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* [PATCH] block: null_blk: fix use after free
@ 2014-05-01  7:12 Ming Lei
  2014-05-01 15:17 ` Jens Axboe
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ming Lei @ 2014-05-01  7:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe, linux-kernel; +Cc: Christoph Hellwig, Ming Lei

entry(cmd->ll_list) may belong to new request once end_cmd()
returns, so fix the bug with the patch.

Without the change, it is easy to observe oops when
doing null_blk(timer) test.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/block/null_blk.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
index 8e7e3a0..e932398 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart null_cmd_timer_expired(struct hrtimer *timer)
 		entry = llist_reverse_order(entry);
 		do {
 			cmd = container_of(entry, struct nullb_cmd, ll_list);
-			end_cmd(cmd);
 			entry = entry->next;
+			end_cmd(cmd);
 		} while (entry);
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.9.5


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* Re: [PATCH] block: null_blk: fix use after free
  2014-05-01  7:12 [PATCH] block: null_blk: fix use after free Ming Lei
@ 2014-05-01 15:17 ` Jens Axboe
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jens Axboe @ 2014-05-01 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ming Lei, linux-kernel; +Cc: Christoph Hellwig

On 05/01/2014 01:12 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> entry(cmd->ll_list) may belong to new request once end_cmd()
> returns, so fix the bug with the patch.
> 
> Without the change, it is easy to observe oops when
> doing null_blk(timer) test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/null_blk.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk.c b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
> index 8e7e3a0..e932398 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/null_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk.c
> @@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart null_cmd_timer_expired(struct hrtimer *timer)
>  		entry = llist_reverse_order(entry);
>  		do {
>  			cmd = container_of(entry, struct nullb_cmd, ll_list);
> -			end_cmd(cmd);
>  			entry = entry->next;
> +			end_cmd(cmd);
>  		} while (entry);
>  	}

Good catch, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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