dm ioctl: fix nested locking in table_clear() to remove deadlock concern
commit 3d32aaa7 upstream. syzkaller found the following problematic rwsem locking (with write lock already held): down_read+0x9d/0x450 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1509 dm_get_inactive_table+0x2b/0xc0 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:773 __dev_status+0x4fd/0x7c0 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:844 table_clear+0x197/0x280 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:1537 In table_clear, it first acquires a write lock https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2/source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c#L1520 down_write(&_hash_lock); Then before the lock is released at L1539, there is a path shown above: table_clear -> __dev_status -> dm_get_inactive_table -> down_read https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.2/source/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c#L773 down_read(&_hash_lock); It tries to acquire the same read lock again, resulting in the deadlock problem. Fix this by moving table_clear()'s __dev_status() call to after its up_write(&_hash_lock); Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Zheng Zhang <zheng.zhang@email.ucr.edu> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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