From: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux SCSI Mailinglist <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Narsimhulu Musini <nmusini@cisco.com>,
Sesidhar Baddela <sebaddel@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] snic: Fix use-after-free in case of a dma mapping error
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:07:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1818494207.887633.1466694466763.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623123720.24244-1-jthumshirn@suse.de>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johannes Thumshirn" <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> To: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, "James Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: "Linux SCSI Mailinglist" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, "Linux Kernel Mailinglist" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
> "Narsimhulu Musini" <nmusini@cisco.com>, "Sesidhar Baddela" <sebaddel@cisco.com>, "Johannes Thumshirn"
> <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 8:37:20 AM
> Subject: [PATCH] snic: Fix use-after-free in case of a dma mapping error
>
> If there is a dma mapping error snic kfree()s buf right before printing it.
> Change the order to not accidently trip on memory that's not owned by us
> anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
> index b0fefd6..b106596 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
> @@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ snic_queue_report_tgt_req(struct snic *snic)
>
> pa = pci_map_single(snic->pdev, buf, buf_len, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
> if (pci_dma_mapping_error(snic->pdev, pa)) {
> - kfree(buf);
> - snic_req_free(snic, rqi);
> SNIC_HOST_ERR(snic->shost,
> "Rpt-tgt rspbuf %p: PCI DMA Mapping Failed\n",
> buf);
> + kfree(buf);
> + snic_req_free(snic, rqi);
> ret = -EINVAL;
>
> goto error;
> --
> 2.8.4
>
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Looks fine to me
Reviewed-by Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
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2016-06-23 12:37 [PATCH] snic: Fix use-after-free in case of a dma mapping error Johannes Thumshirn
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