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authorAnatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>2013-04-01 09:47:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-01 15:48:47 -0700
commitc1681bf8a7b1b98edee8b862a42c19c4e53205fd (patch)
treee97d3b2bfcdc7e681a682fb28a091402dc2e4b77 /fs
parentaae92db9f0f67559198f6ecde922f15e2aeea7e0 (diff)
loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use
struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) - block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile" we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device with "losetup -d". But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following stack: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280 bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0 loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop] lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop] lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop] compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290 do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0 compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20 do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0 sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd() and put it later in loop_clr_fd(). The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test: dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1 while [ true ]; do losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches losetup -d /dev/loop0 done [ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device->lo_state is Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again it will get EBUSY. And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop device we'll get ENXIO. loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under loop_device->lo_ctl_mutex. ] Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index aea605c98ba..aae187a7f94 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev)
ihold(bdev->bd_inode);
return bdev;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdgrab);
long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
{