Commit 829451be authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka
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dm-mirror: fix a tiny race condition 



There's a tiny race condition in dm-mirror. The functions queue_bio and
write_callback grab a spinlock, add a bio to the list, drop the spinlock
and wake up the mirrord thread that processes bios in the list.

It may be possible that the mirrord thread processes the bio just after
spin_unlock_irqrestore is called, before wakeup_mirrord. This spurious
wake-up is normally harmless, however if the device mapper device is
unloaded just after the bio was processed, it may be possible that
wakeup_mirrord(ms) uses invalid "ms" pointer.

Fix this bug by moving wakeup_mirrord inside the spinlock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent 85f6d5b7

drivers/md/dm-raid1.c

+2 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -133,10 +133,9 @@ static void queue_bio(struct mirror_set *ms, struct bio *bio, int rw) 
	spin_lock_irqsave(&ms->lock, flags);

	should_wake = !(bl->head);

	bio_list_add(bl, bio);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ms->lock, flags);



	if (should_wake)

		wakeup_mirrord(ms);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ms->lock, flags);

}



static void dispatch_bios(void *context, struct bio_list *bio_list)
@@ -646,9 +645,9 @@ static void write_callback(unsigned long error, void *context) 
	if (!ms->failures.head)

		should_wake = 1;

	bio_list_add(&ms->failures, bio);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ms->lock, flags);

	if (should_wake)

		wakeup_mirrord(ms);

	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ms->lock, flags);

}



static void do_write(struct mirror_set *ms, struct bio *bio)