This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dm: fix a race condition in dm_get_md

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     dm-fix-a-race-condition-in-dm_get_md.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 2bec1f4a8832e74ebbe859f176d8a9cb20dd97f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:30:53 -0500
Subject: dm: fix a race condition in dm_get_md

From: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>

commit 2bec1f4a8832e74ebbe859f176d8a9cb20dd97f4 upstream.

The function dm_get_md finds a device mapper device with a given dev_t,
increases the reference count and returns the pointer.

dm_get_md calls dm_find_md, dm_find_md takes _minor_lock, finds the
device, tests that the device doesn't have DMF_DELETING or DMF_FREEING
flag, drops _minor_lock and returns pointer to the device. dm_get_md then
calls dm_get. dm_get calls BUG if the device has the DMF_FREEING flag,
otherwise it increments the reference count.

There is a possible race condition - after dm_find_md exits and before
dm_get is called, there are no locks held, so the device may disappear or
DMF_FREEING flag may be set, which results in BUG.

To fix this bug, we need to call dm_get while we hold _minor_lock. This
patch renames dm_find_md to dm_get_md and changes it so that it calls
dm_get while holding the lock.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/md/dm.c |   27 ++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -2270,7 +2270,7 @@ int dm_setup_md_queue(struct mapped_devi
        return 0;
 }
 
-static struct mapped_device *dm_find_md(dev_t dev)
+struct mapped_device *dm_get_md(dev_t dev)
 {
        struct mapped_device *md;
        unsigned minor = MINOR(dev);
@@ -2281,12 +2281,15 @@ static struct mapped_device *dm_find_md(
        spin_lock(&_minor_lock);
 
        md = idr_find(&_minor_idr, minor);
-       if (md && (md == MINOR_ALLOCED ||
-                  (MINOR(disk_devt(dm_disk(md))) != minor) ||
-                  dm_deleting_md(md) ||
-                  test_bit(DMF_FREEING, &md->flags))) {
-               md = NULL;
-               goto out;
+       if (md) {
+               if ((md == MINOR_ALLOCED ||
+                    (MINOR(disk_devt(dm_disk(md))) != minor) ||
+                    dm_deleting_md(md) ||
+                    test_bit(DMF_FREEING, &md->flags))) {
+                       md = NULL;
+                       goto out;
+               }
+               dm_get(md);
        }
 
 out:
@@ -2294,16 +2297,6 @@ out:
 
        return md;
 }
-
-struct mapped_device *dm_get_md(dev_t dev)
-{
-       struct mapped_device *md = dm_find_md(dev);
-
-       if (md)
-               dm_get(md);
-
-       return md;
-}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_get_md);
 
 void *dm_get_mdptr(struct mapped_device *md)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/dm-snapshot-fix-a-possible-invalid-memory-access-on-unload.patch
queue-3.10/dm-fix-a-race-condition-in-dm_get_md.patch
queue-3.10/dm-mirror-do-not-degrade-the-mirror-on-discard-error.patch
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