Nick,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:08:45PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:34:54AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > nick,
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:18:56PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > Perfmon associates vmalloc()ed memory with a file descriptor, and installs
> > > a vma mapping that memory. Unfortunately, the vm_file field is not filled in,
> > > so processes with mappings to that memory do not prevent the file from being
> > > closed and the memory freed. This results in use-after-free bugs and multiple
> > > freeing of pages, etc.
> > >
> > > I saw this bug on an Altix on SLES9. Haven't reproduced upstream but it looks
> > > like the same issue is there.
> > >
> >
> > I think this is possible for the old perfmon v2.0 codebase that is currently in
> > mainline for IA-64.
>
> OK, I take that as an Ack? (the patch definitely applies, I just can't
> get the Altix to boot 2.6.20 to verify it).
>
> > I have corrected this with the multi-arch v2.3 code base
> > available as a kernel patch for the moment.
>
> Not that I've looked at the code, but can I be hopeful that v2.3
> using the traditional mmap file operation to set up the vma and map
> in pages, rather than the way that v2.0 works?
>
It does. You need an explicit mmap() call.
--
-Stephane
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