linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.15 134/163] dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec

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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:49:23 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.15 134/163] dm: correctly handle chained bios in dec_pending()

4.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

commit 8dd601fa8317243be887458c49f6c29c2f3d719f upstream.

dec_pending() is given an error status (possibly 0) to be recorded
against a bio.  It can be called several times on the one 'struct
dm_io', and it is careful to only assign a non-zero error to
io->status.  However when it then assigned io->status to bio->bi_status,
it is not careful and could overwrite a genuine error status with 0.

This can happen when chained bios are in use.  If a bio is chained
beneath the bio that this dm_io is handling, the child bio might
complete and set bio->bi_status before the dm_io completes.

This has been possible since chained bios were introduced in 3.14, and
has become a lot easier to trigger with commit 18a25da84354 ("dm: ensure
bio submission follows a depth-first tree walk") as that commit caused
dm to start using chained bios itself.

A particular failure mode is that if a bio spans an 'error' target and a
working target, the 'error' fragment will complete instantly and set the
->bi_status, and the other fragment will normally complete a little
later, and will clear ->bi_status.

The fix is simply to only assign io_error to bio->bi_status when
io_error is not zero.

Reported-and-tested-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@...il.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org (v3.14+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/dm.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -817,7 +817,8 @@ static void dec_pending(struct dm_io *io
 			queue_io(md, bio);
 		} else {
 			/* done with normal IO or empty flush */
-			bio->bi_status = io_error;
+			if (io_error)
+				bio->bi_status = io_error;
 			bio_endio(bio);
 		}
 	}