linux-kernel - [PATCH 013/145] zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access

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Message-Id: <1374101277-7915-14-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:45:45 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 013/145] zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access

3.8.13.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>

commit 5863e10b441e7ea4b492f930f1be180a97d026f3 upstream.

Use zram->init_lock to protect access to zram->meta, otherwise it
may cause invalid memory access if zram->meta has been freed by
zram_reset_device().

This issue may be triggered by:
Thread 1:
while true; do cat mem_used_total; done
Thread 2:
while true; do echo 8M > disksize; echo 1 > reset; done

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.8:
  - protect access to zram->mem_pool instead of zram->meta ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
index de1eacf..c07687e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
@@ -186,8 +186,10 @@ static ssize_t mem_used_total_show(struct device *dev,
 	u64 val = 0;
 	struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
 
+	down_read(&zram->init_lock);
 	if (zram->init_done)
 		val = zs_get_total_size_bytes(zram->mem_pool);
+	up_read(&zram->init_lock);
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", val);
 }
-- 
1.8.1.2

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