linux_kernel/mm
Minchan Kim a68a0262ab mm/madvise: remove racy mm ownership check
Jann spotted the security hole due to race of mm ownership check.

If the task is sharing the mm_struct but goes through execve() before
mm_access(), it could skip process_madvise_behavior_valid check.  That
makes *any advice hint* to reach into the remote process.

This patch removes the mm ownership check.  With it, it will lose the
ability that local process could give *any* advice hint with vector
interface for some reason (e.g., performance).  Since there is no
concrete example in upstream yet, it would be better to remove the
abiliity at this moment and need to review when such new advice comes
up.

Fixes: ecb8ac8b1f ("mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-08 20:57:18 -08:00
..
kasan mm: kasan: do not panic if both panic_on_warn and kasan_multishot set 2020-10-13 18:38:32 -07:00
backing-dev.c bdi: replace BDI_CAP_NO_{WRITEBACK,ACCT_DIRTY} with a single flag 2020-09-24 13:43:39 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c debugfs: make sure we can remove u32_array files cleanly 2020-07-10 13:54:00 -07:00
cma.c cma: don't quit at first error when activating reserved areas 2020-08-12 10:57:57 -07:00
cma.h mm: cma: use CMA_MAX_NAME to define the length of cma name array 2020-09-01 09:19:43 +02:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: stop isolation if too many pages are isolated and we have pages to migrate 2020-11-14 11:26:03 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug_vm_pgtable.c mm/debug_vm_pgtable: avoid doing memory allocation with pgtable_t mapped. 2020-10-16 11:11:14 -07:00
debug.c mm, dump_page: rename head_mapcount() --> head_compound_mapcount() 2020-10-13 18:38:29 -07:00
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: replace hard coded function name with __func__ 2020-10-13 18:38:32 -07:00
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm, fadvise: improve the expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2020-10-13 18:38:29 -07:00
failslab.c
filemap.c mm/filemap: add static for function __add_to_page_cache_locked 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
frame_vector.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
frontswap.c mm/frontswap: mark various intentional data races 2020-08-14 19:56:56 -07:00
gup_benchmark.c mm/gup_benchmark: take the mmap lock around GUP 2020-10-18 09:27:09 -07:00
gup.c mm/gup: use unpin_user_pages() in __gup_longterm_locked() 2020-11-14 11:26:03 -08:00
highmem.c mm/highmem.c: clean up endif comments 2020-10-16 11:11:18 -07:00
hmm.c mm: do page fault accounting in handle_mm_fault 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm/userfaultfd: do not access vma->vm_mm after calling handle_userfault() 2020-11-22 10:48:22 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c hugetlb_cgroup: fix offline of hugetlb cgroup with reservations 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
hugetlb.c hugetlbfs: fix anon huge page migration race 2020-11-14 11:26:04 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm,hwpoison-inject: don't pin for hwpoison_filter 2020-10-16 11:11:16 -07:00
init-mm.c mmap locking API: add MMAP_LOCK_INITIALIZER 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
internal.h mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
interval_tree.c
ioremap.c mm: move p?d_alloc_track to separate header file 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
Kconfig mm/zsmalloc.c: drop ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
Kconfig.debug treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
khugepaged.c mm: remove the now-unnecessary mmget_still_valid() hack 2020-10-16 11:11:22 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm/kmemleak: rely on rcu for task stack scanning 2020-10-13 18:38:27 -07:00
ksm.c docs: get rid of :c:type explicit declarations for structs 2020-10-15 07:49:40 +02:00
list_lru.c mm: list_lru: set shrinker map bit when child nr_items is not zero 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
maccess.c uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers 2020-08-12 10:57:59 -07:00
madvise.c mm/madvise: remove racy mm ownership check 2020-12-08 20:57:18 -08:00
Makefile mm,kmemleak-test.c: move kmemleak-test.c to samples dir 2020-10-13 18:38:27 -07:00
mapping_dirty_helpers.c
memblock.c memblock: get rid of a :c:type leftover 2020-10-15 07:49:46 +02:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcg/slab: fix root memcg vmstats 2020-11-22 10:48:22 -08:00
memfd.c
memory_hotplug.c mm: fix phys_to_target_node() and memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() exports 2020-11-22 10:48:22 -08:00
memory-failure.c hugetlbfs: fix anon huge page migration race 2020-11-14 11:26:04 -08:00
memory.c mm: allow a NULL fn callback in apply_to_page_range 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error 2020-11-02 12:14:19 -08:00
mempool.c mm/mempool: add 'else' to split mutually exclusive case 2020-10-13 18:38:34 -07:00
memremap.c mm/mremap_pages: fix static key devmap_managed_key updates 2020-11-02 12:14:18 -08:00
memtest.c
migrate.c hugetlbfs: fix anon huge page migration race 2020-11-14 11:26:04 -08:00
mincore.c mm: factor find_get_incore_page out of mincore_page 2020-10-13 18:38:29 -07:00
mlock.c mlock: fix unevictable_pgs event counts on THP 2020-09-19 13:13:38 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
mmap.c mm/mmap.c: fix mmap return value when vma is merged after call_mmap() 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
mmu_gather.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmget() assert in __mmu_interval_notifier_insert 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm: Introduce arch_validate_flags() 2020-09-04 12:46:07 +01:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: start addresses are properly aligned 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
msync.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
nommu.c mm: remove alloc_vm_area 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom_adj: don't loop through tasks in __set_oom_adj when not necessary 2020-10-13 18:38:35 -07:00
page_alloc.c page_frag: Recover from memory pressure 2020-11-18 15:21:56 -08:00
page_counter.c mm/page_counter: correct the obsolete func name in the comment of page_counter_try_charge() 2020-10-13 18:38:30 -07:00
page_ext.c
page_idle.c mm/page_idle.c: skip offline pages 2020-06-08 11:05:55 -07:00
page_io.c mm/page_io.c: remove useless out label in __swap_writepage() 2020-10-13 18:38:30 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_owner.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_poison.c mm/page_poison.c: replace bool variable with static key 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
page_reporting.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
page_reporting.h mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm: replace hpage_nr_pages with thp_nr_pages 2020-08-14 19:56:56 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback) 2020-11-24 15:23:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
percpu-internal.h mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu-km.c mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu-stats.c mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu-vm.c mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
percpu.c percpu: convert flexible array initializers to use struct_size() 2020-10-30 23:02:28 +00:00
pgalloc-track.h mm: move p?d_alloc_track to separate header file 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: introduce include/linux/pgtable.h 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
process_vm_access.c mm/process_vm_access: Add missing #include <linux/compat.h> 2020-10-27 12:41:29 -07:00
ptdump.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
readahead.c mm: use limited read-ahead to satisfy read 2020-10-17 13:49:08 -06:00
rmap.c hugetlbfs: fix anon huge page migration race 2020-11-14 11:26:04 -08:00
rodata_test.c mm/rodata_test.c: fix missing function declaration 2020-08-21 09:52:53 -07:00
shmem.c fs: add a filesystem flag for THPs 2020-10-16 11:11:15 -07:00
shuffle.c mm: rename page_order() to buddy_order() 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
shuffle.h mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration 2020-08-07 11:33:29 -07:00
slab_common.c mm/slab_common.c: delete duplicated word 2020-08-12 10:57:58 -07:00
slab.c mm: fix some comments formatting 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
slab.h mm: memcg/slab: fix obj_cgroup_charge() return value handling 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
slob.c mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes 2020-08-07 11:33:24 -07:00
slub.c mm/slub: fix panic in slab_alloc_node() 2020-11-14 11:26:03 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: only sub-section aligned range would be populated 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
sparse.c mm/memory_hotplug: guard more declarations by CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2020-10-16 11:11:18 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm: memcontrol: make swap tracking an integral part of memory control 2020-06-03 20:09:48 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: remove always zero and unused return value of enable_swap_slots_cache() 2020-10-13 18:38:30 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix some broken comments 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
swap.c mm: move call to compound_head() in release_pages() 2020-10-13 18:38:33 -07:00
swapfile.c mm/swapfile: do not sleep with a spin lock held 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
truncate.c mm/truncate.c: make __invalidate_mapping_pages() static 2020-11-02 12:14:19 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy.c: delete duplicated word 2020-08-12 10:57:58 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm/vmscan: protect the workingset on anonymous LRU 2020-08-12 10:57:55 -07:00
util.c mm/util.c: update the kerneldoc for kstrdup_const() 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
vmacache.c kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract 2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm: remove the filename in the top of file comment in vmalloc.c 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c mm/vmscan: fix NR_ISOLATED_FILE corruption on 64-bit 2020-11-14 11:26:03 -08:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: use helper macro abs() 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
workingset.c XArray updates for 5.9 2020-10-20 14:39:37 -07:00
z3fold.c mm/z3fold.c: use xx_zalloc instead xx_alloc and memset 2020-10-13 18:38:34 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: remove redundant initialization 2020-10-13 18:38:34 -07:00
zpool.c mm/zpool.c: delete duplicated word and fix grammar 2020-08-12 10:57:58 -07:00
zsmalloc.c mm/zsmalloc.c: drop ZSMALLOC_PGTABLE_MAPPING 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: allow setting default status, compressor and allocator in Kconfig 2020-04-07 10:43:41 -07:00