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md: fix a lock order reversal in md_alloc

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Commit b0140891a8 ("md: Fix race when creating a new md device.")
not only moved assigning mddev->gendisk before calling add_disk, which
fixes the races described in the commit log, but also added a
mddev->open_mutex critical section over add_disk and creation of the
md kobj.  Adding a kobject after add_disk is racy vs deleting the gendisk
right after adding it, but md already prevents against that by holding
a mddev->active reference.

On the other hand taking this lock added a lock order reversal with what
is not disk->open_mutex (used to be bdev->bd_mutex when the commit was
added) for partition devices, which need that lock for the internal open
for the partition scan, and a recent commit also takes it for
non-partitioned devices, leading to further lockdep splatter.

Fixes: b0140891a8 ("md: Fix race when creating a new md device.")
Fixes: d626338735 ("block: support delayed holder registration")
Reported-by: syzbot+fadc0aaf497e6a493b9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: syzbot+fadc0aaf497e6a493b9f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Christoph Hellwig 2021-09-01 13:38:29 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 42d3711c23
commit 2b5befcd40
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@ -5535,10 +5535,6 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
*/
disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT;
mddev->gendisk = disk;
/* As soon as we call add_disk(), another thread could get
* through to md_open, so make sure it doesn't get too far
*/
mutex_lock(&mddev->open_mutex);
add_disk(disk);
error = kobject_add(&mddev->kobj, &disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "%s", "md");
@ -5553,7 +5549,6 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name)
if (mddev->kobj.sd &&
sysfs_create_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_bitmap_group))
pr_debug("pointless warning\n");
mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
abort:
mutex_unlock(&disks_mutex);
if (!error && mddev->kobj.sd) {