From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: trond.myklebust@primarydata.com
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Question about nfs4_destroy_session()
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:42:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140212214209.GA4136@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
Hello, Trond,
In nfs4_destroy_session(), there is an rcu_dereference() that looks to
leak the returned pointer out of an RCU read-side critical section.
If the pointed-to object might have just now been created, this is a
bug because xprt_destroy_backchannel() dereferences this pointer.
So, does xprt_destroy_backchannel() exclude creation-side code? (If so,
no bug -- but a comment might be good.)
Thanx, Paul
void nfs4_destroy_session(struct nfs4_session *session)
{
struct rpc_xprt *xprt;
struct rpc_cred *cred;
cred = nfs4_get_clid_cred(session->clp);
nfs4_proc_destroy_session(session, cred);
if (cred)
put_rpccred(cred);
rcu_read_lock();
xprt = rcu_dereference(session->clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_xprt);
rcu_read_unlock();
dprintk("%s Destroy backchannel for xprt %p\n",
__func__, xprt);
xprt_destroy_backchannel(xprt, NFS41_BC_MIN_CALLBACKS);
nfs4_destroy_session_slot_tables(session);
kfree(session);
}
next reply other threads:[~2014-02-12 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-12 21:42 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-02-12 21:55 ` Question about nfs4_destroy_session() Trond Myklebust
2014-02-12 22:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
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