linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] zram: remove init_lock in zram_make

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:12:27 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] zram: remove init_lock in zram_make_request

On (01/29/15 21:48), Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> > Admin could reset zram during I/O operation going on so we have
> > used zram->init_lock as read-side lock in I/O path to prevent
> > sudden zram meta freeing.
> 
> When I/O operation is running, that means the /dev/zram0 is
> mounted or swaped on. Then the device could not be reset by
> below code:
> 
>     /* Do not reset an active device! */
>     if (bdev->bd_holders) {
>         ret = -EBUSY;
>         goto out;
>     }
> 
> So the zram->init_lock in I/O path is to check whether the device
> has been initialized(echo xxx > /sys/block/zram/disk_size).
> 

for mounted device (w/fs), we see initial (well, it goes up and down
many times while we create device, but this is not interesting here)
->bd_holders increment in:
  vfs_kern_mount -> mount_bdev -> blkdev_get_by_path -> blkdev_get

and it goes to zero in:
  cleanup_mnt -> deactivate_super -> kill_block_super -> blkdev_put


after umount we still have init device. so, *theoretically*, we
can see something like

	CPU0				CPU1
umount
reset_store			
bdev->bd_holders == 0			mount
...					zram_make_request()
zram_reset_device()

w/o zram->init_lock in both zram_reset_device() and zram_make_request()
one of CPUs will be a bit sad.

	-ss
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/