Question: consult patch
From: zhangwensheng (E)
Date: Thu Aug 11 2022 - 23:35:12 EST
Hi Lee :
I saw your patch because of CVE-2022-20158, the patch like below:
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mm: backing-dev: Take a reference to the bdi in use to prevent UAF
KASAN reports a reproducible issue in the BDI handling code due to a
dereference of a previously freed pointer to 'struct backing_dev_info'
in bdi_unregister().
Because of a distinct lack of locking and/or reference taking,
blk_cleanup_queue() puts the final taken reference to the bdi, which
is then promptly freed by release_bdi(). However, del_gendisk() calls
bdi_unregister() after the fact, which then attempts to dereference
it causing the kernel to panic.
Bug: 182815710
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Change-Id: Iaf3dadf3b983a4b7d74d4e273fc676350cfc387f
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I am sorry that I have some questions for this patch. According to
my analysis, I failed to find the relevant process may lead to null
pointer reference. can you show me "KASAN reports a reproducible issue"
that what the problem is? thank you very much!