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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/blkback: don't free be structure too early
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 11:04:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170703090448.GA13337@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170703085917.419-1-jgross@suse.com>

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:59:17AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The be structure must not be freed when freeing the blkif structure
> isn't done. Otherwise a use-after-free of be when unmapping the ring
> used for communicating with the frontend will occur in case of a
> late call of xenblk_disconnect() (e.g. due to an I/O still active
> when trying to disconnect).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
> Acked-by: Roger Pau Monn� <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> ---
> This is a backport of upstream commit 71df1d7ccad1c3.

Thanks, applied to 4.9 and 4.11-stable queues.  If you want it to go to
4.4, can you please provide a backport for that?

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-03  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-03  8:59 [PATCH] xen/blkback: don't free be structure too early Juergen Gross
2017-07-03  9:04 ` Greg KH [this message]

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