Re: Use-after-free in page_cache_async_readahead

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, Andrey.

Hello Tejun,

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:08:52PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> While running KASAN on 4.2 with Trinity I got the following report:
>>
>> ==================================================================
>> BUG: KASan: use after free in page_cache_async_readahead+0x2cb/0x3f0
>> at addr ffff880034bf6690
>> Read of size 8 by task sshd/2571
>> =============================================================================
>> BUG kmalloc-16 (Tainted: G        W      ): kasan: bad access detected
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>> INFO: Allocated in bdi_init+0x168/0x960 age=554826 cpu=0 pid=6
>
> Can you please verify that the following patch fixes the issue?

I've hit this bug only twice during 24 hours of fuzzing, so there's no
fast way to verify this.
I'll be testing with your patch now, and I'll let you know if I hit
the bug again.

Thanks!
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