linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 07/18] dm io: fix panic on large request

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Message-ID: <46A0CFB3.1090004@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:07:31 +0200
From:	Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>
To:	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
CC:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 07/18] dm io: fix panic on large request

Chuck Ebbert wrote:

>> [  126.754204] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>> virtual address 00000000
>>     
...

> mempool_free() was called with a NULL pool. That can't be good.
Yes, it is really not good :)

Bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7388
Attached patch fixes this problem, fix needed for stable tree too,
this is not regression, just very old bug...

Milan
--
mbroz@...hat.com

--
From: Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>

Flush workqueue before releasing bioset and mopools
in dm-crypt.
There can be finished but not yet released request.

Call chain causing oops:
  run workqueue
    dec_pending
      bio_endio(...);
      	<remove device request - remove mempool>
      mempool_free(io, cc->io_pool);

This usually happens when cryptsetup create temporary
luks mapping in the beggining of crypt device activation.

When dm-core calls destructor crypt_dtr, no new request
are possible.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@...hat.com>

---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.22/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c	2007-07-17 21:56:36.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.22/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c	2007-07-19 11:55:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -920,6 +920,8 @@ static void crypt_dtr(struct dm_target *
 {
 	struct crypt_config *cc = (struct crypt_config *) ti->private;
 
+	flush_workqueue(_kcryptd_workqueue);
+
 	bioset_free(cc->bs);
 	mempool_destroy(cc->page_pool);
 	mempool_destroy(cc->io_pool);



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