[PATCH] drivers/uio: Fix system crashes during driver switchover

From: zhanghongtao (A)
Date: Sat May 07 2022 - 05:19:53 EST


From: Hongtao Zhang <zhanghongtao22@xxxxxxxxxx>

Switch the driver of the SPDK program that is being read and written from the uio_pci_generic driver to the NVMe driver
(Unbind the UIO driver from the device and bind the NVMe driver to the device.) ,
the system crashes and restarts, and the stacks of each crash are different.
Bug reproduction: When the SPDK is reading or writing data, run the following command: /opt/spdk/setup.sh reset
The one with a higher probability of occurrence is as follows:
PANIC: "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008"
PID: 0
COMMAND: "swapper/3"
TASK: ffff8bc3836f1e80 (1 of 8) [THREAD_INFO: ffff8bc3836f1e80]
CPU: 3
STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)
PID: 0 TASK: ffff8bc3836f1e80 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "swapper/3"
#0 [ffff8bca9ecc3c28] machine_kexec at ffffffff82e5e45b
#1 [ffff8bca9ecc3c80] __crash_kexec at ffffffff82f64e42
#2 [ffff8bca9ecc3d40] panic at ffffffff82ebab29
#3 [ffff8bca9ecc3dc8] oops_end at ffffffff82e23940
#4 [ffff8bca9ecc3de8] no_context at ffffffff82e71630
#5 [ffff8bca9ecc3e40] do_page_fault at ffffffff82e72301
#6 [ffff8bca9ecc3e70] async_page_fault at ffffffff8380125e
[exception RIP: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+30]
RIP: ffffffff836a1cae RSP: ffff8bca9ecc3f20 RFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000017
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 000000afb34e50f9 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8bca9ecc3f50
R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#7 [ffff8bca9ecc3f28] complete at ffffffff82f09bb8
#8 [ffff8bca9ecc3f48] blk_done_softirq at ffffffff832069d1
#9 [ffff8bca9ecc3f80] __softirqentry_text_start at ffffffff83a000e8
#10 [ffff8bca9ecc3fe0] irq_exit at ffffffff82ec1119
#11 [ffff8bca9ecc3ff0] call_function_single_interrupt at ffffffff83801daf
--- <IRQ stack> ---
#12 [ffff9866c319be08] call_function_single_interrupt at ffffffff83801daf
[exception RIP: native_safe_halt+14]
RIP: ffffffff836a188e RSP: ffff9866c319beb0 RFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffff836a1580 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000003 R8: 000000afb3323415 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff9866c3173ce0 R11: 000000000000009d R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff04 CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#13 [ffff9866c319beb0] default_idle at ffffffff836a159a
#14 [ffff9866c319bed0] do_idle at ffffffff82ef1d4a
#15 [ffff9866c319bf10] cpu_startup_entry at ffffffff82ef1fcf
#16 [ffff9866c319bf30] start_secondary at ffffffff82e52667
#17 [ffff9866c319bf50] secondary_startup_64 at ffffffff82e000e7

After the driver switchover, the upper-layer program can still access the bar space of the NVMe disk controller and knock the doorbell.
As a result, the interrupt process of the NVMe driver is abnormal and the system crashes.
To solve this problem, a reference counting is added to prevent unbind execution before the application is closed or exited.

Signed-off-by: Hongtao Zhang <zhanghongtao22@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Weifeng Su <suweifeng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 13 +++++++++++++
include/linux/uio_driver.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index 43afbb7c5ab9..cb8ed29a8648 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ static int uio_major;
static struct cdev *uio_cdev;
static DEFINE_IDR(uio_idr);
static const struct file_operations uio_fops;
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(refc_wait);

/* Protect idr accesses */
static DEFINE_MUTEX(minor_lock);
@@ -501,6 +502,7 @@ static int uio_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);
if (ret)
goto err_infoopen;
+ refcount_inc(&idev->dev_refc);

return 0;

@@ -536,6 +538,9 @@ static int uio_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep)
ret = idev->info->release(idev->info, inode);
mutex_unlock(&idev->info_lock);

+ if (refcount_dec_and_test(&idev->dev_refc))
+ wake_up(&refc_wait);
+
module_put(idev->owner);
kfree(listener);
put_device(&idev->dev);
@@ -937,6 +942,7 @@ int __uio_register_device(struct module *owner,

idev->owner = owner;
idev->info = info;
+ refcount_set(&idev->dev_refc, 0);
mutex_init(&idev->info_lock);
init_waitqueue_head(&idev->wait);
atomic_set(&idev->event, 0);
@@ -1045,6 +1051,7 @@ void uio_unregister_device(struct uio_info *info)
{
struct uio_device *idev;
unsigned long minor;
+ unsigned int dref_count;

if (!info || !info->uio_dev)
return;
@@ -1052,6 +1059,12 @@ void uio_unregister_device(struct uio_info *info)
idev = info->uio_dev;
minor = idev->minor;

+ dref_count = refcount_read(&idev->dev_refc);
+ if (dref_count > 0) {
+ dev_err(&idev->dev, "The device is in use, please close the file descriptor or kill the occupied process\n");
+ wait_event(refc_wait, !refcount_read(&idev->dev_refc));
+ }
+
mutex_lock(&idev->info_lock);
uio_dev_del_attributes(idev);

diff --git a/include/linux/uio_driver.h b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
index 47c5962b876b..28301dcc4d31 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio_driver.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct uio_device {
struct mutex info_lock;
struct kobject *map_dir;
struct kobject *portio_dir;
+ refcount_t dev_refc;
};

/**
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