On 12/10/19 12:02 PM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On 2019-12-10 11:59 a.m., Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 12/10/19 11:47 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: >>> The IDE driver creates some passthru requests which never get >>> submitted to the block layer in such a way that blk_account_io_start() >>> gets called. However, the driver still calls __blk_mq_end_request() in >>> ide_end_rq() which will call blk_account_io_completion() which tries >>> to dereferences req->part which is never set. See ide_prep_sense() for >>> an example of where these requests come from. >>> >>> To fix this, blk_account_io_completion() and blk_account_io_done() >>> should do nothing if req->part is not set. >>> >>> The back trace of this bug is: >>> >>> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000002ac >>> #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode >>> #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page >>> *pde = 00000000 >>> Oops: 0002 [#1] >>> CPU: 0 PID: 237 Comm: kworker/0:1H Not tainted >>> 5.4.0-rc2-00011-g48d9b0d43105e #1 >>> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 >>> 04/01/2014 >>> Workqueue: kblockd drive_rq_insert_work >>> EIP: blk_account_io_completion+0x7a/0xf0 >>> Code: 89 54 24 08 31 d2 89 4c 24 04 31 c9 c7 04 24 02 00 00 00 c1 ee >>> 09 e8 f5 21 a6 ff e8 70 5c a7 ff 8b 53 60 8d 04 bd 00 00 00 00 <01> b4 >>> 02 ac 02 00 00 8b 9a 88 02 00 00 85 db 74 11 85 d2 74 51 8b >>> EAX: 00000000 EBX: f5b80000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 >>> ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f3031e70 ESP: f3031e54 >>> DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010046 >>> CR0: 80050033 CR2: 000002ac CR3: 03c25000 CR4: 000406d0 >>> Call Trace: >>> <IRQ> >>> blk_update_request+0x85/0x420 >>> ide_end_rq+0x38/0xa0 >>> ide_complete_rq+0x3d/0x70 >>> cdrom_newpc_intr+0x258/0xba0 >>> ide_intr+0x135/0x250 >>> __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3e/0x250 >>> handle_irq_event_percpu+0x1f/0x50 >>> handle_irq_event+0x32/0x60 >>> handle_level_irq+0x6c/0x110 >>> handle_irq+0x72/0xa0 >>> </IRQ> >>> do_IRQ+0x45/0xad >>> common_interrupt+0x115/0x11c >> >> Why not just: >> >> diff --git a/block/blk.h b/block/blk.h >> index 6842f28c033e..d7407b5d0200 100644 >> --- a/block/blk.h >> +++ b/block/blk.h >> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ int blk_dev_init(void); >> */ >> static inline bool blk_do_io_stat(struct request *rq) >> { >> - return rq->rq_disk && (rq->rq_flags & RQF_IO_STAT); >> + return rq->part && rq->rq_disk && (rq->rq_flags & RQF_IO_STAT); >> } > > Because blk_account_io_start() also checks blk_do_io_stat() and, in that > case, rq->part will never be set (seeing that's the function that > typically sets it); thus that solution would disable stats entirely. Gotcha. I'm fine with the patch you posted in that case. -- Jens Axboe