linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sg: Fix double-free when drives detach during SG

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Date:	Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:52:23 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>
Cc:	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sg: Fix double-free when drives detach during SG_IO

>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com> writes:

>> In sg_common_write(), we free the block request and return -ENODEV if
>> the device is detached in the middle of the SG_IO ioctl().
>> 
>> Unfortunately, sg_finish_rem_req() also tries to free srp->rq, so we
>> end up freeing rq->cmd in the already free rq object, and then free
>> the object itself out from under the current user.
>> 
>> This ends up corrupting random memory via the list_head on the rq
>> object. The most common crash trace I saw is this:

>> Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>

Doug> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>

Applied.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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