Messages in this thread | | | From | Taras Kondratiuk <> | Subject | Re: Manual unbind of ATA devices causes use-after-free | Date | Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:32:16 -0700 |
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Quoting Tejun Heo (2017-11-03 06:19:37) > Hello, > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Taras Kondratiuk wrote: > > Manual unbind/remove unconditionally invokes devres_release_all which > > calls ata_host_release() and frees ata_host/ata_port memory while it is > > still being referenced (e.g as a parent of SCSI host). > > > > Is there a reason why ata_host is using derves which is not refcounted? > > Does it make sense to add recounting to ata_host? > > Hmm... the removal path is supposed to drain everything synchronously. > What kind of controller is it?
It drains synchronously if scsi_host_put(ap->scsi_host) in ata_host_release() releases the last scsi_host reference. But when the issue happens there is one more reference to scsi_host because sg device is still open. The last reference will be dropped from sg_release.
I forgot to mention that the disk may not be clearly unmounted when I'm unbinding it, but IMO it shouldn't cause use-after-free in the kernel. Also even if sg_release() is called before ata_host_release() there is still no guarantee that the last reference will be dropped, because sg_release() schedules sg_remove_sfp_usercontext() to do actual release and the work may not be completed in time.
Driver is AHCI PCI.
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