Re: [PATCH 3.6 0/3] Fix use-after-free in PSCSI

[Nicholas A. Bellinger]

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 17:09 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this series fixes the bug I reported with wrong sense data.  The
> memory corruption is caused by using the sense data after freeing
> it.  The series corrects it by moving the copy of the sense data
> earlier, to the transport_complete callback.
> 
> Please review and be kind on my first lio patches! :)
> 
> Paolo
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
>   target: move transport_get_sense_data
>   target: simplify code around transport_get_sense_data
>   target: fix use-after-free with PSCSI sense data
> 
>  drivers/target/target_core_pscsi.c     |   21 ++----
>  drivers/target/target_core_transport.c |  117 ++++++++++++--------------------
>  include/target/target_core_backend.h   |    4 +-
>  3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
> 

The approach to squash the bug looks easonable to me, and nice work on
the extra cleanups for backend sense w/ TRANSPORT_PLUGIN_PHBA_PDEV !

I've applied this to target-pending/master w/ CC stable, and will plan
to send out the PULL request for -rc5 over the next days.

Nice work Paolo!

--nab

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