From: Vegard Nossum Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:00:14 +0000 (+0200) Subject: xen/blkback: fix reference counting X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0ac18ce1a3d607ad650fd4b9d371be75a5c8e3a;p=linux-edison.git xen/blkback: fix reference counting commit ea5ec76d76da9279d12027c1828544c5ccbe7932 upstream. If the permission check fails, we drop a reference to the blkif without having taken it in the first place. The bug was introduced in commit 604c499cbbcc3d5fe5fb8d53306aa0fae1990109 (xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD). Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c index d81dfca755d..03dd4aa612d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c @@ -649,6 +649,8 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif, unsigned long secure; struct phys_req preq; + xen_blkif_get(blkif); + preq.sector_number = req->u.discard.sector_number; preq.nr_sects = req->u.discard.nr_sectors; @@ -661,7 +663,6 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif, } blkif->st_ds_req++; - xen_blkif_get(blkif); secure = (blkif->vbd.discard_secure && (req->u.discard.flag & BLKIF_DISCARD_SECURE)) ? BLKDEV_DISCARD_SECURE : 0;