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dm: always update the array size in realloc_argv on success
authorBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:17:16 +0000 (00:17 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 9 May 2025 07:39:37 +0000 (09:39 +0200)
commit4df67fb22782e54dcff0803f519d9b7d3a8b3367
tree85f016e19fdb289c686819f620eb48f5d20f8087
parent526530ec005840d29aff019d882fb9632b3a5e37
dm: always update the array size in realloc_argv on success

commit 5a2a6c428190f945c5cbf5791f72dbea83e97f66 upstream.

realloc_argv() was only updating the array size if it was called with
old_argv already allocated. The first time it was called to create an
argv array, it would allocate the array but return the array size as
zero. dm_split_args() would think that it couldn't store any arguments
in the array and would call realloc_argv() again, causing it to
reallocate the initial slots (this time using GPF_KERNEL) and finally
return a size. Aside from being wasteful, this could cause deadlocks on
targets that need to process messages without starting new IO. Instead,
realloc_argv should always update the allocated array size on success.

Fixes: a0651926553c ("dm table: don't copy from a NULL pointer in realloc_argv()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm-table.c