uml: fix request->sector update
authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:38:47 +0000 (23:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:05:38 +0000 (09:05 -0700)
It is theoretically possible for a request to finish and be freed between
writing it to the I/O thread and updating the sector count.  In this case, the
update will dereference a freed pointer.

To avoid this, I delay the update until processing the next sg segment, when
the request pointer is known to be good.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c

index 2e09f162c42f01b6ac39f3689eae208f5d4b75b1..0947f2e200456c2136e8d7520164dda4636fa203 100644 (file)
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(request_queue_t *q)
 {
        struct io_thread_req *io_req;
        struct request *req;
-       int n;
+       int n, last_sectors;
 
        while(1){
                struct ubd *dev = q->queuedata;
@@ -1099,9 +1099,11 @@ static void do_ubd_request(request_queue_t *q)
                }
 
                req = dev->request;
+               last_sectors = 0;
                while(dev->start_sg < dev->end_sg){
                        struct scatterlist *sg = &dev->sg[dev->start_sg];
 
+                       req->sector += last_sectors;
                        io_req = kmalloc(sizeof(struct io_thread_req),
                                         GFP_ATOMIC);
                        if(io_req == NULL){
@@ -1113,6 +1115,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(request_queue_t *q)
                                        (unsigned long long) req->sector << 9,
                                        sg->offset, sg->length, sg->page);
 
+                       last_sectors = sg->length >> 9;
                        n = os_write_file(thread_fd, &io_req,
                                          sizeof(struct io_thread_req *));
                        if(n != sizeof(struct io_thread_req *)){
@@ -1124,7 +1127,6 @@ static void do_ubd_request(request_queue_t *q)
                                return;
                        }
 
-                       req->sector += sg->length >> 9;
                        dev->start_sg++;
                }
                dev->end_sg = 0;