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The\nfollowing KASAN report confirms the UAF:\n\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff356ed50e50f0 by task bash/478\n\n CPU: 1 PID: 478 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.6.0-rc5-00055-g1c8b86a3799f-dirty #70\n Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n Call trace:\n zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8\n binder_alloc_free_page+0x608/0xadc\n __list_lru_walk_one+0x130/0x3b0\n list_lru_walk_node+0xc4/0x22c\n binder_shrink_scan+0x108/0x1dc\n shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x2b4/0x500\n full_proxy_write+0xd4/0x140\n vfs_write+0x1ac/0x758\n ksys_write+0xf0/0x1dc\n __arm64_sys_write+0x6c/0x9c\n\n Allocated by task 492:\n kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x368\n vm_area_alloc+0x2c/0x190\n mmap_region+0x258/0x18bc\n do_mmap+0x694/0xa60\n vm_mmap_pgoff+0x170/0x29c\n ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x290/0x3a0\n __arm64_sys_mmap+0xcc/0x144\n\n Freed by task 491:\n kmem_cache_free+0x17c/0x3c8\n vm_area_free_rcu_cb+0x74/0x98\n rcu_core+0xa38/0x26d4\n rcu_core_si+0x10/0x1c\n __do_softirq+0x2fc/0xd24\n\n Last potentially related work creation:\n __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x6c/0xba0\n call_rcu+0x10/0x1c\n vm_area_free+0x18/0x24\n remove_vma+0xe4/0x118\n do_vmi_align_munmap.isra.0+0x718/0xb5c\n do_vmi_munmap+0xdc/0x1fc\n __vm_munmap+0x10c/0x278\n __arm64_sys_munmap+0x58/0x7c\n\nFix this issue by performing instead a vma_lookup() which will fail to\nfind the vma that was isolated before the mmap lock downgrade. Note that\nthis option has better performance than upgrading to a mmap write lock\nwhich would increase contention. Plus, mmap_write_trylock() has been\nrecently removed anyway.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "a53e15e592b4dcc91c3a3b8514e484a0bdbc53a3" }, { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "c8c1158ffb007197f31f9d9170cf13e4f34cbb5c" }, { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "8ad4d580e8aff8de2a4d57c5930fcc29f1ffd4a6" }, { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "9fa04c93f24138747807fe75b5591bb680098f56" }, { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "a49087ab93508b60d9b8add91707a22dda832869" }, { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "e074686e993ff1be5f21b085a3b1b4275ccd5727" }, { "version": "dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "3f489c2067c5824528212b0fc18b28d51332d906" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "4.20", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "4.20" }, { "version": "5.4.268", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*" }, { "version": "5.10.209", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*" }, { "version": "5.15.148", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*" }, { "version": "6.1.74", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*" }, { "version": "6.6.13", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*" }, { "version": "6.7.1", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*" }, { "version": "6.8", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }