[PATCH 3.16 049/132] bcache: fix memory corruption in init error path

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Sep 20 2019 - 10:30:33 EST


3.16.74-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Slava Pestov <sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit c9a78332b42cbdcdd386a95192a716b67d1711a4 upstream.

If register_cache_set() failed, we would touch ca->set after
it had already been freed. Also, fix an assertion to catch
this.

Change-Id: I748e5f5b223e2d9b2602075dec2f997cced2394d
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -1365,8 +1365,11 @@ static void cache_set_free(struct closur
bch_journal_free(c);

for_each_cache(ca, c, i)
- if (ca)
+ if (ca) {
+ ca->set = NULL;
+ c->cache[ca->sb.nr_this_dev] = NULL;
kobject_put(&ca->kobj);
+ }

bch_bset_sort_state_free(&c->sort);
free_pages((unsigned long) c->uuids, ilog2(bucket_pages(c)));
@@ -1804,8 +1807,10 @@ void bch_cache_release(struct kobject *k
struct cache *ca = container_of(kobj, struct cache, kobj);
unsigned i;

- if (ca->set)
+ if (ca->set) {
+ BUG_ON(ca->set->cache[ca->sb.nr_this_dev] != ca);
ca->set->cache[ca->sb.nr_this_dev] = NULL;
+ }

bio_split_pool_free(&ca->bio_split_hook);

@@ -1868,7 +1873,7 @@ static int cache_alloc(struct cache_sb *
}

static int register_cache(struct cache_sb *sb, struct page *sb_page,
- struct block_device *bdev, struct cache *ca)
+ struct block_device *bdev, struct cache *ca)
{
char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
const char *err = NULL; /* must be set for any error case */