dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload

When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero.  Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.

pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&s->lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences  s->origin.  These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.

This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
index 864b03f47727..8b204ae216ab 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -1432,8 +1432,6 @@ out:
                 full_bio->bi_private = pe->full_bio_private;
                 atomic_inc(&full_bio->bi_remaining);
         }
-        free_pending_exception(pe);
-
         increment_pending_exceptions_done_count();
 
         up_write(&s->lock);
@@ -1450,6 +1448,8 @@ out:
         }
 
         retry_origin_bios(s, origin_bios);
+
+        free_pending_exception(pe);
 }
 
 static void commit_callback(void *context, int success)