[ 80/82] loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Mar 18 2013 - 00:46:39 EST


3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream.

When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter,
loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which
will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left some
garbage in the misc device list.

Test case:
sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024
(failed due to invalid parameter)
sudo modprobe loop
(oops)

Clean up nicely to avoid such oops.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1834,11 +1834,15 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
max_part = (1UL << part_shift) - 1;
}

- if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto misc_out;
+ }

- if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift))
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto misc_out;
+ }

/*
* If max_loop is specified, create that many devices upfront.
@@ -1856,8 +1860,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
range = 1UL << MINORBITS;
}

- if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop"))
- return -EIO;
+ if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop")) {
+ err = -EIO;
+ goto misc_out;
+ }

blk_register_region(MKDEV(LOOP_MAJOR, 0), range,
THIS_MODULE, loop_probe, NULL, NULL);
@@ -1870,6 +1876,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)

printk(KERN_INFO "loop: module loaded\n");
return 0;
+
+misc_out:
+ misc_deregister(&loop_misc);
+ return err;
}

static int loop_exit_cb(int id, void *ptr, void *data)


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