From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v4.20-rc6: Sporadic use-after-free in bt_iter()
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:23:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1545340987.185366.515.camel@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7d6d857-b20a-245c-c6c7-fb9b110215e9@kernel.dk>
On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 14:00 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 12/20/18 1:56 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > @@ -96,6 +97,9 @@ static void blk_mq_check_inflight(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
> >  {
> >  	struct mq_inflight *mi = priv;
> >  
> > +	if (rq->q != mi->q)
> > +		return;
> 
> Aren't you back to square one with this one, if the tags are shared? You
> can't dereference it before you know it matches.
My patch can only work if the new rq->q = NULL assignment in __blk_mq_free_request()
is executed before the request tag is freed and if freeing a tag does not happen
concurrently with any bt_iter() call. Would you accept that I add a seqlock to avoid
this scenario?
Thanks,
Bart.
next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-20 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-19 23:24 v4.20-rc6: Sporadic use-after-free in bt_iter() Bart Van Assche
2018-12-19 23:27 ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20  0:16   ` Bart Van Assche
2018-12-20  3:17     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20  3:24       ` jianchao.wang
2018-12-20  4:19         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20  4:32           ` jianchao.wang
2018-12-20  4:48             ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20  5:03               ` jianchao.wang
2018-12-20 13:02                 ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 13:07                   ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 18:01                     ` Bart Van Assche
2018-12-20 18:21                       ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 18:33                         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 20:56                           ` Bart Van Assche
2018-12-20 21:00                             ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 21:23                               ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2018-12-20 21:26                                 ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 21:31                                   ` Bart Van Assche
2018-12-20 21:34                                     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 21:40                                       ` Bart Van Assche
2018-12-20 21:44                                         ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 21:48                                           ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 22:19                                             ` Bart Van Assche
2018-12-20 22:23                                               ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 22:33                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 22:47                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-20 22:50                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-14 23:36                                                       ` Bart Van Assche
2019-02-15 18:29                                                         ` Evan Green
2019-02-19 16:48                                                           ` Bart Van Assche
2019-02-21 20:54                                                             ` Evan Green
2019-02-15  2:57                                                       ` jianchao.wang
2018-12-20  4:06 ` Ming Lei
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