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zram: refuse to use zero sized block device as backing device
authorKairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:57:15 +0000 (00:57 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:02:13 +0000 (14:02 +0100)
commit6d91e90cfc34409bfb619ca43eb24559f767262e
treeb3f0fe0436541e670f141d242a07673116737dfd
parentcbe4eef73d0e24452355325826d803b7d8f262ad
zram: refuse to use zero sized block device as backing device

commit be48c412f6ebf38849213c19547bc6d5b692b5e5 upstream.

Patch series "zram: fix backing device setup issue", v2.

This series fixes two bugs of backing device setting:

- ZRAM should reject using a zero sized (or the uninitialized ZRAM
  device itself) as the backing device.
- Fix backing device leaking when removing a uninitialized ZRAM
  device.

This patch (of 2):

Setting a zero sized block device as backing device is pointless, and one
can easily create a recursive loop by setting the uninitialized ZRAM
device itself as its own backing device by (zram0 is uninitialized):

    echo /dev/zram0 > /sys/block/zram0/backing_dev

It's definitely a wrong config, and the module will pin itself, kernel
should refuse doing so in the first place.

By refusing to use zero sized device we avoided misuse cases including
this one above.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241209165717.94215-1-ryncsn@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241209165717.94215-2-ryncsn@gmail.com
Fixes: 013bf95a83ec ("zram: add interface to specif backing device")
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Reported-by: Desheng Wu <deshengwu@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c