Re: net: use-after-free in tw_timer_handler

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Jan 24 2017 - 10:53:00 EST


On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> This code was changed a long time ago :
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>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed2e923945892a8372ab70d2f61d364b0b6d9054
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>> So I suspect a recent patch broke the logic.
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>> You might start a bisection :
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>> I would check if 4.7 and 4.8 trigger the issue you noticed.
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>
> It happens with too low rate for bisecting (few times per day). I
> could add some additional checks into code, but I don't know what
> checks could be useful.

If you can not tell if 4.7 and/or 4.8 have the problem, I am not sure
we are able to help.