From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix use-after-free in dx_release()
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 22:01:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190511020159.GF2534@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1557304443-18653-1-git-send-email-stummala@codeaurora.org>
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 02:04:03PM +0530, Sahitya Tummala wrote:
> The buffer_head (frames[0].bh) and it's corresping page can be
> potentially free'd once brelse() is done inside the for loop
> but before the for loop exits in dx_release(). It can be free'd
> in another context, when the page cache is flushed via
> drop_caches_sysctl_handler(). This results into below data abort
> when accessing info->indirect_levels in dx_release().
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc17ac3e01e
> Call trace:
> dx_release+0x70/0x90
> ext4_htree_fill_tree+0x2d4/0x300
> ext4_readdir+0x244/0x6f8
> iterate_dir+0xbc/0x160
> SyS_getdents64+0x94/0x174
>
> Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Nice catch. Thanks, applied.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-11 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-08 8:34 [PATCH v2] ext4: fix use-after-free in dx_release() Sahitya Tummala
2019-05-08 8:49 ` Andreas Dilger
2019-05-11 2:01 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
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