loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against eachother

[Kay Sievers]

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other

LOOP_CLR_FD takes lo->lo_ctl_mutex and tries to remove the loop sysfs
files. Sysfs calls show() and waits for lo->lo_ctl_mutex. LOOP_CLR_FD
waits for show() to finish to remove the sysfs file.

  cat /sys/class/block/loop0/loop/backing_file
    mutex_lock_nested+0x176/0x350
    ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop]
    ? loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop]
    loop_attr_do_show_backing_file+0x2f/0xd0 [loop]
    dev_attr_show+0x1b/0x60
    ? sysfs_read_file+0x86/0x1a0
    ? __get_free_pages+0x12/0x50
    sysfs_read_file+0xaf/0x1a0

  ioctl(LOOP_CLR_FD):
    wait_for_common+0x12c/0x180
    ? try_to_wake_up+0x2a0/0x2a0
    wait_for_completion+0x18/0x20
    sysfs_deactivate+0x178/0x180
    ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70
    ? sysfs_addrm_start+0x1d/0x20
    sysfs_addrm_finish+0x43/0x70
    sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x85/0xa0
    sysfs_remove_group+0x59/0x100
    loop_clr_fd+0x1dc/0x3f0 [loop]
    lo_ioctl+0x223/0x7a0 [loop]

Instead of taking the lo_ctl_mutex from sysfs code, take the inner
lo->lo_lock, to protect the access to the backing_file data.

Thanks to Tejun for help debugging and finding a solution.

Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/block/loop.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -743,10 +743,10 @@ static ssize_t loop_attr_backing_file_sh
 	ssize_t ret;
 	char *p = NULL;
 
-	mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
+	spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
 	if (lo->lo_backing_file)
 		p = d_path(&lo->lo_backing_file->f_path, buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1);
-	mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
 
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(p))
 		ret = PTR_ERR(p);
@@ -1000,7 +1000,9 @@ static int loop_clr_fd(struct loop_devic
 
 	kthread_stop(lo->lo_thread);
 
+	spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
 	lo->lo_backing_file = NULL;
+	spin_unlock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
 
 	loop_release_xfer(lo);
 	lo->transfer = NULL;


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