Re: [PATCH] block: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_rq_timed_out()

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:29:18AM +0800, Yufen Yu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2019/9/12 10:46, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 06:24:50PM +0800, Yufen Yu wrote:
> > > There is a race condition between timeout check and completion for
> > > flush request as follow:
> > > 
> > > timeout_work    issue flush      issue flush
> > >                  blk_insert_flush
> > >                                   blk_insert_flush
> > > blk_mq_timeout_work
> > >                  blk_kick_flush
> > > 
> > > blk_mq_queue_tag_busy_iter
> > > blk_mq_check_expired(flush_rq)
> > > 
> > >                  __blk_mq_end_request
> > >                 flush_end_io
> > >                 blk_kick_flush
> > >                 blk_rq_init(flush_rq)
> > >                 memset(flush_rq, 0)
> > Not see there is memset(flush_rq, 0) in block/blk-flush.c
> 
> Call path as follow:
> 
> blk_kick_flush
>     blk_rq_init
>         memset(rq, 0, sizeof(*rq));

Looks I miss this one in blk_rq_init(), sorry for that.

Given there are only two users of blk_rq_init(), one simple fix could be
not clearing queue in blk_rq_init(), something like below?

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 77807a5d7f9e..25e6a045c821 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_queue_flag_test_and_set);
 
 void blk_rq_init(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 {
-	memset(rq, 0, sizeof(*rq));
+	const int offset = offsetof(struct request, q);
+
+	memset((void *)rq + offset, 0, sizeof(*rq) - offset);
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->queuelist);
 	rq->q = q;
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 1ac790178787..382e71b8787d 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ enum mq_rq_state {
  * especially blk_mq_rq_ctx_init() to take care of the added fields.
  */
 struct request {
-	struct request_queue *q;
+	struct request_queue *q;	/* Must be the 1st field */
 	struct blk_mq_ctx *mq_ctx;
 	struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *mq_hctx;
 

Thanks,
Ming



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