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Message-ID: <20240916092333.GF3296@linux-l9pv.suse>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:23:33 +0800
From: joeyli <jlee@...e.com>
To: Valentin Kleibel <valentin@...is.at>
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>,
Justin Sanders <justin@...aid.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] aoe: fix the potential use-after-free problem in more
places
Hi Valentin,
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:58:46PM +0200, Valentin Kleibel wrote:
> > Then Nicolai Stange found more places in aoe have potential use-after-free
> > problem with tx(). e.g. revalidate(), aoecmd_ata_rw(), resend(), probe()
> > and aoecmd_cfg_rsp(). Those functions also use aoenet_xmit() to push
> > packet to tx queue. So they should also use dev_hold() to increase the
> > refcnt of skb->dev.
>
> We've tested your patch on our servers and ran into an issue.
> With heavy I/O load the aoe device had stale I/Os (e.g. rsync waiting
> indefinetly on one core) that can be "fixed" by running aoe-revalidate on
> that device.
>
> Additionally when trying to shut down the system we see the message:
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for XXX to become free. Usage Count = XXXXX
> on aoe devices with a usage count somewhere in the millions.
> This has been the same as without the patch, i assume the fix is still
> incomplete.
>
Thanks for your testing! I will look into it and reproduce issue again for
improvement.
Joey Lee
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