From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:07:37 -0600 Message-ID: <20080129160737.GV3058@sgi.com> References: <20080128202840.974253868@sgi.com> <20080128202923.609249585@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrea Arcangeli , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Avi Kivity , kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, daniel.blueman-xqY44rlHlBpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, Robin Holt , Hugh Dickins To: Christoph Lameter Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080128202923.609249585-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org I am going to seperate my comments into individual replies to help reduce the chance they are lost. > +void mmu_notifier_release(struct mm_struct *mm) ... > + hlist_for_each_entry_safe_rcu(mn, n, t, > + &mm->mmu_notifier.head, hlist) { > + if (mn->ops->release) > + mn->ops->release(mn, mm); > + hlist_del(&mn->hlist); This is a use-after-free issue. The hlist_del_rcu needs to be done before the callout as the structure containing the mmu_notifier structure will need to be freed from within the ->release callout. Thanks, Robin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/