dm ioctl: fix nested locking in table_clear() to remove deadlock concern
commit 3d32aaa7e66d5c1479a3c31d6c2c5d45dd0d3b89 upstream.
syzkaller found the following problematic rwsem locking (with write
lock already held):
down_read+0x9d/0x450 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1509
dm_get_inactive_table+0x2b/0xc0 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:773
__dev_status+0x4fd/0x7c0 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:844
table_clear+0x197/0x280 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:1537
In table_clear, it first acquires a write lock
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2/source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c#L1520
down_write(&_hash_lock);
Then before the lock is released at L1539, there is a path shown above:
table_clear -> __dev_status -> dm_get_inactive_table -> down_read
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2/source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c#L773
down_read(&_hash_lock);
It tries to acquire the same read lock again, resulting in the deadlock
problem.
Fix this by moving table_clear()'s __dev_status() call to after its
up_write(&_hash_lock);
BUG=b/290186419
TEST=None
RELEASE_NOTE=Fix CVE-2023-2269 in the kernel.
cos-patch: security-moderate
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Zheng Zhang <zheng.zhang@email.ucr.edu>
Change-Id: If4153484430b681e1afc6fa248920e8cc65e5fca
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-on: https://cos-review.googlesource.com/c/third_party/kernel/+/52410
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <ovt@google.com>
Tested-by: Cusky Presubmit Bot <presubmit@cos-infra-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
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