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authorJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>2011-06-05 06:01:13 +0200
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2012-05-17 11:21:00 -0400
commit470564b1d4c27fd2bafc421acf49718bfcf5ea5a (patch)
treea035f12836e0bfd8f97d450577cdaba1383ca182 /block
parentb24a9d3db0f8d01f6c6088b2026f6739e5708ce1 (diff)
cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment
commit ab4bd22d3cce6977dc039664cc2d052e3147d662 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: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/cfq-iosched.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 4fab7c9df71d..510552a4bde2 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -2559,8 +2559,11 @@ 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]);