[PATCH 4.4 096/138] block: fix bdi vs gendisk lifetime mismatch

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 10:05:15 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

commit df08c32ce3be5be138c1dbfcba203314a3a7cd6f upstream.

The name for a bdi of a gendisk is derived from the gendisk's devt.
However, since the gendisk is destroyed before the bdi it leaves a
window where a new gendisk could dynamically reuse the same devt while a
bdi with the same name is still live. Arrange for the bdi to hold a
reference against its "owner" disk device while it is registered.
Otherwise we can hit sysfs duplicate name collisions like the following:

WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 2078 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/259:1'

Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8, BIOS P79 05/06/2015
0000000000000286 0000000002c04ad5 ffff88006f24f970 ffffffff8134caec
ffff88006f24f9c0 0000000000000000 ffff88006f24f9b0 ffffffff8108c351
0000001f0000000c ffff88105d236000 ffff88105d1031e0 ffff8800357427f8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8134caec>] dump_stack+0x63/0x87
[<ffffffff8108c351>] __warn+0xd1/0xf0
[<ffffffff8108c3cf>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
[<ffffffff812a0d34>] sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80
[<ffffffff812a0e1e>] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x7e/0x90
[<ffffffff8134faaa>] kobject_add_internal+0xaa/0x320
[<ffffffff81358d4e>] ? vsnprintf+0x34e/0x4d0
[<ffffffff8134ff55>] kobject_add+0x75/0xd0
[<ffffffff816e66b2>] ? mutex_lock+0x12/0x2f
[<ffffffff8148b0a5>] device_add+0x125/0x610
[<ffffffff8148b788>] device_create_groups_vargs+0xd8/0x100
[<ffffffff8148b7cc>] device_create_vargs+0x1c/0x20
[<ffffffff811b775c>] bdi_register+0x8c/0x180
[<ffffffff811b7877>] bdi_register_dev+0x27/0x30
[<ffffffff813317f5>] add_disk+0x175/0x4a0

Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fixed up missing 0 return in bdi_register_owner().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>

---
block/genhd.c | 2 +-
include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 1 +
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 1 +
mm/backing-dev.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ void add_disk(struct gendisk *disk)

/* Register BDI before referencing it from bdev */
bdi = &disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
- bdi_register_dev(bdi, disk_devt(disk));
+ bdi_register_owner(bdi, disk_to_dev(disk));

blk_register_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors, NULL,
exact_match, exact_lock, disk);
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info {
wait_queue_head_t wb_waitq;

struct device *dev;
+ struct device *owner;

struct timer_list laptop_mode_wb_timer;

--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ __printf(3, 4)
int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
const char *fmt, ...);
int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
+int bdi_register_owner(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *owner);
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);

int __must_check bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *);
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -825,6 +825,20 @@ int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register_dev);

+int bdi_register_owner(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *owner)
+{
+ int rc;
+
+ rc = bdi_register(bdi, NULL, "%u:%u", MAJOR(owner->devt),
+ MINOR(owner->devt));
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+ bdi->owner = owner;
+ get_device(owner);
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register_owner);
+
/*
* Remove bdi from bdi_list, and ensure that it is no longer visible
*/
@@ -849,6 +863,11 @@ void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_i
device_unregister(bdi->dev);
bdi->dev = NULL;
}
+
+ if (bdi->owner) {
+ put_device(bdi->owner);
+ bdi->owner = NULL;
+ }
}

void bdi_exit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)