Patch is against 2.6.20.
Nick
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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.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
@@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ pfm_remap_buffer(struct vm_area_struct *
* allocate a sampling buffer and remaps it into the user address space of the task
*/
static int
-pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct *task, pfm_context_t *ctx, unsigned long rsize, void **user_vaddr)
+pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct *task, struct file *filp, pfm_context_t *ctx, unsigned long rsize, void **user_vaddr)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
@@ -2312,6 +2312,7 @@ pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct
* partially initialize the vma for the sampling buffer
*/
vma->vm_mm = mm;
+ vma->vm_file = filp;
vma->vm_flags = VM_READ| VM_MAYREAD |VM_RESERVED;
vma->vm_page_prot = PAGE_READONLY; /* XXX may need to change */
@@ -2350,6 +2351,8 @@ pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(struct task_struct
goto error;
}
+ get_file(filp);
+
/*
* now insert the vma in the vm list for the process, must be
* done with mmap lock held
@@ -2427,7 +2430,7 @@ pfarg_is_sane(struct task_struct *task,
}
static int
-pfm_setup_buffer_fmt(struct task_struct *task, pfm_context_t *ctx, unsigned int ctx_flags,
+pfm_setup_buffer_fmt(struct task_struct *task, struct file *filp, pfm_context_t *ctx, unsigned int ctx_flags,
unsigned int cpu, pfarg_context_t *arg)
{
pfm_buffer_fmt_t *fmt = NULL;
@@ -2468,7 +2471,7 @@ pfm_setup_buffer_fmt(struct task_struct
/*
* buffer is always remapped into the caller's address space
*/
- ret = pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(current, ctx, size, &uaddr);
+ ret = pfm_smpl_buffer_alloc(current, filp, ctx, size, &uaddr);
if (ret) goto error;
/* keep track of user address of buffer */
@@ -2679,7 +2682,7 @@ pfm_context_create(pfm_context_t *ctx, v
* does the user want to sample?
*/
if (pfm_uuid_cmp(req->ctx_smpl_buf_id, pfm_null_uuid)) {
- ret = pfm_setup_buffer_fmt(current, ctx, ctx_flags, 0, req);
+ ret = pfm_setup_buffer_fmt(current, filp, ctx, ctx_flags, 0, req);
if (ret) goto buffer_error;
}
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