linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct backing_dev

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Date:   Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:19:01 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Yufen Yu <yuyufen@...wei.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        axboe@...nel.dk, tj@...nel.org, bvanassche@....org, tytso@....edu,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct
 backing_dev_info

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:02:23PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Yes, that can indeed happen. E.g. I remember that drivers/scsi/sd.c calls
> device_add_disk() + del_gendisk() repeatedly for one request_queue and that
> would result in leaking the name (and possibly cause use-after-free
> issues).

Sd calls device_add_disk once in ->probe, and del_gendisk once in
sd_remove.  Note that sd_probe allocates a new scsi_disk structure and
a new gendisk everytime, but it does indeed reuse the request_queue
and thus bdi.

> I think dev_name has to be just a static array inside
> backing_dev_info which gets overwritten on reregistration. The question is
> how big should be this array... Some grepping shows that 40 bytes should be
> enough for everybody except fs/vboxsf/super.c which puts 'fc->source' into
> the name which can be presumably rather large. Anyway, I'd make it 40 and
> just truncate it case in case it does not fit. bdi_dev_name() is used for
> informational purposes anyway...

We could just make it a variable sized array at the end of the structure
and size it based on the len.