linux-kernel - [030/104] ext4: fix racy use-after-free in ext4_end_io

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Message-Id: <20111207161217.237310786@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:32 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [030/104] ext4: fix racy use-after-free in ext4_end_io_dio()

3.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

commit 4c81f045c0bd2cbb78cc6446a4cd98038fe11a2e upstream.

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 <tj@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2656,8 +2656,8 @@ out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei->i_completed_io_lock, flags);
 
 	/* queue the work to convert unwritten extents to written */
-	queue_work(wq, &io_end->work);
 	iocb->private = NULL;
+	queue_work(wq, &io_end->work);
 
 	/* XXX: probably should move into the real I/O completion handler */
 	inode_dio_done(inode);


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