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Commit 7ee3f026 authored by Heiko Carstens's avatar Heiko Carstens Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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s390/guarded storage: fix possible memory corruption



commit fa1edf3f63c05ca8eacafcd7048ed91e5360f1a8 upstream.

For PREEMPT enabled kernels the guarded storage (GS) code contains a
possible use-after-free bug. If a task that makes use of GS 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_gs() gets preempted after the GS control block of the
task has been freed but before the pointer to it is set to NULL, then
save_gs_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: 916cda1a ("s390: add a system call for guarded storage")
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 27576413
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