use after free bugs

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Aug 23 10:21:17 PDT 2004


In message: <412A258A.3060100 at coverity.com>
            Ted Unangst <tedu at coverity.com> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <41263E77.5040500 at coverity.com>
: >             Ted Unangst <tedu at coverity.com> writes:
: > : aha_isa.c: aha_isa_attach:  aha_free free "aha", can't use it 
: > : afterwards, lots of examples.
: > 
: > aha_free doesn't actually free the aha, it just tears down the dma for
: > the device.  So the sturct aha_softc * that's passed to it is safe to
: > use after calls to aha_free.
: > 
: > void
: > aha_free(struct aha_softc *aha)
: > {
: > 	switch (aha->init_level) {
: > 	default:
: > 	case 8:
: > 	{
: > 		struct sg_map_node *sg_map;
: > 
: > 		while ((sg_map = SLIST_FIRST(&aha->sg_maps))!= NULL) {
: > 			SLIST_REMOVE_HEAD(&aha->sg_maps, links);
: > 			bus_dmamap_unload(aha->sg_dmat, sg_map->sg_dmamap);
: > 			bus_dmamem_free(aha->sg_dmat, sg_map->sg_vaddr,
: > 			    sg_map->sg_dmamap);
: > 			free(sg_map, M_DEVBUF);
: > 		}
: > 		bus_dma_tag_destroy(aha->sg_dmat);
: > 	}
: > 	case 7:
: > 		bus_dmamap_unload(aha->ccb_dmat, aha->ccb_dmamap);
: > 	case 6:
: > 		bus_dmamap_destroy(aha->ccb_dmat, aha->ccb_dmamap);
: > 		bus_dmamem_free(aha->ccb_dmat, aha->aha_ccb_array,
: > 		    aha->ccb_dmamap);
: > 	case 5:
: > 		bus_dma_tag_destroy(aha->ccb_dmat);
: > 	case 4:
: > 		bus_dmamap_unload(aha->mailbox_dmat, aha->mailbox_dmamap);
: > 	case 3:
: > 		bus_dmamem_free(aha->mailbox_dmat, aha->in_boxes,
: > 		    aha->mailbox_dmamap);
: > 		bus_dmamap_destroy(aha->mailbox_dmat, aha->mailbox_dmamap);
: > 	case 2:
: > 		bus_dma_tag_destroy(aha->buffer_dmat);
: > 	case 1:
: > 		bus_dma_tag_destroy(aha->mailbox_dmat);
: > 	case 0:
: > 		break;
: > 	}
: > }
: > 
: > so all the calls to aha_free then the freeing of resoruces are OK.
: 
: ah, look at the 4.x sources though.  it does free aha.

Hmmmmm....  Very true.

Warner


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