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    loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use · c1681bf8
    Anatol Pomozov authored
    
    
    struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
    block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
    bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
    we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
    with "losetup -d".
    
    But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
    inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
    pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
    loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
    stack:
    
    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
      bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
      loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
      lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
      lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
      compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
      do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
      compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
      do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
      sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a
    
    To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
    and put it later in loop_clr_fd().
    
    The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:
    
      dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
      while [ true ]; do
        losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
        echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
        losetup -d /dev/loop0
      done
    
    [ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
      time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device->lo_state is
      Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
      it will get EBUSY.  And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
      device we'll get ENXIO.
    
      loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
      loop_device->lo_ctl_mutex. ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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