block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk

Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

  process A                  process B
  ----------------------------------------------
  sys_open
    __blkdev_get
      sd_open
        returns -ENOMEDIUM
                             scsi_remove_device
                               <scsi_device torn down>
      rescan_partitions
        sd_revalidate_disk
          <oops>
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052

This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.

Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
index fe23ee768589..e61d3192448e 100644
--- a/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ extern char *disk_name (struct gendisk *hd, int partno, char *buf);
 
 extern int disk_expand_part_tbl(struct gendisk *disk, int target);
 extern int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev);
+extern int invalidate_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev);
 extern struct hd_struct * __must_check add_partition(struct gendisk *disk,
                                                      int partno, sector_t start,
                                                      sector_t len, int flags,