Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965089Ab2EOCyb (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 22:54:31 -0400 Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:53347 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965054Ab2EOCRL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 22:17:11 -0400 From: Paul Gortmaker To: , Subject: [34-longterm 088/179] cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:13:04 -0400 Message-ID: <1337048075-6132-89-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.6 In-Reply-To: <1337048075-6132-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1337048075-6132-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1912 Lines: 57 From: Jens Axboe ------------------- This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment. ------------------- commit ab4bd22d3cce6977dc039664cc2d052e3147d662 upstream. Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold the lock protecting it around it. This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed to see it a lot. Tracked in RH bugzilla here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968 Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his hard work the issue is now fixed. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index 4fab7c9..510552a 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -2559,8 +2559,11 @@ static void __cfq_exit_single_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd, cic->dead_key = (unsigned long) cic->key; cic->key = NULL; - if (ioc->ioc_data == cic) + if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) { + spin_lock(&ioc->lock); rcu_assign_pointer(ioc->ioc_data, NULL); + spin_unlock(&ioc->lock); + } if (cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC]) { cfq_exit_cfqq(cfqd, cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC]); -- 1.7.9.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/