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<title>dm writecache: reject asynchronous pmem devices</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T06:16:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Suchanek</name>
<email>msuchanek@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T15:49:24+00:00</published>
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commit a46624580376a3a0beb218d94cbc7f258696e29f upstream.

DM writecache does not handle asynchronous pmem. Reject it when
supplied as cache.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/87lfk5hahc.fsf@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 6e84200c0a29 ("virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a46624580376a3a0beb218d94cbc7f258696e29f upstream.

DM writecache does not handle asynchronous pmem. Reject it when
supplied as cache.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvdimm/87lfk5hahc.fsf@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 6e84200c0a29 ("virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver")
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek &lt;msuchanek@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: use noio when sending kobject event</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T06:16:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T16:25:20+00:00</published>
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commit 6958c1c640af8c3f40fa8a2eee3b5b905d95b677 upstream.

kobject_uevent may allocate memory and it may be called while there are dm
devices suspended. The allocation may recurse into a suspended device,
causing a deadlock. We must set the noio flag when sending a uevent.

The observed deadlock was reported here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-March/msg00025.html

Reported-by: Khazhismel Kumykov &lt;khazhy@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6958c1c640af8c3f40fa8a2eee3b5b905d95b677 upstream.

kobject_uevent may allocate memory and it may be called while there are dm
devices suspended. The allocation may recurse into a suspended device,
causing a deadlock. We must set the noio flag when sending a uevent.

The observed deadlock was reported here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2020-March/msg00025.html

Reported-by: Khazhismel Kumykov &lt;khazhy@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm zoned: assign max_io_len correctly</title>
<updated>2020-07-09T07:37:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-15T03:33:23+00:00</published>
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commit 7b2377486767503d47265e4d487a63c651f6b55d upstream.

The unit of max_io_len is sector instead of byte (spotted through
code review), so fix it.

Fixes: 3b1a94c88b79 ("dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 7b2377486767503d47265e4d487a63c651f6b55d upstream.

The unit of max_io_len is sector instead of byte (spotted through
code review), so fix it.

Fixes: 3b1a94c88b79 ("dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm writecache: add cond_resched to loop in persistent_memory_claim()</title>
<updated>2020-06-30T19:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-19T15:51:34+00:00</published>
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commit d35bd764e6899a7bea71958f08d16cea5bfa1919 upstream.

Add cond_resched() to a loop that fills in the mapper memory area
because the loop can be executed many times.

Fixes: 48debafe4f2fe ("dm: add writecache target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d35bd764e6899a7bea71958f08d16cea5bfa1919 upstream.

Add cond_resched() to a loop that fills in the mapper memory area
because the loop can be executed many times.

Fixes: 48debafe4f2fe ("dm: add writecache target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm writecache: correct uncommitted_block when discarding uncommitted entry</title>
<updated>2020-06-30T19:37:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huaisheng Ye</name>
<email>yehs1@lenovo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-12T15:59:11+00:00</published>
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commit 39495b12ef1cf602e6abd350dce2ef4199906531 upstream.

When uncommitted entry has been discarded, correct wc-&gt;uncommitted_block
for getting the exact number.

Fixes: 48debafe4f2fe ("dm: add writecache target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye &lt;yehs1@lenovo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 39495b12ef1cf602e6abd350dce2ef4199906531 upstream.

When uncommitted entry has been discarded, correct wc-&gt;uncommitted_block
for getting the exact number.

Fixes: 48debafe4f2fe ("dm: add writecache target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Huaisheng Ye &lt;yehs1@lenovo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix potential deadlock problem in btree_gc_coalesce</title>
<updated>2020-06-24T15:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhiqiang Liu</name>
<email>liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-14T16:53:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit be23e837333a914df3f24bf0b32e87b0331ab8d1 ]

coccicheck reports:
  drivers/md//bcache/btree.c:1538:1-7: preceding lock on line 1417

In btree_gc_coalesce func, if the coalescing process fails, we will goto
to out_nocoalesce tag directly without releasing new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock.
Then, it will cause a deadlock when trying to acquire new_nodes[i]-&gt;
write_lock for freeing new_nodes[i] before return.

btree_gc_coalesce func details as follows:
	if alloc new_nodes[i] fails:
		goto out_nocoalesce;
	// obtain new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_lock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock)
	// main coalescing process
	for (i = nodes - 1; i &gt; 0; --i)
		[snipped]
		if coalescing process fails:
			// Here, directly goto out_nocoalesce
			 // tag will cause a deadlock
			goto out_nocoalesce;
		[snipped]
	// release new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_unlock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock)
	// coalesing succ, return
	return;
out_nocoalesce:
	btree_node_free(new_nodes[i])	// free new_nodes[i]
	// obtain new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_lock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock);
	// set flag for reuse
	clear_bit(BTREE_NODE_dirty, &amp;ew_nodes[i]-&gt;flags);
	// release new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_unlock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock);

To fix the problem, we add a new tag 'out_unlock_nocoalesce' for
releasing new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock before out_nocoalesce tag. If
coalescing process fails, we will go to out_unlock_nocoalesce tag
for releasing new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock before free new_nodes[i] in
out_nocoalesce tag.

(Coly Li helps to clean up commit log format.)

Fixes: 2a285686c109816 ("bcache: btree locking rework")
Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu &lt;liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit be23e837333a914df3f24bf0b32e87b0331ab8d1 ]

coccicheck reports:
  drivers/md//bcache/btree.c:1538:1-7: preceding lock on line 1417

In btree_gc_coalesce func, if the coalescing process fails, we will goto
to out_nocoalesce tag directly without releasing new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock.
Then, it will cause a deadlock when trying to acquire new_nodes[i]-&gt;
write_lock for freeing new_nodes[i] before return.

btree_gc_coalesce func details as follows:
	if alloc new_nodes[i] fails:
		goto out_nocoalesce;
	// obtain new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_lock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock)
	// main coalescing process
	for (i = nodes - 1; i &gt; 0; --i)
		[snipped]
		if coalescing process fails:
			// Here, directly goto out_nocoalesce
			 // tag will cause a deadlock
			goto out_nocoalesce;
		[snipped]
	// release new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_unlock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock)
	// coalesing succ, return
	return;
out_nocoalesce:
	btree_node_free(new_nodes[i])	// free new_nodes[i]
	// obtain new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_lock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock);
	// set flag for reuse
	clear_bit(BTREE_NODE_dirty, &amp;ew_nodes[i]-&gt;flags);
	// release new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock
	mutex_unlock(&amp;new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock);

To fix the problem, we add a new tag 'out_unlock_nocoalesce' for
releasing new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock before out_nocoalesce tag. If
coalescing process fails, we will go to out_unlock_nocoalesce tag
for releasing new_nodes[i]-&gt;write_lock before free new_nodes[i] in
out_nocoalesce tag.

(Coly Li helps to clean up commit log format.)

Fixes: 2a285686c109816 ("bcache: btree locking rework")
Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu &lt;liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm zoned: return NULL if dmz_get_zone_for_reclaim() fails to find a zone</title>
<updated>2020-06-24T15:50:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Reinecke</name>
<email>hare@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-19T08:14:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 489dc0f06a5837f87482c0ce61d830d24e17082e ]

The only case where dmz_get_zone_for_reclaim() cannot return a zone is
if the respective lists are empty. So we should just return a simple
NULL value here as we really don't have an error code which would make
sense.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 489dc0f06a5837f87482c0ce61d830d24e17082e ]

The only case where dmz_get_zone_for_reclaim() cannot return a zone is
if the respective lists are empty. So we should just return a simple
NULL value here as we really don't have an error code which would make
sense.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;damien.lemoal@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm mpath: switch paths in dm_blk_ioctl() code path</title>
<updated>2020-06-24T15:50:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Wilck</name>
<email>mwilck@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-20T20:29:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2361ae595352dec015d14292f1b539242d8446d6 ]

SCSI LUN passthrough code such as qemu's "scsi-block" device model
pass every IO to the host via SG_IO ioctls. Currently, dm-multipath
calls choose_pgpath() only in the block IO code path, not in the ioctl
code path (unless current_pgpath is NULL). This has the effect that no
path switching and thus no load balancing is done for SCSI-passthrough
IO, unless the active path fails.

Fix this by using the same logic in multipath_prepare_ioctl() as in
multipath_clone_and_map().

Note: The allegedly best path selection algorithm, service-time,
still wouldn't work perfectly, because the io size of the current
request is always set to 0. Changing that for the IO passthrough
case would require the ioctl cmd and arg to be passed to dm's
prepare_ioctl() method.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2361ae595352dec015d14292f1b539242d8446d6 ]

SCSI LUN passthrough code such as qemu's "scsi-block" device model
pass every IO to the host via SG_IO ioctls. Currently, dm-multipath
calls choose_pgpath() only in the block IO code path, not in the ioctl
code path (unless current_pgpath is NULL). This has the effect that no
path switching and thus no load balancing is done for SCSI-passthrough
IO, unless the active path fails.

Fix this by using the same logic in multipath_prepare_ioctl() as in
multipath_clone_and_map().

Note: The allegedly best path selection algorithm, service-time,
still wouldn't work perfectly, because the io size of the current
request is always set to 0. Changing that for the IO passthrough
case would require the ioctl cmd and arg to be passed to dm's
prepare_ioctl() method.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: avoid truncating the logical block size</title>
<updated>2020-06-22T07:31:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T19:01:26+00:00</published>
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commit 64611a15ca9da91ff532982429c44686f4593b5f upstream.

queue_limits::logical_block_size got changed from unsigned short to
unsigned int, but it was forgotten to update crypt_io_hints() to use the
new type.  Fix it.

Fixes: ad6bf88a6c19 ("block: fix an integer overflow in logical block size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 64611a15ca9da91ff532982429c44686f4593b5f upstream.

queue_limits::logical_block_size got changed from unsigned short to
unsigned int, but it was forgotten to update crypt_io_hints() to use the
new type.  Fix it.

Fixes: ad6bf88a6c19 ("block: fix an integer overflow in logical block size")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bcache: fix refcount underflow in bcache_device_free()</title>
<updated>2020-06-22T07:31:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>colyli@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-27T04:01:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 86da9f736740eba602389908574dfbb0f517baa5 ]

The problematic code piece in bcache_device_free() is,

 785 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d)
 786 {
 787     struct gendisk *disk = d-&gt;disk;
 [snipped]
 799     if (disk) {
 800             if (disk-&gt;flags &amp; GENHD_FL_UP)
 801                     del_gendisk(disk);
 802
 803             if (disk-&gt;queue)
 804                     blk_cleanup_queue(disk-&gt;queue);
 805
 806             ida_simple_remove(&amp;bcache_device_idx,
 807                               first_minor_to_idx(disk-&gt;first_minor));
 808             put_disk(disk);
 809         }
 [snipped]
 816 }

At line 808, put_disk(disk) may encounter kobject refcount of 'disk'
being underflow.

Here is how to reproduce the issue,
- Attche the backing device to a cache device and do random write to
  make the cache being dirty.
- Stop the bcache device while the cache device has dirty data of the
  backing device.
- Only register the backing device back, NOT register cache device.
- The bcache device node /dev/bcache0 won't show up, because backing
  device waits for the cache device shows up for the missing dirty
  data.
- Now echo 1 into /sys/fs/bcache/pendings_cleanup, to stop the pending
  backing device.
- After the pending backing device stopped, use 'dmesg' to check kernel
  message, a use-after-free warning from KASA reported the refcount of
  kobject linked to the 'disk' is underflow.

The dropping refcount at line 808 in the above code piece is added by
add_disk(d-&gt;disk) in bch_cached_dev_run(). But in the above condition
the cache device is not registered, bch_cached_dev_run() has no chance
to be called and the refcount is not added. The put_disk() for a non-
added refcount of gendisk kobject triggers a underflow warning.

This patch checks whether GENHD_FL_UP is set in disk-&gt;flags, if it is
not set then the bcache device was not added, don't call put_disk()
and the the underflow issue can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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The problematic code piece in bcache_device_free() is,

 785 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d)
 786 {
 787     struct gendisk *disk = d-&gt;disk;
 [snipped]
 799     if (disk) {
 800             if (disk-&gt;flags &amp; GENHD_FL_UP)
 801                     del_gendisk(disk);
 802
 803             if (disk-&gt;queue)
 804                     blk_cleanup_queue(disk-&gt;queue);
 805
 806             ida_simple_remove(&amp;bcache_device_idx,
 807                               first_minor_to_idx(disk-&gt;first_minor));
 808             put_disk(disk);
 809         }
 [snipped]
 816 }

At line 808, put_disk(disk) may encounter kobject refcount of 'disk'
being underflow.

Here is how to reproduce the issue,
- Attche the backing device to a cache device and do random write to
  make the cache being dirty.
- Stop the bcache device while the cache device has dirty data of the
  backing device.
- Only register the backing device back, NOT register cache device.
- The bcache device node /dev/bcache0 won't show up, because backing
  device waits for the cache device shows up for the missing dirty
  data.
- Now echo 1 into /sys/fs/bcache/pendings_cleanup, to stop the pending
  backing device.
- After the pending backing device stopped, use 'dmesg' to check kernel
  message, a use-after-free warning from KASA reported the refcount of
  kobject linked to the 'disk' is underflow.

The dropping refcount at line 808 in the above code piece is added by
add_disk(d-&gt;disk) in bch_cached_dev_run(). But in the above condition
the cache device is not registered, bch_cached_dev_run() has no chance
to be called and the refcount is not added. The put_disk() for a non-
added refcount of gendisk kobject triggers a underflow warning.

This patch checks whether GENHD_FL_UP is set in disk-&gt;flags, if it is
not set then the bcache device was not added, don't call put_disk()
and the the underflow issue can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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