linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: check the return value of krealloc() in xfs_uuid

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Message-ID: <5d6b6f6f-4bc3-2821-d5b1-569afba0221a@huawei.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:05:03 +0800
From:   Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@...wei.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...hat.com>
CC:     Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: check the return value of krealloc() in
 xfs_uuid_mount



在 2020/11/26 10:16, Gao Xiang 写道:
> Hi Qinglang,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:21:11AM +0800, Qinglang Miao wrote:
>>
>>
>> 在 2020/11/25 23:55, Eric Sandeen 写道:
>>> On 11/25/20 12:50 AM, Qinglang Miao wrote:
>>>> krealloc() may fail to expand the memory space.
>>>
>>> Even with __GFP_NOFAIL?
>>>
>>>     * ``GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL`` - overrides the default allocator behavior
>>>       and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed.
>>>       This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders.
>>>
>>>> Add sanity checks to it,
>>>> and WARN() if that really happened.
>>>
>>> As aside, there is no WARN added in this patch for a memory failure.
>>>
>>>> Fixes: 771915c4f688 ("xfs: remove kmem_realloc()")
>>>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Qinglang Miao <miaoqinglang@...wei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 6 +++++-
>>>>    1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
>>>> index 150ee5cb8..c07f48c32 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
>>>> @@ -80,9 +80,13 @@ xfs_uuid_mount(
>>>>    	}
>>>>    	if (hole < 0) {
>>>> -		xfs_uuid_table = krealloc(xfs_uuid_table,
>>>> +		uuid_t *if_xfs_uuid_table;
>>>> +		if_xfs_uuid_table = krealloc(xfs_uuid_table,
>>>>    			(xfs_uuid_table_size + 1) * sizeof(*xfs_uuid_table),
>>>>    			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
>>>> +		if (!if_xfs_uuid_table)
>>>> +			goto out_duplicate;
>>>
>>> And this would emit "Filesystem has duplicate UUID" which is not correct.
>>>
>>> But anyway, the __GFP_NOFAIL in the call makes this all moot AFAICT.
>>>
>>> -Eric
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Sorry for neglecting __GFP_NOFAIL symbol, and I would add a WARN in memory
>> failure next time.
> 
> Sorry about my limited knowledge, but why it needs a WARN here since
> I think it will never fail if __GFP_NOFAIL is added (no ?).
'next time' means next time when I send patches related to memory 
failure, not on this one. Sorry for making confusing to you.
> 
> I'm not sure if Hulk CI is completely broken or not on this, also if
> such CI can now generate trivial patch (?) since the subject, commit
> message and even the variable name is quite similiar to
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20201124104531.561-2-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com
> in a day.
> 
> And it'd be better to look into the code before sending patches...
Yeah..  I should pay more attension.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang >
Thanks for your advice~
>>
>> Thanks for your advice！
>>
> 
> .
>