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Date:   Sat, 30 May 2020 01:14:15 +0000
From:   Justin He <Justin.He@....com>
To:     Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
CC:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@....com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] virtio_vsock: Fix race condition in
 virtio_transport_recv_pkt

Hi Stefano

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 12:34 AM
> To: Justin He <Justin.He@....com>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>; David S. Miller
> <davem@...emloft.net>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>;
> kvm@...r.kernel.org; virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Kaly Xin
> <Kaly.Xin@....com>; stable@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_vsock: Fix race condition in
> virtio_transport_recv_pkt
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:21:02PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> > When client tries to connect(SOCK_STREAM) the server in the guest with
> > NONBLOCK mode, there will be a panic on a ThunderX2 (armv8a server):
> > [  463.718844][ T5040] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
> at virtual address 0000000000000000
> > [  463.718848][ T5040] Mem abort info:
> > [  463.718849][ T5040]   ESR = 0x96000044
> > [  463.718852][ T5040]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> > [  463.718853][ T5040]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> > [  463.718854][ T5040]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> > [  463.718855][ T5040] Data abort info:
> > [  463.718856][ T5040]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044
> > [  463.718857][ T5040]   CM = 0, WnR = 1
> > [  463.718859][ T5040] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs,
> pgdp=0000008f6f6e9000
> > [  463.718861][ T5040] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000
> > [  463.718866][ T5040] Internal error: Oops: 96000044 [#1] SMP
> > [...]
> > [  463.718977][ T5040] CPU: 213 PID: 5040 Comm: vhost-5032 Tainted: G
> O      5.7.0-rc7+ #139
> > [  463.718980][ T5040] Hardware name: GIGABYTE R281-T91-00/MT91-FS1-00,
> BIOS F06 09/25/2018
> > [  463.718982][ T5040] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO)
> > [  463.718995][ T5040] pc : virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x4c8/0xd40
> [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common]
> > [  463.718999][ T5040] lr : virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x1fc/0xd40
> [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common]
> > [  463.719000][ T5040] sp : ffff80002dbe3c40
> > [...]
> > [  463.719025][ T5040] Call trace:
> > [  463.719030][ T5040]  virtio_transport_recv_pkt+0x4c8/0xd40
> [vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common]
> > [  463.719034][ T5040]  vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x360/0x408
> [vhost_vsock]
> > [  463.719041][ T5040]  vhost_worker+0x100/0x1a0 [vhost]
> > [  463.719048][ T5040]  kthread+0x128/0x130
> > [  463.719052][ T5040]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
>          ^         ^
> Maybe we can remove these two columns from the commit message.
>
> >
> > The race condition as follows:
> > Task1                            Task2
> > =====                            =====
> > __sock_release                   virtio_transport_recv_pkt
> >   __vsock_release                  vsock_find_bound_socket (found)
> >     lock_sock_nested
> >     vsock_remove_sock
> >     sock_orphan
> >       sk_set_socket(sk, NULL)
>
> Here we can add:
>       sk->sk_shutdown = SHUTDOWN_MASK;

Indeed. This makes it more clearly

--
Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)


>
> >     ...
> >     release_sock
> >                                 lock_sock
> >                                    virtio_transport_recv_connecting
> >                                      sk->sk_socket->state (panic)
> >
> > The root cause is that vsock_find_bound_socket can't hold the lock_sock,
> > so there is a small race window between vsock_find_bound_socket() and
> > lock_sock(). If there is __vsock_release() in another task, sk->sk_socket
> > will be set to NULL inadvertently.
> >
> > This fixes it by checking sk->sk_shutdown.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@....com>
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > Cc: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
> > ---
> > v2: use lightweight checking suggested by Stefano Garzarella
> >
> >  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 8 ++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > index 69efc891885f..0edda1edf988 100644
> > --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c
> > @@ -1132,6 +1132,14 @@ void virtio_transport_recv_pkt(struct
> virtio_transport *t,
> >
> >  lock_sock(sk);
> >
> > +/* Check if sk has been released before lock_sock */
> > +if (sk->sk_shutdown == SHUTDOWN_MASK) {
> > +(void)virtio_transport_reset_no_sock(t, pkt);
> > +release_sock(sk);
> > +sock_put(sk);
> > +goto free_pkt;
> > +}
> > +
> >  /* Update CID in case it has changed after a transport reset event */
> >  vsk->local_addr.svm_cid = dst.svm_cid;
> >
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
>
> Anyway, the patch LGTM, let see what David and other say.
>
> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Stefano

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