Patch "loop: fix concurrent lo_open/lo_release" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

loop: fix concurrent lo_open/lo_release

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
loop-fix-concurrent-lo_open-lo_release.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:26:00 -0800
Subject: loop: fix concurrent lo_open/lo_release
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From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

commit ae6650163c66a7eff1acd6eb8b0f752dcfa8eba5 upstream.

范龙飞 reports that KASAN can report a use-after-free in __lock_acquire. The reason is due to insufficient serialization in lo_release(), which will continue to use the loop device even after it has decremented the lo_refcnt to zero.

In the meantime, another process can come in, open the loop device again as it is being shut down. Confusion ensues.

---
 drivers/block/loop.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1576,9 +1576,8 @@ out:
 	return err;
 }
 
-static void lo_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
+static void __lo_release(struct loop_device *lo)
 {
-	struct loop_device *lo = disk->private_data;
 	int err;
 
 	if (atomic_dec_return(&lo->lo_refcnt))

@@ -1605,6 +1604,13 @@ static void lo_release(struct gendisk *d
 	mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
 }
 
+static void lo_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&loop_index_mutex);
+	__lo_release(disk->private_data);
+	mutex_unlock(&loop_index_mutex);
+}
+
 static const struct block_device_operations lo_fops = {
 	.owner =	THIS_MODULE,
 	.open =		lo_open,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/futex-fix-owner_dead-fixup.patch queue-4.14/loop-fix-concurrent-lo_open-lo_release.patch