On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:52:02 -0600
Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subas...@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> We are seeing a possible use after free in ip6_dst_destroy.
>
> It appears as if memory of the __DST_METRICS_PTR(old) was freed in some
> path and allocated
> to ion driver. ion driver has also freed it. Finally the memory is freed
> by the
> fib gc and crashes since it is already deallocated.
>
> Target is running an ARM64 Android based 4.9 kernel.
> Issue was seen once on a regression rack (sorry, no reproducer).
> Any pointers to debug this is highly appreciated.
>
> [ 3489.470581] [<ffffff83c0a289c0>] object_err+0x4c/0x5c
> [ 3489.470586] [<ffffff83c0a2b284>] free_debug_processing+0x2e0/0x398
> [ 3489.470589] [<ffffff83c0a2b63c>] __slab_free+0x300/0x3e0
> [ 3489.470593] [<ffffff83c0a2bfc8>] kfree+0x28c/0x290
> [ 3489.470601] [<ffffff83c16b9580>]
> __dst_destroy_metrics_generic+0x6c/0x78
> [ 3489.470609] [<ffffff83c17d3408>] ip6_dst_destroy+0xb0/0xb4
Should be fixed by:
commit ad65a2f05695aced349e308193c6e2a6b1d87112
Author: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com>
Date: Sat Jun 17 10:42:35 2017 -0700
ipv6: call dst_hold_safe() properly
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Stefano
