Re: [PATCH] nbd: fix potential NULL pointer fault in connect and disconnect process

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On 1/17/20 6:50 AM, Sun Ke wrote:
Connect and disconnect a nbd device repeatedly, will cause
NULL pointer fault.

It will appear by the steps:
1. Connect the nbd device and disconnect it, but now nbd device
    is not disconnected totally.
2. Connect the same nbd device again immediately, it will fail
    in nbd_start_device with a EBUSY return value.
3. Wait a second to make sure the last config_refs is reduced
    and run nbd_config_put to disconnect the nbd device totally.
4. Start another process to open the nbd_device, config_refs
    will increase and at the same time disconnect it.

To fix it, add a NBD_HAS_STARTED flag. Set it in nbd_start_device_ioctl
and nbd_genl_connect if nbd device is started successfully.
Clear it in nbd_config_put. Test it in nbd_genl_disconnect and
nbd_genl_reconfigure.

I don't doubt what you are seeing, but what exactly are we NULL pointer dereferencing? I can't quite figure it out from the steps.


Signed-off-by: Sun Ke <sunke32@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/block/nbd.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index b4607dd96185..ddd364e208ab 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct link_dead_args {
#define NBD_DESTROY_ON_DISCONNECT 0
  #define NBD_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED	1
+#define NBD_HAS_STARTED				2
struct nbd_config {
  	u32 flags;
@@ -1215,6 +1216,7 @@ static void nbd_config_put(struct nbd_device *nbd)
  		nbd->disk->queue->limits.discard_alignment = 0;
  		blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(nbd->disk->queue, UINT_MAX);
  		blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue);
+		clear_bit(NBD_HAS_STARTED, &nbd->flags);
mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
  		nbd_put(nbd);
@@ -1290,6 +1292,8 @@ static int nbd_start_device_ioctl(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct block_device *b
  	ret = nbd_start_device(nbd);
  	if (ret)
  		return ret;
+	else
+		set_bit(NBD_HAS_STARTED, &nbd->flags);

The else is superfluous here.  Thanks,

Josef



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