linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme-tcp: Check if request has started before processing it

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Date:   Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:46:41 +0100
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Cc:     Daniel Wagner <dwagner@...e.de>, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-tcp: Check if request has started before processing
 it

On 2/12/21 10:49 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>>>> blk_mq_tag_to_rq() will always return a request if the command_id is
>>>> in the valid range. Check if the request has been started. If we
>>>> blindly process the request we might double complete a request which
>>>> can be fatal.
>>>
>>> How did you get to this one? did the controller send a completion for
>>> a completed/bogus request?
>>
>> If that is the case, then that must mean it's possible the driver could
>> have started the command id just before the bogus completion check. Data
>> iorruption, right?
> 
> Yes, which is why I don't think this check is very useful..

I actually view that as a valid protection against spoofed frames.
Without it it's easy to crash the machine by injecting fake completions 
with random command ids.

Cheers,

Hannes
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