[PATCH stable 4.9.y] block: unhash blkdev part inode when the part is deleted

Ming Lei
2022-12-13T07:18:02Z

v5.11 changes the blkdev lookup mechanism completely since commit
22ae8ce8b892 ("block: simplify bdev/disk lookup in blkdev_get"),
and small part of the change is to unhash part bdev inode when
deleting partition. Turns out this kind of change does fix one
nasty issue in case of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR:

1) when one partition is deleted & closed, disk_put_part() is always
called before bdput(bdev), see blkdev_put(); so the part's devt can
be freed & re-used before the inode is dropped

2) then new partition with same devt can be created just before the
inode in 1) is dropped, then the old inode/bdev structurein 1) is
re-used for this new partition, this way causes use-after-free and
kernel panic.

It isn't possible to backport the whole big patchset of "merge struct
block_device and struct hd_struct v4" for addressing this issue.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20201128161510.347752-1-hch@lst.de/

So fixes it by unhashing part bdev in delete_partition(), and this way
is actually aligned with v5.11+'s behavior.

Backported from the following 5.10.y commit:

5f2f77560591 ("block: unhash blkdev part inode when the part is deleted")

Reported-by: Shiwei Cui <cuishw@inspur.com>
Tested-by: Shiwei Cui <cuishw@inspur.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
---
block/partition-generic.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index 298c05f8b5e3..434c122cb958 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
{
struct disk_part_tbl *ptbl = disk->part_tbl;
struct hd_struct *part;
+ struct block_device *bdev;

if (partno >= ptbl->len)
return;
@@ -267,6 +268,11 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
kobject_put(part->holder_dir);
device_del(part_to_dev(part));

+ bdev = bdget(part_devt(part));
+ if (bdev) {
+ remove_inode_hash(bdev->bd_inode);
+ bdput(bdev);
+ }
hd_struct_kill(part);
}

--
2.38.1