In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rbd: eliminate a race in lock_dwork draining on unmap Given how rbd_lo

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rbd: eliminate a race in lock_dwork draining on unmap

Given how rbd_lock_add_request() and rbd_img_exclusive_lock() are
written, lock_dwork may be (re)queued more than it's actually needed:
for example in case a new I/O request comes in while we are in the
middle of rbd_acquire_lock() on behalf of another I/O request. This is
expected and with rbd_release_lock() preemptively canceling lock_dwork
is benign under normal operation.

A more problematic example is maybe_kick_acquire():

 1if (have_requests || delayed_work_pending(&rbd_dev->lock_dwork)) {
 2        dout("%s rbd_dev %p kicking lock_dwork\n", __func__, rbd_dev);
 3        mod_delayed_work(rbd_dev->task_wq, &rbd_dev->lock_dwork, 0);
 4}

It's not unrealistic for lock_dwork to get canceled right after
delayed_work_pending() returns true and for mod_delayed_work() to
requeue it right there anyway. This is a classic TOCTOU race.

When it comes to unmapping the image, there is an implicit assumption
of no self-initiated exclusive lock activity past the point of return
from rbd_dev_image_unlock() which unlocks the lock if it happens to be
held. This unlock is assumed to be final and lock_dwork (as well as
all other exclusive lock tasks, really) isn't expected to get queued
again. However, lock_dwork is canceled only in cancel_tasks_sync()
(i.e. later in the unmap sequence) and on top of that the cancellation
can get in effect nullified by maybe_kick_acquire(). This may result
in rbd_acquire_lock() executing after rbd_dev_device_release() and
rbd_dev_image_release() run and free and/or reset a bunch of things.
One of the possible failure modes then is a violated

 1rbd_assert(rbd_image_format_valid(rbd_dev->image_format));

in rbd_dev_header_info() which is called via rbd_dev_refresh() from
rbd_post_acquire_action().

Redo exclusive lock task draining to provide saner semantics and try
to meet the assumptions around rbd_dev_image_unlock().