From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Writing 'power' and 'submit_queues' concurrently will trigger kernel panic: Test script: modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0 mkdir -p /sys/kernel/config/nullb/nullb0 while true; do echo 1 > submit_queues; echo 4 > submit_queues; done & while true; do echo 1 > power; echo 0 > power; done Test result: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000148 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x41d/0x28f0 Call Trace: <TASK> lock_acquire+0x121/0x450 down_write+0x5f/0x1d0 simple_recursive_removal+0x12f/0x5c0 blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_hctxs+0x7c/0x100 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x4a3/0x720 nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk] nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0x79/0xf0 [null_blk] configfs_write_iter+0x119/0x1e0 vfs_write+0x326/0x730 ksys_write+0x74/0x150 This is because del_gendisk() can concurrent with blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(): nullb_device_power_store nullb_apply_submit_queues null_del_dev del_gendisk nullb_update_nr_hw_queues if (!dev->nullb) // still set while gendisk is deleted return 0 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues dev->nullb = NULL Fix this problem by resuing the global mutex to protect nullb_device_power_store() and nullb_update_nr_hw_queues() from configs. Fixes: 45919fbfe1c4 ("null_blk: Enable modifying 'submit_queues' after an instance has been configured") Reported-and-tested-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHj4cs9LgsHLnjg8z06LQ3Pr5cax-+Ps+xT7AP7TPnEjStuwZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 28a95fd366fe..3e1c4f5ef714 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ static int loop_control_remove(int idx) pr_warn_once("deleting an unspecified loop device is not supported.\n"); return -EINVAL; } - + /* Hide this loop device for serialization. */ ret = mutex_lock_killable(&loop_ctl_mutex); if (ret) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c index 5d56ad4ce01a..eb023d267369 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c @@ -413,13 +413,25 @@ static int nullb_update_nr_hw_queues(struct nullb_device *dev, static int nullb_apply_submit_queues(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int submit_queues) { - return nullb_update_nr_hw_queues(dev, submit_queues, dev->poll_queues); + int ret; + + mutex_lock(&lock); + ret = nullb_update_nr_hw_queues(dev, submit_queues, dev->poll_queues); + mutex_unlock(&lock); + + return ret; } static int nullb_apply_poll_queues(struct nullb_device *dev, unsigned int poll_queues) { - return nullb_update_nr_hw_queues(dev, dev->submit_queues, poll_queues); + int ret; + + mutex_lock(&lock); + ret = nullb_update_nr_hw_queues(dev, dev->submit_queues, poll_queues); + mutex_unlock(&lock); + + return ret; } NULLB_DEVICE_ATTR(size, ulong, NULL); @@ -468,28 +480,31 @@ static ssize_t nullb_device_power_store(struct config_item *item, if (ret < 0) return ret; + ret = count; + mutex_lock(&lock); if (!dev->power && newp) { if (test_and_set_bit(NULLB_DEV_FL_UP, &dev->flags)) - return count; + goto out; + ret = null_add_dev(dev); if (ret) { clear_bit(NULLB_DEV_FL_UP, &dev->flags); - return ret; + goto out; } set_bit(NULLB_DEV_FL_CONFIGURED, &dev->flags); dev->power = newp; } else if (dev->power && !newp) { if (test_and_clear_bit(NULLB_DEV_FL_UP, &dev->flags)) { - mutex_lock(&lock); dev->power = newp; null_del_dev(dev->nullb); - mutex_unlock(&lock); } clear_bit(NULLB_DEV_FL_CONFIGURED, &dev->flags); } - return count; +out: + mutex_unlock(&lock); + return ret; } CONFIGFS_ATTR(nullb_device_, power); @@ -1932,15 +1947,12 @@ static int null_add_dev(struct nullb_device *dev) nullb->q->queuedata = nullb; blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, nullb->q); - mutex_lock(&lock); rv = ida_alloc(&nullb_indexes, GFP_KERNEL); - if (rv < 0) { - mutex_unlock(&lock); + if (rv < 0) goto out_cleanup_disk; - } + nullb->index = rv; dev->index = rv; - mutex_unlock(&lock); if (config_item_name(&dev->group.cg_item)) { /* Use configfs dir name as the device name */ @@ -1969,9 +1981,7 @@ static int null_add_dev(struct nullb_device *dev) if (rv) goto out_ida_free; - mutex_lock(&lock); list_add_tail(&nullb->list, &nullb_list); - mutex_unlock(&lock); pr_info("disk %s created\n", nullb->disk_name); @@ -2020,7 +2030,9 @@ static int null_create_dev(void) if (!dev) return -ENOMEM; + mutex_lock(&lock); ret = null_add_dev(dev); + mutex_unlock(&lock); if (ret) { null_free_dev(dev); return ret; -- 2.39.2