Re: [PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: fix use-after-free of new iovec on bundle grow
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:01:28 -0400
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.io-uring,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Organization | SUSE |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Breno Leitao <[email protected]> writes: > When io_ring_buffers_peek() grows a provided-buffer bundle, it allocates > a new iovec array and points arg->iovs at it. The KBUF_MODE_FREE cleanup > added at the end of the function then does kfree(arg->iovs), which frees > this freshly allocated array that is about to be returned to and used by > the caller, instead of the old cached iovec (org_iovs) it was meant to > release. The caller reads the now-freed array, resulting in a > use-after-free, easily triggered by the liburing recv-bundle-short-ooo > test: > > BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in io_recv+0x4bc/0xc60 > Read of size 8 at addr ffff00037b20c240 by task recv-bundle-sho > io_recv > Allocated by task: > __kmalloc_noprof > io_ring_buffers_peek > io_buffers_peek > io_recv > Freed by task: > kfree > io_ring_buffers_peek > io_buffers_peek > io_recv > > Free org_iovs instead, and only when it was actually replaced by a new > allocation. On the access_ok() failure path the new array is already > freed and the request is left pointing at the original iovec, so nothing > needs to be released at this point in that case. > > Fixes: cd053d788c3f ("io_uring: fix dangling iovec after provided-buffer bundle grow failure") > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]> Already fixed here https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/[email protected]/T/#u here: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/OS3PR01MB8810F38D613E37FBD684DC4D83FB2@OS3PR01MB8810.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com/T/#t and here: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/[email protected]/T/#u Aren't LLMs fun? -- Gabriel Krisman Bertazi