linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xsysace: Fix error handling in ace

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <0c428aac-f488-525a-49d1-506ce92be418@kernel.dk>
Date:   Fri, 5 Apr 2019 17:06:21 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xsysace: Fix error handling in ace_setup

On 4/5/19 4:44 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:49:56AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> If xace hardware reports a bad version number, the error handling code
>> in ace_setup() calls put_disk(), followed by queue cleanup. However, since
>> the disk data structure has the queue pointer set, put_disk() also
>> cleans and releases the queue. This results in blk_cleanup_queue()
>> accessing an already released data structure, which in turn may result
>> in a crash such as the following.
>>
> 
> This crash is now quite persistent in mainline. The fix didn't make it.
> Should I stop testing virtex-ml507 with qemu ?

I've applied the fix now.

But given Michal's comments, should we kill the driver for 5.2?

-- 
Jens Axboe