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From: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
To: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
	Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: f2fs: fix UAF in f2fs_available_free_memory
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 16:37:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b071e877-334e-b669-e2df-abe4d5927418@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211104082202.1286551-1-mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>

On 2021/11/4 16:22, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> if2fs_fill_super
> -> f2fs_build_segment_manager
>     -> create_discard_cmd_control
>        -> f2fs_start_discard_thread
> 
> It invokes kthread_run to create a thread and run issue_discard_thread.
> 
> However, if f2fs_build_node_manager fails, the control flow goes to
> free_nm and calls f2fs_destroy_node_manager. This function will free
> sbi->nm_info. However, if issue_discard_thread accesses sbi->nm_info
> after the deallocation, but before the f2fs_stop_discard_thread, it will
> cause UAF(Use-after-free).
> 
> -> f2fs_destroy_segment_manager
>     -> destroy_discard_cmd_control
>        -> f2fs_stop_discard_thread
> 
> Fix this by stopping discard thread before f2fs_destroy_node_manager.
> 
> Note that, the commit d6d2b491a82e1 introduces the call of
> f2fs_available_free_memory into issue_discard_thread.
> 
> Fixes: d6d2b491a82e ("f2fs: allow to change discard policy based on cached discard cmds")
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Thanks,

      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-04  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-04  8:22 [PATCH v2] fs: f2fs: fix UAF in f2fs_available_free_memory Dongliang Mu
2021-11-04  8:37 ` Chao Yu [this message]

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