4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]> commit bdac616db9bbadb90b7d6a406144571015e138f7 upstream. Commit 2d1d4c1e591f made loop_get_status() drop lo_ctx_mutex before returning, but the loop_get_status_old(), loop_get_status64(), and loop_get_status_compat() wrappers don't call loop_get_status() if the passed argument is NULL. The callers expect that the lock is dropped, so make sure we drop it in that case, too. Reported-by: [email protected] Fixes: 2d1d4c1e591f ("loop: don't call into filesystem while holding lo_ctl_mutex") Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1282,12 +1282,13 @@ static int loop_get_status_old(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_info __user *arg) { struct loop_info info; struct loop_info64 info64; - int err = 0; + int err; - if (!arg) - err = -EINVAL; - if (!err) - err = loop_get_status(lo, &info64); + if (!arg) { + mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + return -EINVAL; + } + err = loop_get_status(lo, &info64); if (!err) err = loop_info64_to_old(&info64, &info); if (!err && copy_to_user(arg, &info, sizeof(info))) @@ -1299,12 +1300,13 @@ loop_get_status_old(struct loop_device * static int loop_get_status64(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_info64 __user *arg) { struct loop_info64 info64; - int err = 0; + int err; - if (!arg) - err = -EINVAL; - if (!err) - err = loop_get_status(lo, &info64); + if (!arg) { + mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + return -EINVAL; + } + err = loop_get_status(lo, &info64); if (!err && copy_to_user(arg, &info64, sizeof(info64))) err = -EFAULT; @@ -1525,12 +1527,13 @@ loop_get_status_compat(struct loop_devic struct compat_loop_info __user *arg) { struct loop_info64 info64; - int err = 0; + int err; - if (!arg) - err = -EINVAL; - if (!err) - err = loop_get_status(lo, &info64); + if (!arg) { + mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + return -EINVAL; + } + err = loop_get_status(lo, &info64); if (!err) err = loop_info64_to_compat(&info64, arg); return err;

