Re: [PATCH] bio-integrity: Fix use of bs->bio_integrity_pool after free

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Sep 16 2013 - 09:40:50 EST


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Kent Overstreet
<koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:14:54PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > This fixes a copy and paste error introduced by 9f060e2231
>> > ("block: Convert integrity to bvec_alloc_bs()").
>> >
>> > Found by Coverity (CID 1020654).
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > fs/bio-integrity.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/fs/bio-integrity.c b/fs/bio-integrity.c
>> > index 8fb4291..45e944f 100644
>> > --- a/fs/bio-integrity.c
>> > +++ b/fs/bio-integrity.c
>> > @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ void bioset_integrity_free(struct bio_set *bs)
>> > mempool_destroy(bs->bio_integrity_pool);
>> >
>> > if (bs->bvec_integrity_pool)
>> > - mempool_destroy(bs->bio_integrity_pool);
>> > + mempool_destroy(bs->bvec_integrity_pool);
>> > }
>> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(bioset_integrity_free);
>>
>> Kent, do you want to chime in on this? Looks like an obvious error to
>> me, but maybe I'm missing something and we should teach Coverity to
>> shut up about it.
>
> Sorry - no, this is definitely a bug:
>
> Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>

>From my v3.12-rc1 reminder list: what's going on with this patch?

It's been acked, Gu asked whether he could include it in some
patchset, I see a Sep 11 2013 patch from Gu upstream already
(bc5c8f078), but this patch (from May 29 2013) still hasn't gone
anywhere. Why is this so hard?

Bjorn
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