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Ceph: Fix use-after-free bug in ceph_messenger_destroy()

Message ID alpine.LNX.2.00.1012251908410.10759@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jesper Juhl Dec. 25, 2010, 6:11 p.m. UTC
Hi,

In net/ceph/messenger.c::ceph_messenger_destroy() the pointer 'msgr' is 
freed by kfree() and subsequently used in a call to dout() - use after 
free bug.
Easily fixed by simply moving the kfree() call after the dout() call.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 messenger.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Richard Weinberger Dec. 25, 2010, 9:14 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In net/ceph/messenger.c::ceph_messenger_destroy() the pointer 'msgr' is
> freed by kfree() and subsequently used in a call to dout() - use after
> free bug.

As I sad before, %p reads only the address.

> Easily fixed by simply moving the kfree() call after the dout() call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  messenger.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
> index b6ff4a1..26514a7 100644
> --- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
> +++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
> @@ -2131,8 +2131,8 @@ void ceph_messenger_destroy(struct ceph_messenger *msgr)
>        dout("destroy %p\n", msgr);
>        kunmap(msgr->zero_page);
>        __free_page(msgr->zero_page);
> -       kfree(msgr);
>        dout("destroyed messenger %p\n", msgr);
> +       kfree(msgr);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(ceph_messenger_destroy);
>
>
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diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
index b6ff4a1..26514a7 100644
--- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
+++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
@@ -2131,8 +2131,8 @@  void ceph_messenger_destroy(struct ceph_messenger *msgr)
 	dout("destroy %p\n", msgr);
 	kunmap(msgr->zero_page);
 	__free_page(msgr->zero_page);
-	kfree(msgr);
 	dout("destroyed messenger %p\n", msgr);
+	kfree(msgr);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ceph_messenger_destroy);