[PATCH net] rxrpc: Fix notification call on completion of discarded calls

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sun Jun 21 00:32:40 EDT 2020


From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 23:38:16 +0100

> When preallocated service calls are being discarded, they're passed to
> ->discard_new_call() to have the caller clean up any attached higher-layer
> preallocated pieces before being marked completed.  However, the act of
> marking them completed now invokes the call's notification function - which
> causes a problem because that function might assume that the previously
> freed pieces of memory are still there.
> 
> Fix this by setting a dummy notification function on the socket after
> calling ->discard_new_call().
> 
> This results in the following kasan message when the kafs module is
> removed.
 ...
> Reported-by: syzbot+d3eccef36ddbd02713e9 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 5ac0d62226a0 ("rxrpc: Fix missing notification")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

Applied, thanks David.



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