From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c699a0db2d62e3bbb7f0bf35c87edbc8d23e3062 upstream. The following commands will crash the kernel: modprobe brd rd_size=1048576 dmsetup create o --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` snapshot-origin /dev/ram0" dmsetup create s --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` snapshot /dev/ram0 /dev/ram1 N 0" The reason is that when we test for zero chunk size, we jump to the label bad_read_metadata without setting the "r" variable. The function snapshot_ctr destroys all the structures and then exits with "r == 0". The kernel then crashes because it falsely believes that snapshot_ctr succeeded. In order to fix the bug, we set the variable "r" to -EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c @@ -1407,6 +1407,7 @@ static int snapshot_ctr(struct dm_target if (!s->store->chunk_size) { ti->error = "Chunk size not set"; + r = -EINVAL; goto bad_read_metadata; }