linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks

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Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 07:31:48 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify
 inode marks

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 20:16 -0400, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:08:00 -0400 Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: root <root@...n-gt24-04.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com>
> 
> hm.

Well poop.  That's what I get for using git on a random test box.  I
moved it to my real tree with git-format-patch > git-am.  I'll fix the
author.

> > There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code.  A task can find and
> > remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references.  This can
> > result in a use after free/double free situation.
> > 
> > Task A					Task B
> > ------------				-----------
> > inotify_new_watch()
> >  allocate a mark (refcnt == 1)
> >  add it to the idr
> > 					inotify_rm_watch()
> > 					 inotify_remove_from_idr()
> > 					  fsnotify_put_mark()
> > 					      refcnt hits 0, free
> >  take reference because we are on idr
> >  [at this point it is a use after free]
> >  [time goes on]
> >  refcnt may hit 0 again, double free
> > 
> > The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the
> > idr.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> 
> The changelog has no "Cc: <stable@...nel.org>".  I suspect it should
> have that?

Will fix before I ask Linus to pull....

-Eric

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