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Lars Ellenberg committed 7c752ed3257
drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach Race: drbd_adm_attach() | async drbd_md_endio() | device->ldev is still NULL. | | drbd_md_read( | .endio = drbd_md_endio; | submit; | .... | wait for done == 1; | done = 1; ); | wake_up(); .. lot of other stuff, | .. includeing taking and | ...giving up locks, | .. doing further IO, | .. stuff that takes "some time" | | while in this context, | this is the next statement. | which means this context was scheduled .. only then, finally, | away for "some time". device->ldev = nbc; | | if (device->ldev) | put_ldev() Unlikely, but possible. I was able to provoke it "reliably" by adding an mdelay(500); after the wake_up(). Fixed by moving the if (!NULL) put_ldev() before done = 1; Impact of the bug was that the resulting refcount imbalance could lead to premature destruction of the object, potentially causing a NULL pointer dereference during a subsequent detach. Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>