This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd: when reusing an existing repcache entry, unhash it first to the 3.12-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: nfsd-when-reusing-an-existing-repcache-entry-unhash-it-first.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 781c2a5a5f75eacc04663aced0f0f1a648d4f308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:26:19 -0500 Subject: nfsd: when reusing an existing repcache entry, unhash it first From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 781c2a5a5f75eacc04663aced0f0f1a648d4f308 upstream. The DRC code will attempt to reuse an existing, expired cache entry in preference to allocating a new one. It'll then search the cache, and if it gets a hit it'll then free the cache entry that it was going to reuse. The cache code doesn't unhash the entry that it's going to reuse however, so it's possible for it end up designating an entry for reuse and then subsequently freeing the same entry after it finds it. This leads it to a later use-after-free situation and usually some list corruption warnings or an oops. Fix this by simply unhashing the entry that we intend to reuse. That will mean that it's not findable via a search and should prevent this situation from occurring. Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: g. artim <gartim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfscache.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfscache.c @@ -132,6 +132,13 @@ nfsd_reply_cache_alloc(void) } static void +nfsd_reply_cache_unhash(struct svc_cacherep *rp) +{ + hlist_del_init(&rp->c_hash); + list_del_init(&rp->c_lru); +} + +static void nfsd_reply_cache_free_locked(struct svc_cacherep *rp) { if (rp->c_type == RC_REPLBUFF && rp->c_replvec.iov_base) { @@ -417,7 +424,7 @@ nfsd_cache_lookup(struct svc_rqst *rqstp rp = list_first_entry(&lru_head, struct svc_cacherep, c_lru); if (nfsd_cache_entry_expired(rp) || num_drc_entries >= max_drc_entries) { - lru_put_end(rp); + nfsd_reply_cache_unhash(rp); prune_cache_entries(); goto search_cache; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/nfsd-when-reusing-an-existing-repcache-entry-unhash-it-first.patch -- 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