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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: fix use-after-free in scsi_init_io()
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:15:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6947E5.2080208@kernel.org> (raw)

scsi_init_io() dereferences scsi_cmnd after putting it in the error
path leading to oops.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: block/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
===================================================================
--- block.orig/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ block/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -968,7 +968,9 @@ static int scsi_init_sgtable(struct requ
  */
 int scsi_init_io(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
+	struct request *req = cmd->request;
 	int error = scsi_init_sgtable(cmd->request, &cmd->sdb, gfp_mask);
+
 	if (error)
 		goto err_exit;

@@ -1012,7 +1014,7 @@ int scsi_init_io(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd,
 err_exit:
 	scsi_release_buffers(cmd);
 	scsi_put_command(cmd);
-	cmd->request->special = NULL;
+	req->special = NULL;
 	return error;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_init_io);

             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-16 14:15 Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-08-16 15:06 ` [PATCH] scsi: fix use-after-free in scsi_init_io() James Bottomley
2010-08-16 15:04   ` Tejun Heo

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