[RFC PATCH v3 1/3] blk-mq: Clean up references to old requests when freeing rqs

From: John Garry
Date: Fri Mar 05 2021 - 10:20:34 EST


It has been reported many times that a use-after-free can be intermittently
found when iterating busy requests:

- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/8376443a-ec1b-0cef-8244-ed584b96fa96@xxxxxxxxxx/
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/5c3ac5af-ed81-11e4-fee3-f92175f14daf@xxxxxxx/T/#m6c1ac11540522716f645d004e2a5a13c9f218908
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/04e2f9e8-79fa-f1cb-ab23-4a15bf3f64cc@xxxxxxxxx/

The issue is that when we switch scheduler or change queue depth, there may
be references in the driver tagset to the stale requests.

As a solution, clean up any references to those requests in the driver
tagset. This is done with a cmpxchg to make safe any race with setting the
driver tagset request from another queue.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-mq-sched.c | 2 +-
block/blk-mq-tag.c | 2 +-
block/blk-mq.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
block/blk-mq.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index ddb65e9e6fd9..bc19bd8f8c7b 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ void blk_mq_sched_free_requests(struct request_queue *q)

queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
if (hctx->sched_tags)
- blk_mq_free_rqs(q->tag_set, hctx->sched_tags, i);
+ blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(q->tag_set, hctx->sched_tags, i, hctx->tags);
}
}

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-tag.c b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
index ce813b909339..7ff1b20d58e7 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-tag.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-tag.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ int blk_mq_tag_update_depth(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
return -ENOMEM;
}

- blk_mq_free_rqs(set, *tagsptr, hctx->queue_num);
+ blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(set, *tagsptr, hctx->queue_num, hctx->tags);
blk_mq_free_rq_map(*tagsptr, flags);
*tagsptr = new;
} else {
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index d4d7c1caa439..9cb60bf7ac24 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -2286,8 +2286,8 @@ blk_qc_t blk_mq_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
}

-void blk_mq_free_rqs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
- unsigned int hctx_idx)
+void __blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
+ unsigned int hctx_idx, struct blk_mq_tags *ref_tags)
{
struct page *page;

@@ -2296,10 +2296,14 @@ void blk_mq_free_rqs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,

for (i = 0; i < tags->nr_tags; i++) {
struct request *rq = tags->static_rqs[i];
+ int j;

if (!rq)
continue;
set->ops->exit_request(set, rq, hctx_idx);
+ /* clean up any references which occur in @ref_tags */
+ for (j = 0; ref_tags && j < ref_tags->nr_tags; j++)
+ cmpxchg(&ref_tags->rqs[j], rq, 0);
tags->static_rqs[i] = NULL;
}
}
@@ -2316,6 +2320,18 @@ void blk_mq_free_rqs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
}
}

+void blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
+ unsigned int hctx_idx, struct blk_mq_tags *ref_tags)
+{
+ __blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(set, tags, hctx_idx, ref_tags);
+}
+
+void blk_mq_free_rqs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
+ unsigned int hctx_idx)
+{
+ __blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(set, tags, hctx_idx, NULL);
+}
+
void blk_mq_free_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tags *tags, unsigned int flags)
{
kfree(tags->rqs);
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.h b/block/blk-mq.h
index 3616453ca28c..031e29f74926 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.h
+++ b/block/blk-mq.h
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ struct request *blk_mq_dequeue_from_ctx(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
*/
void blk_mq_free_rqs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
unsigned int hctx_idx);
+void blk_mq_free_rqs_ext(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
+ unsigned int hctx_idx, struct blk_mq_tags *references);
void blk_mq_free_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tags *tags, unsigned int flags);
struct blk_mq_tags *blk_mq_alloc_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
unsigned int hctx_idx,
--
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