linux-kernel - Re: bio_integrity_verify() bug causing READ verify to be silently skipped

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Message-ID: <1387875122.5567.241.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:52:02 -0800
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	kmo@...erainc.com
Subject: Re: bio_integrity_verify() bug causing READ verify to be silently
 skipped

On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 20:20 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> Hi Martin & Co,
> 
> So after playing with the mainline DIF client against an initial WIP
> target DIF support patch, I've started hitting a bug in
> bio_integrity_verify() that causes READ verify logic to be silently
> skipped for both WIP target and existing scsi_debug DIF code.
> 
> The issue is with the scsi_end_request() -> blk_end_request() completion
> path, where eventually blk_update_request() -> req_bio_endio() ->
> bio_advance() is called to increment bio->bi_idx to a non-zero value.
> 
> Given that bio_integrity_verify() is using bio_for_each_segment(), the
> loop starts from the updated bio->bi_idx, and not a zero value, which
> ends up skipping individual bio segment calls to bi->verify_fn().
> 
> The following patch changes bio_integrity_verify() to use
> bio_for_each_segment_all() instead of bio_for_each_segment() to ensure
> that the segment walk always starts from zero, regardless of the current
> bio->bi_idx value after bio_advance().
> 
> Note this bug has been observed with v3.13-rc3 code, and I haven't yet
> looked back to figure out when this bug was first introduced..  Any
> ideas..?

So the commit that introduced bio_advance() into req_bio_endio() code
was:

commit f79ea4161434b31e351658283b24e92c3e570142
Author: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 20 16:38:30 2012 -0700

    block: Refactor blk_update_request()

So AFAICT this has been broken since v3.10..

(CC'ing kmo)

--nab

> 
> Interestingly enough, the scsi-mq alpha code does not suffer from this
> bug, as blk_end_request() is never called from scsi_mq_end_request() ->
> blk_mq_end_io() completion path code.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> --nab
> 
> From 32242942edca095e8dd126cb1408f2842340773e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 04:00:24 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
> 
> This patch addresses a bug in bio_integrity_verify() code that has
> been causing DIF READ verify operations to be silently skipped.
> 
> The issue is that bio->bi_idx will have been incremented within
> bio_advance() code in the normal blk_update_request() ->
> req_bio_endio() completion path, and bio_integrity_verify() is
> using bio_for_each_segment() which starts the bio segment walk
> at the current bio->bi_idx.
> 
> So instead use bio_for_each_segment_all() to always start the bio
> segment walk from zero, regardless of the current bio->bi_idx
> value after bio_advance() has been called.
> 
> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
> ---
>  fs/bio-integrity.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/bio-integrity.c b/fs/bio-integrity.c
> index fc60b31..f1d5cde 100644
> --- a/fs/bio-integrity.c
> +++ b/fs/bio-integrity.c
> @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static int bio_integrity_verify(struct bio *bio)
>  	bix.disk_name = bio->bi_bdev->bd_disk->disk_name;
>  	bix.sector_size = bi->sector_size;
>  
> -	bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, i) {
> +	bio_for_each_segment_all(bv, bio, i) {
>  		void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(bv->bv_page);
>  		bix.data_buf = kaddr + bv->bv_offset;
>  		bix.data_size = bv->bv_len;


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