v5.11 changes the blkdev lookup mechanism completely since commit 22ae8ce8b892 ("block: simplify bdev/disk lookup in blkdev_get"), and small part of the change is to unhash part bdev inode when deleting partition. Turns out this kind of change does fix one nasty issue in case of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR:
1) when one partition is deleted & closed, disk_put_part() is always called before bdput(bdev), see blkdev_put(); so the part's devt can be freed & re-used before the inode is dropped
2) then new partition with same devt can be created just before the inode in 1) is dropped, then the old inode/bdev structurein 1) is re-used for this new partition, this way causes use-after-free and kernel panic.
It isn't possible to backport the whole big patchset of "merge struct block_device and struct hd_struct v4" for addressing this issue.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20201128161510.347752-1-hch@lst.de/
So fixes it by unhashing part bdev in delete_partition(), and this way is actually aligned with v5.11+'s behavior.
Backported from the following 5.10.y commit:
5f2f77560591 ("block: unhash blkdev part inode when the part is deleted")
Reported-by: Shiwei Cui cuishw@inspur.com Tested-by: Shiwei Cui cuishw@inspur.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Cc: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com --- block/partition-generic.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c index aee643ce13d1..e69452c1f5ad 100644 --- a/block/partition-generic.c +++ b/block/partition-generic.c @@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno) struct disk_part_tbl *ptbl = rcu_dereference_protected(disk->part_tbl, 1); struct hd_struct *part; + struct block_device *bdev;
if (partno >= ptbl->len) return; @@ -292,6 +293,12 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno) * "in-use" until we really free the gendisk. */ blk_invalidate_devt(part_devt(part)); + + bdev = bdget(part_devt(part)); + if (bdev) { + remove_inode_hash(bdev->bd_inode); + bdput(bdev); + } hd_struct_kill(part); }