This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails to the 3.12-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-crash-if-blk_alloc_queue-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3ec981e30fae1f3c8728a05c730acaa1f627bcfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:12:24 -0400 Subject: loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 3ec981e30fae1f3c8728a05c730acaa1f627bcfb upstream. loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails If blk_alloc_queue fails, loop_add cleans up, but it doesn't clean up the identifier allocated with idr_alloc. That causes crash on module unload in idr_for_each(&loop_index_idr, &loop_exit_cb, NULL); where we attempt to remove non-existed device with that id. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000380 IP: [<ffffffff812057c9>] del_gendisk+0x19/0x2d0 PGD 43d399067 PUD 43d0ad067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: loop(-) dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_loop dm_mod ip6table_filter ip6_tables uvesafb cfbcopyarea cfbimgblt cfbfillrect fbcon font bitblit fbcon_rotate fbcon_cw fbcon_ud fbcon_ccw softcursor fb fbdev msr ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp llc tun ipv6 cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave spadfs fuse hid_generic usbhid hid raid0 md_mod dmi_sysfs nf_nat_ftp nf_nat nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack snd_usb_audio snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc lm85 hwmon_vid snd_hwdep snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi snd soundcore acpi_cpufreq ohci_hcd freq_table tg3 ehci_pci mperf ehci_hcd kvm_amd kvm sata_svw serverworks libphy libata ide_core k10temp usbcore hwmon microcode ptp pcspkr pps_core e100 skge mii usb_common i2c_piix4 floppy evdev rtc_cmos i2c_core processor but! ton unix CPU: 7 PID: 2735 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W 3.10.15-devel #15 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992-E, BIOS 'V1.06 ' 06/09/2009 task: ffff88043d38e780 ti: ffff88043d21e000 task.ti: ffff88043d21e000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812057c9>] [<ffffffff812057c9>] del_gendisk+0x19/0x2d0 RSP: 0018:ffff88043d21fe10 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: ffffffffa05102e0 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88043ea82800 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88043d21fe48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000ff R13: 0000000000000080 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88043ea82800 FS: 00007ff646534700(0000) GS:ffff880447000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000380 CR3: 000000043e9bf000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Stack: ffffffff8100aba4 0000000000000092 ffff88043d21fe48 ffff88043ea82800 00000000000000ff ffff88043d21fe98 0000000000000000 ffff88043d21fe60 ffffffffa05102b4 0000000000000000 ffff88043d21fe70 ffffffffa05102ec Call Trace: [<ffffffff8100aba4>] ? native_sched_clock+0x24/0x80 [<ffffffffa05102b4>] loop_remove+0x14/0x40 [loop] [<ffffffffa05102ec>] loop_exit_cb+0xc/0x10 [loop] [<ffffffff81217b74>] idr_for_each+0x104/0x190 [<ffffffffa05102e0>] ? loop_remove+0x40/0x40 [loop] [<ffffffff8109adc5>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x105/0x1d0 [<ffffffffa05135dc>] loop_exit+0x34/0xa58 [loop] [<ffffffff810a98ea>] SyS_delete_module+0x13a/0x260 [<ffffffff81221d5e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [<ffffffff813cff16>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f Code: f0 4c 8b 6d f8 c9 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 56 41 55 4c 8d af 80 00 00 00 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 18 <48> 83 bf 80 03 00 00 00 74 4d e8 98 fe ff ff 31 f6 48 c7 c7 20 RIP [<ffffffff812057c9>] del_gendisk+0x19/0x2d0 RSP <ffff88043d21fe10> CR2: 0000000000000380 ---[ end trace 64ec069ec70f1309 ]--- Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1633,7 +1633,7 @@ static int loop_add(struct loop_device * err = -ENOMEM; lo->lo_queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL); if (!lo->lo_queue) - goto out_free_dev; + goto out_free_idr; disk = lo->lo_disk = alloc_disk(1 << part_shift); if (!disk) @@ -1678,6 +1678,8 @@ static int loop_add(struct loop_device * out_free_queue: blk_cleanup_queue(lo->lo_queue); +out_free_idr: + idr_remove(&loop_index_idr, i); out_free_dev: kfree(lo); out: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/loop-fix-crash-when-using-unassigned-loop-device.patch queue-3.12/loop-fix-crash-if-blk_alloc_queue-fails.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html