Ensure that the lo_device which is stored in the gendisk private
data is valid until the gendisk is freed. Currently the loop driver
uses a lot of effort to make sure a device is not freed when it is
still in use, but to to fix a potential deadlock this will be relaxed
a bit soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 0813f63d5bbd2..cbaa18bcad1fe 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1765,6 +1765,14 @@ static void lo_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_mutex);
}
+static void lo_free_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+ struct loop_device *lo = disk->private_data;
+
+ mutex_destroy(&lo->lo_mutex);
+ kfree(lo);
+}
+
static const struct block_device_operations lo_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.open = lo_open,
@@ -1773,6 +1781,7 @@ static const struct block_device_operations lo_fops = {
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
.compat_ioctl = lo_compat_ioctl,
#endif
+ .free_disk = lo_free_disk,
};
/*
@@ -2064,14 +2073,13 @@ static void loop_remove(struct loop_device *lo)
{
/* Make this loop device unreachable from pathname. */
del_gendisk(lo->lo_disk);
- blk_cleanup_disk(lo->lo_disk);
+ blk_cleanup_queue(lo->lo_disk->queue);
blk_mq_free_tag_set(&lo->tag_set);
mutex_lock(&loop_ctl_mutex);
idr_remove(&loop_index_idr, lo->lo_number);
mutex_unlock(&loop_ctl_mutex);
- /* There is no route which can find this loop device. */
- mutex_destroy(&lo->lo_mutex);
- kfree(lo);
+
+ put_disk(lo->lo_disk);
}
static void loop_probe(dev_t dev)
--
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