linux-ext4 - [BUG] bugs in jbd2_dev_to_name() (was Re: [PATCH 00/11] [GIT PULL] more updates for the tag format)

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:14:23 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] bugs in jbd2_dev_to_name() (was Re: [PATCH 00/11] [GIT PULL]
 more updates for the tag format)

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:14:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> For the filters, we could enter the text name which would be
>> internally converted into a dev_t, there should be no problem.
>>
>> Also the raw dev_t can be stored and then human-friendly printed on
>> print time.
>>
>> Both seem about trivial to add.
> 
> If someone wants to take this code and drop it into the core tracing
> code, please feel free.
> 

Just notice this code has been merge, but there are 2 bugs in it.

> 						- Ted
> 
> /* 
>  * jbd2_dev_to_name is a utility function used by the jbd2 and ext4 
>  * tracing infrastructure to map a dev_t to a device name.
>  *
>  * The caller should use rcu_read_lock() in order to make sure the
>  * device name stays valid until its done with it.  We use
>  * rcu_read_lock() as well to make sure we're safe in case the caller
>  * gets sloppy, and because rcu_read_lock() is cheap and can be safely
>  * nested.
>  */
> struct devname_cache {
> 	struct rcu_head	rcu;
> 	dev_t		device;
> 	char		devname[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
> };
> #define CACHE_SIZE_BITS 6
> static struct devname_cache *devcache[1 << CACHE_SIZE_BITS];
> static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(devname_cache_lock);
> 
> static void free_devcache(struct rcu_head *rcu)
> {
> 	kfree(rcu);
> }
> 
> const char *jbd2_dev_to_name(dev_t device)
> {
> 	int	i = hash_32(device, CACHE_SIZE_BITS);
> 	char	*ret;
> 	struct block_device *bd;
> 
> 	rcu_read_lock();
> 	if (devcache[i] && devcache[i]->device == device) {
> 		ret = devcache[i]->devname;
> 		rcu_read_unlock();
> 		return ret;

It doesn't seem safe to dereference @ret outside rcu read section.

> 	}
> 	rcu_read_unlock();
> 
> 	spin_lock(&devname_cache_lock);
> 	if (devcache[i]) {
> 		if (devcache[i]->device == device) {
> 			ret = devcache[i]->devname;
> 			spin_unlock(&devname_cache_lock);
> 			return ret;
> 		}
> 		call_rcu(&devcache[i]->rcu, free_devcache);
> 	}
> 	devcache[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(struct devname_cache), GFP_KERNEL);

kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) called with spin_lock held..

> 	if (!devcache[i]) {
> 		spin_unlock(&devname_cache_lock);
> 		return "NODEV-ALLOCFAILURE"; /* Something non-NULL */
> 	}
> 	devcache[i]->device = device;
> 	bd = bdget(device);
> 	if (bd) {
> 		bdevname(bd, devcache[i]->devname);
> 		bdput(bd);
> 	} else
> 		__bdevname(device, devcache[i]->devname);
> 	ret = devcache[i]->devname;
> 	spin_unlock(&devname_cache_lock);
> 	return ret;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_dev_to_name);
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