Re: [PATCH] blktrace: Protect q->blk_trace with RCU

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On 2020-02-06 06:28, Jan Kara wrote:
> KASAN is reporting that __blk_add_trace() has a use-after-free issue
> when accessing q->blk_trace. Indeed the switching of block tracing (and
> thus eventual freeing of q->blk_trace) is completely unsynchronized with
> the currently running tracing and thus it can happen that the blk_trace
> structure is being freed just while __blk_add_trace() works on it.
> Protect accesses to q->blk_trace by RCU during tracing and make sure we
> wait for the end of RCU grace period when shutting down tracing. Luckily
> that is rare enough event that we can afford that. Note that postponing
> the freeing of blk_trace to an RCU callback should better be avoided as
> it could have unexpected user visible side-effects as debugfs files
> would be still existing for a short while block tracing has been shut
> down.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>



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