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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: willy@infradead.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, jack@suse.cz,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dax: Don't access a freed inode" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:00:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1544536809243247@kroah.com> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 55e56f06ed71d9441f3abd5b1d3c1a870812b3fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:16:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] dax: Don't access a freed inode

After we drop the i_pages lock, the inode can be freed at any time.
The get_unlocked_entry() code has no choice but to reacquire the lock,
so it can't be used here.  Create a new wait_entry_unlocked() which takes
care not to acquire the lock or dereference the address_space in any way.

Fixes: c2a7d2a11552 ("filesystem-dax: Introduce dax_lock_mapping_entry()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index e69fc231833b..3f592dc18d67 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -232,6 +232,34 @@ static void *get_unlocked_entry(struct xa_state *xas)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * The only thing keeping the address space around is the i_pages lock
+ * (it's cycled in clear_inode() after removing the entries from i_pages)
+ * After we call xas_unlock_irq(), we cannot touch xas->xa.
+ */
+static void wait_entry_unlocked(struct xa_state *xas, void *entry)
+{
+	struct wait_exceptional_entry_queue ewait;
+	wait_queue_head_t *wq;
+
+	init_wait(&ewait.wait);
+	ewait.wait.func = wake_exceptional_entry_func;
+
+	wq = dax_entry_waitqueue(xas, entry, &ewait.key);
+	prepare_to_wait_exclusive(wq, &ewait.wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+	xas_unlock_irq(xas);
+	schedule();
+	finish_wait(wq, &ewait.wait);
+
+	/*
+	 * Entry lock waits are exclusive. Wake up the next waiter since
+	 * we aren't sure we will acquire the entry lock and thus wake
+	 * the next waiter up on unlock.
+	 */
+	if (waitqueue_active(wq))
+		__wake_up(wq, TASK_NORMAL, 1, &ewait.key);
+}
+
 static void put_unlocked_entry(struct xa_state *xas, void *entry)
 {
 	/* If we were the only waiter woken, wake the next one */
@@ -389,9 +417,7 @@ bool dax_lock_mapping_entry(struct page *page)
 		entry = xas_load(&xas);
 		if (dax_is_locked(entry)) {
 			rcu_read_unlock();
-			entry = get_unlocked_entry(&xas);
-			xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
-			put_unlocked_entry(&xas, entry);
+			wait_entry_unlocked(&xas, entry);
 			rcu_read_lock();
 			continue;
 		}

             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-11 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11 14:00 gregkh [this message]
2018-12-11 15:23 ` FAILED: patch "[PATCH] dax: Don't access a freed inode" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-11 15:23   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-14  7:13   ` Greg KH
2018-12-14  7:13     ` Greg KH
2018-12-21 20:31     ` Dan Williams
2018-12-21 20:31       ` Dan Williams
2018-12-22 19:04       ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-22 19:33         ` Dan Williams
2018-12-22 19:33           ` Dan Williams

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