null_blk: fix command timeout completion handling
authorDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:52:44 +0000 (07:52 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:43:21 +0000 (11:43 +0200)
commit5d4600017beeab73e0d5550f9485564fba66b460
tree88fec59581b6529ffc4ba622b4dba8170857c8c5
parentb1f6c6f39bd6a47edcedf2532491ba26b212ecb3
null_blk: fix command timeout completion handling

[ Upstream commit de3510e52b0a398261271455562458003b8eea62 ]

Memory backed or zoned null block devices may generate actual request
timeout errors due to the submission path being blocked on memory
allocation or zone locking. Unlike fake timeouts or injected timeouts,
the request submission path will call blk_mq_complete_request() or
blk_mq_end_request() for these real timeout errors, causing a double
completion and use after free situation as the block layer timeout
handler executes blk_mq_rq_timed_out() and __blk_mq_free_request() in
blk_mq_check_expired(). This problem often triggers a NULL pointer
dereference such as:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000050
RIP: 0010:blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx+0x5/0x20
...
Call Trace:
  dd_finish_request+0x56/0x80
  blk_mq_free_request+0x37/0x130
  null_handle_cmd+0xbf/0x250 [null_blk]
  ? null_queue_rq+0x67/0xd0 [null_blk]
  blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x122/0x850
  __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+0xbb/0x2c0
  __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x13d/0x190
  blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60
  __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x49/0x90
  process_one_work+0x26c/0x580
  worker_thread+0x55/0x3c0
  ? process_one_work+0x580/0x580
  kthread+0x134/0x150
  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

This problem very often triggers when running the full btrfs xfstests
on a memory-backed zoned null block device in a VM with limited amount
of memory.

Avoid this by executing blk_mq_complete_request() in null_timeout_rq()
only for commands that are marked for a fake timeout completion using
the fake_timeout boolean in struct null_cmd. For timeout errors injected
through debugfs, the timeout handler will execute
blk_mq_complete_request()i as before. This is safe as the submission
path does not execute complete requests in this case.

In null_timeout_rq(), also make sure to set the command error field to
BLK_STS_TIMEOUT and to propagate this error through to the request
completion.

Reported-by: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331225244.126426-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/block/null_blk.h
drivers/block/null_blk_main.c