block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition

The following situation might occur:

__blkdev_get: add_disk:

register_disk()
get_gendisk()

disk_block_events()

	disk->ev == NULL

				disk_add_events()

__disk_unblock_events()

	disk->ev != NULL
	--ev->block

Then we unblock events, when they are suppose to be blocked. This can trigger events related block/genhd.c warnings, but also can crash in sd_check_events() or other places.

I'm able to reproduce crashes with the following scripts (with connected usb dongle as sdb disk).

<snip>
DEV=/dev/sdb ENABLE=/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-2/bConfigurationValue

function stop_me()
{
for i in jobs -p ; do kill $i 2> /dev/null ; done exit
}

trap stop_me SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM

for ((i = 0; i < 10; i++)) ; do
while true; do fdisk -l $DEV 2>&1 > /dev/null ; done &
done

while true ; do
echo 1 > $ENABLE
sleep 1
echo 0 > $ENABLE
done
</snip>

I use the script to verify patch fixing oops in sd_revalidate_disk
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132935572512352&w=2
Without Jun'ichi Nomura patch titled "Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk" or this one, script easily crash kernel within a few seconds. With both patches applied I do not observe crash. Unfortunately after some time (dozen of minutes), script will hung in:

[ 1563.906432]  [<c08354f5>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x15/0x20
[ 1563.906437]  [<c04532d5>] msleep+0x15/0x20
[ 1563.906443]  [<c05d60b2>] blk_drain_queue+0x32/0xd0
[ 1563.906447]  [<c05d6e00>] blk_cleanup_queue+0xd0/0x170
[ 1563.906454]  [<c06d278f>] scsi_free_queue+0x3f/0x60
[ 1563.906459]  [<c06d7e6e>] __scsi_remove_device+0x6e/0xb0
[ 1563.906463]  [<c06d4aff>] scsi_forget_host+0x4f/0x60
[ 1563.906468]  [<c06cd84a>] scsi_remove_host+0x5a/0xf0
[ 1563.906482]  [<f7f030fb>] quiesce_and_remove_host+0x5b/0xa0 [usb_storage]
[ 1563.906490]  [<f7f03203>] usb_stor_disconnect+0x13/0x20 [usb_storage]

Anyway I think this patch is some step forward.

As drawback, I do not teardown on sysfs file create error, because I do not know how to nullify disk->ev (since it can be used). However add_disk error handling practically does not exist too, and things will work without this sysfs file, except events will not be exported to user space.

---
RFC -> PATCH: some changelog tweaks and Tejun ack added

 block/genhd.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

index 23b4f70..b26c408 100644
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static DEFINE_IDR(ext_devt_idr);
 
 static struct device_type disk_type;
 
+static void disk_alloc_events(struct gendisk *disk);
 static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk);
 static void disk_del_events(struct gendisk *disk);
 static void disk_release_events(struct gendisk *disk);

@@ -601,6 +602,8 @@ void add_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	disk->major = MAJOR(devt);
 	disk->first_minor = MINOR(devt);
 
+	disk_alloc_events(disk);
+
 	/* Register BDI before referencing it from bdev */
 	bdi = &disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
 	bdi_register_dev(bdi, disk_devt(disk));

@@ -1733,9 +1736,9 @@ module_param_cb(events_dfl_poll_msecs, &disk_events_dfl_poll_msecs_param_ops,
 		&disk_events_dfl_poll_msecs, 0644);
 
 /*
- * disk_{add|del|release}_events - initialize and destroy disk_events.
+ * disk_{alloc|add|del|release}_events - initialize and destroy disk_events.
  */
-static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
+static void disk_alloc_events(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
 	struct disk_events *ev;
 

@@ -1748,16 +1751,6 @@ static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	if (sysfs_create_files(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj,
-			       disk_events_attrs) < 0) {
-		pr_warn("%s: failed to create sysfs files for events\n",
-			disk->disk_name);
-		kfree(ev);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	disk->ev = ev;
-
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ev->node);
 	ev->disk = disk;
 	spin_lock_init(&ev->lock);

@@ -1766,8 +1759,21 @@ static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
 	ev->poll_msecs = -1;
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ev->dwork, disk_events_workfn);
 
+	disk->ev = ev;
+}
+
+static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	if (!disk->ev)
+		return;
+
+	/* FIXME: error handling */
+	if (sysfs_create_files(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, disk_events_attrs) < 0)
+		pr_warn("%s: failed to create sysfs files for events\n",
+			disk->disk_name);
+
 	mutex_lock(&disk_events_mutex);
-	list_add_tail(&ev->node, &disk_events);
+	list_add_tail(&disk->ev->node, &disk_events);
 	mutex_unlock(&disk_events_mutex);
 
 	/*

1.7.1

Jens could you pick up both patches for 3.3 ? Both are actually a -stable fixes, despite they are not marked so, perhaps we should repost patches with that mark?

Thanks
Stanislaw

Both are now queued up, and I marked both as stable as well.

Jens Axboe