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[PATCH] Fix a race condition between ->i_mapping and iput() 

This race became a cause of oops, and can reproduce by the following.

    while true; do
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/.static/dev/hdg1 bs=512 count=1000 & sync
    done

This race condition was between __sync_single_inode() and iput().

          cpu0 (fs's inode)                 cpu1 (bdev's inode)
          -----------------                 -------------------
                                       close("/dev/hda2")
                                       [...]
__sync_single_inode()
   /* copy the bdev's ->i_mapping */
   mapping = inode->i_mapping;

                                       generic_forget_inode()
                                          bdev_clear_inode()
					     /* restre the fs's ->i_mapping */
				             inode->i_mapping = &inode->i_data;
				          /* bdev's inode was freed */
                                          destroy_inode(inode);

   if (wait) {
      /* dereference a freed bdev's mapping->host */
      filemap_fdatawait(mapping);  /* Oops */

Since __sync_single_inode() is only taking a ref-count of fs's inode, the
another process can be close() and freeing the bdev's inode while writing
fs's inode.  So, __sync_signle_inode() accesses the freed ->i_mapping,
oops.

This patch takes a ref-count on the bdev's inode for the fs's inode before
setting a ->i_mapping, and the clear_inode() of the fs's inode does iput() on
the bdev's inode.  So if the fs's inode is still living, bdev's inode
shouldn't be freed.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
5bit-waveforms
OGAWA Hirofumi 2006-06-22 14:47:21 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0e5b378159
commit 09d967c6f3
1 changed files with 25 additions and 7 deletions
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fs/block_dev.c
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@ -414,21 +414,31 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdput);
static struct block_device *bd_acquire(struct inode *inode)
{
struct block_device *bdev;
spin_lock(&bdev_lock);
bdev = inode->i_bdev;
if (bdev && igrab(bdev->bd_inode)) {
if (bdev) {
atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
spin_unlock(&bdev_lock);
return bdev;
}
spin_unlock(&bdev_lock);
bdev = bdget(inode->i_rdev);
if (bdev) {
spin_lock(&bdev_lock);
if (inode->i_bdev)
__bd_forget(inode);
inode->i_bdev = bdev;
inode->i_mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
list_add(&inode->i_devices, &bdev->bd_inodes);
if (!inode->i_bdev) {
/*
* We take an additional bd_inode->i_count for inode,
* and it's released in clear_inode() of inode.
* So, we can access it via ->i_mapping always
* without igrab().
*/
atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
inode->i_bdev = bdev;
inode->i_mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
list_add(&inode->i_devices, &bdev->bd_inodes);
}
spin_unlock(&bdev_lock);
}
return bdev;
@ -438,10 +448,18 @@ static struct block_device *bd_acquire(struct inode *inode)
void bd_forget(struct inode *inode)
{
struct block_device *bdev = NULL;
spin_lock(&bdev_lock);
if (inode->i_bdev)
if (inode->i_bdev) {
if (inode->i_sb != blockdev_superblock)
bdev = inode->i_bdev;
__bd_forget(inode);
}
spin_unlock(&bdev_lock);
if (bdev)
iput(bdev->bd_inode);
}
int bd_claim(struct block_device *bdev, void *holder)