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Subject[PATCH 1/7] zram: fix race between reset and flushing pending work
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Dan and Sergey reported that there is a racy between reset and
flushing of pending work so that it could make oops by freeing
zram->meta in reset while zram_slot_free can access zram->meta
if new request is adding during the race window.

This patch moves flush after taking init_lock so it prevents
new request so that it closes the race.

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index f9711c5..213dfc1 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -553,14 +553,14 @@ static void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram, bool reset_capacity)
size_t index;
struct zram_meta *meta;

- flush_work(&zram->free_work);
-
down_write(&zram->init_lock);
if (!zram->init_done) {
up_write(&zram->init_lock);
return;
}

+ flush_work(&zram->free_work);
+
meta = zram->meta;
zram->init_done = 0;

--
1.8.4.3


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