[PATCH v1] io_uring: fix dangling iovec after provided-buffer bundle grow failure

From: Hao-Yu Yang

Date: Sun Jul 05 2026 - 19:46:37 EST


When growing a provided-buffer bundle, the old cached iovec is freed
before the new buffers have all been validated. If validation fails, the
request still points at the freed iovec, which can be freed again during
completion cleanup.

BUG: KASAN: double-free in io_vec_free+0x2c/0x90
Freed by task 73:
kfree+0x104/0x3b0
io_vec_free+0x2c/0x90
__io_submit_flush_completions+0xc03/0x1e40
io_submit_sqes+0xdb5/0x2310

Allocated by task 73:
io_ring_buffers_peek+0x559/0xc60
io_buffers_select+0x1c1/0x460
io_send+0x770/0x1050

Fix this by deferring the free of the old cached iovec until validation
has succeeded. On failure, free the newly allocated iovec and leave the
request pointing at the original one.

Fixes: 46800585ae04 ("io_uring/kbuf: validate ring provided buffer addresses with access_ok()")
Signed-off-by: Hao-Yu Yang <naup96721@xxxxxxxxx>
---
io_uring/kbuf.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/kbuf.c b/io_uring/kbuf.c
index 3cd29477fff2..4055173e0c48 100644
--- a/io_uring/kbuf.c
+++ b/io_uring/kbuf.c
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ static int io_ring_buffers_peek(struct io_kiocb *req, struct buf_sel_arg *arg,
struct io_uring_buf_ring *br = bl->buf_ring;
struct iovec *org_iovs = arg->iovs;
struct iovec *iov = arg->iovs;
+ struct iovec *old = NULL;
int nr_iovs = arg->nr_iovs;
__u16 nr_avail, tail, head;
struct io_uring_buf *buf;
@@ -288,7 +289,7 @@ static int io_ring_buffers_peek(struct io_kiocb *req, struct buf_sel_arg *arg,
if (unlikely(!iov))
return -ENOMEM;
if (arg->mode & KBUF_MODE_FREE)
- kfree(arg->iovs);
+ old = arg->iovs;
arg->iovs = iov;
nr_iovs = nr_avail;
} else if (nr_avail < nr_iovs) {
@@ -318,6 +319,8 @@ static int io_ring_buffers_peek(struct io_kiocb *req, struct buf_sel_arg *arg,
if (unlikely(!access_ok(iov->iov_base, len))) {
if (arg->iovs != org_iovs)
kfree(arg->iovs);
+ /* hand the still-live cached vec back to the owner */
+ arg->iovs = org_iovs;
return -EFAULT;
}
iov++;
@@ -330,6 +333,8 @@ static int io_ring_buffers_peek(struct io_kiocb *req, struct buf_sel_arg *arg,
buf = io_ring_head_to_buf(br, ++head, bl->mask);
} while (--nr_iovs);

+ kfree(old);
+
if (head == tail)
req->flags |= REQ_F_BL_EMPTY;

--
2.34.1