linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix potential NULL pointer fault in connect and disconnect process

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Message-ID: <a35ac207-86e3-51d7-4f21-9fcc6ee63e4e@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:15:11 +0800
From:   "sunke (E)" <sunke32@...wei.com>
To:     Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>, <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        <axboe@...nel.dk>
CC:     <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>, <nbd@...er.debian.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix potential NULL pointer fault in connect and
 disconnect process

Hi Mike

Your idea looks good.

Thanks,
Sun Ke

在 2020/2/10 11:16, Mike Christie 写道:
> On 01/19/2020 01:10 AM, sunke (E) wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your detailed suggestions.
>>
>> 在 2020/1/18 1:32, Mike Christie 写道:
>>> On 01/17/2020 05:50 AM, Sun Ke wrote:
>>>> Connect and disconnect a nbd device repeatedly, will cause
>>>> NULL pointer fault.
>>>>
>>>> It will appear by the steps:
>>>> 1. Connect the nbd device and disconnect it, but now nbd device
>>>>      is not disconnected totally.
>>>> 2. Connect the same nbd device again immediately, it will fail
>>>>      in nbd_start_device with a EBUSY return value.
>>>> 3. Wait a second to make sure the last config_refs is reduced
>>>>      and run nbd_config_put to disconnect the nbd device totally.
>>>> 4. Start another process to open the nbd_device, config_refs
>>>>      will increase and at the same time disconnect it.
>>>
>>> Just to make sure I understood this, for step 4 the process is doing:
>>>
>>> open(/dev/nbdX);
>>> ioctl(NBD_DISCONNECT, /dev/nbdX) or nbd_genl_disconnect(for /dev/nbdX)
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>> do nbd_genl_disconnect(for /dev/nbdX)；
>> I tested it. Connect /dev/nbdX
>> through ioctl interface by nbd-client -L -N export localhost /dev/nbdX and
>> through netlink interface by nbd-client localhost XXXX /dev/nbdX,
>> disconnect /dev/nbdX by nbd-client -d /dev/nbdX.
>> Both call nbd_genl_disconnect(for /dev/nbdX) and both contain the same
>> null pointer dereference.
>>> There is no successful NBD_DO_IT / nbd_genl_connect between the open and
>>> disconnect calls at step #4, because it would normally be done at #2 and
>>> that failed. nbd_disconnect_and_put could then reference a null
>>> recv_workq. If we are also racing with a close() then that could free
>>> the device/config from under nbd_disconnect_and_put.
>>>
>> Yes, nbd_disconnect_and_put could then reference a null recv_workq.
> 
> Hey Sunke
> 
> How about the attached patch. I am still testing it. The basic idea is
> that we need to do a flush whenever we have done a sock_shutdown and are
> in the disconnect/connect/clear sock path, so it just adds the flush in
> that function. We then do not need to keep adding these flushes everywhere.
>