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mm: fix use-after-free when anon vma name is used after vma is freed
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When adjacent vmas are being merged it can result in the vma that was
originally passed to madvise_update_vma being destroyed.  In the current
implementation, the name parameter passed to madvise_update_vma points
directly to vma->anon_name and it is used after the call to vma_merge.
In the cases when vma_merge merges the original vma and destroys it,
this might result in UAF.  For that the original vma would have to hold
the anon_vma_name with the last reference.  The following vma would need
to contain a different anon_vma_name object with the same string.  Such
scenario is shown below:

madvise_vma_behavior(vma)
  madvise_update_vma(vma, ..., anon_name == vma->anon_name)
    vma_merge(vma)
      __vma_adjust(vma) <-- merges vma with adjacent one
        vm_area_free(vma) <-- frees the original vma
    replace_vma_anon_name(anon_name) <-- UAF of vma->anon_name

Fix this by raising the name refcount and stabilizing it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 9a10064 ("mm: add a field to store names for private anonymous memory")
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Reported-by: [email protected]
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Hyser <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiaofeng Cao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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surenbaghdasaryan authored and torvalds committed Mar 5, 2022
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion mm/madvise.c
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Expand Up @@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/*
* Update the vm_flags on region of a vma, splitting it or merging it as
* necessary. Must be called with mmap_sem held for writing;
* Caller should ensure anon_name stability by raising its refcount even when
* anon_name belongs to a valid vma because this function might free that vma.
*/
static int madvise_update_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -945,6 +947,7 @@ static int madvise_vma_behavior(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long behavior)
{
int error;
struct anon_vma_name *anon_name;
unsigned long new_flags = vma->vm_flags;

switch (behavior) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1010,8 +1013,11 @@ static int madvise_vma_behavior(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
break;
}

anon_name = anon_vma_name(vma);
anon_vma_name_get(anon_name);
error = madvise_update_vma(vma, prev, start, end, new_flags,
anon_vma_name(vma));
anon_name);
anon_vma_name_put(anon_name);

out:
/*
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