linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: protect iterate_bdevs() against concurrent close

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:42:58 +0100
From:	Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@...s.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	axboe@...nel.dk, hch@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: protect iterate_bdevs() against concurrent close

(fixed Jens' address)

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 06:37:27PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 10-03-16 13:26:03, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > If a block device is closed while iterate_bdevs() is handling it, the
> > following NULL pointer dereference occurs because bdev->b_disk is NULL
> > in bdev_get_queue(), which is called from blk_get_backing_dev_info() (in
> > turn called by the mapping_cap_writeback_dirty() call in
> > __filemap_fdatawrite_range()):
> 
> Thanks for spotting the problem. The patch will fix the problem you
> found.  But what prevents e.g. flusher thread from trying to writeback
> the block device inode while that gets invalidated at the same moment?

Don't the sync_block_dev() / bdev_write_inode() calls in __blkdev_put()
prevent this?