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| author | Nick Piggin <[email protected]> | 2007-03-06 02:34:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Tony Luck <[email protected]> | 2007-03-06 14:49:52 -0800 |
| commit | 41d5e5d73ecef4ef56b7b4cde962929a712689b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 51cb9289609c639d86a768ff92340291a4d1b452 /include/linux/debugobjects.h | |
| parent | 50157b09b33c2ec3637d3b317b06a7235c57c7f2 (diff) | |
[IA64] permon use-after-free fix
Perfmon associates vmalloc()ed memory with a file descriptor, and installs
a vma mapping that memory. Unfortunately, the vm_file field is not filled
in, so processes with mappings to that memory do not prevent the file from
being closed and the memory freed. This results in use-after-free bugs and
multiple freeing of pages, etc.
I saw this bug on an Altix on SLES9. Haven't reproduced upstream but it
looks like the same issue is there.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
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