Re: [PATCH v1] io_uring: fix dangling iovec after provided-buffer bundle grow failure
Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2026 11:13:55 -0600
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.io-uring,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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On 7/6/26 11:01 AM, Hao-Yu Yang wrote: > Sorry, i forgot to cc others mail > > I discovered and wrote the PoC myself. Trigger way is > send1: Submit an IORING_OP_SEND request with four valid > provided buffers. The system will allocate and cache an > iovec array (of size 4) for this request and store the > pointer in kmsg->vec.iovec. > > send2: Submit a second send request with 8, and I set > the fourth passed-in address to point to an invalid address. > Now kmsg still hold old iovec, but old iovec object have > been freed. > > So this will lead dangling pointer. Side note: please don't top post, linux mailing lists always reply under the text for better readability. Top posting turns any kind of threaded conversation into both a mess, and it's also wasteful. Great thanks! Want to turn this into a liburing test case? Then we can include it there as well, and it'd catch both UAF and memory leaks when run. -- Jens Axboe