linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] blk-mq: Clean up references to old requests when freeing rqs

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Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 18:52:53 -0800
From:   Khazhy Kumykov <khazhy@...gle.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     hare@...e.de, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        ming.lei@...hat.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, hch@....de,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        pragalla@...eaurora.org, kashyap.desai@...adcom.com,
        yuyufen@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] blk-mq: Clean up references to old requests
 when freeing rqs

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 7:20 AM John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> It has been reported many times that a use-after-free can be intermittently
> found when iterating busy requests:
>
> - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/8376443a-ec1b-0cef-8244-ed584b96fa96@huawei.com/
> - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/5c3ac5af-ed81-11e4-fee3-f92175f14daf@acm.org/T/#m6c1ac11540522716f645d004e2a5a13c9f218908
> - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/04e2f9e8-79fa-f1cb-ab23-4a15bf3f64cc@kernel.dk/
>
> The issue is that when we switch scheduler or change queue depth, there may
> be references in the driver tagset to the stale requests.
>
> As a solution, clean up any references to those requests in the driver
> tagset. This is done with a cmpxchg to make safe any race with setting the
> driver tagset request from another queue.

I noticed this crash recently when running blktests on a "debug"
config on a 4.15 based kernel (it would always crash), and backporting
this change fixes it. (testing on linus's latest tree also confirmed
the fix, with the same config). I realize I'm late to the
conversation, but appreciate the investigation and fixes :)

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