linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 235/242] xen-blkback: set ring->xenblkd to NULL after kthread

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Message-Id: <20201228124916.258625227@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:50:40 +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, Olivier Benjamin <oliben@...zon.com>,
        Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@...zon.de>,
        Julien Grall <jgrall@...zon.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 235/242] xen-blkback: set ring->xenblkd to NULL after kthread_stop()

From: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@...zon.de>

commit 1c728719a4da6e654afb9cc047164755072ed7c9 upstream.

When xen_blkif_disconnect() is called, the kernel thread behind the
block interface is stopped by calling kthread_stop(ring->xenblkd).
The ring->xenblkd thread pointer being non-NULL determines if the
thread has been already stopped.
Normally, the thread's function xen_blkif_schedule() sets the
ring->xenblkd to NULL, when the thread's main loop ends.

However, when the thread has not been started yet (i.e.
wake_up_process() has not been called on it), the xen_blkif_schedule()
function would not be called yet.

In such case the kthread_stop() call returns -EINTR and the
ring->xenblkd remains dangling.
When this happens, any consecutive call to xen_blkif_disconnect (for
example in frontend_changed() callback) leads to a kernel crash in
kthread_stop() (e.g. NULL pointer dereference in exit_creds()).

This is XSA-350.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.12
Fixes: a24fa22ce22a ("xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthread")
Reported-by: Olivier Benjamin <oliben@...zon.com>
Reported-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@...zon.de>
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@...zon.de>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@...zon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static int xen_blkif_disconnect(struct x

 		if (ring->xenblkd) {
 			kthread_stop(ring->xenblkd);
+			ring->xenblkd = NULL;
 			wake_up(&ring->shutdown_wq);
 		}