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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] aio: prevent double free in ioctx_alloc
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:45:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131119224513.GF14098@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384900383-22009-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> ioctx_alloc() calls aio_setup_ring() to allocate a ring. If aio_setup_ring()
> fails to do so it would call aio_free_ring() before returning, but
> ioctx_alloc() would call aio_free_ring() again causing a double free of
> the ring.
> 
> This is easily reproducible from userspace.

I've applied this to my aio-next tree at git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next.git
.  Please verify that it applied correctly, as that tree also includes 
another fix from Kent relating to the percpu reference bits.

		-ben
-- 
"Thought is the essence of where you are now."

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-19 22:33 [PATCH 1/2] aio: prevent double free in ioctx_alloc Sasha Levin
2013-11-19 22:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] aio: nullify aio->ring_pages after freeing it Sasha Levin
2013-11-19 22:45   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2013-11-19 22:45 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]

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