On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:31:38AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 06:33:36PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > I'll do the same (re: KASAN). > > > > Also FWIW, a few months ago I hit some oopses in the same inline > > function (get_freepointer). It turned out to be a double-free due to my > > own misuse of the fsnotify API. I wonder though if this might also be a > > double free somewhere? > > It is a double-free somewhere, all right... What happens there is that > nfs_readdir really relies upon being the only thread to manipulate the > page cache of that directory. We get nfs_revalidate_mapping() called > and if it ends up evicting a page currently in use by nfs_do_filldir(), > you get nfs_readdir_clear_array() called _twice_ - once on kicking it > out of page cache (and those kfree of the names are obviously Not Good(tm) > for nfs_do_filldir() copying those names to userland) and then when > nfs_do_filldir() gets to cache_page_release(). > > Sigh... AFAICS, we have desc->page coming either from get_cache_page() or from direct assignment in uncached_readdir(). The latter is not a problem; it won't be hit with pagecache eviction anyway. The former, OTOH, is. I wonder if we ought to put a counter into nfs_cache_array, initialized to 1 (in nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array()), bumped in get_cache_page() and decremented both in cache_page_release() and in ->freepage(). With actual freeing of names happening only when the sucker reaches 0, and get_cache_page() treating "oops, it's already 0, someone has just evicted it from page cache" as "page_cache_release() and retry". Objections? -- 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
