On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 08:55 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Hi James, > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:55:52AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 10:43 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > > > > > So from CPU1's review, cmd->cmnd is in a remote NUMA node, > > > __scsi_format_command() is executed much slower than > > > mempool_free(). > > > So when mempool_free() returns, __scsi_format_command() may not > > > fetched the buffer in L1 cache yet, then use-after-free > > > is still triggered. > > > > > > That is why I say this use-after-free is inevitable no matter > > > 'setting SCpnt->cmnd to NULL before calling mempool_free()' or > > > not. > > > > The bottom line is that there are several creative ways around this > > but the proposed code is currently broken and simply putting a > > comment in saying so doesn't make it acceptable. > > As I explained above, I didn't see one really workable way. Or please > correct it if I am wrong.
I simply can't believe it's beyond the wit of man to solve a use after free race. About 40% of kernel techniques are devoted to this. All I really care about is not losing the PI information we previously had. I agree with Bart that NULL cmnd is a good indicator, so it seems reasonable to use it. If you have another mechanism, feel free to propose it. James
