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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2021-09-01 13:38:29 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-09-30 10:09:24 +0200
commit2b5befcd404522caae0df7e085b699122f5196a3 (patch)
tree5b5d0aa84348dd614d69dd1e3bcfee0a29bf0b45 /drivers/md
parent42d3711c23781045e7a5cd28536c774b9a66d20b (diff)
md: fix a lock order reversal in md_alloc
[ Upstream commit 7df835a32a8bedf7ce88efcfa7c9b245b52ff139 ] Commit b0140891a8cea3 ("md: Fix race when creating a new md device.") not only moved assigning mddev->gendisk before calling add_disk, which fixes the races described in the commit log, but also added a mddev->open_mutex critical section over add_disk and creation of the md kobj. Adding a kobject after add_disk is racy vs deleting the gendisk right after adding it, but md already prevents against that by holding a mddev->active reference. On the other hand taking this lock added a lock order reversal with what is not disk->open_mutex (used to be bdev->bd_mutex when the commit was added) for partition devices, which need that lock for the internal open for the partition scan, and a recent commit also takes it for non-partitioned devices, leading to further lockdep splatter. Fixes: b0140891a8ce ("md: Fix race when creating a new md device.") Fixes: d62633873590 ("block: support delayed holder registration") Reported-by: syzbot+fadc0aaf497e6a493b9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: syzbot+fadc0aaf497e6a493b9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 761d43829b2b..c178b2f406de 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5535,10 +5535,6 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
*/
disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT;
mddev->gendisk = disk;
- /* As soon as we call add_disk(), another thread could get
- * through to md_open, so make sure it doesn't get too far
- */
- mutex_lock(&mddev->open_mutex);
add_disk(disk);
error = kobject_add(&mddev->kobj, &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "%s", "md");
@@ -5553,7 +5549,6 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
if (mddev->kobj.sd &&
sysfs_create_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_bitmap_group))
pr_debug("pointless warning\n");
- mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
abort:
mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
if (!error && mddev->kobj.sd) {