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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 002 of 6] md: Fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array.
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:45:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080114014531.20354@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080114123726.19968.patches@notabene>
Due to possible deadlock issues we need to use a schedule work to
kobject_del an 'rdev' object from a different thread.
A recent change means that kobject_add no longer gets a refernce, and
kobject_del doesn't put a reference. Consequently, we need to
explicitly hold a reference to ensure that the last reference isn't
dropped before the scheduled work get a chance to call kobject_del.
Also, rename delayed_delete to md_delayed_delete to that it is more
obvious in a stack trace which code is to blame.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
### Diffstat output
./drivers/md/md.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2008-01-14 12:23:53.000000000 +1100
+++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2008-01-14 12:24:17.000000000 +1100
@@ -1421,10 +1421,11 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(mdk_rdev_t
return err;
}
-static void delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws)
+static void md_delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws)
{
mdk_rdev_t *rdev = container_of(ws, mdk_rdev_t, del_work);
kobject_del(&rdev->kobj);
+ kobject_put(&rdev->kobj);
}
static void unbind_rdev_from_array(mdk_rdev_t * rdev)
@@ -1443,7 +1444,8 @@ static void unbind_rdev_from_array(mdk_r
/* We need to delay this, otherwise we can deadlock when
* writing to 'remove' to "dev/state"
*/
- INIT_WORK(&rdev->del_work, delayed_delete);
+ INIT_WORK(&rdev->del_work, md_delayed_delete);
+ kobject_get(&rdev->kobj);
schedule_work(&rdev->del_work);
}
@@ -3688,7 +3690,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, i
sysfs_remove_link(&mddev->kobj, nm);
}
- /* make sure all delayed_delete calls have finished */
+ /* make sure all md_delayed_delete calls have finished */
flush_scheduled_work();
export_array(mddev);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-14 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-14 1:45 [PATCH 000 of 6] md: various fixes for md NeilBrown
2008-01-14 1:45 ` [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5 NeilBrown
2008-01-16 5:01 ` dean gaudet
2008-01-16 5:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-16 6:13 ` dean gaudet
2008-01-16 7:09 ` Dan Williams
2008-01-16 7:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-16 21:54 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14 1:45 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2008-01-14 2:04 ` [PATCH 002 of 6] md: Fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array Al Viro
2008-01-14 3:21 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14 3:43 ` Al Viro
2008-01-14 4:48 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14 6:28 ` Neil Brown
2008-01-14 12:59 ` Al Viro
2008-01-14 13:56 ` Al Viro
2008-01-14 1:45 ` [PATCH 003 of 6] md: Change a few 'int' to 'size_t' in md NeilBrown
2008-01-14 1:45 ` [PATCH 004 of 6] md: Change INTERATE_MDDEV to for_each_mddev NeilBrown
2008-01-14 1:45 ` [PATCH 005 of 6] md: Change ITERATE_RDEV to rdev_for_each NeilBrown
2008-01-14 1:45 ` [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Change ITERATE_RDEV_GENERIC to rdev_for_each_list, and remove ITERATE_RDEV_PENDING NeilBrown
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