ext4: fix panic on module unload when stopping lazyinit thread

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27652

If the lazyinit thread is running, the teardown function
ext4_destroy_lazyinit_thread() has problems:

        ext4_clear_request_list();
        while (ext4_li_info->li_task) {
                wake_up(&ext4_li_info->li_wait_daemon);
                wait_event(ext4_li_info->li_wait_task,
                           ext4_li_info->li_task == NULL);
        }

Clearing the request list will cause the thread to exit and free
ext4_li_info, so then we're waiting on something which is getting
freed.

Fix this up by making the thread respond to kthread_stop, and exit,
without the need to wait for that exit in some other homegrown way.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 48ce561fafac..3d8cf2cab379 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
                        const char *dev_name, void *data);
 static void ext4_destroy_lazyinit_thread(void);
 static void ext4_unregister_li_request(struct super_block *sb);
+static void ext4_clear_request_list(void);
 
 #if !defined(CONFIG_EXT3_FS) && !defined(CONFIG_EXT3_FS_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23)
 static struct file_system_type ext3_fs_type = {
@@ -2716,6 +2717,8 @@ static void ext4_unregister_li_request(struct super_block *sb)
         mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx);
 }
 
+static struct task_struct *ext4_lazyinit_task;
+
 /*
  * This is the function where ext4lazyinit thread lives. It walks
  * through the request list searching for next scheduled filesystem.
@@ -2784,6 +2787,10 @@ cont_thread:
                 if (time_before(jiffies, next_wakeup))
                         schedule();
                 finish_wait(&eli->li_wait_daemon, &wait);
+                if (kthread_should_stop()) {
+                        ext4_clear_request_list();
+                        goto exit_thread;
+                }
         }
 
 exit_thread:
@@ -2808,6 +2815,7 @@ exit_thread:
         wake_up(&eli->li_wait_task);
 
         kfree(ext4_li_info);
+        ext4_lazyinit_task = NULL;
         ext4_li_info = NULL;
         mutex_unlock(&ext4_li_mtx);
 
@@ -2830,11 +2838,10 @@ static void ext4_clear_request_list(void)
 
 static int ext4_run_lazyinit_thread(void)
 {
-        struct task_struct *t;
-
-        t = kthread_run(ext4_lazyinit_thread, ext4_li_info, "ext4lazyinit");
-        if (IS_ERR(t)) {
-                int err = PTR_ERR(t);
+        ext4_lazyinit_task = kthread_run(ext4_lazyinit_thread,
+                                         ext4_li_info, "ext4lazyinit");
+        if (IS_ERR(ext4_lazyinit_task)) {
+                int err = PTR_ERR(ext4_lazyinit_task);
                 ext4_clear_request_list();
                 del_timer_sync(&ext4_li_info->li_timer);
                 kfree(ext4_li_info);
@@ -2985,16 +2992,10 @@ static void ext4_destroy_lazyinit_thread(void)
          * If thread exited earlier
          * there's nothing to be done.
          */
-        if (!ext4_li_info)
+        if (!ext4_li_info || !ext4_lazyinit_task)
                 return;
 
-        ext4_clear_request_list();
-
-        while (ext4_li_info->li_task) {
-                wake_up(&ext4_li_info->li_wait_daemon);
-                wait_event(ext4_li_info->li_wait_task,
-                           ext4_li_info->li_task == NULL);
-        }
+        kthread_stop(ext4_lazyinit_task);
 }
 
 static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)