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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Woodard <woodard@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:36:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190219173654.GA4314@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190219162643.GA15202@roeck-us.net>

On 02/19, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 01:37:57PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > looks unrelated...
> >
>
> Indeed...
>
> The underlying problem is in the error handling code of ace_setup(),
> which calls put_disk() followed by blk_cleanup_queue(). put_disk()
> calls disk_release(), which calls blk_put_queue(), which in turn
> results in a call to blk_mq_hw_sysfs_release().
>
> Added debug code, with your patch reverted, shows:
>
>  ######### blk_mq_hw_sysfs_release hctx=cee4a800
>  ...
>  ######### blk_mq_run_hw_queue hctx=cee4a800
>
> blk_mq_hw_sysfs_release() calls kfree(htcx), so accessing it later is most
> definitely not a good idea.

Thanks!

> No idea why this only causes problems with your patch applied.

Well... blk_put_queue() may trigger kobject_uevent() which does call_usermodehelper.

So if one of the used-after-free datastructures was already re-allocated as
linux_binprm, then with my patch it can look "more corrupted"...

But honestly, I too have no idea.

Thanks Guenter.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-19 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12 16:09 [PATCH 1/2] exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256 Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-12 23:52   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-13  5:03     ` Kees Cook
2018-11-13 16:55     ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 20:43       ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-14 15:54         ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-14 16:01           ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 10:29   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 17:49   ` Alan Cox
2018-11-22 12:15     ` Oleg Nesterov
     [not found]     ` <20181121160753.GA32685@asgard.redhat.com>
     [not found]       ` <CAKgNAkhFikJXeOx3W3yL3EUKa9ruXtAw93m4M=N+3Kg-bXbPDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-22 17:32         ` [PATCH] execve.2: document an effect of BINPRM_BUF_SIZE increase " Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-02-18 19:37   ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE " Guenter Roeck
2019-02-19 12:37     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-02-19 16:26       ` Guenter Roeck
2019-02-19 17:36         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2018-11-13 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 16:41   ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 20:16 ` Kees Cook

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