On Thu 26-11-20 14:04:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > To simplify block device lookup and a few other upcoming areas, make sure > that we always have a struct block_device available for each disk and > each partition, and only find existing block devices in bdget. The only > downside of this is that each device and partition uses a little more > memory. The upside will be that a lot of code can be simplified. > > With that all we need to look up the block device is to lookup the inode > and do a few sanity checks on the gendisk, instead of the separate lookup > for the gendisk. For blk-cgroup which wants to access a gendisk without > opening it, a new blkdev_{get,put}_no_open low-level interface is added > to replace the previous get_gendisk use. > > Note that the change to look up block device directly instead of the two > step lookup using struct gendisk causes a subtile change in behavior: > accessing a non-existing partition on an existing block device can now > cause a call to request_module. That call is harmless, and in practice > no recent system will access these nodes as they aren't created by udev > and static /dev/ setups are unusual. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> I still found some smaller issues (see below) but overall this looks sane and also simpler to review due to patch refactoring so thanks for that! > @@ -1384,7 +1376,7 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk, > struct block_device *whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0); > > mutex_lock_nested(&whole->bd_mutex, 1); > - ret = __blkdev_get(whole, disk, 0, mode); > + ret = __blkdev_get(whole, mode); > if (ret) { > mutex_unlock(&whole->bd_mutex); > bdput(whole); > @@ -1394,9 +1386,8 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk, > mutex_unlock(&whole->bd_mutex); > > bdev->bd_contains = whole; > - bdev->bd_part = disk_get_part(disk, partno); > - if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) || > - !bdev->bd_part || !bdev->bd_part->nr_sects) { > + bdev->bd_part = disk_get_part(disk, bdev->bd_partno); > + if (!bdev->bd_part || !bdev->bd_part->nr_sects) { AFAICT it is still possible that we see !(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP) here, isn't it? Is it safe to remove because the nr_sects check is already equivalent to it? Or something else? > __blkdev_put(whole, mode, 1); > bdput(whole); > ret = -ENXIO; > @@ -1426,12 +1417,51 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk, > > out_clear: > disk_put_part(bdev->bd_part); > - bdev->bd_disk = NULL; > bdev->bd_part = NULL; > bdev->bd_contains = NULL; > return ret; > } > > +struct block_device *blkdev_get_no_open(dev_t dev) > +{ > + struct block_device *bdev = bdget(dev); > + struct gendisk *disk; I think bdget() above needs to be already under bdev_lookup_sem. Otherwise disk_to_dev(bdev->bd_disk)->kobj below is a potential use-after-free. > + > + down_read(&bdev_lookup_sem); > + if (!bdev) { > + up_read(&bdev_lookup_sem); > + blk_request_module(dev); > + down_read(&bdev_lookup_sem); > + > + bdev = bdget(dev); > + if (!bdev) > + return NULL; Here you return with bdev_lookup_sem held. > + } > + > + disk = bdev->bd_disk; > + if (!kobject_get_unless_zero(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj)) > + goto bdput; > + if ((disk->flags & (GENHD_FL_UP | GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) != GENHD_FL_UP) > + goto bdput; I think here you need to jump to put_disk. > + if (!try_module_get(bdev->bd_disk->fops->owner)) > + goto put_disk; > + up_read(&bdev_lookup_sem); > + return bdev; > +put_disk: > + put_disk(disk); > +bdput: > + bdput(bdev); > + up_read(&bdev_lookup_sem); > + return NULL; > +} Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR