From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:30:22 +0100 From: Al Viro To: shivnandan.k@samsung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Security: List corruption occured during file system automation test Message-ID: <20140813123021.GX18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1407929653-27228-1-git-send-email-shivnandan.k@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1407929653-27228-1-git-send-email-shivnandan.k@samsung.com> Sender: Al Viro Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, ashish.kalra@samsung.com, vidushi.koul@samsung.com, james.l.morris@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shiv.jnumca08@gmail.com, narendra.m1@samsung.com, cpgs@samsung.com, rajat.suri@samsung.com, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, mohammad.a2@samsung.com List-Id: "Security-Enhanced Linux \(SELinux\) mailing list" List-Post: List-Help: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:04:13PM +0530, shivnandan.k@samsung.com wrote: > From: Shivnandan Kumar > > List element was freed by inode_free_security and then it uses rcu > element to point inode_free_rcu, since it inside a union so it > shares memory, sb_finish_set_opts now also try to free list element, How in hell does it find that element? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752313AbaHMMac (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:30:32 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:44862 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772AbaHMMab (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:30:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:30:22 +0100 From: Al Viro To: shivnandan.k@samsung.com Cc: sds@tycho.nsa.gov, james.l.morris@oracle.com, eparis@parisplace.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, cpgs@samsung.com, ashish.kalra@samsung.com, mohammad.a2@samsung.com, rajat.suri@samsung.com, shiv.jnumca08@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vidushi.koul@samsung.com, narendra.m1@samsung.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Security: List corruption occured during file system automation test Message-ID: <20140813123021.GX18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1407929653-27228-1-git-send-email-shivnandan.k@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1407929653-27228-1-git-send-email-shivnandan.k@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:04:13PM +0530, shivnandan.k@samsung.com wrote: > From: Shivnandan Kumar > > List element was freed by inode_free_security and then it uses rcu > element to point inode_free_rcu, since it inside a union so it > shares memory, sb_finish_set_opts now also try to free list element, How in hell does it find that element?