Re: [PATCH] use after free bug in __blkdev_get

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 03:26:16 EST


On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Neil Brown wrote:
>
>
> commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735
> (from 14 months ago) introduced a use-after-free bug which has just
> recently started manifesting in my md testing.
> I tried git bisect to find out what caused the bug to start
> manifesting, and it could have been the recent change to
> blk_unregister_queue (48c0d4d4c04) but the results were inconclusive.
>
> This patch certainly fixes my symptoms and looks correct as the two
> calls are now in the same order as elsewhere in that function.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
> index 9cf4b92..8bed055 100644
> --- a/fs/block_dev.c
> +++ b/fs/block_dev.c
> @@ -1248,8 +1248,8 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
> bd_set_size(bdev, (loff_t)bdev->bd_part->nr_sects << 9);
> }
> } else {
> - put_disk(disk);
> module_put(disk->fops->owner);
> + put_disk(disk);
> disk = NULL;
> if (bdev->bd_contains == bdev) {
> if (bdev->bd_disk->fops->open) {

Thanks Neil, good catch! Applied.

--
Jens Axboe

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/