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mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and multiple ->release() callouts
authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:27:08 +0000 (12:27 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:46:52 +0000 (16:46 +1100)
commit067a9c200da6d5c381cbc91322c9f5370345227f
treec27ca1a0c5a9864295e6ac7de6df473c6e8b5ab3
parent455d1ad39f8807a681aeaea70a259e619439a20c
mmu_notifier_unregister NULL Pointer deref and multiple ->release() callouts

There is a race condition between mmu_notifier_unregister() and
__mmu_notifier_release().

Assume two tasks, one calling mmu_notifier_unregister() as a result of a
filp_close() ->flush() callout (task A), and the other calling
mmu_notifier_release() from an mmput() (task B).

                A                               B
t1                                              srcu_read_lock()
t2              if (!hlist_unhashed())
t3                                              srcu_read_unlock()
t4              srcu_read_lock()
t5                                              hlist_del_init_rcu()
t6                                              synchronize_srcu()
t7              srcu_read_unlock()
t8              hlist_del_rcu()  <--- NULL pointer deref.

Additionally, the list traversal in __mmu_notifier_release() is not
protected by the by the mmu_notifier_mm->hlist_lock which can result in
callouts to the ->release() notifier from both mmu_notifier_unregister()
and __mmu_notifier_release().

-stable suggestions:
The stable trees prior to 3.7.y need commits 21a9273 and 7040030
cherry-picked in that order prior to cherry-picking this commit.  The
3.7.y tree already has those two commits.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mmu_notifier.c