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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2017-09-11 11:24:22 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2017-09-28 07:29:39 +0200
commitd6e646ad7cfa7034d280459b2b2546288f247144 (patch)
tree4f3df00bddd8c73734eb6612c6437df881f587d6 /arch/s390/kernel
parent8076428f0c9f24d90270204fd39ccb11b83db71d (diff)
downloadlinux-d6e646ad7cfa7034d280459b2b2546288f247144.tar.bz2
s390/runtime instrumention: fix possible memory corruption
For PREEMPT enabled kernels the runtime instrumentation (RI) code contains a possible use-after-free bug. If a task that makes use of RI exits, it will execute do_exit() while still enabled for preemption. That function will call exit_thread_runtime_instr() via exit_thread(). If exit_thread_runtime_instr() gets preempted after the RI control block of the task has been freed but before the pointer to it is set to NULL, then save_ri_cb(), called from switch_to(), will write to already freed memory. Avoid this and simply disable preemption while freeing the control block and setting the pointer to NULL. Fixes: e4b8b3f33fca ("s390: add support for runtime instrumentation") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.7+ Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c b/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
index 429d3a782f1c..b9738ae2e1de 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
@@ -49,11 +49,13 @@ void exit_thread_runtime_instr(void)
{
struct task_struct *task = current;
+ preempt_disable();
if (!task->thread.ri_cb)
return;
disable_runtime_instr();
kfree(task->thread.ri_cb);
task->thread.ri_cb = NULL;
+ preempt_enable();
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(s390_runtime_instr, int, command)
@@ -64,9 +66,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(s390_runtime_instr, int, command)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (command == S390_RUNTIME_INSTR_STOP) {
- preempt_disable();
exit_thread_runtime_instr();
- preempt_enable();
return 0;
}