Re: [PATCH stable 4.9.y] block: unhash blkdev part inode when the part is deleted

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 03:16:55PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> v5.11 changes the blkdev lookup mechanism completely since commit
> 22ae8ce8b892 ("block: simplify bdev/disk lookup in blkdev_get"),
> and small part of the change is to unhash part bdev inode when
> deleting partition. Turns out this kind of change does fix one
> nasty issue in case of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR:
> 
> 1) when one partition is deleted & closed, disk_put_part() is always
> called before bdput(bdev), see blkdev_put(); so the part's devt can
> be freed & re-used before the inode is dropped
> 
> 2) then new partition with same devt can be created just before the
> inode in 1) is dropped, then the old inode/bdev structurein 1) is
> re-used for this new partition, this way causes use-after-free and
> kernel panic.
> 
> It isn't possible to backport the whole big patchset of "merge struct
> block_device and struct hd_struct v4" for addressing this issue.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20201128161510.347752-1-hch@xxxxxx/
> 
> So fixes it by unhashing part bdev in delete_partition(), and this way
> is actually aligned with v5.11+'s behavior.
> 
> Backported from the following 5.10.y commit:
> 
> 5f2f77560591 ("block: unhash blkdev part inode when the part is deleted")
> 
> Reported-by: Shiwei Cui <cuishw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Shiwei Cui <cuishw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/partition-generic.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

All now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h



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