Re: [PATCH v3] mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate_chunk()

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 03:14:02PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The error handling code does this:
> 
> err_free:
> 	kfree(devmem);
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> err_release:
> 	release_mem_region(devmem->pagemap.range.start, range_len(&devmem->pagemap.range));
>                            ^^^^^^^^
> The problem is that when we use "devmem->pagemap.range.start" the
> "devmem" pointer is either NULL or freed.
> 
> Neither the allocation nor the call to request_free_mem_region() has to
> be done under the lock so I moved those to the start of the function.
> 
> Fixes: 1f9c4bb986d9 ("mm/memremap_pages: convert to 'struct range'")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: The first version introduced a locking bug
> v3: Markus Elfring pointed out that the Fixes tag was wrong.  This bug
> was in the original commit and then fixed and then re-introduced.  I was
> quite bothered by how this bug lasted so long in the source code, but
> now we know.  As soon as it is introduced we fixed it.
> 
> One problem with the kernel QC process is that I think everyone marks
> the bug as "old/dealt with" so it was only because I was added a new
> check for resource leaks that it was found when it was re-introduced.
> 
>  lib/test_hmm.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Hi Andrew, 

I don't have have any hmm related patches this cycle, can you take
this into your tree?

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Jason