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authorAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>2020-06-05 01:45:51 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-05 04:06:20 +0200
commit67b3d3cca385507c4c8b6ad97b823415e038e3c8 (patch)
treec5ccb706f67e0ebb63d978e30e0be771b31dcd47 /kernel
parentkcov: cleanup debug messages (diff)
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kcov: fix potential use-after-free in kcov_remote_start
If vmalloc() fails in kcov_remote_start() we'll access remote->kcov without holding kcov_remote_lock, so remote might potentially be freed at that point. Cache kcov pointer in a local variable. Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9d9134359725a965627b7e8f2652069f86f1d1fa.1585233617.git.andreyknvl@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/de0d3d30ff90776a2a509cc34c7c1c7521bda125.1584655448.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kcov.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
index e6bb2b50569f..14e7208c5291 100644
--- a/kernel/kcov.c
+++ b/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -748,6 +748,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcov_fops = {
void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
{
struct kcov_remote *remote;
+ struct kcov *kcov;
void *area;
struct task_struct *t;
unsigned int size;
@@ -774,16 +775,17 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
return;
}
+ kcov = remote->kcov;
/* Put in kcov_remote_stop(). */
- kcov_get(remote->kcov);
- t->kcov = remote->kcov;
+ kcov_get(kcov);
+ t->kcov = kcov;
/*
* Read kcov fields before unlock to prevent races with
* KCOV_DISABLE / kcov_remote_reset().
*/
- size = remote->kcov->remote_size;
- mode = remote->kcov->mode;
- sequence = remote->kcov->sequence;
+ size = kcov->remote_size;
+ mode = kcov->mode;
+ sequence = kcov->sequence;
area = kcov_remote_area_get(size);
spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
@@ -791,7 +793,7 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
area = vmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long));
if (!area) {
t->kcov = NULL;
- kcov_put(remote->kcov);
+ kcov_put(kcov);
return;
}
}