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Date:	Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:58:34 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Cc:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use after free in sysfs_find_dirent

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ming,
>>
>> With your patch:
>>
>>
>> [ 1525.874312] release_sysfs_dirent sysfs_dirent use after free: ptysb-uevent
>
> Sasha, thanks for your test.
>
> So is the oops always triggered on this node of 'ptysb-uevent' or the node name
> is changed every time?

Also, we may dump stack on the release path with the below patch to see who
did the ugly free.

--
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 2fbdff6..993671d 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ void release_sysfs_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * sd)
 	 */
 	parent_sd = sd->s_parent;

+	if(!(sd->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED)) {
+		printk("%s sysfs_dirent use after free: %s-%s\n",
+			__func__, parent_sd->s_name, sd->s_name);
+		dump_stack();
+	}
+
 	if (sysfs_type(sd) == SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK)
 		sysfs_put(sd->s_symlink.target_sd);
 	if (sysfs_type(sd) & SYSFS_COPY_NAME)
@@ -962,6 +968,9 @@ static struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_dir_pos(const void *ns,
 		int valid = !(pos->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED) &&
 			pos->s_parent == parent_sd &&
 			hash == pos->s_hash;
+		if (valid && (atomic_read(&pos->s_count) <= 1))
+			printk("%s sysfs_dirent use after free: %s-%s\n",
+				__func__, parent_sd->s_name, pos->s_name);
 		sysfs_put(pos);
 		if (!valid)
 			pos = NULL;


Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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