From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Hao-Yu Yang <naup96721@gmail.com>
Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: fix use-after-free of new iovec on bundle grow
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:01:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ldbd4qmf.fsf@mailhost.krisman.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260713-io_uring_dangling-v1-1-b9bdc0f0e776@debian.org>
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> writes:
> When io_ring_buffers_peek() grows a provided-buffer bundle, it allocates
> a new iovec array and points arg->iovs at it. The KBUF_MODE_FREE cleanup
> added at the end of the function then does kfree(arg->iovs), which frees
> this freshly allocated array that is about to be returned to and used by
> the caller, instead of the old cached iovec (org_iovs) it was meant to
> release. The caller reads the now-freed array, resulting in a
> use-after-free, easily triggered by the liburing recv-bundle-short-ooo
> test:
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in io_recv+0x4bc/0xc60
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff00037b20c240 by task recv-bundle-sho
> io_recv
> Allocated by task:
> __kmalloc_noprof
> io_ring_buffers_peek
> io_buffers_peek
> io_recv
> Freed by task:
> kfree
> io_ring_buffers_peek
> io_buffers_peek
> io_recv
>
> Free org_iovs instead, and only when it was actually replaced by a new
> allocation. On the access_ok() failure path the new array is already
> freed and the request is left pointing at the original iovec, so nothing
> needs to be released at this point in that case.
>
> Fixes: cd053d788c3f ("io_uring: fix dangling iovec after provided-buffer bundle grow failure")
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Already fixed here
https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20260712142612.188695595-iostreampy@proton.me/T/#u
here:
https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/OS3PR01MB8810F38D613E37FBD684DC4D83FB2@OS3PR01MB8810.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/T/#t
and here:
https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20260713183124.4217-1-doruk@0sec.ai/T/#u
Aren't LLMs fun?
--
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-13 12:51 [PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: fix use-after-free of new iovec on bundle grow Breno Leitao
2026-07-14 14:01 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi [this message]
2026-07-14 16:00 ` Breno Leitao
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