On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:56:22AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > If bpf_link_prime() succeeds to allocate new anon file, but then fails to
> > allocate ID for it, link priming is considered to be failed and user is
> > supposed ot be able to directly kfree() bpf_link, because it was never 
> > exposed
> > to user-space.
> >
> > But at that point file already keeps a pointer to bpf_link and will 
> > eventually
> > call bpf_link_release(), so if bpf_link was kfree()'d by caller, that would
> > lead to use-after-free.
> >
> > Fix this by first allocating ID and only then allocating file. Adding ID to
> > link_idr is ok, because link at that point still doesn't have its ID set, so
> > no user-space process can create a new FD for it.
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>

Applied. Thanks

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