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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix vulnerability of the release method of file operations in Block layer SCSI generic driver
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:08:37PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
>> The computation context setup by previous opening the bsg file could
>> not survive following open/release operations upon the same file
>> object.
>
> Umm .. release is called on final close of a file, not on every close
> of a file.
>
right, thanks//Hillf

>> The vulnerability is fixed by deferring the cleanup operation until necessary.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> --- a/block/bsg.c     2010-09-13 07:07:38.000000000 +0800
>> +++ b/block/bsg.c     2010-11-10 21:43:58.000000000 +0800
>> @@ -858,7 +858,8 @@ static int bsg_release(struct inode *ino
>>  {
>>       struct bsg_device *bd = file->private_data;
>>
>> -     file->private_data = NULL;
>> +     if (1 == atomic_read(&bd->ref_count))
>> +             file->private_data = NULL;
>>       return bsg_put_device(bd);
>>  }
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> operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
> a retrograde step."
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