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block/loop: Use global lock for ioctl() operation.
authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:01:02 +0000 (14:01 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:30:11 +0000 (06:30 -0700)
commit310ca162d779efee8a2dc3731439680f3e9c1e86
tree699d061cc7e6c9ab321ec556ee7adede3c4d6df9
parentb1ab5fa309e6c49e4e06270ec67dd7b3e9971d04
block/loop: Use global lock for ioctl() operation.

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference [1] which is caused by
race condition between ioctl(loop_fd, LOOP_CLR_FD, 0) versus
ioctl(other_loop_fd, LOOP_SET_FD, loop_fd) due to traversing other
loop devices at loop_validate_file() without holding corresponding
lo->lo_ctl_mutex locks.

Since ioctl() request on loop devices is not frequent operation, we don't
need fine grained locking. Let's use global lock in order to allow safe
traversal at loop_validate_file().

Note that syzbot is also reporting circular locking dependency between
bdev->bd_mutex and lo->lo_ctl_mutex [2] which is caused by calling
blkdev_reread_part() with lock held. This patch does not address it.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f3cfe26e785d85f9ee259f385515291d21bd80a3
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=bf154052f0eea4bc7712499e4569505907d15889

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+bf89c128e05dd6c62523@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/block/loop.c
drivers/block/loop.h