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md: don't dereference mddev after export_rdev()
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Except for initial reference, mddev->kobject is referenced by
rdev->kobject, and if the last rdev is freed, there is no guarantee that
mddev is still valid. Hence mddev should not be used anymore after
export_rdev().

This problem can be triggered by following test for mdadm at very
low rate:

New file: mdadm/tests/23rdev-lifetime

devname=${dev0##*/}
devt=`cat /sys/block/$devname/dev`
pid=""
runtime=2

clean_up_test() {
        pill -9 $pid
        echo clear > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state
}

trap 'clean_up_test' EXIT

add_by_sysfs() {
        while true; do
                echo $devt > /sys/block/md0/md/new_dev
        done
}

remove_by_sysfs(){
        while true; do
                echo remove > /sys/block/md0/md/dev-${devname}/state
        done
}

echo md0 > /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_array || die "create md0 failed"

add_by_sysfs &
pid="$pid $!"

remove_by_sysfs &
pid="$pid $!"

sleep $runtime
exit 0

Test cmd:

./test --save-logs --logdir=/tmp/ --keep-going --dev=loop --tests=23rdev-lifetime

Test result:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6bcb: 0000 [#4] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 1292 Comm: test Tainted: G      D W          6.5.0-rc2-00121-g01e55c376936 #562
RIP: 0010:md_wakeup_thread+0x9e/0x320 [md_mod]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 mddev_unlock+0x1b6/0x310 [md_mod]
 rdev_attr_store+0xec/0x190 [md_mod]
 sysfs_kf_write+0x52/0x70
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x19a/0x2a0
 vfs_write+0x3b5/0x770
 ksys_write+0x74/0x150
 __x64_sys_write+0x22/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x40/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Fix this problem by don't dereference mddev after export_rdev().

Fixes: 3ce94ce ("md: fix duplicate filename for rdev")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230825025532.1523008-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Yu Kuai authored and gregkh committed Sep 23, 2023
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions drivers/md/md.c
Expand Up @@ -798,14 +798,14 @@ void mddev_unlock(struct mddev *mddev)
} else
mutex_unlock(&mddev->reconfig_mutex);

md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);

list_for_each_entry_safe(rdev, tmp, &delete, same_set) {
list_del_init(&rdev->same_set);
kobject_del(&rdev->kobj);
export_rdev(rdev, mddev);
}

md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mddev_unlock);

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