This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SUNRPC: Fix use of static variable in rpcb_getport_async
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sunrpc-fix-use-of-static-variable-in-rpcb_getport_async.patch and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm tree, please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it. >From ec0dd267bf7d08cb30e321e45a75fd40edd7e528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:27:55 -0700 Subject: SUNRPC: Fix use of static variable in rpcb_getport_async From: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> commit ec0dd267bf7d08cb30e321e45a75fd40edd7e528 upstream. Because struct rpcbind_args *map was declared static, if two threads entered this method at the same time, the values assigned to map could be sent two two differen tasks. This could cause all sorts of problems, include use-after-free and double-free of memory. Fix this by removing the static declaration so that the map pointer is on the stack. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> --- net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ void rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task u32 bind_version; struct rpc_xprt *xprt; struct rpc_clnt *rpcb_clnt; - static struct rpcbind_args *map; + struct rpcbind_args *map; struct rpc_task *child; struct sockaddr_storage addr; struct sockaddr *sap = (struct sockaddr *)&addr; Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from gree...@candelatech.com are /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/sunrpc-fix-use-of-static-variable-in-rpcb_getport_async.patch /home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/sunrpc-fix-a-race-between-work-queue-and-rpc_killall_tasks.patch _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable