linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: Protect the virtqueue from being cleared whilst still in use

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Date:   Wed, 2 Mar 2022 17:28:31 +0100
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+adc3cb32385586bec859@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: Protect the virtqueue from being cleared
 whilst still in use

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 3:57 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2022, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 01:56:35PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, 02 Mar 2022, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:54:21AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > > > vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick() already holds the mutex during its call
> > > > > to vhost_get_vq_desc().  All we have to do is take the same lock
> > > > > during virtqueue clean-up and we mitigate the reported issues.
> > > > >
> > > > > Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=279432d30d825e63ba00
> > > > >
> > > > > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> > > > > Reported-by: syzbot+adc3cb32385586bec859@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 ++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > > > > index 59edb5a1ffe28..bbaff6a5e21b8 100644
> > > > > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > > > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> > > > > @@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> > > > >         int i;
> > > > >
> > > > >         for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) {
> > > > > +               mutex_lock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex);
> > > > >                 if (dev->vqs[i]->error_ctx)
> > > > >                         eventfd_ctx_put(dev->vqs[i]->error_ctx);
> > > > >                 if (dev->vqs[i]->kick)
> > > > > @@ -700,6 +701,7 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
> > > > >                 if (dev->vqs[i]->call_ctx.ctx)
> > > > >                         eventfd_ctx_put(dev->vqs[i]->call_ctx.ctx);
> > > > >                 vhost_vq_reset(dev, dev->vqs[i]);
> > > > > +               mutex_unlock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex);
> > > > >         }
> > > >
> > > > So this is a mitigation plan but the bug is still there though
> > > > we don't know exactly what it is.  I would prefer adding something like
> > > > WARN_ON(mutex_is_locked(vqs[i]->mutex) here - does this make sense?
> > >
> > > As a rework to this, or as a subsequent patch?
> >
> > Can be a separate patch.
> >
> > > Just before the first lock I assume?
> >
> > I guess so, yes.
>
> No problem.  Patch to follow.
>
> I'm also going to attempt to debug the root cause, but I'm new to this
> subsystem to it might take a while for me to get my head around.

IIUC the root cause should be the same as the one we solved here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a58da53ffd70294ebea8ecd0eb45fd0d74add9f9

The worker was not stopped before calling vhost_dev_cleanup(). So while 
the worker was still running we were going to free memory or initialize 
fields while it was still using virtqueue.

Cheers,
Stefano