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Message-ID: <1526489629.9159.147.camel@codethink.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 17:53:49 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To: Martin Townsend <mtownsend1973@...il.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 23/97] ubi: fastmap: Dont flush fastmap work on
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On Sun, 2018-04-22 at 15:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
>
> commit 29b7a6fa1ec07e8480b0d9caf635a4498a438bf4 upstream.
>
> At this point UBI volumes have already been free()'ed and fastmap can no
> longer access these data structures.
I don't see how this change can fix a use-after-free. If this function
can be called with *ubi already freed, then the rest of the function
body is also not safe to run. But I don't think that is the case.
ubi->fm_work doesn't depend on any other structure (except a global
workqueue, which won't go away).
It seems to me that the bug is really a race condition, and removing
the flush_work() makes it harder to hit that condition. The proper fix
would be to call flush_work() (or cancel_work_sync()) before the UBI
volumes are freed.
Ben.
> Reported-by: Martin Townsend <mtownsend1973@...il.com>
> Fixes: 74cdaf24004a ("UBI: Fastmap: Fix memory leaks while closing the WL sub-system")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap-wl.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap-wl.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/fastmap-wl.c
> @@ -360,7 +360,6 @@ static void ubi_fastmap_close(struct ubi
> {
> int i;
>
> - flush_work(&ubi->fm_work);
> return_unused_pool_pebs(ubi, &ubi->fm_pool);
> return_unused_pool_pebs(ubi, &ubi->fm_wl_pool);
>
>
>
>
--
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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