Re: fs: use after free in /proc/pid/mountinfo

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 07/09/2014 04:31 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:24:06 +0200 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> > 058504edd026 ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation") is suspected to
>> > cause a crash. Actually I can't reprocude the crash nor would I be able to
>> > tell how the commit could cause the crash.
>> > Anyway, I'll be offline for the next 2.5 weeks. So if Sasha could confirm
>> > that reverting the patch actually does fix the crash, please revert the
>> > commit, unless somebody else can make sense of the report of course.
>> > 
>> > I'm still wondering how Sasha could reproduce the crash.
> This really sucks :(
> 
> I suppose I'll queue up a revert of 058504edd026 as a for-3.16 bandaid.
> 
> Sasha, it would be great if you could delve a bit further into this,
> see if we can identify a way for others to reproduce the bug.
> 
> Did you test that little patchlet which Heiko sent?

I've been trying, but as there isn't an easy way to reproduce it, breakage
elsewhere in -next (there is a long list) is slowing me down. I'll revert
back to the -next where I've initially observed this issue and will retry.


Thanks,
Sasha