The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 3260a3f0828e06f5f13fac69fb1999a6d60d9cff # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025091318-trombone-graduate-3828@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 3260a3f0828e06f5f13fac69fb1999a6d60d9cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Fort stanislav.fort@aisle.com Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 13:10:46 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] mm/damon/sysfs: fix use-after-free in state_show()
state_show() reads kdamond->damon_ctx without holding damon_sysfs_lock. This allows a use-after-free race:
CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- state_show() damon_sysfs_turn_damon_on() ctx = kdamond->damon_ctx; mutex_lock(&damon_sysfs_lock); damon_destroy_ctx(kdamond->damon_ctx); kdamond->damon_ctx = NULL; mutex_unlock(&damon_sysfs_lock); damon_is_running(ctx); /* ctx is freed */ mutex_lock(&ctx->kdamond_lock); /* UAF */
(The race can also occur with damon_sysfs_kdamonds_rm_dirs() and damon_sysfs_kdamond_release(), which free or replace the context under damon_sysfs_lock.)
Fix by taking damon_sysfs_lock before dereferencing the context, mirroring the locking used in pid_show().
The bug has existed since state_show() first accessed kdamond->damon_ctx.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250905101046.2288-1-disclosure@aisle.com Fixes: a61ea561c871 ("mm/damon/sysfs: link DAMON for virtual address spaces monitoring") Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fort disclosure@aisle.com Reported-by: Stanislav Fort disclosure@aisle.com Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park sj@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/mm/damon/sysfs.c b/mm/damon/sysfs.c index 6d2b0dab50cb..7b9254cadd5f 100644 --- a/mm/damon/sysfs.c +++ b/mm/damon/sysfs.c @@ -1260,14 +1260,18 @@ static ssize_t state_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, { struct damon_sysfs_kdamond *kdamond = container_of(kobj, struct damon_sysfs_kdamond, kobj); - struct damon_ctx *ctx = kdamond->damon_ctx; - bool running; + struct damon_ctx *ctx; + bool running = false;
- if (!ctx) - running = false; - else + if (!mutex_trylock(&damon_sysfs_lock)) + return -EBUSY; + + ctx = kdamond->damon_ctx; + if (ctx) running = damon_is_running(ctx);
+ mutex_unlock(&damon_sysfs_lock); + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", running ? damon_sysfs_cmd_strs[DAMON_SYSFS_CMD_ON] : damon_sysfs_cmd_strs[DAMON_SYSFS_CMD_OFF]);