The patch below does not apply to the 3.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 0eb25bb027a100f5a9df8991f2f628e7d851bc1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:37:42 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] md/raid10: remove use-after-free bug. We always need to be careful when calling generic_make_request, as it can start a chain of events which might free something that we are using. Here is one place I wasn't careful enough. If the wbio2 is not in use, then it might get freed at the first generic_make_request call. So perform all necessary tests first. This bug was introduced in 3.3-rc3 (24afd80d99) and can cause an oops, so fix is suitable for any -stable since then. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (3.3+) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c index 957a719..df7b0a0 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -2290,12 +2290,18 @@ static void recovery_request_write(struct mddev *mddev, struct r10bio *r10_bio) d = r10_bio->devs[1].devnum; wbio = r10_bio->devs[1].bio; wbio2 = r10_bio->devs[1].repl_bio; + /* Need to test wbio2->bi_end_io before we call + * generic_make_request as if the former is NULL, + * the latter is free to free wbio2. + */ + if (wbio2 && !wbio2->bi_end_io) + wbio2 = NULL; if (wbio->bi_end_io) { atomic_inc(&conf->mirrors[d].rdev->nr_pending); md_sync_acct(conf->mirrors[d].rdev->bdev, bio_sectors(wbio)); generic_make_request(wbio); } - if (wbio2 && wbio2->bi_end_io) { + if (wbio2) { atomic_inc(&conf->mirrors[d].replacement->nr_pending); md_sync_acct(conf->mirrors[d].replacement->bdev, bio_sectors(wbio2)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html