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Yu Kuai
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Currently, there are many places that md_thread can be accessed without protection, following are known scenarios that can cause null-ptr-dereference or uaf: 1) sync_thread that is allocated and started from md_start_sync() 2) mddev->thread can be accessed directly from timeout_store() and md_bitmap_daemon_work() 3) md_unregister_thread() from action_store(). Currently, a global spinlock 'pers_lock' is borrowed to protect 'mddev->thread' in some places, this problem can be fixed likewise, however, use a global lock for all the cases is not good. Fix this problem by protecting all md_thread with rcu. Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.