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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+7a8ba368b47fdefca61e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Subject: Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in path_lookupat
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 04:15:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190326041509.GZ2217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGe7X7mb=gK7zhSwmT_6mmmkcbjhZAOb=wj31BdUcHkNUPsm2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 08:18:25PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:

> Hey Al,
> 
> It's been a while since I've looked at that bit of code but it looks like
> Ocfs2 is syncing the inode to disk and disposing of it's memory
> representation (which would include the cluster locks held) so that other
> nodes get a chance to delete the potentially orphaned inode. In Ocfs2 we
> won't delete an inode if it exists in another nodes cache.

Wait a sec - what's the reason for forcing that write_inode_now(); why
doesn't the normal mechanism work?  I'm afraid I still don't get it -
we do wait for writeback in evict_inode(), or the local filesystems
wouldn't work.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-26  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28 17:40 KASAN: use-after-free Read in path_lookupat syzbot
2019-03-25  0:44 ` syzbot
2019-03-25  1:25   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25  1:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25  4:57   ` Al Viro
2019-03-25  9:15     ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-25 11:11       ` Al Viro
2019-03-25 11:17         ` Al Viro
2019-03-25 11:21           ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-25 18:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25 19:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25 21:14         ` Al Viro
2019-03-25 21:45           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25 22:04             ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-25 22:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25 22:41                 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-03-25 22:49               ` Al Viro
2019-03-25 23:37             ` Al Viro
2019-03-25 23:44               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-03-26  0:21                 ` Al Viro
2019-03-26  1:38               ` ceph: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal Al Viro
2019-03-26  1:39                 ` jffs2: " Al Viro
2019-03-26  1:40                 ` ubifs: " Al Viro
2019-03-26  1:43                 ` debugfs: " Al Viro
2019-03-26 10:41                 ` ceph: " Jeff Layton
2019-03-26 11:38                 ` Ilya Dryomov
2019-03-26  1:45               ` KASAN: use-after-free Read in path_lookupat Al Viro
2019-04-10 18:11                 ` Al Viro
2019-04-10 19:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-25 19:43       ` Al Viro
2019-03-25 22:48         ` Dave Chinner
2019-03-25 23:02           ` Al Viro
     [not found]             ` <CAGe7X7mb=gK7zhSwmT_6mmmkcbjhZAOb=wj31BdUcHkNUPsm2Q@mail.gmail.com>
2019-03-26  4:15               ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-03-27 16:58                 ` Jan Kara
2019-03-27 18:59                   ` Al Viro
2019-03-28  9:00                     ` Jan Kara
2019-03-27 17:22             ` Jan Kara

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