From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: fix io_setup/io_destroy race
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:50:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307165018.GG29014@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307051634.GR23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:16:35AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> Have ioctx_alloc() return an extra reference, so that caller would drop it
> on success and not bother with re-grabbing it on failure exit. The current
> code is obviously broken - io_destroy() from another thread that managed
> to guess the address io_setup() would've returned would free ioctx right
> under us; gets especially interesting if aio_context_t * we pass to
> io_setup() points to PROT_READ mapping, so put_user() fails and we end
> up doing io_destroy() on kioctx another thread has just got freed...
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
The fix looks good, and works with a quick test program checking the two cases
involved (ioctx create success + failure due to PROT_READ).
-ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 5:16 [PATCH] aio: fix io_setup/io_destroy race Al Viro
2012-03-07 16:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2012-03-07 18:16 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-03-08 17:51 ` [PATCH] aio: fix the "too late munmap()" race Al Viro
2012-03-08 18:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-03-10 2:13 ` Benjamin LaHaise
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