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authorJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>2013-06-07 00:07:27 +0800
committerSimon Shields <keepcalm444@gmail.com>2016-06-12 21:19:42 +1000
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zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access
Use zram->init_lock to protect access to zram->meta, otherwise it may cause invalid memory access if zram->meta has been freed by zram_reset_device(). This issue may be triggered by: Thread 1: while true; do cat mem_used_total; done Thread 2: while true; do echo 8M > disksize; echo 1 > reset; done Change-Id: Id6105b37f083cfd41d9885a251aeef61f72bb92f Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Git-commit: 5863e10b441e7ea4b492f930f1be180a97d026f3 Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
index 68ccad121f3..55d5281fab7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
@@ -195,8 +195,10 @@ static ssize_t mem_used_total_show(struct device *dev,
struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
struct zram_meta *meta = zram->meta;
+ down_read(&zram->init_lock);
if (zram->init_done)
val = zs_get_total_size_bytes(meta->mem_pool);
+ up_read(&zram->init_lock);
return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", val);
}