Re: task_struct slab cache use after free in 2.5.66

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:25:07 +0100


Zwane wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> That's the second report of this. Someone did a put_task_struct against a
>> freed task_struct. I'll cook up a debug patch to trap it. Something like
>> this:
>
>Well there is also the detach_pid bug which suddenly vanished... I'm not
>aware of anyone sending a patch for that (but i can't be certain i havent
>been keeping up with lkml lately). I posted some debug information for
>that one about a week ago:
>
>Pine.LNX.4.50.0303221152460.18911-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com
>
>Manfred?

I didn't send a patch. One thing I noticed from reading zwane's bug report is that the reference count of the task structure was off by at least 3:

__detach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID)

failed because the task structure was already filled with slab poison.

--
	Manfred

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