linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] scsi: libsas: fix a race condition when smp task timeout

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Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:57:57 +0200
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
To:     Jason Yan <yanaijie@...wei.com>, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        john.garry@...wei.com, zhaohongjiang@...wei.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, jthumshirn@...e.de, hch@....de,
        huangdaode@...ilicon.com, chenxiang66@...ilicon.com,
        miaoxie@...wei.com, Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>,
        Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] scsi: libsas: fix a race condition when smp task
 timeout

On 09/12/2018 10:29 AM, Jason Yan wrote:
> When the lldd is processing the complete sas task in interrupt and set
> the task stat as SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE, the smp timeout timer is able to
> be triggered at the same time. And smp_task_timedout() will complete the
> task wheter the SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE is set or not. Then the sas task may
> freed before lldd end the interrupt process. Thus a use-after-free will
> happen.
> 
> Fix this by calling the complete() only when SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE is not
> set. And remove the check of the return value of the del_timer().
> 
> Reported-by: chenxiang <chenxiang66@...ilicon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@...wei.com>
> CC: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
> CC: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
> CC: Ewan Milne <emilne@...hat.com>
> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> CC: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>
> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> CC: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
> index 52222940d398..0d1f72752ca2 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c
> @@ -48,17 +48,16 @@ static void smp_task_timedout(struct timer_list *t)
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&task->task_state_lock, flags);
> -	if (!(task->task_state_flags & SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE))
> +	if (!(task->task_state_flags & SAS_TASK_STATE_DONE)) {
>  		task->task_state_flags |= SAS_TASK_STATE_ABORTED;
> +		complete(&task->slow_task->completion);
> +	}
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&task->task_state_lock, flags);
> -
> -	complete(&task->slow_task->completion);
>  }
>  
>  static void smp_task_done(struct sas_task *task)
>  {
> -	if (!del_timer(&task->slow_task->timer))
> -		return;
> +	del_timer(&task->slow_task->timer);
>  	complete(&task->slow_task->completion);
>  }
>  
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>

Cheers,

Hannes