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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)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:35:55 +0000 (15:35 -0500)
commit61c8504c428edcebf23b97775a129c5b393a302b
tree471b18af06d51a17e2ef224d7f2da9384939ee21
parentb8548894bde94ccee836e210274ff401225e9733
svcrpc: fix double-free on shutdown of nfsd after changing pool mode

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.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
net/sunrpc/svc.c