[PATCH v2 08/10] zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Tue Jun 04 2013 - 12:09:05 EST


Use zram->init_lock to protect access to zram->meta, otherwise it
may cause invalid memory access if zram->meta has been freed by
zram_reset_device().

This issue may be triggered by:
Thread 1:
while true; do cat mem_used_total; done
Thread 2:
while true; do echo 8M > disksize; echo 1 > reset; done

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
index 8cb7822..e239d94 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
@@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ static ssize_t mem_used_total_show(struct device *dev,
struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;

+ down_read(&zram->init_lock);
if (zram->init_done)
val = zs_get_total_size_bytes(meta->mem_pool);
+ up_read(&zram->init_lock);

return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", val);
}
--
1.8.1.2

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