dm thin: fix use-after-free in metadata_pre_commit_callback

dm-thin uses struct pool to hold the state of the pool. There may be
multiple pool_c's pointing to a given pool, each pool_c represents a
loaded target. pool_c's may be created and destroyed arbitrarily and the
pool contains a reference count of pool_c's pointing to it.

Since commit 694cfe7f31db3 ("dm thin: Flush data device before
committing metadata") a pointer to pool_c is passed to
dm_pool_register_pre_commit_callback and this function stores it in
pmd->pre_commit_context. If this pool_c is freed, but pool is not
(because there is another pool_c referencing it), we end up in a
situation where pmd->pre_commit_context structure points to freed
pool_c. It causes a crash in metadata_pre_commit_callback.

Fix this by moving the dm_pool_register_pre_commit_callback() from
pool_ctr() to pool_preresume(). This way the in-core thin-pool metadata
is only ever armed with callback data whose lifetime matches the
active thin-pool target.

In should be noted that this fix preserves the ability to load a
thin-pool table that uses a different data block device (that contains
the same data) -- though it is unclear if that capability is still
useful and/or needed.

Fixes: 694cfe7f31db3 ("dm thin: Flush data device before committing metadata")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 57626c27a54b..a2bb2622cdbd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -3408,10 +3408,6 @@ static int pool_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
 	if (r)
 		goto out_flags_changed;
 
-	dm_pool_register_pre_commit_callback(pt->pool->pmd,
-					     metadata_pre_commit_callback,
-					     pt);
-
 	pt->callbacks.congested_fn = pool_is_congested;
 	dm_table_add_target_callbacks(ti->table, &pt->callbacks);
 
@@ -3574,6 +3570,9 @@ static int pool_preresume(struct dm_target *ti)
 	if (r)
 		return r;
 
+	dm_pool_register_pre_commit_callback(pool->pmd,
+					     metadata_pre_commit_callback, pt);
+
 	r = maybe_resize_data_dev(ti, &need_commit1);
 	if (r)
 		return r;