Re: NULL pointer dereference in qla24xx_abort_command, kernel 4.19.98 (Debian)

[Bart Van Assche]

On 2020-02-24 00:20, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Looks like it's in some inlined function.
> 
> /usr/src/linux-source-4.19# gdb /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko
> GNU gdb (Debian 8.2.1-2+b3) 8.2.1
> ...
> Reading symbols from /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko...Reading symbols 
> from /usr/lib/debug//lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko...done.
> done.
> 
> (gdb) list *(qla24xx_async_abort_cmd+0x1b)
> 0xf88b is in qla24xx_async_abort_cmd (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:97).
> 92       *
> 93       * Atomically increments @v by 1.
> 94       */
> 95      static __always_inline void arch_atomic_inc(atomic_t *v)
> 96      {
> 97              asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "incl %0"
> 98                           : "+m" (v->counter) :: "memory");
> 99      }
> 100     #define arch_atomic_inc arch_atomic_inc
>
> [ ... ]
> 
> (gdb) disassemble qla24xx_async_abort_cmd
> Dump of assembler code for function qla24xx_async_abort_cmd:
>    0x000000000000f870 <+0>:     callq  0xf875 <qla24xx_async_abort_cmd+5>
>    0x000000000000f875 <+5>:     push   %r15
>    0x000000000000f877 <+7>:     push   %r14
>    0x000000000000f879 <+9>:     push   %r13
>    0x000000000000f87b <+11>:    push   %r12
>    0x000000000000f87d <+13>:    push   %rbp
>    0x000000000000f87e <+14>:    push   %rbx
>    0x000000000000f87f <+15>:    mov    0x28(%rdi),%r13
>    0x000000000000f883 <+19>:    mov    0x20(%rdi),%r15
>    0x000000000000f887 <+23>:    mov    0x48(%rdi),%r14
>    0x000000000000f88b <+27>:    lock incl 0x4(%r14)
>    0x000000000000f890 <+32>:    mfence

Thanks, this is very helpful. I think the above means that the crash is
triggered by the following code:

	sp = qla2xxx_get_qpair_sp(cmd_sp->qpair, cmd_sp->fcport,
		GFP_KERNEL);

>From the start of qla2xxx_get_qpair_sp():

	QLA_QPAIR_MARK_BUSY(qpair, bail);

>From qla_def.h:

#define QLA_QPAIR_MARK_BUSY(__qpair, __bail) do {	\
	atomic_inc(&__qpair->ref_count);		\
	mb();						\
	if (__qpair->delete_in_progress) {		\
		atomic_dec(&__qpair->ref_count);	\
		__bail = 1;				\
	} else {					\
	       __bail = 0;				\
	}						\
} while (0)

One of the changes between kernel version v4.9.210 and v4.19.98 is the
following: "qla2xxx: Add multiple queue pair functionality". I think the
 above information means that the cmd_sp->qpair pointer is NULL. I will
let QLogic recommend a solution.

Bart.