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commit c780e86dd48ef6467a1146cf7d0fe1e05a635039 upstream. KASAN is reporting that __blk_add_trace() has a use-after-free issue when accessing q->blk_trace. Indeed the switching of block tracing (and thus eventual freeing of q->blk_trace) is completely unsynchronized with the currently running tracing and thus it can happen that the blk_trace structure is being freed just while __blk_add_trace() works on it. Protect accesses to q->blk_trace by RCU during tracing and make sure we wait for the end of RCU grace period when shutting down tracing. Luckily that is rare enough event that we can afford that. Note that postponing the freeing of blk_trace to an RCU callback should better be avoided as it could have unexpected user visible side-effects as debugfs files would be still existing for a short while block tracing has been shut down. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205711 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reported-by: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> [bwh: Backported to 4.14: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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