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svcrpc: fix double-free on shutdown of nfsd after changing pool mode
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:22:49 +0000 (18:22 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:53:22 +0000 (13:53 -0800)
commitda27d545251bf5d1216307ada756bf747a46b6e4
tree8742f364e6cb8e49ca2798bddf1983df0256feab
parent537400450bd43daf3f99efe35efd0ccaf16f38b1
svcrpc: fix double-free on shutdown of nfsd after changing pool mode

commit 61c8504c428edcebf23b97775a129c5b393a302b upstream.

The pool_to and to_pool fields of the global svc_pool_map are freed on
shutdown, but are initialized in nfsd startup only in the
SVC_POOL_PERCPU and SVC_POOL_PERNODE cases.

They *are* initialized to zero on kernel startup.  So as long as you use
only SVC_POOL_GLOBAL (the default), this will never be a problem.

You're also OK if you only ever use SVC_POOL_PERCPU or SVC_POOL_PERNODE.

However, the following sequence events leads to a double-free:

1. set SVC_POOL_PERCPU or SVC_POOL_PERNODE
2. start nfsd: both fields are initialized.
3. shutdown nfsd: both fields are freed.
4. set SVC_POOL_GLOBAL
5. start nfsd: the fields are left untouched.
6. shutdown nfsd: now we try to free them again.

Step 4 is actually unnecessary, since (for some bizarre reason), nfsd
automatically resets the pool mode to SVC_POOL_GLOBAL on shutdown.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/sunrpc/svc.c