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| author | Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> | 2013-05-24 15:55:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-05-24 16:22:52 -0700 |
| commit | dfd20b2b174d3a9b258ea3b7a35ead33576587b1 (patch) | |
| tree | afa033d613e8eca4bdaf6f9be2b990318a886b36 /drivers/block/brd.c | |
| parent | e5ee7305ae03e43dbe2b0e346232975f793ad0eb (diff) | |
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drivers/block/brd.c: fix brd_lookup_page() race
The index on the page must be set before it is inserted in the radix
tree. Otherwise there is a small race which can occur during lookup
where the page can be found with the incorrect index. This will trigger
the BUG_ON() in brd_lookup_page().
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/brd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/brd.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c index f1a29f8e9d33..9bf4371755f2 100644 --- a/drivers/block/brd.c +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -117,13 +117,13 @@ static struct page *brd_insert_page(struct brd_device *brd, sector_t sector) spin_lock(&brd->brd_lock); idx = sector >> PAGE_SECTORS_SHIFT; + page->index = idx; if (radix_tree_insert(&brd->brd_pages, idx, page)) { __free_page(page); page = radix_tree_lookup(&brd->brd_pages, idx); BUG_ON(!page); BUG_ON(page->index != idx); - } else - page->index = idx; + } spin_unlock(&brd->brd_lock); radix_tree_preload_end(); |