From: NeilBrown Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:39:56 +0000 (-0800) Subject: md: fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~547 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=177a99b23ef9878c0cedcc7273108eba8a6e9472;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git md: fix use-after-free bug when dropping an rdev from an md array Due to possible deadlock issues we need to use a schedule work to kobject_del an 'rdev' object from a different thread. A recent change means that kobject_add no longer gets a refernce, and kobject_del doesn't put a reference. Consequently, we need to explicitly hold a reference to ensure that the last reference isn't dropped before the scheduled work get a chance to call kobject_del. Also, rename delayed_delete to md_delayed_delete to that it is more obvious in a stack trace which code is to blame. Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 08e0f8d672c..6cdd1b4faca 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1419,10 +1419,11 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(mdk_rdev_t * rdev, mddev_t * mddev) return err; } -static void delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws) +static void md_delayed_delete(struct work_struct *ws) { mdk_rdev_t *rdev = container_of(ws, mdk_rdev_t, del_work); kobject_del(&rdev->kobj); + kobject_put(&rdev->kobj); } static void unbind_rdev_from_array(mdk_rdev_t * rdev) @@ -1441,7 +1442,8 @@ static void unbind_rdev_from_array(mdk_rdev_t * rdev) /* We need to delay this, otherwise we can deadlock when * writing to 'remove' to "dev/state" */ - INIT_WORK(&rdev->del_work, delayed_delete); + INIT_WORK(&rdev->del_work, md_delayed_delete); + kobject_get(&rdev->kobj); schedule_work(&rdev->del_work); } @@ -3686,7 +3688,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode) sysfs_remove_link(&mddev->kobj, nm); } - /* make sure all delayed_delete calls have finished */ + /* make sure all md_delayed_delete calls have finished */ flush_scheduled_work(); export_array(mddev);