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H A Ddm-snap.c22aa66a3 Tue Feb 17 13:34:00 CST 2015 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload

When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero. Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.

pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&s->lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences s->origin. These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.

This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
22aa66a3 Tue Feb 17 13:34:00 CST 2015 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload

When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero. Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.

pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&s->lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences s->origin. These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.

This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org