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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:43:31 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Martin Blapp <mbr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern tty_pty.c
Message-ID:  <20060929184331.GA33567@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060929202338.W91466@godot.imp.ch>
References:  <200609290952.k8T9qvcU053566@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060929202338.W91466@godot.imp.ch>

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:26:40PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote:
>=20
> Hi all,
>=20
> > Free tty struct after last close. This should fix the pty-leak by numbe=
rs.
> > Remove workarounds for tty_refcount beeing 0, this will be fixed=20
> > differently
> > later.
> >
> > Back out rev 1.145 since we initialize the tty struct from scratch and =
bad
> > things can't happen anymore.
> >
>=20
> Sigh. Peter Holmes stress tests did show that we still have problems. Wit=
h=20
> the beckout of rev. 1.145 we get again the same panics as the pty_pts cod=
e=20
> does.
> This is deep somewhere in the devfs code. It does happen with/without=20
> freeing
> struct tty.
>=20
> Memory modified after free 0xc45b7d00(252) val=3Ddeadc0dd @ 0xc45b7d70
> panic: Most recently used by DEVFS1

You can identify precisely where the use-after-free occurs by
configuring DEBUG_MEMGUARD; I posted a trace of what is probably the
same bug once to current@ once but don't have it to hand.

Kris

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