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commitfa1edf3f63upstream. For PREEMPT enabled kernels the guarded storage (GS) code contains a possible use-after-free bug. If a task that makes use of GS exits, it will execute do_exit() while still enabled for preemption. That function will call exit_thread_runtime_instr() via exit_thread(). If exit_thread_gs() gets preempted after the GS control block of the task has been freed but before the pointer to it is set to NULL, then save_gs_cb(), called from switch_to(), will write to already freed memory. Avoid this and simply disable preemption while freeing the control block and setting the pointer to NULL. Fixes:916cda1aa1("s390: add a system call for guarded storage") Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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