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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2020-04-28 21:27:48 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-28 14:37:40 -0700
commitdd7bc8158b413e0b580c491e8bd18cb91057c7c2 (patch)
treec50f4a1e9fc7769c7f5c6b7bf0d4b1ab7085bf18 /fs
parentedb98d162418e90d6d2c1cec42e09be0375cfd88 (diff)
downloadlinux-dd7bc8158b413e0b580c491e8bd18cb91057c7c2.tar.bz2
Fix use after free in get_tree_bdev()
Commit 6fcf0c72e4b9, a fix to get_tree_bdev() put a missing blkdev_put() in the wrong place, before a warnf() that displays the bdev under consideration rather after it. This results in a silent lockup in printk("%pg") called via warnf() from get_tree_bdev() under some circumstances when there's a race with the blockdev being frozen. This can be caused by xfstests/tests/generic/085 in combination with Lukas Czerner's ext4 mount API conversion patchset. It looks like it ought to occur with other users of get_tree_bdev() such as XFS, but apparently doesn't. Fix this by switching the order of the lines. Fixes: 6fcf0c72e4b9 ("vfs: add missing blkdev_put() in get_tree_bdev()") Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/super.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index cd352530eca9..a288cd60d2ae 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1302,8 +1302,8 @@ int get_tree_bdev(struct fs_context *fc,
mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
if (bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0) {
mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
- blkdev_put(bdev, mode);
warnf(fc, "%pg: Can't mount, blockdev is frozen", bdev);
+ blkdev_put(bdev, mode);
return -EBUSY;
}