[RFC PATCH v1 8/8] zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access

Jiang Liu liuj97 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 3 15:42:20 UTC 2013


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().

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
index 8cb7822..e239d94 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
@@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ 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);
 }
-- 
1.8.1.2




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