linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix racy use-after-free in ext4_end_io

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Date:	Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:18:49 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>, rickyb@...gle.com,
	aberkan@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix racy use-after-free in ext4_end_io_dio()

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:46:26AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> ext4_end_io_dio() queues io_end->work and then clears iocb->private;
> however, io_end->work completes the iocb by calling aio_complete(),
> which may happen before io_end->work clearing thus leading to
> use-after-free.
> 
> Detected and tested with slab poisoning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org

Thanks!!  I've been trying to track down this bug for a while.  The
repro case I had ran the 12 fio's against 12 different file systems
with the following configuration:

[global]
direct=1
ioengine=libaio
iodepth=1
bs=4k
ba=4k
size=128m

[create]
filename=${TESTDIR}
rw=write

... and would leave a few inodes with elevated i_ioend_counts, which
means any attempt to delete those inodes or to unmount the file system
owning those inodes would hang forever.

With your patch this problem goes away.

>I *think* this is the correct fix but am not too familiar with code
>path, so please proceed with caution.

Looks good to me.  Thanks, applied.

>Thank you.

No, thank *you*!  :-)

					- Ted

P.S.  It would be nice to get this into xfstests, but it requires at
least 10-12 (12 to repro it reliably) HDD's, and a fairly high core
count machine in order to reproduce it.  I played around with trying
to create a reproducer that worked on a smaller number of disks and/or
fio's/CPU's, but I was never able to manage it.
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