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SubjectRe: [PATCH] loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:25:32PM +0200, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Performing
> $ sudo mount -o loop -o umask=0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
>
> $ sudo modprobe -r loop
>
> results in oops:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
> IP: [<ffffffff812479d4>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x14/0x122
> Process modprobe (pid: 6189, threadinfo ffff88009a898000, task ffff880154a88000)
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81486788>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4a/0x51
> [<ffffffff8123404b>] ? blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
> [<ffffffff8105b120>] ? cancel_delayed_work_sync+0xd/0xf
> [<ffffffff8123404b>] blk_throtl_exit+0x3b/0xa0
> [<ffffffff81229bc8>] blk_release_queue+0x21/0x65
> [<ffffffff8123bb06>] kobject_release+0x51/0x66
> [<ffffffff8123bab5>] ? kobject_release+0x0/0x66
> [<ffffffff8123ce1e>] kref_put+0x43/0x4d
> [<ffffffff8123ba27>] kobject_put+0x47/0x4b
> [<ffffffff8122717c>] blk_cleanup_queue+0x56/0x5b
> [<ffffffffa01c3824>] loop_exit+0x68/0x844 [loop]
> [<ffffffff8107cccc>] sys_delete_module+0x1e8/0x25b
> [<ffffffff814864c9>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> [<ffffffff81002112>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
>
> because of an attempt to acquire NULL queue_lock.
> I added the same lines as in blk_queue_make_request -
> `fall back to embedded per-queue lock'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> drivers/block/loop.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index 44e18c0..49e6a54 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -1641,6 +1641,9 @@ out:
>
> static void loop_free(struct loop_device *lo)
> {
> + if (!lo->lo_queue->queue_lock)
> + lo->lo_queue->queue_lock = &lo->lo_queue->__queue_lock;
> +
> blk_cleanup_queue(lo->lo_queue);
> put_disk(lo->lo_disk);
> list_del(&lo->lo_list);

IIUC, the issue here seems to be that we allocated a request queue but
never initiliazed it and then called blk_cleanup_queue() on that.

I noticed in loop driver there is another blk_cleanup_queue() call
in loop_alloc() if memory allocation fails. There also we will run into
similar issue.

IMHO, a better place to fix this might be blk_release_queue() where we
can default to q->__spin_lock if we are cleaning up an uninitialized queue.
That way we shall not have to fix inidividual drivers. And it also
does not sound right to expect a driver to make sure queue lock is
initialized before it calls blk_cleanup_queue() on the queue.

Thanks
Vivek


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