linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] KASAN: use-after-free Read in rdma

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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:10:03 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     asmadeus@...ewreck.org
Cc:     Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+67d13108d855f451cafc@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, ericvh@...il.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lucho@...kov.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [syzbot] KASAN: use-after-free Read in rdma_close

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 06:52:56AM +0900, asmadeus@...ewreck.org wrote:

<...>

> > From technical perspective, yes, destruction in reverse order is usually the 
> > better way to go. Whether I would carve that in stone, without any exception, 
> > probably not.
> 
> I think it's a tradeoff really.
> Unrolling in place is great, don't get me wrong, but it's also easy to
> miss things when adding code later on -- we actually just did that and
> got another kasan report which made me factor things in to future-proof
> the code.
> 
> Having a single place of truth that knows how to "untangle" and properly
> free a struct, making sure it is noop for parts of the struct that
> haven't been initialized yet, is less of a burden for me to think about.

It is not bikeshedding or tradeoff, but matter of well-proven coding
patterns, which are very helpful for review and code maintaining.

Thanks