* [PATCH v3] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_writeback_endio
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@ 2026-05-12 7:49 ` Richard Chang
2026-05-13 14:02 ` [PATCH] " wang wei
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Richard Chang @ 2026-05-12 7:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Minchan Kim, Sergey Senozhatsky, Jens Axboe, Andrew Morton
Cc: bgeffon, liumartin, linux-kernel, linux-block, linux-mm,
Richard Chang, stable
A crash was observed in zram_writeback_endio due to a NULL pointer
dereference in wake_up. The root cause is a race condition between the
bio completion handler (zram_writeback_endio) and the writeback task.
In zram_writeback_endio, wake_up() is called on &wb_ctl->done_wait after
releasing wb_ctl->done_lock. This creates a race window where the
writeback task can see num_inflight become 0, return, and free wb_ctl
before zram_writeback_endio calls wake_up().
CPU 0 (zram_writeback_endio) CPU 1 (writeback_store)
============================ ============================
zram_writeback_slots
zram_submit_wb_request
zram_submit_wb_request
wait_event(wb_ctl->done_wait)
spin_lock(&wb_ctl->done_lock);
list_add(&req->entry, &wb_ctl->done_reqs);
spin_unlock(&wb_ctl->done_lock);
wake_up(&wb_ctl->done_wait);
zram_complete_done_reqs
spin_lock(&wb_ctl->done_lock);
list_add(&req->entry, &wb_ctl->done_reqs);
spin_unlock(&wb_ctl->done_lock);
while (num_inflight) > 0)
spin_lock(&wb_ctl->done_lock);
list_del(&req->entry);
spin_unlock(&wb_ctl->done_lock);
// num_inflight becomes 0
atomic_dec(num_inflight);
// Leave zram_writeback_slots
// Free wb_ctl
release_wb_ctl(wb_ctl);
// UAF crash!
wake_up(&wb_ctl->done_wait);
This patch fixes this race by using RCU. By protecting wb_ctl with
rcu_read_lock() in zram_writeback_endio and using kfree_rcu() to free
it, we ensure that wb_ctl remains valid during the execution of
zram_writeback_endio.
Fixes: f405066a1f0d ("zram: introduce writeback bio batching")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
---
V2: use RCU to manage the wb_ctl lifetime
V3: add stable tag
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index aebc710f0d6a..07111455eecf 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
#include <linux/part_stat.h>
#include <linux/kernel_read_file.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include "zram_drv.h"
@@ -504,6 +505,7 @@ struct zram_wb_ctl {
wait_queue_head_t done_wait;
spinlock_t done_lock;
atomic_t num_inflight;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
};
struct zram_wb_req {
@@ -847,7 +849,7 @@ static void release_wb_ctl(struct zram_wb_ctl *wb_ctl)
release_wb_req(req);
}
- kfree(wb_ctl);
+ kfree_rcu(wb_ctl, rcu);
}
static struct zram_wb_ctl *init_wb_ctl(struct zram *zram)
@@ -964,11 +966,13 @@ static void zram_writeback_endio(struct bio *bio)
struct zram_wb_ctl *wb_ctl = bio->bi_private;
unsigned long flags;
+ rcu_read_lock();
spin_lock_irqsave(&wb_ctl->done_lock, flags);
list_add(&req->entry, &wb_ctl->done_reqs);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wb_ctl->done_lock, flags);
wake_up(&wb_ctl->done_wait);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
static void zram_submit_wb_request(struct zram *zram,
--
2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog
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* [PATCH] Re:[PATCH v3] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_writeback_endio
2026-05-12 7:49 ` [PATCH v3] zram: fix use-after-free in zram_writeback_endio Richard Chang
@ 2026-05-13 14:02 ` wang wei
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: wang wei @ 2026-05-13 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: richardycc
Cc: akpm, axboe, bgeffon, linux-block, linux-kernel, linux-mm,
liumartin, minchan, senozhatsky, stable, wang wei
>@@ -847,7 +849,7 @@ static void release_wb_ctl(struct zram_wb_ctl *wb_ctl)
> release_wb_req(req);
> }
>
>- kfree(wb_ctl);
>+ kfree_rcu(wb_ctl, rcu);
> }
Do we need to add a 'rcu_assign_pointer(wb_ctl, NULL);' before 'kfree_rcu(wb_ctl, rcu)'?
Signed-off-by: wang wei <a929244872@163.com>
--
2.25.1
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