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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said <drifabdelmalekmohamedsaid@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	 syzbot+63336d70e1af377d7388@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Ran Hongyun <ranhongyun1@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] configfs: fix slab-UAF Write in config_item_put
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 08:43:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <au4DDpKhquR7oXwZ@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261105165055.362-1-drifabdelmalekmohamedsaid@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 05:50:54PM +0100, Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said wrote:
> ---
> v3:
>   - Removed redundant null assignment to parent_item

It wasn't redundant, see below.

>  
> +	if (IS_DEADDIR(dir)) {
> +		ret = -ENOENT;
> +		goto out_put_target;
> +	}

I am seeing the following when running this version:

	refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
	WARNING: lib/refcount.c:34 at refcount_warn_saturate+0x76/0xd0, CPU#1: ln/172
	Call Trace:

Can you help me to understand how this was tested?

Thanks,
--breno


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-06 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-05 16:50 Drif Abdelmalek Mohamed Said
2026-11-06 16:43 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-11-06 17:30   ` DRIF ABDELMALEK MOHAMED SAID

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