This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
btrfs: Fix use-after-free when cleaning up fs_devs with a single stale device
to the 4.4-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:
btrfs-fix-use-after-free-when-cleaning-up-fs_devs-with-a-single-stale-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From fd649f10c3d21ee9d7542c609f29978bdf73ab94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:07:37 +0200
Subject: btrfs: Fix use-after-free when cleaning up fs_devs with a single stale device
From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>
commit fd649f10c3d21ee9d7542c609f29978bdf73ab94 upstream.
Commit 4fde46f0cc71 ("Btrfs: free the stale device") introduced
btrfs_free_stale_device which iterates the device lists for all
registered btrfs filesystems and deletes those devices which aren't
mounted. In a btrfs_devices structure has only 1 device attached to it
and it is unused then btrfs_free_stale_devices will proceed to also free
the btrfs_fs_devices struct itself. Currently this leads to a use after
free since list_for_each_entry will try to perform a check on the
already freed memory to see if it has to terminate the loop.
The fix is to use 'break' when we know we are freeing the current
fs_devs.
Fixes: 4fde46f0cc71 ("Btrfs: free the stale device")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ void btrfs_free_stale_device(struct btrf
btrfs_sysfs_remove_fsid(fs_devs);
list_del(&fs_devs->list);
free_fs_devices(fs_devs);
+ break;
} else {
fs_devs->num_devices--;
list_del(&dev->dev_list);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nborisov@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/btrfs-fix-use-after-free-when-cleaning-up-fs_devs-with-a-single-stale-device.patch