linux-hardening - Re: Fwd: Waking up from resume locks up on sr device

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]

Message-ID: <3f85cb4a-8b14-623f-eb4e-40baab1ed888@acm.org>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:04:55 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>
Cc:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Joe Breuer <linux-kernel@...reuer.net>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        Linux Power Management <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Hardening <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Linux SCSI <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@...i.sm>,
        Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Waking up from resume locks up on sr device

On 6/14/23 07:26, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 04:35:50PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> Or... Why the heck scsi_rescan_device() is calling device_lock() ? This
>> is the only place in scsi code I can see that takes this lock. I suspect
>> this is to serialize either rescans, or serialize with resume, or both.
>> For serializing rescans, we can use another lock. For serializing with
>> PM, we should wait for PM transitions...
>> Something is not right here.
> 
> Here's what commit e27829dc92e5 ("scsi: serialize ->rescan against
> ->remove", written by Christoph Hellwig) says:
> 
>      Lock the device embedded in the scsi_device to protect against
>      concurrent calls to ->remove.
> 
> That's the commit which added the device_lock() call.

Even if scsi_rescan_device() would use another mechanism for 
serialization against sd_remove() and sr_remove(), we still need to 
solve the issue that the ATA code calls scsi_rescan_device() before 
resuming has finished. scsi_rescan_device() issues I/O. Issuing I/O to a 
device is not allowed before that device has been resumed.

Thanks,

Bart.