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Rabin Vincent authored
As the documentation for kthread_stop() says, "if threadfn() may call do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure task_struct can't go away". dm-crypt does not ensure this and therefore crashes when crypt_dtr() calls kthread_stop(). The crash is trivially reproducible by adding a delay before the call to kthread_stop() and just opening and closing a dm-crypt device. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 0 PID: 533 Comm: cryptsetup Not tainted 4.8.0-rc7+ #7 task: ffff88003bd0df40 task.stack: ffff8800375b4000 RIP: 0010: kthread_stop+0x52/0x300 Call Trace: crypt_dtr+0x77/0x120 dm_table_destroy+0x6f/0x120 __dm_destroy+0x130/0x250 dm_destroy+0x13/0x20 dev_remove+0xe6/0x120 ? dev_suspend+0x250/0x250 ctl_ioctl+0x1fc/0x530 ? __lock_acquire+0x24f/0x1b10 dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20 do_vfs_ioctl+0x91/0x6a0 ? ____fput+0xe/0x10 ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xbd ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x151/0x1e0 SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x70 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbd This problem was introduced by bcbd94ff ("dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit"). Looking at the description of that patch (excerpted below), it seems like the problem it addresses can be solved by just using set_current_state instead of __set_current_state, since we obviously need the memory barrier. | dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit | | A kernel thread executes __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE), | __add_wait_queue, spin_unlock_irq and then tests kthread_should_stop(). | It is possible that the processor reorders memory accesses so that | kthread_should_stop() is executed before __set_current_state(). If | such reordering happens, there is a possible race on thread | termination: [...] So this patch just reverts the aforementioned patch and changes the __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) to set_current_state(...). This fixes the crash and should also fix the potential hang. Fixes: bcbd94ff ("dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit") Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+ Signed-off-by:
Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com> Signed-off-by:
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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