dm io: make sync_io uninterruptible
If someone sends signal to a process performing synchronous dm-io call,
the kernel may crash.
The function sync_io attempts to exit with -EINTR if it has pending signal,
however the structure "io" is allocated on stack, so already submitted io
requests end up touching unallocated stack space and corrupting kernel memory.
sync_io sets its state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, so the signal can't break out
of io_schedule() --- however, if the signal was pending before sync_io entered
while (1) loop, the corruption of kernel memory will happen.
There is no way to cancel in-progress IOs, so the best solution is to ignore
signals at this point.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-io.c b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
index 36e2b5e..e73aabd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-io.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-io.c
@@ -370,16 +370,13 @@
while (1) {
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (!atomic_read(&io.count) || signal_pending(current))
+ if (!atomic_read(&io.count))
break;
io_schedule();
}
set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
- if (atomic_read(&io.count))
- return -EINTR;
-
if (error_bits)
*error_bits = io.error_bits;