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Kairui Song be48c412f6 zram: refuse to use zero sized block device as backing device
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: 013bf95a83 ("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>
2024-12-18 19:04:44 -08:00
arch mm: introduce cpu_icache_is_aliasing() across all architectures 2024-12-18 19:04:43 -08:00
block block: Fix potential deadlock while freezing queue and acquiring sysfs_lock 2024-12-13 10:51:58 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: rsassa-pkcs1 - Copy source data for SG list 2024-12-10 13:34:05 +08:00
Documentation docs/mm: add VMA locks documentation 2024-12-18 19:04:41 -08:00
drivers zram: refuse to use zero sized block device as backing device 2024-12-18 19:04:44 -08:00
fs mm: use aligned address in clear_gigantic_page() 2024-12-18 19:04:42 -08:00
include mm: use clear_user_(high)page() for arch with special user folio handling 2024-12-18 19:04:43 -08:00
init - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/rsrc: don't put/free empty buffers 2024-12-12 08:01:52 -07:00
ipc - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
kernel - Prevent incorrect dequeueing of the deadline dlserver helper task and fix 2024-12-15 09:38:03 -08:00
lib - Remove if_not_guard() as it is generating incorrect code 2024-12-09 10:34:41 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: use clear_user_(high)page() for arch with special user folio handling 2024-12-18 19:04:43 -08:00
net BPF fixes: 2024-12-14 12:58:14 -08:00
rust rust: kbuild: set bindgen's Rust target version 2024-12-10 01:06:10 +01:00
samples BPF fixes: 2024-12-06 15:07:48 -08:00
scripts A single fix for a docs-build regression caused by the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() 2024-12-13 09:46:02 -08:00
security Including fixes from can and netfilter. 2024-12-05 10:25:06 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.13 2024-12-12 14:49:35 +01:00
tools selftests/memfd: run sysctl tests when PID namespace support is enabled 2024-12-18 19:04:41 -08:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt VFIO updates for v6.13 2024-11-27 12:57:03 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2024-10-07 21:39:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.13 2024-11-30 13:41:50 -08:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Ying Huang 2024-12-18 19:04:41 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS cgroup: Changes for v6.13 2024-11-20 09:54:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS block-6.13-20241213 2024-12-13 15:10:59 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.13-rc3 2024-12-15 15:58:23 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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