[RFC PATCH v2 2/2] block: fix blk_get_backing_dev_info() crash, use bdev->bd_queue
From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-07 01:07:09
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, lkml, nvdimm
Subsystem:
block layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds
The ->bd_queue member of struct block_device was added in commit
87192a2a49c4 ("vfs: cache request_queue in struct block_device") in
v3.3. However, blk_get_backing_dev_info() has been using
bdev_get_queue() and grabbing the request_queue through the gendisk
since before the git era.
At final __blkdev_put() time ->bd_disk is cleared while ->bd_queue is
not. The queue remains valid until the final put of the parent disk.
The following crash signature results from blk_get_backing_dev_info()
trying to lookup the queue through ->bd_disk after the final put of the
block device. Simply switch bdev_get_queue() to use ->bd_queue directly
which is guaranteed to still be valid since the request_queue is alive
as long as the inode corresponding to the bdev has not been destroyed.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000568
IP: blk_get_backing_dev_info+0x10/0x20
[..]
Call Trace:
__inode_attach_wb+0x3a7/0x5d0
__filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xf8/0x100
filemap_write_and_wait+0x40/0x90
fsync_bdev+0x54/0x60
? bdget_disk+0x30/0x40
invalidate_partition+0x24/0x50
del_gendisk+0xfa/0x230
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <redacted>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Wei Fang <redacted>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <redacted>
Cc: Andi Kleen <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <redacted>
---
block/blk-core.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/blkdev.h | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index e8713137b846..cfd6731dfed7 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ void blk_queue_congestion_threshold(struct request_queue *q) * @bdev: device * * Locates the passed device's request queue and returns the address of its - * backing_dev_info. This function can only be called if @bdev is opened - * and the return value is never NULL. + * backing_dev_info. This function can be called until the final iput() + * of the bdev inode. */ struct backing_dev_info *blk_get_backing_dev_info(struct block_device *bdev) {
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index c47c358ba052..fd332da0fc38 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h@@ -841,7 +841,11 @@ bool blk_poll(struct request_queue *q, blk_qc_t cookie); static inline struct request_queue *bdev_get_queue(struct block_device *bdev) { - return bdev->bd_disk->queue; /* this is never NULL */ + /* + * ->bd_queue is valid as long as there is a reference against + * the bdev inode. + */ + return bdev->bd_queue; } /*