5.9-rc7 null ptr deref in __i915_gem_userptr_get_pages_worker
Jason A. Donenfeld
Jason at zx2c4.com
Mon Sep 28 10:17:58 UTC 2020
Alright, the failing code seems to be in mm:
if (flags & FOLL_PIN)
atomic_set(¤t->mm->has_pinned, 1);
Apparently you can't rely on current->mm being valid in this context;
it's null here, hence the +0x64 for has_pinned's offset.
This was added by 008cfe4418b3 ("mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned"),
which is new for rc7 indeed.
The crash goes away when changing that to:
if ((flags & FOLL_PIN) && current->mm)
atomic_set(¤t->mm->has_pinned, 1);
But I haven't really evaluated whether or not that's racy or if I need
to take locks to do such a thing.
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