Thread (17 messages) flat view 17 messages, 5 authors, 2018-02-19

arm64/v4.16-rc1: KASAN: use-after-free Read in finish_task_switch

From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
Date: 2018-02-16 08:11:33
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Please trim..

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:02:42AM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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My current theory: do_exit() gets preempted after having set current->mm
to NULL, and after having issued mmput(), which brings the mm_count down
to 0.
No it doesn't..

remember, the last thread of a process enters with:

  mm_count == 1 && mm_users == 1

exit_mm() then does mmgrab():

  mm_count == 2 && mm_users == 1

we then do mmput(), which results in:

  mm_count == 1 && mm_users == 0

That last mm_count is for ->active_mm, and will be dropped once we
schedule to a next user task.
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