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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2018-11-08 14:01:02 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-11-08 06:30:11 -0700
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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>
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diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.h b/drivers/block/loop.h
index 4d42c7af7de7..af75a5ee4094 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.h
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.h
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ struct loop_device {
spinlock_t lo_lock;
int lo_state;
- struct mutex lo_ctl_mutex;
struct kthread_worker worker;
struct task_struct *worker_task;
bool use_dio;