From: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit e1e9bda22d7ddf88515e8fe401887e313922823e upstream. Under intermittent network outages, find_writable_file() is susceptible to the following race condition, which results in a user-after-free in the cifs_writepages code-path: Thread 1 Thread 2 ======== ======== inv_file = NULL refind = 0 spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock) // invalidHandle found on openFileList inv_file = open_file // inv_file->count currently 1 cifsFileInfo_get(inv_file) // inv_file->count = 2 spin_unlock(&cifs_file_list_lock); cifs_reopen_file() cifs_close() // fails (rc != 0) ->cifsFileInfo_put() spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock) // inv_file->count = 1 spin_unlock(&cifs_file_list_lock) spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock); list_move_tail(&inv_file->flist, &cifs_inode->openFileList); spin_unlock(&cifs_file_list_lock); cifsFileInfo_put(inv_file); ->spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock) // inv_file->count = 0 list_del(&cifs_file->flist); // cleanup!! kfree(cifs_file); spin_unlock(&cifs_file_list_lock); spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock); ++refind; // refind = 1 goto refind_writable; At this point we loop back through with an invalid inv_file pointer and a refind value of 1. On second pass, inv_file is not overwritten on openFileList traversal, and is subsequently dereferenced. Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/file.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c index ead2473f6839..381e60e6ef92 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -1821,6 +1821,7 @@ refind_writable: cifsFileInfo_put(inv_file); spin_lock(&cifs_file_list_lock); ++refind; + inv_file = NULL; goto refind_writable; } } -- 2.3.5 -- 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