dm: fix a race condition in dm_get_md
commit 2bec1f4a upstream. The function dm_get_md finds a device mapper device with a given dev_t, increases the reference count and returns the pointer. dm_get_md calls dm_find_md, dm_find_md takes _minor_lock, finds the device, tests that the device doesn't have DMF_DELETING or DMF_FREEING flag, drops _minor_lock and returns pointer to the device. dm_get_md then calls dm_get. dm_get calls BUG if the device has the DMF_FREEING flag, otherwise it increments the reference count. There is a possible race condition - after dm_find_md exits and before dm_get is called, there are no locks held, so the device may disappear or DMF_FREEING flag may be set, which results in BUG. To fix this bug, we need to call dm_get while we hold _minor_lock. This patch renames dm_find_md to dm_get_md and changes it so that it calls dm_get while holding the lock. Signed-off-by:Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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