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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] acpi/ec.c: fix use-after-free
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:38:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710251638.24282.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471F812B.2020005@suse.de>

Applied.

thanks,
-Len


On Wednesday 24 October 2007 13:30, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:15:18PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> >> Adrian,
> >>
> >> commit 30c08574da0ead1a47797ce028218ce5b2de61c7 can not introduce use-after-free.
> >>
> >> Please check...
> > 
> > 
> > Commit 30c08574da0ead1a47797ce028218ce5b2de61c7 did:
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> >  	list_for_each_entry(handler, &ec->list, node) {
> >                 if (query_bit == handler->query_bit) {
> >                         list_del(&handler->node);
> >                         kfree(handler);
> > -                       break;
> >                 }
> > 	}
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> > 
> > If you look at the definition of list_for_each_entry() in 
> > include/linux/list.h:
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> > #define list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)                          \
> >         for (pos = list_entry((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member);      \
> >              prefetch(pos->member.next), &pos->member != (head);        \
> >              pos = list_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
> >                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > <--  snip  -->
> > 
> > 
> > Without the "break", "handler" is being dereferenced after it was freed.
> Yes, found it minute before :( 
> Acked, thanks.
> > 
> > 
> >> Regards,
> >> Alex.
> >> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>> This patch fixes a use-after-free introduced by
> >>> commit 30c08574da0ead1a47797ce028218ce5b2de61c7.
> >>>
> >>> Spotted by the Coverity checker.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> --- linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/ec.c.old	2007-10-23 19:39:47.000000000 +0200
> >>> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/ec.c	2007-10-23 19:34:55.000000000 +0200
> >>> @@ -434,11 +442,11 @@
> >>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_ec_add_query_handler);
> >>>  
> >>>  void acpi_ec_remove_query_handler(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 query_bit)
> >>>  {
> >>> -	struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler;
> >>> +	struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler, *tmp;
> >>>  	mutex_lock(&ec->lock);
> >>> -	list_for_each_entry(handler, &ec->list, node) {
> >>> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(handler, tmp, &ec->list, node) {
> >>>  		if (query_bit == handler->query_bit) {
> >>>  			list_del(&handler->node);
> >>>  			kfree(handler);
> >>>  		}
> >>>
> > 
> > 
> > cu
> > Adrian
> > 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 16:26 [2.6 patch] acpi/ec.c: fix use-after-free Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 17:15 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-24 17:26   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-24 17:30     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-25 20:38       ` Len Brown [this message]

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