This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
loopdev-remove-an-user-triggerable-oops.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:16:49 -0800
Subject: loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops
From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream.
When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter,
loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which
will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left some
garbage in the misc device list.
Test case:
sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024
(failed due to invalid parameter)
sudo modprobe loop
(oops)
Clean up nicely to avoid such oops.
Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1856,11 +1856,15 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
max_part = (1UL << part_shift) - 1;
}
- if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if ((1UL << part_shift) > DISK_MAX_PARTS) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto misc_out;
+ }
- if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift))
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (max_loop > 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto misc_out;
+ }
/*
* If max_loop is specified, create that many devices upfront.
@@ -1878,8 +1882,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
range = 1UL << MINORBITS;
}
- if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop"))
- return -EIO;
+ if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop")) {
+ err = -EIO;
+ goto misc_out;
+ }
blk_register_region(MKDEV(LOOP_MAJOR, 0), range,
THIS_MODULE, loop_probe, NULL, NULL);
@@ -1892,6 +1898,10 @@ static int __init loop_init(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "loop: module loaded\n");
return 0;
+
+misc_out:
+ misc_deregister(&loop_misc);
+ return err;
}
static int loop_exit_cb(int id, void *ptr, void *data)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/loopdev-fix-a-deadlock.patch
queue-3.8/block-use-i_size_write-in-bd_set_size.patch
queue-3.8/loopdev-remove-an-user-triggerable-oops.patch
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