linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] virtio_blk: don't crash, report error if virtqueue is broken.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:09:33 +0100
From:	Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] virtio_blk: don't crash, report error if virtqueue
 is broken.

On 15/01/14 03:36, Rusty Russell wrote:
> A bad implementation of virtio might cause us to mark the virtqueue
> broken: we'll dev_err() in that case, and the device is useless, but
> let's not BUG_ON().
>
> ENOMEM or ENOSPC implies the ring is full, and we should try again
> later (-ENOMEM is documented to happen, but doesn't, as we fall
> through to ENOSPC).
>
> EIO means it's broken.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> ---
>   drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 10 ++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index 6a680d4de7f1..704d6c814c17 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *req)
>   	unsigned long flags;
>   	unsigned int num;
>   	const bool last = (req->cmd_flags & REQ_END) != 0;
> +	int err;
>
>   	BUG_ON(req->nr_phys_segments + 2 > vblk->sg_elems);
>
> @@ -198,11 +199,16 @@ static int virtio_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct request *req)
>   	}
>
>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
> -	if (__virtblk_add_req(vblk->vq, vbr, vbr->sg, num) < 0) {
> +	err = __virtblk_add_req(vblk->vq, vbr, vbr->sg, num);
> +	if (err) {
>   		virtqueue_kick(vblk->vq);

the kick might fail here after a request was successfully added.

>   		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->vq_lock, flags);
>   		blk_mq_stop_hw_queue(hctx);
> -		return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY;
> +		/* Out of mem doesn't actually happen, since we fall back
> +		 * to direct descriptors */
> +		if (err == -ENOMEM || err == -ENOSPC)
> +			return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY;
> +		return BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_ERROR;
>   	}
>
>   	if (last)
>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/