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authorStefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-09-20 10:42:38 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2016-09-26 16:45:29 +0200
commitc020d722b110a44c613ef71e657e6dd4116e09d9 (patch)
tree5fc0f6d62335cb7075f6a162380ee54c1b3ea069 /drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
parenta9f6273ff9c80dd2c226f7a2d5c16272e5092d3e (diff)
s390/dasd: fix panic during offline processing
A DASD device consists of the device itself and a discipline with a corresponding private structure. These fields are set up during online processing right after the device is created and before it is processed by the state machine and made available for I/O. During offline processing the discipline pointer and the private data gets freed within the state machine and without protection of the existing reference count. This might lead to a kernel panic because a function might have taken a device reference and accesses the discipline pointer and/or private data of the device while this is already freed. Fix by freeing the discipline pointer and the private data after ensuring that there is no reference to the device left. Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/s390/block/dasd.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/block/dasd.c26
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
index 706ae0ac94c9..1de089019268 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
@@ -212,16 +212,6 @@ static int dasd_state_known_to_new(struct dasd_device *device)
{
/* Disable extended error reporting for this device. */
dasd_eer_disable(device);
- /* Forget the discipline information. */
- if (device->discipline) {
- if (device->discipline->uncheck_device)
- device->discipline->uncheck_device(device);
- module_put(device->discipline->owner);
- }
- device->discipline = NULL;
- if (device->base_discipline)
- module_put(device->base_discipline->owner);
- device->base_discipline = NULL;
device->state = DASD_STATE_NEW;
if (device->block)
@@ -3377,6 +3367,22 @@ int dasd_generic_probe(struct ccw_device *cdev,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dasd_generic_probe);
+void dasd_generic_free_discipline(struct dasd_device *device)
+{
+ /* Forget the discipline information. */
+ if (device->discipline) {
+ if (device->discipline->uncheck_device)
+ device->discipline->uncheck_device(device);
+ module_put(device->discipline->owner);
+ device->discipline = NULL;
+ }
+ if (device->base_discipline) {
+ module_put(device->base_discipline->owner);
+ device->base_discipline = NULL;
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dasd_generic_free_discipline);
+
/*
* This will one day be called from a global not_oper handler.
* It is also used by driver_unregister during module unload.