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<entry>
<title>nbd: correct disconnect behavior</title>
<updated>2013-07-27T04:34:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Clements</name>
<email>paul.clements@steeleye.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:09:04+00:00</published>
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commit c378f70adbc1bbecd9e6db145019f14b2f688c7c upstream.

Currently, when a disconnect is requested by the user (via NBD_DISCONNECT
ioctl) the return from NBD_DO_IT is undefined (it is usually one of
several error codes).  This means that nbd-client does not know if a
manual disconnect was performed or whether a network error occurred.
Because of this, nbd-client's persist mode (which tries to reconnect after
error, but not after manual disconnect) does not always work correctly.

This change fixes this by causing NBD_DO_IT to always return 0 if a user
requests a disconnect.  This means that nbd-client can correctly either
persist the connection (if an error occurred) or disconnect (if the user
requested it).

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust device pointer name]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit c378f70adbc1bbecd9e6db145019f14b2f688c7c upstream.

Currently, when a disconnect is requested by the user (via NBD_DISCONNECT
ioctl) the return from NBD_DO_IT is undefined (it is usually one of
several error codes).  This means that nbd-client does not know if a
manual disconnect was performed or whether a network error occurred.
Because of this, nbd-client's persist mode (which tries to reconnect after
error, but not after manual disconnect) does not always work correctly.

This change fixes this by causing NBD_DO_IT to always return 0 if a user
requests a disconnect.  This means that nbd-client can correctly either
persist the connection (if an error occurred) or disconnect (if the user
requested it).

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust device pointer name]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: do not pass disk names as format strings</title>
<updated>2013-07-27T04:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:01:14+00:00</published>
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commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream.

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings.  It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.

CVE-2013-2851

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust device pointer name in nbd.c]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream.

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings.  It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.

CVE-2013-2851

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust device pointer name in nbd.c]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>virtio-blk: Call revalidate_disk() upon online disk resize</title>
<updated>2013-06-29T03:06:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T08:09:44+00:00</published>
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commit e9986f303dc0f285401de28cf96f42f4dd23a4a1 upstream.

If a virtio disk is open in guest and a disk resize operation is done,
(virsh blockresize), new size is not visible to tools like "fdisk -l".
This seems to be happening as we update only part-&gt;nr_sects and not
bdev-&gt;bd_inode size.

Call revalidate_disk() which should take care of it. I tested growing disk
size of already open disk and it works for me.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e9986f303dc0f285401de28cf96f42f4dd23a4a1 upstream.

If a virtio disk is open in guest and a disk resize operation is done,
(virsh blockresize), new size is not visible to tools like "fdisk -l".
This seems to be happening as we update only part-&gt;nr_sects and not
bdev-&gt;bd_inode size.

Call revalidate_disk() which should take care of it. I tested growing disk
size of already open disk and it works for me.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cciss: fix broken mutex usage in ioctl</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T01:17:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen M. Cameron</name>
<email>scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T21:04:47+00:00</published>
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commit 03f47e888daf56c8e9046c674719a0bcc644eed5 upstream.

If a new logical drive is added and the CCISS_REGNEWD ioctl is invoked
(as is normal with the Array Configuration Utility) the process will
hang as below.  It attempts to acquire the same mutex twice, once in
do_ioctl() and once in cciss_unlocked_open().  The BKL was recursive,
the mutex isn't.

  Linux version 3.10.0-rc2 (scameron@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri May 24 14:32:12 CDT 2013
  [...]
  acu             D 0000000000000001     0  3246   3191 0x00000080
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x29/0x70
    schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
    __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x17b/0x220
    mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50
    cciss_unlocked_open+0x2f/0x110 [cciss]
    __blkdev_get+0xd3/0x470
    blkdev_get+0x5c/0x1e0
    register_disk+0x182/0x1a0
    add_disk+0x17c/0x310
    cciss_add_disk+0x13a/0x170 [cciss]
    cciss_update_drive_info+0x39b/0x480 [cciss]
    rebuild_lun_table+0x258/0x370 [cciss]
    cciss_ioctl+0x34f/0x470 [cciss]
    do_ioctl+0x49/0x70 [cciss]
    __blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x28/0x30
    blkdev_ioctl+0x200/0x7b0
    block_ioctl+0x3c/0x40
    do_vfs_ioctl+0x89/0x350
    SyS_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This mutex usage was added into the ioctl path when the big kernel lock
was removed.  As it turns out, these paths are all thread safe anyway
(or can easily be made so) and we don't want ioctl() to be single
threaded in any case.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 03f47e888daf56c8e9046c674719a0bcc644eed5 upstream.

If a new logical drive is added and the CCISS_REGNEWD ioctl is invoked
(as is normal with the Array Configuration Utility) the process will
hang as below.  It attempts to acquire the same mutex twice, once in
do_ioctl() and once in cciss_unlocked_open().  The BKL was recursive,
the mutex isn't.

  Linux version 3.10.0-rc2 (scameron@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri May 24 14:32:12 CDT 2013
  [...]
  acu             D 0000000000000001     0  3246   3191 0x00000080
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x29/0x70
    schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
    __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x17b/0x220
    mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50
    cciss_unlocked_open+0x2f/0x110 [cciss]
    __blkdev_get+0xd3/0x470
    blkdev_get+0x5c/0x1e0
    register_disk+0x182/0x1a0
    add_disk+0x17c/0x310
    cciss_add_disk+0x13a/0x170 [cciss]
    cciss_update_drive_info+0x39b/0x480 [cciss]
    rebuild_lun_table+0x258/0x370 [cciss]
    cciss_ioctl+0x34f/0x470 [cciss]
    do_ioctl+0x49/0x70 [cciss]
    __blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x28/0x30
    blkdev_ioctl+0x200/0x7b0
    block_ioctl+0x3c/0x40
    do_vfs_ioctl+0x89/0x350
    SyS_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This mutex usage was added into the ioctl path when the big kernel lock
was removed.  As it turns out, these paths are all thread safe anyway
(or can easily be made so) and we don't want ioctl() to be single
threaded in any case.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron &lt;scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drbd: fix for deadlock when using automatic split-brain-recovery</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Philipp Reisner</name>
<email>philipp.reisner@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-27T13:08:47+00:00</published>
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commit 7c689e63a847316c1b2500f86891b0a574ce7e69 upstream.

With an automatic after split-brain recovery policy of
"after-sb-1pri call-pri-lost-after-sb",
when trying to drbd_set_role() to R_SECONDARY,
we run into a deadlock.

This was first recognized and supposedly fixed by
2009-06-10 "Fixed a deadlock when using automatic split brain recovery when both nodes are"
replacing drbd_set_role() with drbd_change_state() in that code-path,
but the first hunk of that patch forgets to remove the drbd_set_role().

We apparently only ever tested the "two primaries" case.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7c689e63a847316c1b2500f86891b0a574ce7e69 upstream.

With an automatic after split-brain recovery policy of
"after-sb-1pri call-pri-lost-after-sb",
when trying to drbd_set_role() to R_SECONDARY,
we run into a deadlock.

This was first recognized and supposedly fixed by
2009-06-10 "Fixed a deadlock when using automatic split brain recovery when both nodes are"
replacing drbd_set_role() with drbd_change_state() in that code-path,
but the first hunk of that patch forgets to remove the drbd_set_role().

We apparently only ever tested the "two primaries" case.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/block/brd.c: fix brd_lookup_page() race</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Behlendorf</name>
<email>behlendorf1@llnl.gov</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-24T22:55:28+00:00</published>
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commit dfd20b2b174d3a9b258ea3b7a35ead33576587b1 upstream.

The index on the page must be set before it is inserted in the radix
tree.  Otherwise there is a small race which can occur during lookup
where the page can be found with the incorrect index.  This will trigger
the BUG_ON() in brd_lookup_page().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf &lt;behlendorf1@llnl.gov&gt;
Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood &lt;cw@f00f.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit dfd20b2b174d3a9b258ea3b7a35ead33576587b1 upstream.

The index on the page must be set before it is inserted in the radix
tree.  Otherwise there is a small race which can occur during lookup
where the page can be found with the incorrect index.  This will trigger
the BUG_ON() in brd_lookup_page().

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf &lt;behlendorf1@llnl.gov&gt;
Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood &lt;cw@f00f.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>aoe: reserve enough headroom on skbs</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T02:20:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-27T18:28:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 91c5746425aed8f7188a351f1224a26aa232e4b3 ]

Some network drivers use a non default hard_header_len

Transmitted skb should take into account dev-&gt;hard_header_len, or risk
crashes or expensive reallocations.

In the case of aoe, lets reserve MAX_HEADER bytes.

David reported a crash in defxx driver, solved by this patch.

Reported-by: David Oostdyk &lt;daveo@ll.mit.edu&gt;
Tested-by: David Oostdyk &lt;daveo@ll.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ed Cashin &lt;ecashin@coraid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 91c5746425aed8f7188a351f1224a26aa232e4b3 ]

Some network drivers use a non default hard_header_len

Transmitted skb should take into account dev-&gt;hard_header_len, or risk
crashes or expensive reallocations.

In the case of aoe, lets reserve MAX_HEADER bytes.

David reported a crash in defxx driver, solved by this patch.

Reported-by: David Oostdyk &lt;daveo@ll.mit.edu&gt;
Tested-by: David Oostdyk &lt;daveo@ll.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ed Cashin &lt;ecashin@coraid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: prevent bdev freeing while device in use</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T02:20:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anatol Pomozov</name>
<email>anatol.pomozov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-01T16:47:56+00:00</published>
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commit c1681bf8a7b1b98edee8b862a42c19c4e53205fd upstream.

struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
with "losetup -d".

But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
stack:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
  bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
  loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
  lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
  lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
  compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
  do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
  compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
  do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
  sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a

To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
and put it later in loop_clr_fd().

The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
  while [ true ]; do
    losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
    echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
  done

[ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
  time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device-&gt;lo_state is
  Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
  it will get EBUSY.  And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
  device we'll get ENXIO.

  loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
  loop_device-&gt;lo_ctl_mutex. ]

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov &lt;anatol.pomozov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit c1681bf8a7b1b98edee8b862a42c19c4e53205fd upstream.

struct block_device lifecycle is defined by its inode (see fs/block_dev.c) -
block_device allocated first time we access /dev/loopXX and deallocated on
bdev_destroy_inode. When we create the device "losetup /dev/loopXX afile"
we want that block_device stay alive until we destroy the loop device
with "losetup -d".

But because we do not hold /dev/loopXX inode its counter goes 0, and
inode/bdev can be destroyed at any moment. Usually it happens at memory
pressure or when user drops inode cache (like in the test below). When later in
loop_clr_fd() we want to use bdev we have use-after-free error with following
stack:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000280
  bd_set_size+0x10/0xa0
  loop_clr_fd+0x1f8/0x420 [loop]
  lo_ioctl+0x200/0x7e0 [loop]
  lo_compat_ioctl+0x47/0xe0 [loop]
  compat_blkdev_ioctl+0x341/0x1290
  do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0
  compat_sys_ioctl+0xc1/0xf20
  do_sys_open+0x16e/0x1d0
  sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x1a

To prevent use-after-free we need to grab the device in loop_set_fd()
and put it later in loop_clr_fd().

The issue is reprodusible on current Linus head and v3.3. Here is the test:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.file bs=1M count=1
  while [ true ]; do
    losetup /dev/loop0 loop.file
    echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
  done

[ Doing bdgrab/bput in loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd is safe, because every
  time we call loop_set_fd() we check that loop_device-&gt;lo_state is
  Lo_unbound and set it to Lo_bound If somebody will try to set_fd again
  it will get EBUSY.  And if we try to loop_clr_fd() on unbound loop
  device we'll get ENXIO.

  loop_set_fd/loop_clr_fd (and any other loop ioctl) is called under
  loop_device-&gt;lo_ctl_mutex. ]

Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov &lt;anatol.pomozov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen-blkback: fix dispatch_rw_block_io() error path</title>
<updated>2013-04-10T02:20:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-11T09:39:55+00:00</published>
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commit 0e5e098ac22dae38f957e951b70d3cf73beff0f7 upstream.

Commit 7708992 ("xen/blkback: Seperate the bio allocation and the bio
submission") consolidated the pendcnt updates to just a single write,
neglecting the fact that the error path relied on it getting set to 1
up front (such that the decrement in __end_block_io_op() would actually
drop the count to zero, triggering the necessary cleanup actions).

Also remove a misleading and a stale (after said commit) comment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 0e5e098ac22dae38f957e951b70d3cf73beff0f7 upstream.

Commit 7708992 ("xen/blkback: Seperate the bio allocation and the bio
submission") consolidated the pendcnt updates to just a single write,
neglecting the fact that the error path relied on it getting set to 1
up front (such that the decrement in __end_block_io_op() would actually
drop the count to zero, triggering the necessary cleanup actions).

Also remove a misleading and a stale (after said commit) comment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops</title>
<updated>2013-03-20T15:03:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guo Chao</name>
<email>yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-21T23:16:49+00:00</published>
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commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream.

When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter,
loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which
will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left some
garbage in the misc device list.

Test case:
sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024
(failed due to invalid parameter)
sudo modprobe loop
(oops)

Clean up nicely to avoid such oops.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: M. Hindess &lt;hindessm@uk.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b1a6650406875b9097a032eed89af50682fe1160 upstream.

When loopdev is built as module and we pass an invalid parameter,
loop_init() will return directly without deregister misc device, which
will cause an oops when insert loop module next time because we left some
garbage in the misc device list.

Test case:
sudo modprobe loop max_part=1024
(failed due to invalid parameter)
sudo modprobe loop
(oops)

Clean up nicely to avoid such oops.

Signed-off-by: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guo Chao &lt;yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: M. Hindess &lt;hindessm@uk.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan &lt;knikanth@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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