linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 12/15] xenbus: req->body should be updated before req->state

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Date:   Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:35:16 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>,
        Julien Grall <jgrall@...zon.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 12/15] xenbus: req->body should be updated before req->state

From: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>

[ Upstream commit 1b6a51e86cce38cf4d48ce9c242120283ae2f603 ]

The req->body should be updated before req->state is updated and the
order should be guaranteed by a barrier.

Otherwise, read_reply() might return req->body = NULL.

Below is sample callstack when the issue is reproduced on purpose by
reordering the updates of req->body and req->state and adding delay in
code between updates of req->state and req->body.

[   22.356105] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[   22.361185] CPU: 2 PID: 52 Comm: xenwatch Not tainted 5.5.0xen+ #6
[   22.366727] Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS ...
[   22.372245] RIP: 0010:_parse_integer_fixup_radix+0x6/0x60
... ...
[   22.392163] RSP: 0018:ffffb2d64023fdf0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[   22.395933] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 75746e7562755f6d RCX: 0000000000000000
[   22.400871] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffb2d64023fdfc RDI: 75746e7562755f6d
[   22.405874] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000000001e8 R09: 0000000000cdcdcd
[   22.410945] R10: ffffb2d6402ffe00 R11: ffff9d95395eaeb0 R12: ffff9d9535935000
[   22.417613] R13: ffff9d9526d4a000 R14: ffff9d9526f4f340 R15: ffff9d9537654000
[   22.423726] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d953bc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   22.429898] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   22.434342] CR2: 000000c4206a9000 CR3: 00000001ea3fc002 CR4: 00000000001606e0
[   22.439645] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   22.444941] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   22.450342] Call Trace:
[   22.452509]  simple_strtoull+0x27/0x70
[   22.455572]  xenbus_transaction_start+0x31/0x50
[   22.459104]  netback_changed+0x76c/0xcc1 [xen_netfront]
[   22.463279]  ? find_watch+0x40/0x40
[   22.466156]  xenwatch_thread+0xb4/0x150
[   22.469309]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[   22.472198]  kthread+0x10e/0x130
[   22.474925]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[   22.477946]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
[   22.480968] Modules linked in: xen_kbdfront xen_fbfront(+) xen_netfront xen_blkfront
[   22.486783] ---[ end trace a9222030a747c3f7 ]---
[   22.490424] RIP: 0010:_parse_integer_fixup_radix+0x6/0x60

The virt_rmb() is added in the 'true' path of test_reply(). The "while"
is changed to "do while" so that test_reply() is used as a read memory
barrier.

Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@...cle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303221423.21962-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c | 2 ++
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c    | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c
index d239fc3c5e3de..852ed161fc2a7 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ static int process_msg(void)
 			req->msg.type = state.msg.type;
 			req->msg.len = state.msg.len;
 			req->body = state.body;
+			/* write body, then update state */
+			virt_wmb();
 			req->state = xb_req_state_got_reply;
 			req->cb(req);
 		} else
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
index 3f3b29398ab8e..b609c6e08796e 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
@@ -188,8 +188,11 @@ static bool xenbus_ok(void)
 
 static bool test_reply(struct xb_req_data *req)
 {
-	if (req->state == xb_req_state_got_reply || !xenbus_ok())
+	if (req->state == xb_req_state_got_reply || !xenbus_ok()) {
+		/* read req->state before all other fields */
+		virt_rmb();
 		return true;
+	}
 
 	/* Make sure to reread req->state each time. */
 	barrier();
@@ -199,7 +202,7 @@ static bool test_reply(struct xb_req_data *req)
 
 static void *read_reply(struct xb_req_data *req)
 {
-	while (req->state != xb_req_state_got_reply) {
+	do {
 		wait_event(req->wq, test_reply(req));
 
 		if (!xenbus_ok())
@@ -213,7 +216,7 @@ static void *read_reply(struct xb_req_data *req)
 		if (req->err)
 			return ERR_PTR(req->err);
 
-	}
+	} while (req->state != xb_req_state_got_reply);
 
 	return req->body;
 }
-- 
2.20.1