[PATCH 5.6 65/73] Fix use after free in get_tree_bdev()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-04T18:08:51Z

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

commit dd7bc8158b413e0b580c491e8bd18cb91057c7c2 upstream.

Commit 6fcf0c72e4b9, a fix to get_tree_bdev() put a missing blkdev_put() in
the wrong place, before a warnf() that displays the bdev under
consideration rather after it.

This results in a silent lockup in printk("%pg") called via warnf() from
get_tree_bdev() under some circumstances when there's a race with the
blockdev being frozen. This can be caused by xfstests/tests/generic/085 in
combination with Lukas Czerner's ext4 mount API conversion patchset. It
looks like it ought to occur with other users of get_tree_bdev() such as
XFS, but apparently doesn't.

Fix this by switching the order of the lines.

Fixes: 6fcf0c72e4b9 ("vfs: add missing blkdev_put() in get_tree_bdev()")
Reported-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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>

---
fs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1302,8 +1302,8 @@ int get_tree_bdev(struct fs_context *fc,
mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
if (bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0) {
mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
- blkdev_put(bdev, mode);
warnf(fc, "%pg: Can't mount, blockdev is frozen", bdev);
+ blkdev_put(bdev, mode);
return -EBUSY;
}