(cc'ing SCSI people) On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:45:22AM -0700, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > Hi! > > I am working on AddressSanitizer -- a tool that detects use-after-free > and out-of-bounds bugs > (https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel). > Below is one of the bug reports that I got while running trinity > syscall fuzzer. Kernel is built on revision > d8efd82eece89f8a5790b0febf17522affe9e1f1. > The report was followed by a bunch of similar use-after-free reports, > and later the kernel crashed somewhere in ata subsystem. I've attached > the full log. > > > ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address ffff880034fce000 > ffff880034fce000 is located 0 bytes inside of 256-byte region > [ffff880034fce000, ffff880034fce100) > READ of size 8 at ffff880034fce000 by thread T3645: > #0 inlined (asan_report_error+0x3e7/0x500) > asan_describe_heap_address ./arch/x86/mm/asan/report.c:191 > #0 ffffffff810d9af7 (asan_report_error+0x3e7/0x500) > ./arch/x86/mm/asan/report.c:309 > #1 ffffffff810d8c12 (asan_check_region.part.1+0x1b2/0x230) > ./arch/x86/mm/asan/asan.c:263 > #2 inlined (__tsan_read8+0x28/0x30) asan_check_region > ./arch/x86/mm/asan/asan.c:276 > #2 ffffffff810d8d48 (__tsan_read8+0x28/0x30) ./arch/x86/mm/asan/asan.c:276 > #3 ffffffff814cc0ef (sg_next+0xf/0x40) ??:0 > #4 inlined (ata_qc_issue+0x2b4/0x740) dma_map_sg_attrs > ./include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h:50 > #4 inlined (ata_qc_issue+0x2b4/0x740) ata_sg_setup > ./drivers/ata/libata-core.c:4707 > #4 ffffffff816574b4 (ata_qc_issue+0x2b4/0x740) > ./drivers/ata/libata-core.c:5082 So, if I'm reading this right, it means that the sg list is used after being freed? The sglist is directly from scsi_cmnd and use-after-free there is likely to be quite noticeable. Any chance you guys aren't following mempool based allocations correctly? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html