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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2012-10-16 17:31:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-16 18:00:50 -0700
commit32f8516a8c733d281faa9f6666b509035246505c (patch)
tree31e40b8d5c96dec8a3e6f8adfb3db992718fecc1 /mm/mempolicy.c
parentdd8e8c4a2c902d8350b702e7bc7c2799e5e7e331 (diff)
mm, mempolicy: fix printing stack contents in numa_maps
When reading /proc/pid/numa_maps, it's possible to return the contents of the stack where the mempolicy string should be printed if the policy gets freed from beneath us. This happens because mpol_to_str() may return an error the stack-allocated buffer is then printed without ever being stored. There are two possible error conditions in mpol_to_str(): - if the buffer allocated is insufficient for the string to be stored, and - if the mempolicy has an invalid mode. The first error condition is not triggered in any of the callers to mpol_to_str(): at least 50 bytes is always allocated on the stack and this is sufficient for the string to be written. A future patch should convert this into BUILD_BUG_ON() since we know the maximum strlen possible, but that's not -rc material. The second error condition is possible if a race occurs in dropping a reference to a task's mempolicy causing it to be freed during the read(). The slab poison value is then used for the mode and mpol_to_str() returns -EINVAL. This race is only possible because get_vma_policy() believes that mm->mmap_sem protects task->mempolicy, which isn't true. The exit path does not hold mm->mmap_sem when dropping the reference or setting task->mempolicy to NULL: it uses task_lock(task) instead. Thus, it's required for the caller of a task mempolicy to hold task_lock(task) while grabbing the mempolicy and reading it. Callers with a vma policy store their mempolicy earlier and can simply increment the reference count so it's guaranteed not to be freed. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 0b78fb9ea65b..d04a8a54c294 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1536,9 +1536,8 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mbind(compat_ulong_t start, compat_ulong_t len,
*
* Returns effective policy for a VMA at specified address.
* Falls back to @task or system default policy, as necessary.
- * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies
- * are protected by the task's mmap_sem, which must be held for read by
- * the caller.
+ * Current or other task's task mempolicy and non-shared vma policies must be
+ * protected by task_lock(task) by the caller.
* Shared policies [those marked as MPOL_F_SHARED] require an extra reference
* count--added by the get_policy() vm_op, as appropriate--to protect against
* freeing by another task. It is the caller's responsibility to free the