Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2018-07-02

Re: [PATCH] drbd: fix access after free

From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Date: 2018-07-02 11:27:32
Also in: lkml

Jens, I had hoped you'd apply this "oneliner" into 4.18 already?
Did you miss it?

Cheers,

	Lars


On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:39:52AM +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
  	bio_put(req->private_bio);
 -	req->private_bio = ERR_PTR(error);
 +	req->private_bio = ERR_PTR(bio->bi_error);

Which introduces an access after free,
because it was non obvious that req->private_bio == bio.
  	bio_put(req->private_bio);
  	req->private_bio = ERR_PTR(blk_status_to_errno(bio->bi_status));
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Should also go into stable since 4.3, with the trivial change around 4.13.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4246a0b63bd8 block: add a bi_error field to struct bio
Reported-by: Sarah Newman <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
index 1476cb3439f4..5e793dd7adfb 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ void drbd_request_endio(struct bio *bio)
 		what = COMPLETED_OK;
 	}
 
-	bio_put(req->private_bio);
 	req->private_bio = ERR_PTR(blk_status_to_errno(bio->bi_status));
+	bio_put(bio);
 
 	/* not req_mod(), we need irqsave here! */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&device->resource->req_lock, flags);
-- 
2.17.1
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