zram: fix race between backing_dev_show and backing_dev_store
authorChenwandun <chenwandun@huawei.com>
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 03:20:14 +0000 (20:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:32:32 +0000 (06:32 -0400)
commitf7daefe4231e57381d92c2e2ad905a899c28e402
tree067767d5a6b2b6cd00064326605c423ad7edcb54
parentae8af4388db002bbd1df78ecee7ca31cee78e964
zram: fix race between backing_dev_show and backing_dev_store

CPU0:        CPU1:
backing_dev_show        backing_dev_store
    ......    ......
    file = zram->backing_dev;
    down_read(&zram->init_lock);    down_read(&zram->init_init_lock)
    file_path(file, ...);    zram->backing_dev = backing_dev;
    up_read(&zram->init_lock);    up_read(&zram->init_lock);

gets the value of zram->backing_dev too early in backing_dev_show, which
resultin the value being NULL at the beginning, and not NULL later.

backtrace:
  d_path+0xcc/0x174
  file_path+0x10/0x18
  backing_dev_show+0x40/0xb4
  dev_attr_show+0x20/0x54
  sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x9c/0x10c
  kernfs_seq_show+0x28/0x30
  seq_read+0x184/0x488
  kernfs_fop_read+0x5c/0x1a4
  __vfs_read+0x44/0x128
  vfs_read+0xa0/0x138
  SyS_read+0x54/0xb4

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571046839-16814-1-git-send-email-chenwandun@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Chenwandun <chenwandun@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.14+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c