* [PATCH] fix use after free in smbfs.
@ 2005-07-07 18:59 Dave Jones
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From: Dave Jones @ 2005-07-07 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
>From code inspection it seems that after freeing 'req', in smb_request()
we continue to dereference it a dozen or so times.
That whole area of code looks suspect.
...
smb_lock_server(server);
if (!(req->rq_flags & SMB_REQ_RECEIVED)) {
list_del_init(&req->rq_queue);
smb_rput(req);
}
smb_rput() also does a list_del_init, but only if its safe
to do so (ie, the refcount has dropped to 0).
To my not-smbfs-savvy eyes, it would seem that we could
potentially nuke the ->rq_queue list, and return from
smb_rput() if the request was still in use. What the rest
of the code does with such a buggered-up request, I've no
idea, but it probably isn't pretty.
Perhaps smb_rput should be taking a pointer to a request that can
be null'd on success ?
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
--- linux-2.6.12/fs/smbfs/request.c~ 2005-07-07 14:41:11.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.12/fs/smbfs/request.c 2005-07-07 14:41:22.000000000 -0400
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ int smb_add_request(struct smb_request *
smb_rput(req);
}
smb_unlock_server(server);
+ return -EINTR;
}
if (!timeleft) {
Looking further, we do exactly the same thing in smb_request_recv()
smb_rput(req);
wake_up_interruptible(&req->rq_wait);
}
ditto in smbiod.c..
What am I missing here? smb_rput() -> smb_free_request() does
a kmem_cache_free(req_cachep, req); making further use of that
cache item invalid.
Dave
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