Re: CVE request: kernel: fuse: prevent fuse_put_request on invalid pointer

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2009-4021

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo () kernel sg> wrote:

> "fuse_direct_io() has a loop where requests are allocated in each 
> iteration. if allocation fails, the loop is broken out and follows
> into 
> an unconditional fuse_put_request() on that invalid pointer."
>
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/f60311d5f7670d9539b424e4ed8b5c0872fc9e83
>
> This can be triggered when the system is low on memory, and when the 
> fuse_request_alloc() function called from fuse_get_req() fails. The 
> fuse_put_request() function will then dereference the invalid pointer
>
> returned, resulting in a kernel oops.
>
> This was introduced in 413ef8cb (v2.6.14-rc1) and fixed in
> v2.6.32-rc7.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/538734
>
> Thanks, Eugene