From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, chrisw@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
riel@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] ksm: fix rmap_item use after free
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:45:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603144552.GB30426@random.random> (raw)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
This avoid crashing with slab debugging enabled by removing a window
for memory corruption if freed slab entries are reused before we read
the next pointer. Against mmotm.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
---
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 74d921b..f060e87 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static struct rmap_item *stable_tree_search(struct page *page,
{
struct rb_node *node = root_stable_tree.rb_node;
struct tree_item *tree_item;
- struct rmap_item *found_rmap_item;
+ struct rmap_item *found_rmap_item, *next_rmap_item;
while (node) {
int ret;
@@ -907,9 +907,11 @@ static struct rmap_item *stable_tree_search(struct page *page,
found_rmap_item->address == rmap_item->address)) {
if (!is_zapped_item(found_rmap_item, page2))
break;
+ next_rmap_item = found_rmap_item->next;
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(found_rmap_item);
- }
- found_rmap_item = found_rmap_item->next;
+ found_rmap_item = next_rmap_item;
+ } else
+ found_rmap_item = found_rmap_item->next;
}
if (!found_rmap_item)
goto out_didnt_find;
@@ -959,7 +961,7 @@ static int stable_tree_insert(struct page *page,
while (*new) {
int ret;
- struct rmap_item *insert_rmap_item;
+ struct rmap_item *insert_rmap_item, *next_rmap_item;
tree_item = rb_entry(*new, struct tree_item, node);
BUG_ON(!tree_item);
@@ -973,9 +975,11 @@ static int stable_tree_insert(struct page *page,
insert_rmap_item->address == rmap_item->address)) {
if (!is_zapped_item(insert_rmap_item, page2))
break;
+ next_rmap_item = insert_rmap_item->next;
remove_rmap_item_from_tree(insert_rmap_item);
- }
- insert_rmap_item = insert_rmap_item->next;
+ insert_rmap_item = next_rmap_item;
+ } else
+ insert_rmap_item = insert_rmap_item->next;
}
if (!insert_rmap_item)
return 1;
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next reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 15:10 UTC|newest]
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2009-06-03 14:45 Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2009-06-03 14:47 ` [PATCH] ksm: fix losing visibility of part of rmap_item->next list Andrea Arcangeli
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