linux-hardening - [RFC PATCH 01/14] mm/slub: don't try to dereference invalid freepointers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:59:20 +0000
From:   Matteo Rizzo <matteorizzo@...gle.com>
To:     cl@...ux.com, penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
        iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz,
        roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, 42.hyeyoo@...il.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, corbet@....net, luto@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     jannh@...gle.com, matteorizzo@...gle.com, evn@...gle.com,
        poprdi@...gle.com, jordyzomer@...gle.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH 01/14] mm/slub: don't try to dereference invalid freepointers

slab_free_freelist_hook tries to read a freelist pointer from the
current object even when freeing a single object. This is invalid
because single objects don't actually contain a freelist pointer when
they're freed and the memory contains other data. This causes problems
for checking the integrity of freelist in get_freepointer.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Rizzo <matteorizzo@...gle.com>
---
 mm/slub.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index f7940048138c..a7dae207c2d2 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1820,7 +1820,9 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
 
 	do {
 		object = next;
-		next = get_freepointer(s, object);
+		/* Single objects don't actually contain a freepointer */
+		if (object != old_tail)
+			next = get_freepointer(s, object);
 
 		/* If object's reuse doesn't have to be delayed */
 		if (!slab_free_hook(s, object, slab_want_init_on_free(s))) {
-- 
2.42.0.459.ge4e396fd5e-goog