From: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 86da9f736740eba602389908574dfbb0f517baa5 ] The problematic code piece in bcache_device_free() is, 785 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d) 786 { 787 struct gendisk *disk = d->disk; [snipped] 799 if (disk) { 800 if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) 801 del_gendisk(disk); 802 803 if (disk->queue) 804 blk_cleanup_queue(disk->queue); 805 806 ida_simple_remove(&bcache_device_idx, 807 first_minor_to_idx(disk->first_minor)); 808 put_disk(disk); 809 } [snipped] 816 } At line 808, put_disk(disk) may encounter kobject refcount of 'disk' being underflow. Here is how to reproduce the issue, - Attche the backing device to a cache device and do random write to make the cache being dirty. - Stop the bcache device while the cache device has dirty data of the backing device. - Only register the backing device back, NOT register cache device. - The bcache device node /dev/bcache0 won't show up, because backing device waits for the cache device shows up for the missing dirty data. - Now echo 1 into /sys/fs/bcache/pendings_cleanup, to stop the pending backing device. - After the pending backing device stopped, use 'dmesg' to check kernel message, a use-after-free warning from KASA reported the refcount of kobject linked to the 'disk' is underflow. The dropping refcount at line 808 in the above code piece is added by add_disk(d->disk) in bch_cached_dev_run(). But in the above condition the cache device is not registered, bch_cached_dev_run() has no chance to be called and the refcount is not added. The put_disk() for a non- added refcount of gendisk kobject triggers a underflow warning. This patch checks whether GENHD_FL_UP is set in disk->flags, if it is not set then the bcache device was not added, don't call put_disk() and the the underflow issue can be avoided. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index 658b0f4a01f5..68901745eb20 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -789,7 +789,9 @@ static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d) bcache_device_detach(d); if (disk) { - if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) + bool disk_added = (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) != 0; + + if (disk_added) del_gendisk(disk); if (disk->queue) @@ -797,7 +799,8 @@ static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d) ida_simple_remove(&bcache_device_idx, first_minor_to_idx(disk->first_minor)); - put_disk(disk); + if (disk_added) + put_disk(disk); } bioset_exit(&d->bio_split); -- 2.25.1