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    block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue · 523e1d39
    Tejun Heo authored
    
    
    The following command sequence triggers an oops.
    
    # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
    # echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/0\:0\:1\:0/device/delete
    # umount /mnt
    
     general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
     CPU 2
     Modules linked in:
    
     Pid: 791, comm: umount Not tainted 3.1.0-rc3-work+ #8 Bochs Bochs
     RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d0879>]  [<ffffffff810d0879>] __lock_acquire+0x389/0x1d60
    ...
     Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff810d2845>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x140
      [<ffffffff81aed87b>] _raw_spin_lock+0x3b/0x50
      [<ffffffff811573bc>] bdi_lock_two+0x5c/0x70
      [<ffffffff811c2f6c>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x4c/0xf0
      [<ffffffff811c3fcb>] __blkdev_put+0x11b/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff811c4010>] __blkdev_put+0x160/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff811c40df>] blkdev_put+0x5f/0x190
      [<ffffffff8118f18d>] kill_block_super+0x4d/0x80
      [<ffffffff8118f4a5>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x70
      [<ffffffff8119003a>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
      [<ffffffff811ac4ad>] mntput_no_expire+0xed/0x130
      [<ffffffff811acf2e>] sys_umount+0x7e/0x3a0
      [<ffffffff81aeeeab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    
    This is because bdev holds on to disk but disk doesn't pin the
    associated queue.  If a SCSI device is removed while the device is
    still open, the sdev puts the base reference to the queue on release.
    When the bdev is finally released, the associated queue is already
    gone along with the bdi and bdev_inode_switch_bdi() ends up
    dereferencing already freed bdi.
    
    Even if it were not for this bug, disk not holding onto the associated
    queue is very unusual and error-prone.
    
    Fix it by making add_disk() take an extra reference to its queue and
    put it on disk_release() and ensuring that disk and its fops owner are
    put in that order after all accesses to the disk and queue are
    complete.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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