linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 052/221] dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload

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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2015 02:16:39 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Mikulas Patocka" <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 052/221] dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory
 access on unload

3.2.69-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit 22aa66a3ee5b61e0f4a0bfeabcaa567861109ec3 upstream.

When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero.  Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.

pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&s->lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences  s->origin.  These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.

This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -1444,8 +1444,6 @@ out:
 		full_bio->bi_end_io = pe->full_bio_end_io;
 		full_bio->bi_private = pe->full_bio_private;
 	}
-	free_pending_exception(pe);
-
 	increment_pending_exceptions_done_count();

 	up_write(&s->lock);
@@ -1462,6 +1460,8 @@ out:
 	}

 	retry_origin_bios(s, origin_bios);
+
+	free_pending_exception(pe);
 }

 static void commit_callback(void *context, int success)

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