This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled loop: fix concurrent lo_open/lo_release to the 3.18-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: loop-fix-concurrent-lo_open-lo_release.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ae6650163c66a7eff1acd6eb8b0f752dcfa8eba5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:26:00 -0800 Subject: loop: fix concurrent lo_open/lo_release MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ae6650163c66a7eff1acd6eb8b0f752dcfa8eba5 upstream. 范龙飞 reports that KASAN can report a use-after-free in __lock_acquire. The reason is due to insufficient serialization in lo_release(), which will continue to use the loop device even after it has decremented the lo_refcnt to zero. In the meantime, another process can come in, open the loop device again as it is being shut down. Confusion ensues. Reported-by: 范龙飞 <long7573@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1512,9 +1512,8 @@ out: return err; } -static void lo_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode) +static void __lo_release(struct loop_device *lo) { - struct loop_device *lo = disk->private_data; int err; mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); @@ -1542,6 +1541,13 @@ out: mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); } +static void lo_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode) +{ + mutex_lock(&loop_index_mutex); + __lo_release(disk->private_data); + mutex_unlock(&loop_index_mutex); +} + static const struct block_device_operations lo_fops = { .owner = THIS_MODULE, .open = lo_open, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/loop-fix-concurrent-lo_open-lo_release.patch