linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822

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Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:53:36 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, gregkh@...e.de,
	petero2@...ia.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit
	e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 02:52:21PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 03:28:15PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > So we need to preserve the layout, with the easiest way probably being "add
> > > one more ktype and use kobject_init_and_add() instead of that device_create()".
> > > Sigh...
> > 
> > What do you mean? We just need to replace the bogus "pd->pkt_dev" with
> > MKDEV(0, 0) and we are fine.
> 
> Userland-visible change - right now cat /sys/class/pktcdvd/pktcdvd3/dev will
> give you dev_t of the block device in question.

Looking at the locking scheme there, it appears that we have an unpleasant
race of the same kind as discussed in md-with-eviction thread.  If removal
hits between finding (and grabbing) gendisk and actual call of ->open(),
it will succeed just fine and we might get an open for _different_ object,
while holding a reference to disk that had already gone through del_gendisk().
Call ioctl() on that sucker and you've got
        struct pktcdvd_device *pd = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
which will point to already freed object.

It really appears that we need to
	* add ->use() and ->unuse() callbacks
	* have exact_lock() call ->use() in addition to get_disk() - either
on each hit, or on the "it's currently not in use" ones.
	* have ->unuse() called on failure exits in __blkdev_get() and in
blkdev_put(), with rules matching those for calls of ->use().

That would allow to close that kind of races, both here and in md.  I'd
probably prefer the second variant for calling rules - we would be able
to bracket the "it's associated with underlying objects" intervals by
those calls...  Hell knows; I really need to get some sleep and look through
the ->open() and ->release() instances for block devices.  Later...
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