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author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2011-09-10 17:20:21 +1000 |
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committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2011-09-10 17:20:21 +1000 |
commit | 94007751bb02797ba87bac7aacee2731ac2039a3 (patch) | |
tree | ac45ec9aef327e0a77f3ffd8c09eff9ef1609f95 /fs | |
parent | 43220aa0f22cd3ce5b30246d50ccd696d119edea (diff) | |
download | lwn-94007751bb02797ba87bac7aacee2731ac2039a3.tar.gz lwn-94007751bb02797ba87bac7aacee2731ac2039a3.zip |
Avoid dereferencing a 'request_queue' after last close.
On the last close of an 'md' device which as been stopped, the device
is destroyed and in particular the request_queue is freed. The free
is done in a separate thread so it might happen a short time later.
__blkdev_put calls bdev_inode_switch_bdi *after* ->release has been
called.
Since commit f758eeabeb96f878c860e8f110f94ec8820822a9
bdev_inode_switch_bdi will dereference the 'old' bdi, which lives
inside a request_queue, to get a spin lock. This causes the last
close on an md device to sometime take a spin_lock which lives in
freed memory - which results in an oops.
So move the called to bdev_inode_switch_bdi before the call to
->release.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index ff77262e887c..95f786ec7f08 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1429,6 +1429,11 @@ static int __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part) WARN_ON_ONCE(bdev->bd_holders); sync_blockdev(bdev); kill_bdev(bdev); + /* ->release can cause the old bdi to disappear, + * so must switch it out first + */ + bdev_inode_switch_bdi(bdev->bd_inode, + &default_backing_dev_info); } if (bdev->bd_contains == bdev) { if (disk->fops->release) @@ -1442,8 +1447,6 @@ static int __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part) disk_put_part(bdev->bd_part); bdev->bd_part = NULL; bdev->bd_disk = NULL; - bdev_inode_switch_bdi(bdev->bd_inode, - &default_backing_dev_info); if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains) victim = bdev->bd_contains; bdev->bd_contains = NULL; |