From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Decline to manipulate the refcount on a slab page
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:50:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z878K7JQ93LqBdCB@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <598912d1-0482-434c-b7bb-75e6fdc2e38e@suse.cz>
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 03:37:51PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Note it's a 6.14 hotfix for kernel oopses due to page refcount overflow.
Not actually overflow ... without VM_DEBUG enabled, networking increases
the refcount from 0 to 1, then decrements it from 1 to 0, causing the
slab to be freed. So it's a UAF bug induced by a messed-up refcount.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-10 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-10 14:35 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2025-03-10 14:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-03-10 14:50 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-03-11 10:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-03-11 15:46 ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-03-11 16:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-03-12 5:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-13 7:22 ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-03-13 7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-13 8:34 ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-03-13 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-13 8:52 ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-03-13 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-03-12 5:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2025-03-11 7:05 ` Hannes Reinecke
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