Patch "ubi: Fix race condition between ubi volume creation and udev" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ubi: Fix race condition between ubi volume creation and udev

to the 3.18-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:
     ubi-fix-race-condition-between-ubi-volume-creation-and-udev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From a51a0c8d213594bc094cb8e54aad0cb6d7f7b9a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clay McClure <clay@daemons.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:01:34 -0700
Subject: ubi: Fix race condition between ubi volume creation and udev

From: Clay McClure <clay@daemons.net>

commit a51a0c8d213594bc094cb8e54aad0cb6d7f7b9a6 upstream.

Similar to commit 714fb87e8bc0 ("ubi: Fix race condition between ubi
device creation and udev"), we should make the volume active before
registering it.

Signed-off-by: Clay McClure <clay@daemons.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c
@@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ int ubi_create_volume(struct ubi_device
 			vol->last_eb_bytes = vol->usable_leb_size;
 	}
 
+	/* Make volume "available" before it becomes accessible via sysfs */
+	spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock);
+	ubi->volumes[vol_id] = vol;
+	ubi->vol_count += 1;
+	spin_unlock(&ubi->volumes_lock);
+
 	/* Register character device for the volume */
 	cdev_init(&vol->cdev, &ubi_vol_cdev_operations);
 	vol->cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
@@ -350,11 +356,6 @@ int ubi_create_volume(struct ubi_device
 	if (err)
 		goto out_sysfs;
 
-	spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock);
-	ubi->volumes[vol_id] = vol;
-	ubi->vol_count += 1;
-	spin_unlock(&ubi->volumes_lock);
-
 	ubi_volume_notify(ubi, vol, UBI_VOLUME_ADDED);
 	self_check_volumes(ubi);
 	return err;
@@ -374,6 +375,10 @@ out_sysfs:
 out_cdev:
 	cdev_del(&vol->cdev);
 out_mapping:
+	spin_lock(&ubi->volumes_lock);
+	ubi->volumes[vol_id] = NULL;
+	ubi->vol_count -= 1;
+	spin_unlock(&ubi->volumes_lock);
 	if (do_free)
 		kfree(vol->eba_tbl);
 out_acc:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from clay@daemons.net are

queue-3.18/ubi-fix-race-condition-between-ubi-volume-creation-and-udev.patch