2014-10-27 02:04:25

by Weijie Yang

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Subject: [PATCH] zram: avoid NULL pointer access in concurrent situation

There is a rare NULL pointer bug in mem_used_total_show() and
mem_used_max_store() in concurrent situation, like this:

zram is not initialized, process A is a mem_used_total reader which runs
periodically, while process B try to init zram.

process A process B
access meta, get a NULL value
init zram, done
init_done() is true
access meta->mem_pool, get a NULL pointer BUG

This patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
---
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 0e63e8a..2ad0b5b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -99,11 +99,12 @@ static ssize_t mem_used_total_show(struct device *dev,
{
u64 val = 0;
struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
- struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;

down_read(&zram->init_lock);
- if (init_done(zram))
+ if (init_done(zram)) {
+ struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
val = zs_get_total_pages(meta->mem_pool);
+ }
up_read(&zram->init_lock);

return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%llu\n", val << PAGE_SHIFT);
@@ -173,16 +174,17 @@ static ssize_t mem_used_max_store(struct device *dev,
int err;
unsigned long val;
struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
- struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;

err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &val);
if (err || val != 0)
return -EINVAL;

down_read(&zram->init_lock);
- if (init_done(zram))
+ if (init_done(zram)) {
+ struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
atomic_long_set(&zram->stats.max_used_pages,
zs_get_total_pages(meta->mem_pool));
+ }
up_read(&zram->init_lock);

return len;
--
1.7.0.4