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mm/mempolicy: Take VMA lock before replacing policy
mbind() calls down into vma_replace_policy() without taking the per-VMA
locks, replaces the VMA's vma->vm_policy pointer, and frees the old
policy. That's bad; a concurrent page fault might still be using the
old policy (in vma_alloc_folio()), resulting in use-after-free.
Normally this will manifest as a use-after-free read first, but it can
result in memory corruption, including because vma_alloc_folio() can
call mpol_cond_put() on the freed policy, which conditionally changes
the policy's refcount member.
This bug is specific to CONFIG_NUMA, but it does also affect non-NUMA
systems as long as the kernel was built with CONFIG_NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Fixes: 5e31275 ("mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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