On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:21 PM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 05:31:58PM -0800, dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > If this is the cause why we don't drop the mount after the copy
> > then I can restore the patch and look into this problem. Unfortunately,
> > all my test machines are down for maintenance until Sunday/Monday.
>
> I think we can take some time to figure out what's actually going on
> here before reverting anything.
Yes I agree. We need to fix the use-after-free and also make sure that
reference will go away. I'm assuming to reproduce the use-after-free I
need to run with kazan, is that what you did Dai?
>
> --b.
>
> >
> > -Dai
> >
> > On 2/19/21 5:09 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > >Dai, do you have a copy of the original use-after-free warning?
> > >
> > >--b.
> > >
> > >On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:18:53PM -0500, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> > >>Hi Dai (Bruce),
> > >>
> > >>This patch is what broke the mount that's now left behind between the
> > >>source server and the destination server. We are no longer dropping
> > >>the necessary reference on the mount to go away. I haven't been paying
> > >>as much attention as I should have been to the changes. The original
> > >>code called fput(src) so a simple refcount of the file. Then things
> > >>got complicated and moved to nfsd_file_put(). So I don't understand
> > >>complexity. But we need to do some kind of put to decrement the needed
> > >>reference on the superblock. Bruce any ideas? Can we go back to
> > >>fput()?
> > >>
> > >>On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:08 PM Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>The source file nfsd_file is not constructed the same as other
> > >>>nfsd_file's via nfsd_file_alloc. nfsd_file_put should not be
> > >>>called to free the object; nfsd_file_put is not the inverse of
> > >>>kzalloc, instead kfree is called by nfsd4_do_async_copy when done.
> > >>>
> > >>>Fixes: ce0887ac96d3 ("NFSD add nfs4 inter ssc to nfsd4_copy")
> > >>>Signed-off-by: Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>---
> > >>> fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 +-
> > >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>>
> > >>>diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
> > >>>index ad2fa1a8e7ad..9c43cad7e408 100644
> > >>>--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
> > >>>+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
> > >>>@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ nfsd4_cleanup_inter_ssc(struct vfsmount *ss_mnt, struct nfsd_file *src,
> > >>> struct nfsd_file *dst)
> > >>> {
> > >>> nfs42_ssc_close(src->nf_file);
> > >>>- nfsd_file_put(src);
> > >>>+ /* 'src' is freed by nfsd4_do_async_copy */
> > >>> nfsd_file_put(dst);
> > >>> mntput(ss_mnt);
> > >>> }
> > >>>--
> > >>>2.20.1.1226.g1595ea5.dirty
> > >>>
