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authorJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>2005-04-16 15:25:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-16 15:25:40 -0700
commit4a534f93b371e8e6e87ae302757365f0f583e06b (patch)
treef9ed5470c81bd63dba86f425a2c3731802000c79 /drivers/block
parent9c340d80f66faaea3522812d0d8c91d6a1b48a22 (diff)
[PATCH] possible use-after-free of bio
There is a possibility that a bio will be accessed after it has been freed on SCSI. It happens if you submit a bio with BIO_SYNC marked and the auto-unplugging kicks the request_fn, SCSI re-enables interrupts in-between so if the request completes between the add_request() in __make_request() and the bio_sync() call, we could be looking at a dead bio. It's a slim race, but it has been triggered in the Real World. So assign bio_sync() to a local variable instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 02242e8ba99..2d6934a0286 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -2559,7 +2559,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blk_attempt_remerge);
static int __make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio)
{
struct request *req, *freereq = NULL;
- int el_ret, rw, nr_sectors, cur_nr_sectors, barrier, err;
+ int el_ret, rw, nr_sectors, cur_nr_sectors, barrier, err, sync;
sector_t sector;
sector = bio->bi_sector;
@@ -2567,6 +2567,7 @@ static int __make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio)
cur_nr_sectors = bio_cur_sectors(bio);
rw = bio_data_dir(bio);
+ sync = bio_sync(bio);
/*
* low level driver can indicate that it wants pages above a
@@ -2698,7 +2699,7 @@ get_rq:
out:
if (freereq)
__blk_put_request(q, freereq);
- if (bio_sync(bio))
+ if (sync)
__generic_unplug_device(q);
spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);