Re: [libvirt] Potential segfault in udev driver

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2010/1/25 Dave Allan <dallan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 01/25/2010 02:33 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>>
>> 2010/1/25 Dave Allan<dallan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> On 01/25/2010 06:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:07:59PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> udevDeviceMonitorStartup registers udevEventHandleCallback as event
>>>>> handle, but doesn't store the returned watch id to remove it later on.
>>>>> Also it's not clear to me whether the event handle should be register
>>>>> for the whole lifetime of the udev driver instance or just for the
>>>>> udevEnumerateDevices call.
>>>>
>>>> The handler should be active for the lifetime of libvirtd, since the
>>>> udev driver has to detect hotplug/unplug events over time.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If for example the call to udevSetupSystemDev [1] fails
>>>>> udevDeviceMonitorShutdown is called to cleanup, but
>>>>> udevEventHandleCallback is still registered and may be called when
>>>>> driverState is NULL again, resulting in a segfault in
>>>>> udevEventHandleCallback.
>>>>>
>>>>> So to solve this the udevEventHandleCallback event handle must be
>>>>> removed at the appropriate place.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, sounds like its needs to be removed in the failure path there
>>>
>>> Matthias,
>>>
>>> Indeed, that's correct--can you submit a patch?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>
>> Yes, im going to do that.
>>
>> One last question. The udev driver stores the udev monitor handle in
>> the private data pointer of the gloval driver state variable.
>>
>>     driverState->privateData = udev_monitor;
>>
>> To solve the event handle problem we need to store the watch id
>> returned by virEventAddHandle somewhere. We could either add a new
>> private data struct to hold the udev_monitor pointer and the watch id,
>> or store the watch id variable globally side by side with the driver
>> state variable. I prefer the first option, because it's cleaner and
>> the DRV_STATE_UDEV_MONITOR define allows for changing the storage
>> location of the udev_monitor pointer easily.
>
> Yes, I agree--a struct is the right approach.  Thanks for doing this!
>
> Dave
>

Here's the patch. Maximilian Wilhelm tested it.

Matthias
From 07678696504179c70b987947061de2ff658e665c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:58:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] udev: Remove event handle on shutdown

This fixes a segfault when the event handler is called after shutdown
when the global driver state is NULL again.

Also fix a locking issue in an error path.
---
 src/node_device/node_device_udev.c |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 src/node_device/node_device_udev.h |    4 ++-
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
index 2e459d1..a625d76 100644
--- a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
+++ b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@
 
 #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_NODEDEV
 
+struct _udevPrivate {
+    struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor;
+    int watch;
+};
+
 static virDeviceMonitorStatePtr driverState = NULL;
 
 static int udevStrToLong_ull(char const *s,
@@ -1354,12 +1359,18 @@ static int udevDeviceMonitorShutdown(void)
 {
     int ret = 0;
 
+    udevPrivate *priv = NULL;
     struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor = NULL;
     struct udev *udev = NULL;
 
     if (driverState) {
-
         nodeDeviceLock(driverState);
+
+        priv = driverState->privateData;
+
+        if (priv->watch != -1)
+            virEventRemoveHandle(priv->watch);
+
         udev_monitor = DRV_STATE_UDEV_MONITOR(driverState);
 
         if (udev_monitor != NULL) {
@@ -1375,7 +1386,7 @@ static int udevDeviceMonitorShutdown(void)
         nodeDeviceUnlock(driverState);
         virMutexDestroy(&driverState->lock);
         VIR_FREE(driverState);
-
+        VIR_FREE(priv);
     } else {
         ret = -1;
     }
@@ -1534,18 +1545,28 @@ out:
 
 static int udevDeviceMonitorStartup(int privileged ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
 {
+    udevPrivate *priv = NULL;
     struct udev *udev = NULL;
-    struct udev_monitor *udev_monitor = NULL;
     int ret = 0;
 
+    if (VIR_ALLOC(priv) < 0) {
+        virReportOOMError(NULL);
+        ret = -1;
+        goto out;
+    }
+
+    priv->watch = -1;
+
     if (VIR_ALLOC(driverState) < 0) {
         virReportOOMError(NULL);
+        VIR_FREE(priv);
         ret = -1;
         goto out;
     }
 
     if (virMutexInit(&driverState->lock) < 0) {
         VIR_ERROR0("Failed to initialize mutex for driverState");
+        VIR_FREE(priv);
         VIR_FREE(driverState);
         ret = -1;
         goto out;
@@ -1562,18 +1583,19 @@ static int udevDeviceMonitorStartup(int privileged ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
     udev = udev_new();
     udev_set_log_fn(udev, udevLogFunction);
 
-    udev_monitor = udev_monitor_new_from_netlink(udev, "udev");
-    if (udev_monitor == NULL) {
+    priv->udev_monitor = udev_monitor_new_from_netlink(udev, "udev");
+    if (priv->udev_monitor == NULL) {
+        VIR_FREE(priv);
+        nodeDeviceUnlock(driverState);
         VIR_ERROR0("udev_monitor_new_from_netlink returned NULL");
         ret = -1;
         goto out;
     }
 
-    udev_monitor_enable_receiving(udev_monitor);
+    udev_monitor_enable_receiving(priv->udev_monitor);
 
     /* udev can be retrieved from udev_monitor */
-    driverState->privateData = udev_monitor;
-    nodeDeviceUnlock(driverState);
+    driverState->privateData = priv;
 
     /* We register the monitor with the event callback so we are
      * notified by udev of device changes before we enumerate existing
@@ -1583,14 +1605,17 @@ static int udevDeviceMonitorStartup(int privileged ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
      * enumeration.  The alternative is to register the callback after
      * we enumerate, in which case we will fail to create any devices
      * that appear while the enumeration is taking place.  */
-    if (virEventAddHandle(udev_monitor_get_fd(udev_monitor),
-                          VIR_EVENT_HANDLE_READABLE,
-                          udevEventHandleCallback,
-                          NULL, NULL) == -1) {
+    priv->watch = virEventAddHandle(udev_monitor_get_fd(priv->udev_monitor),
+                                    VIR_EVENT_HANDLE_READABLE,
+                                    udevEventHandleCallback, NULL, NULL);
+    if (priv->watch == -1) {
+        nodeDeviceUnlock(driverState);
         ret = -1;
         goto out;
     }
 
+    nodeDeviceUnlock(driverState);
+
     /* Create a fictional 'computer' device to root the device tree. */
     if (udevSetupSystemDev() != 0) {
         ret = -1;
diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.h b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.h
index 6c83412..8367494 100644
--- a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.h
+++ b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.h
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@
 #include <libudev.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 
+typedef struct _udevPrivate udevPrivate;
+
 #define SYSFS_DATA_SIZE 4096
-#define DRV_STATE_UDEV_MONITOR(ds) ((struct udev_monitor *)((ds)->privateData))
+#define DRV_STATE_UDEV_MONITOR(ds) (((udevPrivate *)((ds)->privateData))->udev_monitor)
 #define DMI_DEVPATH "/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id"
 #define DMI_DEVPATH_FALLBACK "/sys/class/dmi/id"
 #define PROPERTY_FOUND 0
-- 
1.6.3.3

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