dm ioctl: fix nested locking in table_clear() to remove deadlock concern
authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:59:56 +0000 (11:59 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 11 May 2023 14:03:41 +0000 (23:03 +0900)
commit9a94ebc74c3540aba5aa2c7b05032da4610a08c9
tree2a91b5ff9df995a623d1730b203b196da3c28edd
parentcb874a190f3f7c3c3fa5b979bee7a3b8cc3a19cc
dm ioctl: fix nested locking in table_clear() to remove deadlock concern

commit 3d32aaa7e66d5c1479a3c31d6c2c5d45dd0d3b89 upstream.

syzkaller found the following problematic rwsem locking (with write
lock already held):

 down_read+0x9d/0x450 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1509
 dm_get_inactive_table+0x2b/0xc0 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:773
 __dev_status+0x4fd/0x7c0 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:844
 table_clear+0x197/0x280 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:1537

In table_clear, it first acquires a write lock
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2/source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c#L1520
down_write(&_hash_lock);

Then before the lock is released at L1539, there is a path shown above:
table_clear -> __dev_status -> dm_get_inactive_table ->  down_read
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2/source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c#L773
down_read(&_hash_lock);

It tries to acquire the same read lock again, resulting in the deadlock
problem.

Fix this by moving table_clear()'s __dev_status() call to after its
up_write(&_hash_lock);

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Zheng Zhang <zheng.zhang@email.ucr.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c