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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-11 10:49:19 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-05-04 09:20:11 +0200
commitd972ebbf42ba6712460308ae57c222a0706f2af3 (patch)
treea772b21386424f5b233e40a30ac11b149e820521 /include
parent0612cae7ec6b79d2ff1b34562bab79d5bf96327a (diff)
mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount
commit 8fde12ca79aff9b5ba951fce1a2641901b8d8e64 upstream. If the page refcount wraps around past zero, it will be freed while there are still four billion references to it. One of the possible avenues for an attacker to try to make this happen is by doing direct IO on a page multiple times. This patch makes get_user_pages() refuse to take a new page reference if there are already more than two billion references to the page. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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