From: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:22:24 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ext4: fix racy use-after-free in ext4_end_io_dio() X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc4~10^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pandora-kernel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c81f045c0bd2cbb78cc6446a4cd98038fe11a2e ext4: fix racy use-after-free in ext4_end_io_dio() ext4_end_io_dio() queues io_end->work and then clears iocb->private; however, io_end->work calls aio_complete() which frees the iocb object. If that slab object gets reallocated, then ext4_end_io_dio() can end up clearing someone else's iocb->private, this use-after-free can cause a leak of a struct ext4_io_end_t structure. Detected and tested with slab poisoning. [ Note: Can also reproduce using 12 fio's against 12 file systems with the following configuration file: [global] direct=1 ioengine=libaio iodepth=1 bs=4k ba=4k size=128m [create] filename=${TESTDIR} rw=write -- tytso ] Google-Bug-Id: 5354697 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reported-by: Kent Overstreet Tested-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: stable@kernel.org --- Reading git-diff-tree failed