From: Andrey Ryabinin Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 15:09:30 +0000 (+0400) Subject: mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma X-Git-Tag: v3.15~7 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=624483f3ea82598ab0f62f1bdb9177f531ab1892;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-stable.git mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma While working address sanitizer for kernel I've discovered use-after-free bug in __put_anon_vma. For the last anon_vma, anon_vma->root freed before child anon_vma. Later in anon_vma_free(anon_vma) we are referencing to already freed anon_vma->root to check rwsem. This fixes it by freeing the child anon_vma before freeing anon_vma->root. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: # v3.0+ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 9c3e773..83bfafa 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -1564,10 +1564,9 @@ void __put_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) { struct anon_vma *root = anon_vma->root; + anon_vma_free(anon_vma); if (root != anon_vma && atomic_dec_and_test(&root->refcount)) anon_vma_free(root); - - anon_vma_free(anon_vma); } static struct anon_vma *rmap_walk_anon_lock(struct page *page,