Re: scsi: use-after-free in bio_copy_from_iter

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On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 05:50:39PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> 
> +David did some debugging of a similar case. His 0x400 at location
> 0x2000efdc refers to 0xffff at 0x20012fdc in the provided reproducer:
>     NONFAILING(*(uint32_t*)0x20012fdc = (uint32_t)0xffff);
> Here is his explanation:
> =====
> That's not nice, it's passing a reply_len mismatch of 0x400 which is going
> to cause an sg_write warning (in 988 bytes, out 38 bytes).  input_size
> will be 74 since count == 80, the mxsize is 0x400 (!) so after subtracting
> SZ_SG_HEADER we get the 988 bytes in.  This forces SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV
> when we really want SG_DXFER_TO_DEV.  If you set the value at 0x2000efdc
> to 0x24 rather than 0x400 so there's a legitimate reply_len equal to
> SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV, I'd assume this passes just fine, assuming your
> container can get enough memory.
> =====
> 
> I've tried to replace 0xffff in the provided reproducer with 0x24 and
> it indeed does not crash.

This is somewhat expected, AFAICS the value at 0x20012fdc ends up as
hp->dxfer_len in the SG driver. I did a lot of debugging (actually I spend the
whole last work week soley on this) but I can't find where it does the actual
use-after-free, so if you have anything to share I'd be glad.

Byte,
	Johannes

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