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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Hao-Yu Yang <naup96721@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] io_uring: fix dangling iovec after provided-buffer bundle grow failure
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 11:13:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbf0ae11-ce9a-4c98-bfcc-ff3f8f12b26f@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <akvfYLvrpF5104us@naup-virtual-machine>

On 7/6/26 11:01 AM, Hao-Yu Yang wrote:
> Sorry, i forgot to cc others mail
> 
> I discovered and wrote the PoC myself. Trigger way is
>  send1: Submit an IORING_OP_SEND request with four valid
>  provided buffers. The system will allocate and cache an
>  iovec array (of size 4) for this request and store the
>  pointer in kmsg->vec.iovec.
> 
>  send2: Submit a second send request with 8, and I set
>  the fourth passed-in address to point to an invalid address.
>  Now kmsg still hold old iovec, but old iovec object have
>  been freed.
> 
>  So this will lead dangling pointer.

Side note: please don't top post, linux mailing lists always reply
under the text for better readability. Top posting turns any kind
of threaded conversation into both a mess, and it's also wasteful.

Great thanks! Want to turn this into a liburing test case? Then we can
include it there as well, and it'd catch both UAF and memory leaks when
run.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-06 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-05 23:45 [PATCH v1] io_uring: fix dangling iovec after provided-buffer bundle grow failure Hao-Yu Yang
2026-07-06 16:19 ` Jens Axboe
2026-07-06 16:56   ` Hao-Yu Yang
2026-07-06 16:20 ` Jens Axboe
2026-07-06 17:01   ` Hao-Yu Yang
2026-07-06 17:13     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2026-07-06 17:34       ` Hao-Yu Yang
2026-07-06 17:39         ` Jens Axboe
2026-07-06 17:46           ` Hao-Yu Yang
2026-07-06 18:06             ` Jens Axboe

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