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
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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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.

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Jens Axboe