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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2009-09-15 15:34:51 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-16 09:18:52 -0400
commit77b9d059cb3ddb8b1246d5878e81d52926550b23 (patch)
tree6d6a894d91097aec9e589d22f48d7ec387e062d9 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent77fad5e625e56eb31a343ae1d489979fdc61a2aa (diff)
writeback: Fix bdi use after free in wb_work_complete()
By the time bdi_work_on_stack gets evaluated again in bdi_work_free, it can already have been deallocated and used for something else in the !on stack case, giving a false positive in this test and causing corruption. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 6bca6f8176f0..7eba7326b9b9 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static void bdi_work_free(struct rcu_head *head)
113static void wb_work_complete(struct bdi_work *work) 113static void wb_work_complete(struct bdi_work *work)
114{ 114{
115 const enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode = work->args.sync_mode; 115 const enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode = work->args.sync_mode;
116 int onstack = bdi_work_on_stack(work);
116 117
117 /* 118 /*
118 * For allocated work, we can clear the done/seen bit right here. 119 * For allocated work, we can clear the done/seen bit right here.
@@ -120,9 +121,9 @@ static void wb_work_complete(struct bdi_work *work)
120 * to after the RCU grace period, since the stack could be invalidated 121 * to after the RCU grace period, since the stack could be invalidated
121 * as soon as bdi_work_clear() has done the wakeup. 122 * as soon as bdi_work_clear() has done the wakeup.
122 */ 123 */
123 if (!bdi_work_on_stack(work)) 124 if (!onstack)
124 bdi_work_clear(work); 125 bdi_work_clear(work);
125 if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE || bdi_work_on_stack(work)) 126 if (sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE || onstack)
126 call_rcu(&work->rcu_head, bdi_work_free); 127 call_rcu(&work->rcu_head, bdi_work_free);
127} 128}
128 129