This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
skd: Avoid that module unloading triggers a use-after-free
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
skd-avoid-that-module-unloading-triggers-a-use-after-free.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7277cc67b3916eed47558c64f9c9c0de00a35cda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:12:45 -0700
Subject: skd: Avoid that module unloading triggers a use-after-free
From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
commit 7277cc67b3916eed47558c64f9c9c0de00a35cda upstream.
Since put_disk() triggers a disk_release() call and since that
last function calls blk_put_queue() if disk->queue != NULL, clear
the disk->queue pointer before calling put_disk(). This avoids
that unloading the skd kernel module triggers the following
use-after-free:
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 297 at lib/refcount.c:128 refcount_sub_and_test+0x70/0x80
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
CPU: 8 PID: 297 Comm: kworker/8:1 Not tainted 4.11.10-300.fc26.x86_64 #1
Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x63/0x84
__warn+0xcb/0xf0
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5a/0x80
refcount_sub_and_test+0x70/0x80
refcount_dec_and_test+0x11/0x20
kobject_put+0x1f/0x50
blk_put_queue+0x15/0x20
disk_release+0xae/0xf0
device_release+0x32/0x90
kobject_release+0x67/0x170
kobject_put+0x2b/0x50
put_disk+0x17/0x20
skd_destruct+0x5c/0x890 [skd]
skd_pci_probe+0x124d/0x13a0 [skd]
local_pci_probe+0x42/0xa0
work_for_cpu_fn+0x14/0x20
process_one_work+0x19e/0x470
worker_thread+0x1dc/0x4a0
kthread+0x125/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/skd_main.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/block/skd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
@@ -4622,15 +4622,16 @@ static void skd_free_disk(struct skd_dev
{
struct gendisk *disk = skdev->disk;
- if (disk != NULL) {
- struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
+ if (disk && (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP))
+ del_gendisk(disk);
- if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP)
- del_gendisk(disk);
- if (q)
- blk_cleanup_queue(q);
- put_disk(disk);
+ if (skdev->queue) {
+ blk_cleanup_queue(skdev->queue);
+ skdev->queue = NULL;
+ disk->queue = NULL;
}
+
+ put_disk(disk);
skdev->disk = NULL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/scsi-sg-factor-out-sg_fill_request_table.patch
queue-4.9/skd-submit-requests-to-firmware-before-triggering-the-doorbell.patch
queue-4.9/block-relax-a-check-in-blk_start_queue.patch
queue-4.9/skd-avoid-that-module-unloading-triggers-a-use-after-free.patch