Re: [PATCH] kasan/quarantine: fix NULL pointer dereference bug

[Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>]

On 07/01/2016 01:55 PM, Kuthonuzo Luruo wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/01/2016 10:53 AM, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
>>> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>>>
>>> If we move an item on qlist's tail, we need to update qlist's tail
>>> properly. curr->next can be NULL since it is singly linked list
>>> so it is invalid for tail. curr is scheduled to be moved so
>>> using prev would be correct.
>>
>> Hmm.. prev may be the element that moved in 'to' list. We need to assign the last element
>> from which is in ther 'from' list.
> 
> something like this should handle qlink == head == tail:
> 
> --- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
> @@ -251,11 +251,11 @@ static void qlist_move_cache(struct qlist_head *from,
>                 if (obj_cache == cache) {
>                         if (unlikely(from->head == qlink)) {
>                                 from->head = curr->next;
> -                               prev = curr;
> +                               prev = from->head;

This will break 'to' list.

>                         } else
>                                 prev->next = curr->next;
>                         if (unlikely(from->tail == qlink))
> -                               from->tail = curr->next;
> +                               from->tail = prev;
>                         from->bytes -= cache->size;
>                         qlist_put(to, qlink, cache->size);
>                 } else {
> 
>

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