Re: [PATCH] fix vulnerability of the release method of file operations in Block layer SCSI generic driver

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:08:37PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> The computation context setup by previous opening the bsg file could
> not survive following open/release operations upon the same file
> object.

Umm .. release is called on final close of a file, not on every close
of a file.

> The vulnerability is fixed by deferring the cleanup operation until necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> --- a/block/bsg.c	2010-09-13 07:07:38.000000000 +0800
> +++ b/block/bsg.c	2010-11-10 21:43:58.000000000 +0800
> @@ -858,7 +858,8 @@ static int bsg_release(struct inode *ino
>  {
>  	struct bsg_device *bd = file->private_data;
> 
> -	file->private_data = NULL;
> +	if (1 == atomic_read(&bd->ref_count))
> +		file->private_data = NULL;
>  	return bsg_put_device(bd);
>  }
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