Commit 1ff36a0e authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment

commit ab4bd22d upstream.

Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.

This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.

Tracked in RH bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968

Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 336fca97
......@@ -1540,8 +1540,11 @@ static void __cfq_exit_single_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd,
cic->dead_key = (unsigned long) cic->key;
cic->key = NULL;
if (ioc->ioc_data == cic)
if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
spin_lock(&ioc->lock);
rcu_assign_pointer(ioc->ioc_data, NULL);
spin_unlock(&ioc->lock);
}
if (cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC]) {
cfq_exit_cfqq(cfqd, cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC]);
......
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