linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate

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Message-ID: <20200924134709.GK4282@kadam>
Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:47:09 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
Cc:     Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hmm/test: use after free in dmirror_allocate_chunk()

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 10:31:01AM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> > @@ -471,30 +487,16 @@ static bool dmirror_allocate_chunk(struct dmirror_device *mdevice,
> >   				sizeof(new_chunks[0]) * new_capacity,
> >   				GFP_KERNEL);
> >   		if (!new_chunks)
> 
> Need to call mutex_unlock(&mdevice->devmem_lock).
> In fact, why not make this goto err_unlock and add
> err_unlock: mutex_unlock() before the err_release:.

Ugh...  Thanks for catching that.

regards,
dan carpenter