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authorYufen Yu2019-04-02 14:06:34 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2019-05-31 15:46:18 +0200
commitad393793794efc3770a14727880738f7ee4d636b (patch)
tree475417044946743159b01d2b72ca884a6e797425 /block/partition-generic.c
parentiio: adc: stm32-dfsdm: fix unmet direct dependencies detected (diff)
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block: fix use-after-free on gendisk
[ Upstream commit 2c88e3c7ec32d7a40cc7c9b4a487cf90e4671bdd ] commit 2da78092dda "block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime" specifically moved blk_free_devt(dev->devt) call to part_release() to avoid reallocating device number before the device is fully shutdown. However, it can cause use-after-free on gendisk in get_gendisk(). We use md device as example to show the race scenes: Process1 Worker Process2 md_free blkdev_open del_gendisk add delete_partition_work_fn() to wq __blkdev_get get_gendisk put_disk disk_release kfree(disk) find part from ext_devt_idr get_disk_and_module(disk) cause use after free delete_partition_work_fn put_device(part) part_release remove part from ext_devt_idr Before <devt, hd_struct pointer> is removed from ext_devt_idr by delete_partition_work_fn(), we can find the devt and then access gendisk by hd_struct pointer. But, if we access the gendisk after it have been freed, it can cause in use-after-freeon gendisk in get_gendisk(). We fix this by adding a new helper blk_invalidate_devt() in delete_partition() and del_gendisk(). It replaces hd_struct pointer in idr with value 'NULL', and deletes the entry from idr in part_release() as we do now. Thanks to Jan Kara for providing the solution and more clear comments for the code. Fixes: 2da78092dda1 ("block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime") Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/partition-generic.c')
-rw-r--r--block/partition-generic.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index 5f8db5c5140f..98d60a59b843 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -289,6 +289,13 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
kobject_put(part->holder_dir);
device_del(part_to_dev(part));
+ /*
+ * Remove gendisk pointer from idr so that it cannot be looked up
+ * while RCU period before freeing gendisk is running to prevent
+ * use-after-free issues. Note that the device number stays
+ * "in-use" until we really free the gendisk.
+ */
+ blk_invalidate_devt(part_devt(part));
hd_struct_kill(part);
}