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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Clayton Casciato <majortomtosourcecontrol@gmail.com>
Cc: rpeterso@redhat.com, agruenba@redhat.com,
	cluster-devel@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1.96] gfs2: Fix slab-use-after-free in gfs2_qd_dealloc
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:10:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024062953-problem-truth-ce3c@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54398cb8-92e0-4ed2-8691-38f6d48efc9a@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 12:07:52PM -0600, Clayton Casciato wrote:
> [ Upstream commit bdcb8aa434c6d36b5c215d02a9ef07551be25a37 ]
> 
> In gfs2_put_super(), whether withdrawn or not, the quota should
> be cleaned up by gfs2_quota_cleanup().
> 
> Otherwise, struct gfs2_sbd will be freed before gfs2_qd_dealloc (rcu
> callback) has run for all gfs2_quota_data objects, resulting in
> use-after-free.
> 
> Also, gfs2_destroy_threads() and gfs2_quota_cleanup() is already called
> by gfs2_make_fs_ro(), so in gfs2_put_super(), after calling
> gfs2_make_fs_ro(), there is no need to call them again.
> 
> The origin of a cherry-pick conflict is the (relevant) code block added in
> commit f66af88e3321 ("gfs2: Stop using gfs2_make_fs_ro for withdraw")
> 
> There are no references to gfs2_withdrawn() nor gfs2_destroy_threads() in
> gfs2_put_super(), so we can simply call gfs2_quota_cleanup() in a new else
> block as bdcb8aa434c6 achieves.
> 
> Else braces were used for consistency with the if block.
> 
> Sponsor: 21SoftWare LLC

That's not a valid tag for kernel commits, sorry.

> Signed-off-by: Clayton Casciato <majortomtosourcecontrol@gmail.com>

What happened to the original authorship information, and all of the
other signed-off-by that were on the original commit?  YOu can not just
delete them, would you want someone doing that to a patch you
contributed?

as-is, we can't take this, please fix up.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-29  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-28 18:07 [PATCH 6.1.96] gfs2: Fix slab-use-after-free in gfs2_qd_dealloc Clayton Casciato
2024-06-29  8:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-07-01 21:30   ` Clayton Casciato

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