> Il giorno 17 apr 2018, alle ore 23:42, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> Some elevators may not correctly check rq->rq_flags & RQF_ELVPRIV, and
> may attempt to read rq->elv fields. When requests got reused, this
> caused BFQ to think it already had a bfqq (rq->elv.priv[1]) allocated.
Hi Kees,
where does BFQ gets confused and operates on a request not destined to
it? I'm asking because I paid attention to always avoid such a
mistake.
Thanks,
Paolo
> This could lead to odd behaviors like having the sense buffer address
> slowly start incrementing. This eventually tripped HARDENED_USERCOPY
> and KASAN.
>
> This patch wipes all of rq->elv instead of just rq->elv.icq. While
> it shouldn't technically be needed, this ends up being a robustness
> improvement that should lead to at least finding bugs in elevators faster.
>
> Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: bd166ef183c26 ("blk-mq-sched: add framework for MQ capable IO schedulers")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> In theory, BFQ needs to also check the RQF_ELVPRIV flag, but I'll leave that
> to Paolo to figure out. Also, my Fixes line is kind of a best-guess. This
> is where icq was originally wiped, so it seemed as good a commit as any.
> ---
> block/blk-mq.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 0dc9e341c2a7..859df3160303 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_get_request(struct request_queue *q,
>
> rq = blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(data, tag, op);
> if (!op_is_flush(op)) {
> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
> if (e && e->type->ops.mq.prepare_request) {
> if (e->type->icq_cache && rq_ioc(bio))
> blk_mq_sched_assign_ioc(rq, bio);
> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq)
> e->type->ops.mq.finish_request(rq);
> if (rq->elv.icq) {
> put_io_context(rq->elv.icq->ioc);
> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
> }
> }
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security
