[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e4c2359a803acd26a0298597b7359e00655a04cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:05:36 -0600
Subject: block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime

commit 2da78092dda13f1efd26edbbf99a567776913750 upstream.

Releases the dev_t minor when all references are closed to prevent
another device from acquiring the same major/minor.

Since the partition's release may be invoked from call_rcu's soft-irq
context, the ext_dev_idr's mutex had to be replaced with a spinlock so
as not so sleep.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 block/genhd.c             | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 block/partition-generic.c |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 791f419..09da5e4 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ struct kobject *block_depr;
 /* for extended dynamic devt allocation, currently only one major is used */
 #define NR_EXT_DEVT		(1 << MINORBITS)

-/* For extended devt allocation.  ext_devt_mutex prevents look up
+/* For extended devt allocation.  ext_devt_lock prevents look up
  * results from going away underneath its user.
  */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(ext_devt_mutex);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ext_devt_lock);
 static DEFINE_IDR(ext_devt_idr);

 static struct device_type disk_type;
@@ -420,9 +420,13 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *part, dev_t *devt)
 	}

 	/* allocate ext devt */
-	mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex);
-	idx = idr_alloc(&ext_devt_idr, part, 0, NR_EXT_DEVT, GFP_KERNEL);
-	mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+	idr_preload(GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
+	idx = idr_alloc(&ext_devt_idr, part, 0, NR_EXT_DEVT, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
+
+	idr_preload_end();
 	if (idx < 0)
 		return idx == -ENOSPC ? -EBUSY : idx;

@@ -447,9 +451,9 @@ void blk_free_devt(dev_t devt)
 		return;

 	if (MAJOR(devt) == BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR) {
-		mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
 		idr_remove(&ext_devt_idr, blk_mangle_minor(MINOR(devt)));
-		mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
 	}
 }

@@ -665,7 +669,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 		sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(disk_to_dev(disk)));
 	pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(disk_to_dev(disk), false);
 	device_del(disk_to_dev(disk));
-	blk_free_devt(disk_to_dev(disk)->devt);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk);

@@ -690,13 +693,13 @@ struct gendisk *get_gendisk(dev_t devt, int *partno)
 	} else {
 		struct hd_struct *part;

-		mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_lock(&ext_devt_lock);
 		part = idr_find(&ext_devt_idr, blk_mangle_minor(MINOR(devt)));
 		if (part && get_disk(part_to_disk(part))) {
 			*partno = part->partno;
 			disk = part_to_disk(part);
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex);
+		spin_unlock(&ext_devt_lock);
 	}

 	return disk;
@@ -1098,6 +1101,7 @@ static void disk_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);

+	blk_free_devt(dev->devt);
 	disk_release_events(disk);
 	kfree(disk->random);
 	disk_replace_part_tbl(disk, NULL);
diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
index 789cdea..0d9e5f9 100644
--- a/block/partition-generic.c
+++ b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group *part_attr_groups[] = {
 static void part_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct hd_struct *p = dev_to_part(dev);
+	blk_free_devt(dev->devt);
 	free_part_stats(p);
 	free_part_info(p);
 	kfree(p);
@@ -253,7 +254,6 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
 	rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->last_lookup, NULL);
 	kobject_put(part->holder_dir);
 	device_del(part_to_dev(part));
-	blk_free_devt(part_devt(part));

 	hd_struct_put(part);
 }
--
1.9.1