Re: Question: consult patch
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Aug 12 2022 - 01:45:00 EST
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 11:34:59AM +0800, zhangwensheng (E) wrote:
> 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
I can't see that patch anywhere, and I've not seen an bug report for it.
> Because of a distinct lack of locking and/or reference taking,
> blk_cleanup_queue() puts the final taken reference to the bdi, which
.. and blk_cleanup_queue also is gone upstream.
What am I missing?