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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2014-01-02 12:58:46 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-02 14:40:30 -0800
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mm: fix use-after-free in sys_remap_file_pages
remap_file_pages calls mmap_region, which may merge the VMA with other existing VMAs, and free "vma". This can lead to a use-after-free bug. Avoid the bug by remembering vm_flags before calling mmap_region, and not trying to dereference vma later. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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