[ 32/56] loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-02T22:58:32Z

From: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>

commit c1681bf8a7b1b98edee8b862a42c19c4e53205fd upstream.

struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
with "losetup -d".

But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
stack:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a

To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
and put it later in loop_clr_fd().

The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:

dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
while [ true ]; do
losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
losetup -d /dev/loop0
done

[ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device->lo_state is
Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
it will get EBUSY. And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
device we'll get ENXIO.

loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
loop_device->lo_ctl_mutex. ]

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/block/loop.c | 9 ++++++++-
fs/block_dev.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -928,6 +928,11 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_devic
wake_up_process(lo->lo_thread);
if (max_part > 0)
ioctl_by_bdev(bdev, BLKRRPART, 0);
+
+ /* Grab the block_device to prevent its destruction after we
+ * put /dev/loopXX inode. Later in loop_clr_fd() we bdput(bdev).
+ */
+ bdgrab(bdev);
return 0;

out_clr:
@@ -1024,8 +1029,10 @@ static int loop_clr_fd(struct loop_devic
memset(lo->lo_encrypt_key, 0, LO_KEY_SIZE);
memset(lo->lo_crypt_name, 0, LO_NAME_SIZE);
memset(lo->lo_file_name, 0, LO_NAME_SIZE);
- if (bdev)
+ if (bdev) {
+ bdput(bdev);
invalidate_bdev(bdev);
+ }
set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, 0);
loop_sysfs_exit(lo);
if (bdev) {
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block
ihold(bdev->bd_inode);
return bdev;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdgrab);

long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
{