fix for use-after-free problem in 10.x

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 5 03:06:25 UTC 2016


In 11 and 12 the taskqueue code has been rewritten in this area but 
under 10 this bug still occurs.

On our appliances this bug stops the system from mounting the ZFS 
root, so it is quite severe.
Basically while the thread is sleeping during the ZFS mount of root 
(in the while loop), another thread can free the 'task' item it is 
checking in that while loop and it can be reused or filled with 
'deadcode' etc., with the waiting code unaware of the change.. The fix 
is to refetch the item at the end of the queue each time around the loop.
I don't really want to do the bigger change of MFCing the change in 
11, as it is more extensive, though if someone else does, that's ok by 
me. (If it's ABI compatible)

Any comments or suggestions?

here's the fix in diff form:


[robot at porridge /usr/src]$ p4 diff -du ...
--- //depot/pbranches/jelischer/FreeBSD-PZ/10.3/sys/kern/subr_taskqueue.c       2016-09-27 09:14:59.000000000 -0700
+++ /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_taskqueue.c  2016-09-27 09:14:59.000000000 -0700
@@ -441,9 +441,10 @@

         TQ_LOCK(queue);
         task = STAILQ_LAST(&queue->tq_queue, task, ta_link);
-       if (task != NULL)
-               while (task->ta_pending != 0)
-                       TQ_SLEEP(queue, task, &queue->tq_mutex, PWAIT, "-", 0);
+       while (task != NULL && task->ta_pending != 0) {
+               TQ_SLEEP(queue, task, &queue->tq_mutex, PWAIT, "-", 0);
+               task = STAILQ_LAST(&queue->tq_queue, task, ta_link);
+       }
         taskqueue_drain_running(queue);
         KASSERT(STAILQ_EMPTY(&queue->tq_queue),
             ("taskqueue queue is not empty after draining"));



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