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authorHao-Yu Yang <naup96721@gmail.com>2026-03-13 20:47:56 +0800
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2026-03-26 16:13:48 +0100
commit190a8c48ff623c3d67cb295b4536a660db2012aa (patch)
tree55e7bb267e9b2411ad45b7a6818b54410582389a /kernel
parent19f94b39058681dec64a10ebeb6f23fe7fc3f77a (diff)
futex: Fix UaF between futex_key_to_node_opt() and vma_replace_policy()
During futex_key_to_node_opt() execution, vma->vm_policy is read under speculative mmap lock and RCU. Concurrently, mbind() may call vma_replace_policy() which frees the old mempolicy immediately via kmem_cache_free(). This creates a race where __futex_key_to_node() dereferences a freed mempolicy pointer, causing a use-after-free read of mpol->mode. [ 151.412631] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __futex_key_to_node (kernel/futex/core.c:349) [ 151.414046] Read of size 2 at addr ffff888001c49634 by task e/87 [ 151.415969] Call Trace: [ 151.416732] __asan_load2 (mm/kasan/generic.c:271) [ 151.416777] __futex_key_to_node (kernel/futex/core.c:349) [ 151.416822] get_futex_key (kernel/futex/core.c:374 kernel/futex/core.c:386 kernel/futex/core.c:593) Fix by adding rcu to __mpol_put(). Fixes: c042c505210d ("futex: Implement FUTEX2_MPOL") Reported-by: Hao-Yu Yang <naup96721@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hao-Yu Yang <naup96721@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324174418.GB1850007@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex/core.c b/kernel/futex/core.c
index cf7e610eac42..31e83a09789e 100644
--- a/kernel/futex/core.c
+++ b/kernel/futex/core.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int __futex_key_to_node(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
if (!vma)
return FUTEX_NO_NODE;
- mpol = vma_policy(vma);
+ mpol = READ_ONCE(vma->vm_policy);
if (!mpol)
return FUTEX_NO_NODE;