From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:06:24 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Fix invalid access errors in blk_lookup_devt X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc6~27 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d5791d13b1d45542895104edf4b09476d5ad24b0;p=linux-2.6 Fix invalid access errors in blk_lookup_devt Commit 30f2f0eb4bd2c43d10a8b0d872c6e5ad8f31c9a0 ("block: do_mounts - accept root=") extended blk_lookup_devt() to be able to look up partitions that had not yet been registered, but in the process made the assumption that the '&block_class.devices' list only contains disk devices and that you can do 'dev_to_disk(dev)' on them. That isn't actually true. The block_class device list also contains the partitions we've discovered so far, and you can't just do a 'dev_to_disk()' on those. So make sure to only work on devices that block/genhd.c has registered itself, something we can test by checking the 'dev->type' member. This makes the loop in blk_lookup_devt() match the other such loops in this file. [ We may want to do an alternate version that knows to handle _either_ whole-disk devices or partitions, but for now this is the minimal fix for a series of crashes reported by Mariusz Kozlowski in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/25/25 and Ingo in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/9/39 ] Reported-by: Mariusz Kozlowski Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati Acked-by: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 129ad939f9..b922d4801c 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -660,6 +660,8 @@ dev_t blk_lookup_devt(const char *name, int part) mutex_lock(&block_class_lock); list_for_each_entry(dev, &block_class.devices, node) { + if (dev->type != &disk_type) + continue; if (strcmp(dev->bus_id, name) == 0) { struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);