On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 05:14:23PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 12:37:13PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > > > >> I am pretty sure it is that one. > >> I don't think I ever used name_to_handle_at syscall in my life and I > >> definitely didn't make it lookup a memfd :) > > > > So what does it normally return? On the runs where we do not hit that > > use-after-free, that is. > > > > What gets triggered there is nd->path.dentry pointing to already freed > > dentry. We are in RCU mode, so we are not pinning the dentry and it > > might have reached dentry_free(). However, anything with DCACHE_RCUACCESS > > set would have freeing RCU-delayed, making that impossible. > > > > memfd stuff does *not* have DCACHE_RCUACCESS, which would've made it > > plausible, but... there we really should've been stopped cold by > > the d_can_lookup() check - that is done while we are still holding > > a reference to struct file, which should've prevented freeing and > > reuse. So at the time of that check we have dentry still not reused > > by anything, and d_can_lookup() should've failed. > > > > There is a race that could bugger the things up in that area, but it needs > > empty name, so this one is something else... > > You can see from the log above that s always empty somehow, so the > d_can_lookup check is simply not done. I have not looked at the code, > but it's not racy, so should follow from the arguments passed to > name_to_handle_at. Umm... name_to_handle_at() in your log: name_to_handle_at(r4, &(0x7f0000003000-0x6)="2e2f62757300", &(0x7f0000003000-0xd)={0xc, 0x0, "cd21"}, &(0x7f0000002000)=0x0, 0x1000) and unless I'm misreading what you are printing there, you have "./bus0" passed as the second argument. Right? That's pretty much why I asked about other possible calls triggering it... If you are somehow getting there with empty name and if there's another thread closing these memfd descriptors, I understand what's going on there. It's how we are getting that empty name on your syscall arguments that looks very odd...