Sneaky as I am, I combine this patch with the fix for an Oops:
On open, raw_open does
filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping =
bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
storing a pointer to bdev stuff.
But on release this pointer stayed, the block device is not
referenced anymore and disappears, and the next open references
undefined stuff.
I checked, and this can actually cause an Oops - scenario:
# raw /dev/raw/raw12 /dev/hdf
# dd if=/dev/raw/raw12 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1
# raw /dev/raw/raw12 0 0
# dd if=/dev/raw/raw12 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1
Oops.
More precisely the problem is that dentry_open does
file_ra_state_init(&f->f_ra, inode->i_mapping);
And file_ra_state_init uses mapping->backing_dev_info->ra_pages.
Ugly, to use so much information about the inode even before
the inode has been opened.
In the patch below I reset i_mapping upon release of the raw device.
Andries
--- diff -u --recursive --new-file -X /linux/dontdiff a/drivers/char/raw.c b/drivers/char/raw.c --- a/drivers/char/raw.c Thu Jan 9 18:07:10 2003 +++ b/drivers/char/raw.c Sat Mar 8 15:24:14 2003 @@ -19,14 +19,16 @@ #include <asm/uaccess.h> +#define MAX_RAW_MINORS 256 + struct raw_device_data { struct block_device *binding; int inuse; }; -static struct raw_device_data raw_devices[256]; +static struct raw_device_data raw_devices[MAX_RAW_MINORS]; static DECLARE_MUTEX(raw_mutex); -static struct file_operations raw_ctl_fops; +static struct file_operations raw_ctl_fops; /* forward dclaration */ /* * Open/close code for raw IO. @@ -85,11 +87,16 @@ { const int minor= minor(inode->i_rdev); struct block_device *bdev; - + down(&raw_mutex); bdev = raw_devices[minor].binding; raw_devices[minor].inuse--; up(&raw_mutex); + + /* Here inode->i_mapping == bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping */ + inode->i_mapping = &inode->i_data; + inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &default_backing_dev_info; + bd_release(bdev); blkdev_put(bdev, BDEV_RAW); return 0; @@ -130,11 +137,13 @@ goto out; err = -EINVAL; - if (rq.raw_minor < 0 || rq.raw_minor > MINORMASK) + if (rq.raw_minor < 0 || rq.raw_minor >= MAX_RAW_MINORS) goto out; rawdev = &raw_devices[rq.raw_minor]; if (command == RAW_SETBIND) { + dev_t dev; + /* * This is like making block devices, so demand the * same capability @@ -151,9 +160,10 @@ */ err = -EINVAL; + dev = MKDEV(rq.block_major, rq.block_minor); if ((rq.block_major == 0 && rq.block_minor != 0) || - rq.block_major > MAX_BLKDEV || - rq.block_minor > MINORMASK) + MAJOR(dev) != rq.block_major || + MINOR(dev) != rq.block_minor) goto out; down(&raw_mutex); @@ -170,10 +180,7 @@ /* unbind */ rawdev->binding = NULL; } else { - kdev_t kdev; - - kdev = mk_kdev(rq.block_major, rq.block_minor); - rawdev->binding = bdget(kdev_t_to_nr(kdev)); + rawdev->binding = bdget(dev); MOD_INC_USE_COUNT; } up(&raw_mutex);- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/