[PATCH v6 01/71] binfmt_elf: Take the mmap lock when walking the VMA list

Liam Howlett liam.howlett at oracle.com
Tue Feb 15 06:42:55 PST 2022


From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy at infradead.org>

I'm not sure if the VMA list can change under us, but dump_vma_snapshot()
is very careful to take the mmap_lock in write mode.  We only need to
take it in read mode here as we do not care if the size of the stack
VMA changes underneath us.

If it can be changed underneath us, this is a potential use-after-free
for a multithreaded process which is dumping core.

Fixes: 2aa362c49c31 ("coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy at infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett at Oracle.com>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 9e11e6f13e83..f15efed29d3d 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1651,6 +1651,7 @@ static int fill_files_note(struct memelfnote *note)
 	name_base = name_curpos = ((char *)data) + names_ofs;
 	remaining = size - names_ofs;
 	count = 0;
+	mmap_read_lock(mm);
 	for (vma = mm->mmap; vma != NULL; vma = vma->vm_next) {
 		struct file *file;
 		const char *filename;
@@ -1661,6 +1662,7 @@ static int fill_files_note(struct memelfnote *note)
 		filename = file_path(file, name_curpos, remaining);
 		if (IS_ERR(filename)) {
 			if (PTR_ERR(filename) == -ENAMETOOLONG) {
+				mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 				kvfree(data);
 				size = size * 5 / 4;
 				goto alloc;
@@ -1680,6 +1682,7 @@ static int fill_files_note(struct memelfnote *note)
 		*start_end_ofs++ = vma->vm_pgoff;
 		count++;
 	}
+	mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 
 	/* Now we know exact count of files, can store it */
 	data[0] = count;
-- 
2.34.1



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