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authorGravatar NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> 2017-02-06 13:41:39 +1100
committerGravatar Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> 2017-02-13 09:17:53 -0800
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md: ensure md devices are freed before module is unloaded.
Commit: cbd199837750 ("md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evms") change mddev_put() so that it would not destroy an md device while ->ctime was non-zero. Unfortunately, we didn't make sure to clear ->ctime when unloading the module, so it is possible for an md device to remain after module unload. An attempt to open such a device will trigger an invalid memory reference in: get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup -> exact_lock -> get_disk when tring to access disk->fops, which was in the module that has been removed. So ensure we clear ->ctime in md_exit(), and explain how that is useful, as it isn't immediately obvious when looking at the code. Fixes: cbd199837750 ("md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evms") Tested-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
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