate xol area
@ 2024-09-03 10:23 Sven Schnelle
2024-09-03 12:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sven Schnelle @ 2024-09-03 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa,
Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter, Liang, Kan, Masami Hiramatsu,
Oleg Nesterov
Cc: linux-perf-users, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel
To prevent unitialized members, use kzalloc to allocate
the xol area.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 73cc47708679..50d7949be2b1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
struct xol_area *area;
void *insns;
- area = kmalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL);
+ area = kzalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!area))
goto out;
@@ -1499,7 +1499,6 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
goto free_area;
area->xol_mapping.name = "[uprobes]";
- area->xol_mapping.fault = NULL;
area->xol_mapping.pages = area->pages;
area->pages[0] = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
if (!area->pages[0])
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH] uprobes: use kzalloc to allocate xol area
2024-09-03 10:23 [PATCH] uprobes: use kzalloc to allocate xol area Sven Schnelle
@ 2024-09-03 12:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-09-03 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Oleg Nesterov @ 2024-09-03 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Schnelle
Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa,
Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter, Liang, Kan, Masami Hiramatsu,
linux-perf-users, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel
On 09/03, Sven Schnelle wrote:
>
> To prevent unitialized members, use kzalloc to allocate
> the xol area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
and since this looks easily exploitable, I'd sugest
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b059a453b1cf1 ("x86/vdso: Add mremap hook to vm_special_mapping")
> ---
> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index 73cc47708679..50d7949be2b1 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
> struct xol_area *area;
> void *insns;
>
> - area = kmalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL);
> + area = kzalloc(sizeof(*area), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (unlikely(!area))
> goto out;
>
> @@ -1499,7 +1499,6 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
> goto free_area;
>
> area->xol_mapping.name = "[uprobes]";
> - area->xol_mapping.fault = NULL;
> area->xol_mapping.pages = area->pages;
> area->pages[0] = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
> if (!area->pages[0])
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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* Re: [PATCH] uprobes: use kzalloc to allocate xol area
2024-09-03 12:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
@ 2024-09-03 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2024-09-03 13:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Sven Schnelle, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa,
Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter, Liang, Kan, Masami Hiramatsu,
linux-perf-users, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel
On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 02:46:07PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/03, Sven Schnelle wrote:
> >
> > To prevent unitialized members, use kzalloc to allocate
> > the xol area.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>
> and since this looks easily exploitable, I'd sugest
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: b059a453b1cf1 ("x86/vdso: Add mremap hook to vm_special_mapping")
Thanks, will queue in perf/urgent
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