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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense•com>
To: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail•com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai•com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt•net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense•com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv•linux.org.uk>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver•org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs•net>,
	Olivier Mauras <olivier@mauras•ch>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@freemail•hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] unix: fix use-after-free in unix_dgram_poll()
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:02:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twq7ans7.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+rthh9FMUHfaMcMXxJrsu+47xtQhG4ajmL_6rbJsAM1SRxGYw@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Krause's message of "Sat, 3 Oct 2015 07:46:06 +0200")

Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail•com> writes:
> On 2 October 2015 at 22:43, Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai•com> wrote:
>> The unix_dgram_poll() routine calls sock_poll_wait() not only for the wait
>> queue associated with the socket s that we are poll'ing against, but also calls

[useless full-quote removed]

> My reproducer runs on this patch for more than 3 days now without
> triggering anything anymore.

Since the behaviour of your program is random, using it to "test"
anything doesn't really provide any insight: It could have been
executing the same codepath which doesn't happen to trigger any problems
for all of these three days. Nobody can tell.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-03 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-02 20:43 [PATCH v2 0/3] af_unix: fix use-after-free Jason Baron
2015-10-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] unix: fix use-after-free in unix_dgram_poll() Jason Baron
2015-10-03  5:46   ` Mathias Krause
2015-10-03 17:02     ` Rainer Weikusat [this message]
2015-10-04 17:41       ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-05 16:31   ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-05 16:54     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-10-05 17:20       ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-05 17:55     ` Jason Baron
2015-10-12 20:41       ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-14  3:44         ` Jason Baron
2015-10-14 17:47           ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-15  2:54             ` Jason Baron
2015-10-18 20:58               ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-19 15:07                 ` Jason Baron
2015-10-20 22:29                   ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-21 17:34                     ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-28 16:46                     ` [RFC] " Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-28 17:57                       ` Jason Baron
2015-10-29 14:23                         ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-30 20:52                       ` [RFC] unix: fix use-after-free in unix_dgram_poll()/ 4.2.5 Rainer Weikusat
     [not found]                         ` <57d2f5b6aae251957bff7a1a52b8bf2c@core-hosting.net>
2015-11-02 21:55                           ` Rainer Weikusat
2015-10-02 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] af_unix: Convert gc_flags to flags Jason Baron
2015-10-02 20:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] af_unix: optimize the unix_dgram_recvmsg() Jason Baron
2015-10-05  7:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-05 17:13     ` Jason Baron

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