From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: Sun Ke <sunke32@huawei.com>, axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, nbd@other.debian.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix potential NULL pointer fault in connect and disconnect process
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 09:18:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875eaffb-d1e1-2d7e-09c9-81bab345e707@toxicpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200117115005.37006-1-sunke32@huawei.com>
On 1/17/20 6:50 AM, Sun Ke wrote:
> Connect and disconnect a nbd device repeatedly, will cause
> NULL pointer fault.
>
> It will appear by the steps:
> 1. Connect the nbd device and disconnect it, but now nbd device
> is not disconnected totally.
> 2. Connect the same nbd device again immediately, it will fail
> in nbd_start_device with a EBUSY return value.
> 3. Wait a second to make sure the last config_refs is reduced
> and run nbd_config_put to disconnect the nbd device totally.
> 4. Start another process to open the nbd_device, config_refs
> will increase and at the same time disconnect it.
>
> To fix it, add a NBD_HAS_STARTED flag. Set it in nbd_start_device_ioctl
> and nbd_genl_connect if nbd device is started successfully.
> Clear it in nbd_config_put. Test it in nbd_genl_disconnect and
> nbd_genl_reconfigure.
I don't doubt what you are seeing, but what exactly are we NULL pointer
dereferencing? I can't quite figure it out from the steps.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sun Ke <sunke32@huawei.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/nbd.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> index b4607dd96185..ddd364e208ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
> @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct link_dead_args {
>
> #define NBD_DESTROY_ON_DISCONNECT 0
> #define NBD_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED 1
> +#define NBD_HAS_STARTED 2
>
> struct nbd_config {
> u32 flags;
> @@ -1215,6 +1216,7 @@ static void nbd_config_put(struct nbd_device *nbd)
> nbd->disk->queue->limits.discard_alignment = 0;
> blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(nbd->disk->queue, UINT_MAX);
> blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue);
> + clear_bit(NBD_HAS_STARTED, &nbd->flags);
>
> mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
> nbd_put(nbd);
> @@ -1290,6 +1292,8 @@ static int nbd_start_device_ioctl(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct block_device *b
> ret = nbd_start_device(nbd);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> + else
> + set_bit(NBD_HAS_STARTED, &nbd->flags);
The else is superfluous here. Thanks,
Josef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-17 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-17 11:50 [PATCH] nbd: fix potential NULL pointer fault in connect and disconnect process Sun Ke
2020-01-17 14:18 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2020-01-19 6:27 ` sunke (E)
2020-01-17 17:32 ` Mike Christie
2020-01-19 7:10 ` sunke (E)
2020-02-10 3:16 ` Mike Christie
2020-02-10 9:15 ` sunke (E)
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