Add an assertion similar to "fasttop" check in GNU C Library allocator as a part of SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED feature. An object added to a singly linked freelist should not point to itself. That helps to detect some double free errors (e.g. CVE-2017-2636) without slub_debug and KASAN.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <[email protected]> --- mm/slub.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index b9c7f1a..77b2781 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -290,6 +290,10 @@ static inline void set_freepointer(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, void *fp) { unsigned long freeptr_addr = (unsigned long)object + s->offset; +#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED + BUG_ON(object == fp); /* naive detection of double free or corruption */ +#endif + *(void **)freeptr_addr = freelist_ptr(s, fp, freeptr_addr); } -- 2.7.4
