Hou Tao 3bfb87ecb4 dm: fix race between dm_get_from_kobject() and __dm_destroy()
commit b9a41d21dceadf8104812626ef85dc56ee8a60ed upstream.

The following BUG_ON was hit when testing repeat creation and removal of
DM devices:

    kernel BUG at drivers/md/dm.c:2919!
    CPU: 7 PID: 750 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.1.44
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff81649e8b>] dm_get_from_kobject+0x34/0x3a
     [<ffffffff81650ef1>] dm_attr_show+0x2b/0x5e
     [<ffffffff817b46d1>] ? mutex_lock+0x26/0x44
     [<ffffffff811df7f5>] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x83/0xcf
     [<ffffffff811de257>] kernfs_seq_show+0x23/0x25
     [<ffffffff81199118>] seq_read+0x16f/0x325
     [<ffffffff811de994>] kernfs_fop_read+0x3a/0x13f
     [<ffffffff8117b625>] __vfs_read+0x26/0x9d
     [<ffffffff8130eb59>] ? security_file_permission+0x3c/0x44
     [<ffffffff8117bdb8>] ? rw_verify_area+0x83/0xd9
     [<ffffffff8117be9d>] vfs_read+0x8f/0xcf
     [<ffffffff81193e34>] ? __fdget_pos+0x12/0x41
     [<ffffffff8117c686>] SyS_read+0x4b/0x76
     [<ffffffff817b606e>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x71

The bug can be easily triggered, if an extra delay (e.g. 10ms) is added
between the test of DMF_FREEING & DMF_DELETING and dm_get() in
dm_get_from_kobject().

To fix it, we need to ensure the test of DMF_FREEING & DMF_DELETING and
dm_get() are done in an atomic way, so _minor_lock is used.

The other callers of dm_get() have also been checked to be OK: some
callers invoke dm_get() under _minor_lock, some callers invoke it under
_hash_lock, and dm_start_request() invoke it after increasing
md->open_count.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-30 08:40:43 +00:00
2017-11-06 11:46:42 -08:00
2017-11-30 08:40:42 +00:00
2017-11-24 08:37:05 +01:00

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