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block: Fix race during disk initialization

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When a new disk is being discovered, add_disk() first ties the bdev to gendisk
(via register_disk()->blkdev_get()) and only after that calls
bdi_register_bdev(). Because register_disk() also creates disk's kobject, it
can happen that userspace manages to open and modify the device's data (or
inode) before its BDI is properly initialized leading to a warning in
__mark_inode_dirty().

Fix the problem by registering BDI early enough.

This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 2010-09-16 20:36:36 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 2786c4e5e5
commit 01ea50638b
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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block/genhd.c
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@ -541,13 +541,15 @@ void add_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
disk->major = MAJOR(devt);
disk->first_minor = MINOR(devt);
/* Register BDI before referencing it from bdev */
bdi = &disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
bdi_register_dev(bdi, disk_devt(disk));
blk_register_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors, NULL,
exact_match, exact_lock, disk);
register_disk(disk);
blk_register_queue(disk);
bdi = &disk->queue->backing_dev_info;
bdi_register_dev(bdi, disk_devt(disk));
retval = sysfs_create_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, &bdi->dev->kobj,
"bdi");
WARN_ON(retval);