On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 07:12:51PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote: >> But how could the reference be 0 here? The driver that calls >> bd_link_disk_holder must have the block device open and thus hold a >> reference to it. > > Like I said before, the caller of bd_link_disk_holder() get bdev by > blkdev_get_by_dev(), which do not grab reference of holder_dir, and > grab disk reference can only prevent disk_release() to be called, not > del_gendisk() while holder_dir reference is dropped in del_gendisk() > and can be decreased to 0. Oh, the bd_holder_dir reference, not the block_device one. So yes, I agree. > If you agree with above explanation, I tried to fix this: > > 1) move kobject_put(bd_holder_dir) from del_gendisk to disk_release, > there seems to be a lot of other dependencies. > > 2) protect bd_holder_dir reference by open_mutex. I think simply switching the kobject_get in bd_link_disk_holder into a kobject_get_unless_zero and unwinding if there is no reference should be enough: diff --git a/block/holder.c b/block/holder.c index a8c355b9d0806..cd18064f6ff80 100644 --- a/block/holder.c +++ b/block/holder.c @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&holder->list); holder->refcnt = 1; - holder->holder_dir = kobject_get(bdev->bd_holder_dir); + if (!kobject_get_unless_zero(bdev->bd_holder_dir)) { + ret = -EBUSY; + goto out_free_holder; + } + holder->holder_dir = bdev->bd_holder_dir; ret = add_symlink(disk->slave_dir, bdev_kobj(bdev)); if (ret) @@ -100,6 +104,7 @@ int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk) del_symlink(disk->slave_dir, bdev_kobj(bdev)); out_put_holder_dir: kobject_put(holder->holder_dir); +out_free_holder: kfree(holder); out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&disk->open_mutex); -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel