[PATCH 2.4.22-pre] nbd: fix race conditions

From: Paul Clements
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 17:17:42 EST


This patch is similar to one I posted yesterday for 2.6. It fixes the
following race conditions in nbd:

1) adds locking and properly orders the code in NBD_CLEAR_SOCK to
eliminate races with other code

2) adds an lo->sock check to nbd_clear_que to eliminate races between
do_nbd_request and nbd_clear_que, which resulted in the dequeuing of
active requests

3) adds an lo->sock check to NBD_DO_IT to eliminate races with
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK, which caused an Oops when "nbd-client -d" was called


Marcelo,

If we can get this into 2.4.22, that would be great. I know there's at
least one person who's consistently getting oopses with nbd.

Thanks,
Paul--- linux-2.4.21-PRISTINE/drivers/block/nbd.c Fri Jun 13 10:51:32 2003
+++ linux-2.4.21/drivers/block/nbd.c Sat Aug 9 13:25:49 2003
@@ -428,23 +428,24 @@ static int nbd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
return 0 ;

case NBD_CLEAR_SOCK:
+ error = 0;
+ down(&lo->tx_lock);
+ lo->sock = NULL;
+ up(&lo->tx_lock);
+ spin_lock(&lo->queue_lock);
+ file = lo->file;
+ lo->file = NULL;
+ spin_unlock(&lo->queue_lock);
nbd_clear_que(lo);
spin_lock(&lo->queue_lock);
if (!list_empty(&lo->queue_head)) {
- spin_unlock(&lo->queue_lock);
- printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: Some requests are in progress -> can not turn off.\n");
- return -EBUSY;
- }
- file = lo->file;
- if (!file) {
- spin_unlock(&lo->queue_lock);
- return -EINVAL;
+ printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: disconnect: some requests are in progress -> please try again.\n");
+ error = -EBUSY;
}
- lo->file = NULL;
- lo->sock = NULL;
spin_unlock(&lo->queue_lock);
- fput(file);
- return 0;
+ if (file)
+ fput(file);
+ return error;
case NBD_SET_SOCK:
if (lo->file)
return -EBUSY;
@@ -491,9 +492,12 @@ static int nbd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
* there should be a more generic interface rather than
* calling socket ops directly here */
down(&lo->tx_lock);
- printk(KERN_WARNING "nbd: shutting down socket\n");
- lo->sock->ops->shutdown(lo->sock, SEND_SHUTDOWN|RCV_SHUTDOWN);
- lo->sock = NULL;
+ if (lo->sock) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "nbd: shutting down socket\n");
+ lo->sock->ops->shutdown(lo->sock,
+ SEND_SHUTDOWN|RCV_SHUTDOWN);
+ lo->sock = NULL;
+ }
up(&lo->tx_lock);
spin_lock(&lo->queue_lock);
file = lo->file;
@@ -505,6 +509,13 @@ static int nbd_ioctl(struct inode *inode
fput(file);
return lo->harderror;
case NBD_CLEAR_QUE:
+ down(&lo->tx_lock);
+ if (lo->sock) {
+ up(&lo->tx_lock);
+ return 0; /* probably should be error, but that would
+ * break "nbd-client -d", so just return 0 */
+ }
+ up(&lo->tx_lock);
nbd_clear_que(lo);
return 0;
#ifdef PARANOIA