linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next v2 8/9] block: fix null-pointer dereference in ioc_pd

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Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:12:13 +0800
From:   Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Nan <linan122@...wei.com>
Cc:     josef@...icpanda.com, axboe@...nel.dk, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yi.zhang@...wei.com, "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v2 8/9] block: fix null-pointer dereference in
 ioc_pd_init

Hi,

在 2022/12/01 4:50, Tejun Heo 写道:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:21:55PM +0800, Li Nan wrote:
>> Remove block device when iocost is initializing may cause
>> null-pointer dereference:
>>
>> 	CPU1				   CPU2
>>    ioc_qos_write
>>     blkcg_conf_open_bdev
>>      blkdev_get_no_open
>>       kobject_get_unless_zero
>>      blk_iocost_init
>>       rq_qos_add
>>    					del_gendisk
>>    					 rq_qos_exit
>>    					  q->rq_qos = rqos->next
>>    					   //iocost is removed from q->roqs
>>        blkcg_activate_policy
>>         pd_init_fn
>>          ioc_pd_init
>>    	 ioc = q_to_ioc(blkg->q)
>>   	  //cant find iocost and return null
>>
>> Fix problem by moving rq_qos_exit() to disk_release(). ioc_qos_write() get
>> bd_device.kobj in blkcg_conf_open_bdev(), so disk_release will not be
>> actived until iocost initialization is complited.
> 
> I think it'd be better to make del_gendisk wait for these in-flight
> operations because this might fix the above particular issue but now all the
> policies are exposed to request_queue in a state it never expected before.
> 
> del_gendisk() is quiescing the queue around rq_qos_exit(), so maybe we can
> piggyback on that and update blkcg_conf_open_bdev() to provide such
> exclusion?

Let del_gendisk waiting for that sounds good, but I'm litter confused
how to do that. Following are what I think about:

1) By mentioning that "del_gendisk() is quiescing the queue", do you
suggest to add rcu_read_lock()? This seems wrong because blk_iocost_init
requires memory allocation.

2) Hold gendisk open mutex

3) Use q_usage_counter, and in the meantime, rq_qos_add() and
blkcg_activate_policy() will need refactoring to factor out freeze
queue.

4) Define a new metux

Thanks,
Kuai
> 
> Thanks.
>