linux-kernel - [PATCH] blk-mq: Clear out elevator private data

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Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:42:18 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] blk-mq: Clear out elevator private data

Some elevators may not correctly check rq->rq_flags & RQF_ELVPRIV, and
may attempt to read rq->elv fields. When requests got reused, this
caused BFQ to think it already had a bfqq (rq->elv.priv[1]) allocated.
This could lead to odd behaviors like having the sense buffer address
slowly start incrementing. This eventually tripped HARDENED_USERCOPY
and KASAN.

This patch wipes all of rq->elv instead of just rq->elv.icq. While
it shouldn't technically be needed, this ends up being a robustness
improvement that should lead to at least finding bugs in elevators faster.

Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>
Fixes: bd166ef183c26 ("blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
In theory, BFQ needs to also check the RQF_ELVPRIV flag, but I'll leave that
to Paolo to figure out. Also, my Fixes line is kind of a best-guess. This
is where icq was originally wiped, so it seemed as good a commit as any.
---
 block/blk-mq.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 0dc9e341c2a7..859df3160303 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_get_request(struct request_queue *q,
 
 	rq = blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(data, tag, op);
 	if (!op_is_flush(op)) {
-		rq->elv.icq = NULL;
+		memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
 		if (e && e->type->ops.mq.prepare_request) {
 			if (e->type->icq_cache && rq_ioc(bio))
 				blk_mq_sched_assign_ioc(rq, bio);
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq)
 			e->type->ops.mq.finish_request(rq);
 		if (rq->elv.icq) {
 			put_io_context(rq->elv.icq->ioc);
-			rq->elv.icq = NULL;
+			memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.4


-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security