Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:26:01 +0100
Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:08:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Charming...  So we get d_path() either returning junk or we get 
> > > something that isn't NUL-terminated.  Which one it is?  I.e. what
> > > does p look like and what's in s?
> > 
> > could be use-after-free as well, as CONFIG_PAGEALLOC was enabled.
> 
> Umm...  d_path() had just written there, so use-after-free is not too
> likely to trigger page fault on read immediately afterwards - you'd
> need a pretty tight race to hit it.

I suspect we want the following patch out of general principles; Ingo,
can you see if this one helps?
(if not, it's still worth considering; it looks like we're first
destroying the device object (which holds the name of the directory)
before we unregister the directory... if that fails then we have a mess.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


--- linux-2.6.23-rc2/net/wireless/core.c~	2007-10-03 08:04:45.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc2/net/wireless/core.c	2007-10-03 08:04:45.000000000 -0700
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ void wiphy_unregister(struct wiphy *wiph
 	mutex_unlock(&drv->mtx);
 
 	list_del(&drv->list);
-	device_del(&drv->wiphy.dev);
 	debugfs_remove(drv->wiphy.debugfsdir);
+	device_del(&drv->wiphy.dev);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_drv_mutex);
 }
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