From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
To: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:SOFTWARE RAID (Multiple Disks) SUPPORT"
<linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:DEVICE-MAPPER (LVM)" <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com>,
Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>,
kernel@gpiccoli.net, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in generic_make_request()
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 06:04:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACVXFVNsOoJqipwivoCbH1jNs_5b0g9E6HWhh6kXYTzetALzQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430223722.20845-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com>
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:38 AM Guilherme G. Piccoli
<gpiccoli@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Commit 37f9579f4c31 ("blk-mq: Avoid that submitting a bio concurrently
> with device removal triggers a crash") introduced a NULL pointer
> dereference in generic_make_request(). The patch sets q to NULL and
> enter_succeeded to false; right after, there's an 'if (enter_succeeded)'
> which is not taken, and then the 'else' will dereference q in
> blk_queue_dying(q).
>
> This patch just moves the 'q = NULL' to a point in which it won't trigger
> the oops, although the semantics of this NULLification remains untouched.
>
> A simple test case/reproducer is as follows:
> a) Build kernel v5.1-rc7 with CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=n.
>
> b) Create a raid0 md array with 2 NVMe devices as members, and mount it
> with an ext4 filesystem.
>
> c) Run the following oneliner (supposing the raid0 is mounted in /mnt):
> (dd of=/mnt/tmp if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=999 &); sleep 0.3;
> echo 1 > /sys/block/nvme0n1/device/device/remove
> (whereas nvme0n1 is the 2nd array member)
>
> This will trigger the following oops:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> RIP: 0010:generic_make_request+0x32b/0x400
> Call Trace:
> submit_bio+0x73/0x140
> ext4_io_submit+0x4d/0x60
> ext4_writepages+0x626/0xe90
> do_writepages+0x4b/0xe0
> [...]
>
> This patch has no functional changes and preserves the md/raid0 behavior
> when a member is removed before kernel v4.17.
>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17
> Fixes: 37f9579f4c31 ("blk-mq: Avoid that submitting a bio concurrently with device removal triggers a crash")
BTW, the legacy IO request path is removed since 5.0, the above fault
commit can be
removed as done by the following patches:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190515030310.20393-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/T/#t
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
> ---
> block/blk-core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> index a55389ba8779..e21856a7f3fa 100644
> --- a/block/blk-core.c
> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> @@ -1076,7 +1076,6 @@ blk_qc_t generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
> flags = BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT;
> if (blk_queue_enter(q, flags) < 0) {
> enter_succeeded = false;
> - q = NULL;
> }
Please remove '{}'.
> }
>
> @@ -1108,6 +1107,7 @@ blk_qc_t generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
> bio_wouldblock_error(bio);
> else
> bio_io_error(bio);
> + q = NULL;
> }
> bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list_on_stack[0]);
> } while (bio);
> --
> 2.21.0
>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Thanks,
Ming Lei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-17 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-30 22:37 [PATCH 1/2] block: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in generic_make_request() Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-04-30 22:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] md/raid0: Do not bypass blocking queue entered for raid0 bios Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-05-06 16:50 ` Song Liu
2019-05-06 18:48 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-05-06 21:07 ` Song Liu
2019-05-07 21:51 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-05-08 9:29 ` Wols Lists
2019-05-08 14:52 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-05-08 16:52 ` Wols Lists
2019-05-17 16:19 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-05-20 16:23 ` Song Liu
2019-05-20 19:25 ` Guilherme Piccoli
2019-04-30 22:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in generic_make_request() Bart Van Assche
2019-05-17 3:33 ` Eric Ren
2019-05-17 16:17 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
2019-05-20 2:43 ` Eric Ren
2019-05-17 22:04 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2019-05-23 17:23 Song Liu
2019-05-23 17:25 ` Song Liu
2019-06-12 16:36 ` Guilherme G. Piccoli
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