Even with CACHEFILES_DEAD set, we can still read the requests, so in the following concurrency the request may be used after it has been freed: mount | daemon_thread1 | daemon_thread2 ------------------------------------------------------------ cachefiles_ondemand_init_object cachefiles_ondemand_send_req REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len) wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done) cachefiles_daemon_read cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read // close dev fd cachefiles_flush_reqs complete(&REQ_A->done) kfree(REQ_A) xa_lock(&cache->reqs); cachefiles_ondemand_select_req req->msg.opcode != CACHEFILES_OP_READ // req use-after-free !!! xa_unlock(&cache->reqs); xa_destroy(&cache->reqs) Hence remove requests from cache->reqs when flushing them to avoid accessing freed requests. Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522114308.2402121-3-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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