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[PATCH 2.6.16] Fix NULL bio crash in loop worker thread [message #13650] Fri, 01 June 2007 07:14
Alexey Dobriyan is currently offline  Alexey Dobriyan
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Registered: August 2006
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After LOOP_SET_FD/LOOP_CLR_FD combo loop device's queue gets request
handler which is persistent.

After, say

mount -t iso9660 /dev/loop0 /mnt # sic

this request handler is called directly with
a) ->lo_state being Lo_unbound
b) ->lo_pending being zero

Error path in loop_make_request() completes ->lo_bh_done completion
which is persistent as well.

Now, let's start worker thread as usual. It'll set ->lo_pending to 1,
don't wait for completion because it was already completed (brokenly),
and will not get out of infinite loop because of ->lo_pending. Loop
device doesn't have bios at this point and triggers BUG_ON.

So, don't complete ->lo_bh_done when loop device isn't setup fully.

Steps to reproduce:

#!/bin/sh -x
ISO=1.iso
mount -o loop $ISO /mnt
umount /mnt
mount -t iso9660 /dev/loop0 /mnt # sic
mount -o loop $ISO /mnt

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
---

drivers/block/loop.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static int loop_make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *old_bio)

spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
if (lo->lo_state != Lo_bound)
- goto out;
+ goto out_not_bound;
if (unlikely(rw == WRITE && (lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY)))
goto out;
lo->lo_pending++;
@@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ static int loop_make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *old_bio)
out:
if (lo->lo_pending == 0)
complete(&lo->lo_bh_done);
+out_not_bound:
spin_unlock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
bio_io_error(old_bio, old_bio->bi_size);
return 0;
 
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