dio might be freed in direct_io_worker, then check of dio->flags causes a use after free bug, which results following kmemcheck warning: [ 247.720572] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 8-bit read from freed memory (ffff88022dd9b020) [ 247.720575] 0000000009000000010000000100000003000000000000000002000000000000 [ 247.720593] f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f [ 247.720611] ^ [ 247.720612] [ 247.720616] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32 #7 0M860N/OptiPlex 760 [ 247.720618] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81160f76>] [<ffffffff81160f76>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0xae6/0xc10 [ 247.720626] RSP: 0018:ffff88022dd0fbe8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 247.720628] RAX: ffff88000ae13540 RBX: ffff88022dd9b000 RCX: ffff88022dd9d400 [ 247.720630] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000400 RDI: 0000000000000286 [ 247.720632] RBP: ffff88022dd0fcc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88022ddbb000 [ 247.720634] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000200 [ 247.720637] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88022dd9b108 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 247.720640] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88000ae00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 247.720642] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 247.720644] CR2: ffff88021cfc9218 CR3: 000000022d843000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 [ 247.720647] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 247.720649] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff4ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 247.720651] [<ffffffff8115e229>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x49/0x50 [ 247.720655] [<ffffffff810e415b>] generic_file_aio_read+0x62b/0x660 [ 247.720659] [<ffffffff8112feb2>] do_sync_read+0xd2/0x110 [ 247.720663] [<ffffffff811303b5>] vfs_read+0xb5/0x1a0 [ 247.720666] [<ffffffff8113095c>] sys_read+0x4c/0x80 [ 247.720669] [<ffffffff81009f02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 247.720674] [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/direct-io.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index 4012885..de1ad3d 100644 --- a/fs/direct-io.c +++ b/fs/direct-io.c @@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ static ssize_t direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs, unsigned blkbits, get_block_t get_block, dio_iodone_t end_io, - struct dio *dio) + struct dio *dio, bool *dio_freed) { unsigned long user_addr; unsigned long flags; @@ -944,6 +944,7 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, ssize_t ret2; size_t bytes; + *dio_freed = false; dio->inode = inode; dio->rw = rw; dio->blkbits = blkbits; @@ -1081,6 +1082,7 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, if (ret2 == 0) { ret = dio_complete(dio, offset, ret); kfree(dio); + *dio_freed = true; } else BUG_ON(ret != -EIOCBQUEUED); @@ -1113,6 +1115,7 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, int flags) { int seg; + bool dio_freed; size_t size; unsigned long addr; unsigned blkbits = inode->i_blkbits; @@ -1197,7 +1200,11 @@ __blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode, (end > i_size_read(inode))); retval = direct_io_worker(rw, iocb, inode, iov, offset, - nr_segs, blkbits, get_block, end_io, dio); + nr_segs, blkbits, get_block, end_io, + dio, &dio_freed); + + if (dio_freed) + goto out; /* * In case of error extending write may have instantiated a few -- 1.6.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html