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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, jens.wiklander@linaro.org,
	patrik.lantz@axis.com, tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH backport for 5.4/5.10/5.15] tee: optee: Fix incorrect page free bug
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 13:36:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YcmzRuKwe4CY0EdG@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211227121432.2694129-1-sumit.garg@linaro.org>

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 05:44:32PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> commit 18549bf4b21c739a9def39f27dcac53e27286ab5 upstream.
> 
> Pointer to the allocated pages (struct page *page) has already
> progressed towards the end of allocation. It is incorrect to perform
> __free_pages(page, order) using this pointer as we would free any
> arbitrary pages. Fix this by stop modifying the page pointer.
> 
> Fixes: ec185dd3ab25 ("optee: Fix memory leak when failing to register shm pages")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Patrik Lantz <patrik.lantz@axis.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
> [SG: Backport for stable kernels]
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/tee/optee/shm_pool.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-27 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-27 12:14 [PATCH backport for 5.4/5.10/5.15] tee: optee: Fix incorrect page free bug Sumit Garg
2021-12-27 12:36 ` Greg KH [this message]

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