Commit 09d967c6 authored Jun 22, 2006 by OGAWA Hirofumi Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 22, 2006

[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>

parent 0e5b3781

fs/block_dev.c

+25 −7

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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);
		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)

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