[PATCH] mtd: fix use-after-free in mtd release

Usyskin, Alexander alexander.usyskin at intel.com
Sun Jul 30 04:10:38 PDT 2023


> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com wrote on Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:58:29
> +0300:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 05:20:13PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > > andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com wrote on Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:12:04
> > > +0300:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 05:57:58PM +0300, Alexander Usyskin wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > > Fixes: 19bfa9ebebb5 ("mtd: use refcount to prevent corruption")
> > > >
> > > > Closes: ?
> > >
> > > Did I miss a recent update on the use of Fixes?
> >
> > They are orthogonal to each other. Actually Closes goes closer with
> > Reported-by.
> >
> > I believe both of them needs to be added (by I might miss something).
> >
> > > I thought Closes was
> > > supposed to point at a bug report while Fixes would point to the faulty
> > > commit.
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > > Right now I feel like Fixes is the right tag,
> >
> > Nobody objects that (see above).
> >
> > > but if you have a source explaining why we should not longer do it like
> > > I am used to, I would appreciate a link.
> >
> > Since you know about Closes already, I think there is nothing to add.
> 
> Ah sorry I misunderstood your first e-mail. I thought you were
> suggesting to replace Fixes by Closes. Sorry for the misunderstanding :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Miquèl

Miquel, is this patch helps with your original problem of devices not freed?

Zhang, is this patch helps with your problem with KAsan?

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Thanks,
Sasha





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