Re: [PATCH v1] mm: Fix use-after-free for MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 27.07.23 13:02, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> The recent change to batch-zap anonymous ptes did not take into account
> that for platforms where MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER is enabled (e.g. s390),
> __tlb_remove_page() drops a reference to the page. This means that the
> folio reference count can drop to zero while still in use (i.e. before
> folio_remove_rmap_range() is called). This does not happen on other
> platforms because the actual page freeing is deferred.
> 
> Solve this by appropriately getting/putting the folio to guarrantee it
> does not get freed early.
> 
> Given the new need to get/put the folio in the batch path, let's stick
> to the non-batched path if the folio is not large. In this case batching
> is not helpful since the batch size is 1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
> Fixes: 904d9713b3b0 ("mm: batch-zap large anonymous folio PTE mappings")
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230726161942.GA1123863@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
> ---
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> This fixes patch 3 in the series at [1], which is currently in mm-unstable. I'm
> not sure whether you want to take the fix or whether I should re-post the entire
> series?
> 

Please repost the complete thing, you're touching some sensible places 
that really need decent review.


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb